Future Proof Your School: The Process of Starting and Completing a New Initiative | Briefing Notes #6
In conversations with Headteachers when I ask ‘How are things?’ I habitually get the same reply ‘We are very busy with some new initiatives!’ I find a few queries at … Continue reading
Aspects of Rest
Many thanks to good friend of this site, Daniel Sobel, for sharing this insight into aspects, or even dimensions of rest. Too often we equate rest to an aspect of … Continue reading
What Motivates You? An Opportunity to Reflect…
My good friend Phil Crompton recently gave me the opportunity in a podcast interview to reflect on my motivation as one of his I did. You can. series. Such an … Continue reading
4 Ways to Fight Bias in Grading | Edutopia
Unconscious bias may be unavoidable, but here’s how you can reduce its destructive impact. In the classroom, decades of evidence confirm that teachers are not immune and that some degree … Continue reading
Thought For The Day: Humanity
This is what happens when inhumanity is undertaken on an industrial scale for an ideological end. As a child in the sixties, I had the firm belief that if I … Continue reading
Shifting Directions in Learning and Schools
When he was the Chief Education Officer of Birmingham Local Authority, Tim Brighouse often used to say that he would willingly give up control of pupils once they reached secondary … Continue reading
Five ways the internet era has changed British English | The Conversation
The dramatic changes in technology over the past 20 or so years, from the internet to the smartphone and digital assistants like Alexa, have made communication more accessible than ever … Continue reading
3 Steps for Teachers Seeking to Be Lifelong Learners | Edutopia
Engaging in a process of learning, unlearning, and relearning puts educators on a path to continuous improvement. Somewhere between paralyzing impostor syndrome and insufferable arrogance, there is a sweet spot, … Continue reading
Future Proof Your School: Intelligence Report 2: Understanding School Culture and Building it Into Your Improvement Strategy
In its simplest form, culture can be defined as ‘the way we do things round here’. It is a foolish school leader who fails to factor school culture into improvement … Continue reading
Inertia – The Enemy of Progress
I’ve taught in, managed and supported high performing, middling and schools in crisis. The difference between these categories, I always believed was the time and space they had to think … Continue reading
Finishing Class Strong With Optimistic Closures | Edutopia
The best closing activities use social and emotional practices to reinforce the day’s lessons, so students leave feeling confident – and competent – on their learning journey. Via: Finishing Class … Continue reading
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen. | The Guardian
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can. Prof Barbara Demeneix, a leading … Continue reading
Formative Parenting Means Not Always Being Right
There is great mythology about parenting, and teaching for that matter. Unfortunately, once you put people in a role of responsibility, they assume that they must act infallibly. That is … Continue reading
Mission Statement, Culture and Implementation
The school mission statement can be a laudable and venerable statement of the moral and educational purpose of the school as perceived by the senior stakeholders in the school. How … Continue reading
Is ‘Productivity Dysmorphia’ Stopping You From Enjoying Your Successes? | Inc.com
Being successful is one challenge. Actually feeling successful is another. Without context, success is a meaningless word. Does it mean a particular bank balance or fancy title? The admiration of others? A … Continue reading
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