How are you feeling?
How are you feeling? How are you feeling? Somebody asked me that this morning and I stopped to think. How do I feel? Confused, was the first word that came […]
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Preparing for futures unknown
November 6, 2019
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Preparing for futures unknown “Knowledge is changing so fast that we cannot give young people what they will need to know because we do not know what it will be” […]
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Starting the new school year? Read on!
September 8, 2019
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Here’s an article I wrote which can be found in Teach Middle East
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It is worth writing a book, isn’t it? How V&V has helped us through
May 23, 2019
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It is worth writing a book, isn’t it? How V&V has helped us through You have an idea for a book and you get started. You write, you revise, you […]
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It is finished!
March 14, 2019
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It is finished! Last week, Values and Visions went to press. After three years of writing, editing, drafting, re-drafting, sourcing images, seeking permissions trialling, adjusting according to feedback and everything […]
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A New Year’s Message to Inspire
January 9, 2019
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A New Year’s Message to Inspire This week I received the new year’s message from Avaaz, an organisation I support and greatly admire. Their message could have come straight out […]
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A Practical Tool for Living in a Volatile World
September 23, 2018
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A Practical Tool for Living in a Volatile World “One autumn morning the wind had blown all the leaves off the trees and was trying to blow the branches off. […]
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Building community in your classroom
September 15, 2018
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Building community in your classroom It was the first advisory of the year: Forty minutes to spend with the group of grade 7s (year 8s) I would see every morning […]
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Potatoes and Plates: An Affirming Start to the New Year
September 1, 2018
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Potatoes and Plates: An Affirming Start to the New School Year We all want to know our new students’ names and have creative ways of doing this. My favourite, however, […]
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Walk the corridor in their shoes
August 19, 2018
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Walk the corridor in their shoes Back-to-school for teachers generally means getting back into gear, checking your timetable, preparing your classroom and first-day-handouts, organising the first week’s lessons, reminding yourself […]
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Will robots take over from humans?
July 29, 2018
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Will robots take over from humans? No, they will not, according to a fascinating BBC Radio 4 programme I heard last week. In How Do Our Kids Beat the Robots? […]
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A Man Who Embodied Values and Visions
July 2, 2018
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Last week I had the pleasure of seeing the newly released documentary – “Won’t you be my Neighbour?” highlighting the life of the remarkable Fred Rogers. Growing up in the […]
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