Feeling a bit apprehensive? Nobody would blame you. As we look forward to a new school year in September we can’t help being aware of the bigger picture. The summer of 2020 presents us with some very pressing environmental, economic and social issues that impinge on any vision of a sustainable future. We and our […]
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Where did we go wrong? Three voices; shared ideas I haven’t posted anything about black lives matter yet, but have spent a lot of time following links, new people, reading articles and trying to better educate myself on the issue. I thought it would be unnecessary to post about the protests and the movement hoping […]
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How do you live with change? I lived over twenty-one years in the Sultanate of Oman. I loved the consistency of the weather. Every day I would wake up and the sun was shining. If it wasn’t, it was still warm or hot. That was the extent of the seasons: warm, hot or very hot, […]
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We cannot, must not, go back Education experts in a range of settings around the world were unanimous on this point in last week’s WISE online conference: Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined. This blog is a digest of session 3 of the conference. Kiran Bir Sethi (Design for Change) suggested we spend too much time at […]
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In the words of John Ssentamu Sometimes you meet someone online who captures your imagination and with whom you build up a rapport. John Ssentamu is one such person. I responded to a comment he made on LinkedIn regarding values. We exchanged messages and I sent him a copy of our book, Values and Visions. […]
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Living without? Living the day without the rest of the world – when we included in our book this tried and tested activity devised by Oxfam back in the late 80s, little did I think I would actually be trying to do it. But now I am in many ways, as are most of us. […]
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Covid 19 and schools I am involved with a Multi-Academy Trust in a very deprived inner-city area. I am concerned about all families at this time, but my sleepless nights are focused on our children in our community. Over the last few days, the Trust Board, headteachers and all other school-based staff have had to […]
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Let us not forget Am I too self-absorbed? I have been thinking a lot about how the corona virus (just think, most of us never even knew that word at the start of the year) is affecting me, my family, my friends around the world. However, two things have hit me in the past twenty-four […]
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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 to mind. Unmotivated, uncreative. I want to do practical things: painting, sanding, repairing, mending, constructing. I can’t write. I feel I should be writing wise […]
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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” Guy Claxton. This, by now, well-known quote in many ways sums up the challenges faced by education today. From a personal point of view, it […]
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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 You have an idea for a book and you get started. You write, you revise, you refine, you research, you rework until you are satisfied with the words. Then come the pictures. That is fun too. You trawl your albums and […]
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