Covid-19 and schools

March 27, 2020 Comments Off on Covid-19 and schools

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 […]

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Preparing for futures unknown

November 6, 2019 Comments Off on Preparing for futures unknown

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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A New Year’s Message to Inspire

January 9, 2019 Comments Off on A New Year’s Message to Inspire

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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Building community in your classroom

September 15, 2018 Comments Off on Building community in your classroom

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 Comments Off on Potatoes and Plates: An Affirming Start to the New Year

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 Comments Off on Walk the corridor in their shoes

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 Comments Off on Will robots take over from humans?

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 Comments Off on A Man Who Embodied Values and Visions

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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Don’t just poop and leave!

June 20, 2018 Comments Off on Don’t just poop and leave!

When we first started supporting the Loibor Siret School community in remote northern Tanzania in 2012, we were the generous visitors from a much more fortunate school coming to help […]

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