Covid-19 and schools
March 27, 2020
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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 […]
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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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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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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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Don’t just poop and leave!
June 20, 2018
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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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