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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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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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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What people have said and are saying about Values & Visions

April 10, 2018 Comments Off on What people have said and are saying about Values & Visions

Since its publication in 1995, we estimate that V&V has reached over 10,000 educators and impacted 500,000 young people. In 2017, some time after V&V had gone out of print, […]

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