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  • Schools Should Learn From Football

    Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football- Camus Camus was a better writer than he was goalkeeper, but he owed a debt to football. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all write a pithy aphorism that sums up our relationship to our work, wouldn’t it be wonderful Read more

  • On Character: Can We Know the Dancer From the Dance?

    O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? WB Yeats: Among School Children The Sutton Trust report A Winning Personality identified: …extraversion (sociability, confidence, assertiveness), self-esteem, and a positive outlook as Read more

  • Bye-Bye Ronald McTechdonald!

    Are you or do you know of a ‘Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE)’ ? I am sure they are all very nice people. Their job is to: “…advocate and share their thoughts on effective use of technology in education with peers… They provide insight for Microsoft on new products and tools for education, and they exchange Read more

  • Bowie, my Gatekeeper, RiP

    “I’ve always cited who my influences are. I felt it was important for people to be able to see how things are put together at any given stage. I let people know what’s going through my head. I’ve been quite vocal about that through the years… I’ve always loved the process – to see how things Read more

  • A Purposeful and Efficient Education

    …all my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. Herman Melville Moby Dick Thank goodness for the efficiency culture in which the purposeful classroom is extolled as a place free from ideological baggage.  This is schooling that has reached some sort of ‘end of history’; where classroom doors are closed to the intellect Read more

  • To the Things Themselves!

    Target setting and pupil tracking can distract teachers and pupils from what they are meant to be studying. By being concerned about grades over and above learning many teacher pupil conversations can avoid talking about the things themselves. When there is an over-emphasis on the marking criteria, where it replaces the thing being learnt, teacher and pupil can spend Read more