In a few weeks I will be sharing the stage with Nic Amy and Carl Hendrick at the Sunday Times Wellington College Festival of Education. Our panel discussion will cover: … Continue Reading →
Making your school digitally literate – Sunday Times Festival of Education
The importance of process
It is not very often that I can get to post about a book I have read and directly relate it to school. After reading Chip and Dan Heath’s ‘Decisive’, … Continue Reading →
Date for #TLAB14
I found the day to be well structured, thoughtful and thought provoking. I very much enjoyed the day and would like to congratulate the organisers. Even the catering was good. … Continue Reading →
Talkin’ loud and sayin’ nothin’? Progressive v Traditional teachers
Like a dull knife, just ain’t cutting. Just talkin’ loud and sayin’ nothin’ James Brown Premature polarisation of viewpoints is the chief device by which the education community maintains … Continue Reading →
Berkhamsted Walk
My charity activity this year (last year I raised money for another charity by walking along Hadrian’s Wall) is to raise money for the Children’s Society by taking part in … Continue Reading →
Susan Boyle, historical knowledge & the Black Death
One binary pairing we never seem to tire of in education is the knowledge/skills division. Lately, the prominence given to ‘knowledge’ has become fashionable in the media and as a … Continue Reading →
The Indispensable Man – a lesson for the potential ‘Diminisher’.
I have written about my use of ‘Multipliers‘ as a framework for thinking about all the work I do with colleagues inside and outside school and in one sense, #TLAB13 … Continue Reading →
TLAB Welcome
Text from the conference programme Welcome to the first Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference, Berkhamsted (TLAB)! It really is an honour to have educators from a wide variety of schools … Continue Reading →
#TLAB13
Saturday saw the culmination of months of planning with the launch of the Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference, Berkhamsted. One of my colleagues likened the event to throwing a party … Continue Reading →