Is Your Classroom Triple-A Rated?
I'm sitting with a small group of Year 5 children. They've got their books ready for me. I ask my first and only question: Which [...]
How to Make Time (2 minute read)
Time management guru Brian Tracey (Eat That Frog, 2001) says that, even on our deathbeds, we'll have at least 300 hours of stuff left to [...]
2021 Digest
Thank-you for taking the time read my posts this year. I trust you've found value, hope, humour and useful challenge in the words. Here's a [...]
A Christmas Message from the Ministry of Learning
Dear Teachers. Dear Leaders. Dear Inspectors, Advisors, Specialists and Consultants. Dear anyone who dedicates their professional life to creating a better future for our young [...]
Pick One Battle
A colleague and good friend shared this: It's beautiful in its simplicity - but deceptively simple. That's because the injunction to 'let go' presumes knowledge [...]
How to Build a School: Guidance from The Ministry of Learning
The Ministry of Learning requests that you use the following guidelines when submitting a school design: ONE: PROBLEMDefine the problem you aim to solve and [...]
Open Letter to Teachers, Leaders and the DfE
Holding too tight, it slips through fingers; bearing too much, it breaks. You know me, I'm tough, I'm resilient. There's nothing rocks me. Ever. But [...]
The New Way to Grade Schools
I've invented a new way to grade schools. It goes like this: At end of the scale you've got '1'. Next to that is [...]
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When Not to Coach
When Not to Coach I'm sitting with my [...]
Website Update
I'll be updating Thinking Classroom over the next few months, [...]
Enemy of the Good
Le meglio è l'inimico del bene (Italian proverb). Perfect is [...]
STAMP out Fake News
I read online this morning that the war in [...]
The School of War
War raged all around but in the middle of it [...]
Thinking Through Peace
Two starving children; only one orange. What happens? The Mémorial [...]