The Sad Truth About Happiness
My sister sends me two WhatsApp messages each day, without fail, At 9am: Good morning Mike and Lucy. At 9pm: Good night Mike and [...]
Scripts for Being Radical
Radical Candor Do you care about the people you work with? Do you challenge them if they need to change? Do you care for them [...]
Learning Will Be Disrupted
Alice (name changed to protect identity) officially attends Greenfields Primary, an outstanding school (name changed to protect its outstandingness) serving a diverse suburban catchment. 12 [...]
7 Billion Stories and How to Hear Them
You don't know what it's like to lead a school through a global pandemic unless you've led a school through a global pandemic. - a [...]
5 Stages of Remote Teaching
The good news is you're probably already at stage 4. Here are the five: Stability Survival Innovation Opportunity Enrichment And here's what they look like: [...]
Why You Should Not Teach Live Lessons
Before COVID, we educators and trainers had this: And then, early in 2020, we didn't. All we had was this: A rectangle. Our laptop screen, [...]
Four Words for 2021
I didn't choose them; I heard them at a Gallup webinar last spring: Trust, Compassion, Stability and Hope. The Gallup folks suggested businesses use each [...]
How to Blend Learning #1
The 'blended' in 'blended learning' means combining in-class with online teaching. It can be synchronous (live) or asynchronous. It's touted as one way to be [...]
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2021 Digest
Thank-you for taking the time read my posts this year. [...]
A Christmas Message from the Ministry of Learning
Dear Teachers. Dear Leaders. Dear Inspectors, Advisors, Specialists and Consultants. [...]
Pick One Battle
A colleague and good friend shared this: It's beautiful in [...]
How to Build a School: Guidance from The Ministry of Learning
The Ministry of Learning requests that you use the following [...]
Open Letter to Teachers, Leaders and the DfE
Holding too tight, it slips through fingers; bearing too much, [...]
The New Way to Grade Schools
I've invented a new way to grade schools. It [...]