Creating a Culture of Curiosity

The art of creating equilibrium in a world of possibilities and constraints

In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien gives us two brothers—Boromir and Faramir, both charged with defending their kingdom against a rising darkness.

Yesterday Claire Harley posted about sensemaking in schools, in which she poses some excellent reflective questions for leadership to consider, focussing on values and how they are communicated.&nb…

Reflections on Leadership through Peter Bregman’s Lens We often talk about what leaders do in schools; line management, accountability, vision setting. But much less often do we talk about what lea…

Yesterday Claire Harley posted about sensemaking in schools, in which she poses some excellent reflective questions for leadership to consider, focussing on values and how they are communicated.&nb…

Vision as a changing entity and the impact this has on how we work in schools

This is because a principal end-goal of KS4 is a grade. But in KS3, the principal goal should be an invitation into the reality constructed by a subject's members.

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When teachers step into the classroom, we never act alone. There is no “I do”. Each of our actions is a response, a small arc, in a continual loop consisting of ourselves, our tools, and our students.

Not long ago a drive emerged against "fun" lessons. The push was to rid the focus on fun and return it to subject knowledge itself. Soon followed the argument that students had to accept boring lesson...

Cultivating practices to read the word and the world

Tangible tools for improving students' interpretive practices

While the rules can be strict and firm, the vast majority of children are well-adjusted, happy and well-cared for

A TV documentary has revealed the toll of smartphone use on 11-year-olds’ mental health, and the consequences of addiction, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Every year, without fail, schools with excellent exam results are criticised for their methods. GCSE and A Level results days, and now ‘P8 day’ too, all represent times when these schools generate …

Every year, without fail, schools with excellent exam results are criticised for their methods. GCSE and A Level results days, and now ‘P8 day’ too, all represent times when these schools generate …

Does knowledge = understanding? This simple equation suggests that the extent of a person's understanding is purely equal to the extent of their knowledge. Proponents of this claim suggest that it gro...

Recently the idea of "rehearsal" has appeared in UK-based educational blogs. But there appears to be confusion. What's it for? Here are some recent quotes:"Making these connections requires rehearsal"...

From time to time, I get bad eczema. One winter, when I was about 16, I had quite a bad outbreak. My face looked pretty unsightly. Another kid shouted at me, ‘Urrgh! What’s that on your face?!’ A t…

I remember a time, not so very long ago, when it would have been highly unusual in most English schools for a lesson observer to pay much attention at all to the content being taught. It was very r…