A reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped
When my daughters were younger I used to read to them every evening. Over the years we ...
#ProjectParadise: A group reading project
Well. A few days ago I ran a poll on Twitter to find the most popular long ...
How should we decide what knowledge to teach?
How should we decide what knowledge to teach? Last year I wrote two posts on two ways ...
Homework in the time of Corona
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of uncompleted homework. ...
Exam season and COVID19: What should we do?
In the current climate, worrying about whether this year’s GCSE and A level exams are going to ...
The dangers of hierarchy: a recommendation for improving Ofsted inspections
Mistakes in aviation are potentially catastrophic; when we get things wrong in teaching, no one dies. But ...
What I learned from visiting schools in Uganda
Some months ago I was asked to be part of an advisory panel on a project to ...
This is what I do
For the past seven years I’ve been working as a freelance training provider and consultant. Most of ...
Are things so good that normal seems bad?
Former Irish president Mary Robinson has been doing the rounds warning the world it needs to wake ...
My most viewed posts of 2019
My most viewed posts of 2019 For those of you who are interested, here are the top ...
