What I’m Reading
My Favourite Rambles
- Why Schools Must Hire More Rebels
- To Be Noticed is to Be Loved
- Self-licking Lollipops
- Beware The Dinosaur’s Tail
- Why I (Don’t) Want My Name on the Door
- Analogue Struggles and Digital Naivety
2025 (17)
- How to See a Child
- Trilemmas, Not Dilemmas
- Now the UK is Adding VAT to All Schools!
- It’s Still a Duck!
- Roll for Notice!
- It’s October 3rd
- “Show Working”
- Unearthing Leadership
- Missionocracy: When Schools Are Ruled by Purpose
- A Wizard is Never Late!
- AI Breaks The Psychological Contract of Essay Writing
- Being Enough Is More Than Enough
- When We Systemise the Predictable, We Can Humanise the Unpredictable
- Graduation: Be Kinder Than You Need to Be
- Analogue Struggles and Digital Naivety
- Stop Paving the Cowpaths (2.0)
- Why Schools Must Hire More Rebels
2024 (21)
- The Best 3 Books (for School Folk) in 2024
- Who’s Doing the Washing Up?
- Curious About Rabbit Holes
- Let’s Go Back to the Future
- Are You Fast Awake or Wide Asleep?
- Encounters With the Paradox of Choice
- The Aggregation of Marginal Gains (2.0)
- Don’t Try to Be Nice!
- We Need a Coat With Two Pockets
- Exam Results: Is This Our Glorious Purpose?
- To-Do it Like Da Vinci
- “Computer Says No” (2.0)
- Graduation: Only You Can Ride Your Own Bike
- A Serendipities eBook
- Beware The Dinosaur’s Tail
- The Struggle
- Don’t Conflate Hard Work With Important Work
- Bring Me Problems
- I Am Because You Are
- You Can’t Make Wellbeing With a Cookie-Cutter
- We Are the Weather
2023 (19)
- The Best 3 Books (for School Folk) in 2023
- The Three Gift Rule
- How Do You Grade a Christmas Tree?
- The Freedom to Fade
- Why I (Don’t) Want My Name on the Door
- Too Much [Conditional] Love Will Kill You
- I’m an Oxymoron
- Golden Tickets: Where Willy Wonka Went Wrong
- This is Why Educational Reform is So Damn Sticky
- Check Your Mirrors!
- The Enemy of Compassion is Busyness
- Summer Holidays: Relief, Trepidation, and Distraction
- Graduation: When Everyone Is Special
- Which School? You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It!
- Suit up!
- Rolling With Tradition
- Death and Taxes (and deadlines)
- Self-licking Lollipops
- Noticeship
2022 (14)
- To Be Noticed is to Be Loved
- Kerbstones, Laminators, and Staple Guns
- Do the Math!
- Let it Be?
- Milo’s Principles
- Graduation: You Build Your Purpose
- Kids These Days
- Why Are You (Not) Picking On Me?
- “These Aren’t the Metrics You Are Looking For”
- Assuming Positive Intent
- The Phone Dilemma
- Hello Stranger!
- Don’t Forget the Little (Big) Things
- Be Curious, Not Judgmental
2021 (16)
- Hey, Teacher, Leave Them Kids Alone!
- If You Ain’t Hurting, You Ain’t Working
- Wide Walls
- Our Glorious Purpose?
- The Thief of Joy
- Plan Early, Plan Twice?
- To Boldly Go…
- Why Do We Keep Paving the Cowpaths?
- Beware of Butterflies
- Zero Tolerance?
- The Aggregation of Marginal Strains
- Whatever Happened to Goldilocks?
- Cake or Death?
- Education Reform Has a ‘Wizard of Oz’ Problem
- When You Try to Please Everyone, You Can End Up Pleasing No One
- Serendipity
Graduation Speeches
- Graduation 2025: Be Kinder Than You Need to Be
- Graduation 2024: Only You Can Ride Your Own Bike
- Graduation 2023: When Everyone Is Special
- Graduation 2022: You Build Your Purpose
(Not) Book Reviews
My eBooks
- Self-licking Lollipops: Why Education Has a Wizard of Oz Problem
- To Be Noticed is to Be Loved: Noticing is the Root of Belonging
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