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Cake or Death?

Good comedy makes me happy. In one of my favourite comedy sketches, Eddie Izzard takes on the role of the Grim Reaper, offering a series of unwitting participants the choice of “cake or death”. It’s not too difficult to make a decision here…just as long as there is enough cake to go around! I Zoomed-in […]

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Education Reform Has a ‘Wizard of Oz’ Problem

In The Wizard of Oz, the heroine, Dorothy, finds herself on a quest with three companions: a scarecrow in need of a brain, a tin man with no heart, and a lion without courage. In our uncertain times, as schools seek to navigate the complexity of the immediate future and think about how they need […]

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When You Try to Please Everyone, You Can End Up Pleasing No One

This week, I was thinking about Aesop’s Fable, “ The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass “, while I was reflecting on my parenting skills at the end of another 168 hours of lockdown… If you are not familiar with the story, a miller and his son take their ass to the market to sell […]

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Serendipity

I can’t think of a more apt name for a blog site with my name next to it. Serendipity is something that happens to us all at one point or another – but it also describes an important piece of my educational philosophy: Life is a continuous journey of self-discovery; along the way, things happen, […]