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Why Schools Must Hire More Rebels
Princess Leia Organa, arguably the greatest rebel of them all In search of a perfectly average teacher Driving to the airport on the way to an overseas recruitment trip last week, I made a fairly innocuous comment in a conversation I was having with my kids about a teacher who had recently left our school. […]
I am trying to decide whether I have read a lot of books this year or not. Not that it matters, of course. I’m not counting. It’s just that I know that reading is a great place for me to “be well”, and that does matter. As much as I would love to have a […]
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“Who’s Doing the Washing Up?”
“Who’s doing the washing up?” The answer to this question might be significant. If it’s you, you might behave one way. If it’s not you, you might behave another way. Take, for example, my friend’s domestic predicament. He and his partner have a long-standing rule that when one cooks, the other will wash up. They […]
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Do You Want the Moon On A Stick?
There’s an old English saying that I often mutter when I’m being worn thin by seemingly excessive demands: “Do you want the moon on a stick?” This week alone, the question has crossed my mind on at least five occasions in conversations I have shared. They (parents) say They (teachers) say They (parents, teachers, students, […]
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Let’s Go Back to the Future
If I’m hearing correctly, educational standards are worse than ever. Teachers are saying that kids don’t just dislike reading more than a few words; they can’t. They don’t just hate writing more than a few words; they can’t. And even when they do write, you either can’t read it, or the grammar and spelling are […]
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Are you Fast Awake Or Wide Asleep?
I’m “fast awake”. It’s 0600, alarm beeping, I have 10 mins, check phone, 37 WhatsApp messages, 26 emails, 9 Linkedin alerts, triage most of those and then check BBC news, same old, check BBC sports, football, great result for Brighton, cricket not so good, snooker, Ronnie not playing again, check share prices, ticking up, then […]
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The Aggregation of Marginal Strains!
I may be overthinking things at the moment. Today, I saw a boy sitting alone with his hands holding his head. He’s anxious. He’s stressed. He’s lonely. Of course, I don’t actually know what’s up with him, but that’s what is going through my mind. Life can be hard, and I assume this is another […]
“I am Loki of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose” Loki utters these words in the first Avengers film, sharing a belief in his pre-ordained right to power. At the risk of being a spoiler, it doesn’t end well for him. The use of the word ‘burdened’ is used (I think) because Loki […]
“How’s your grad speech going?” I’m not sure what other people do when they are asked to write a speech, but I find it takes way more time than I have, way more coffee and wine than is healthy, and way more stress and anxiety than I ever expected (even though it was the same […]
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