Michael Wilshaw’s talk at the London Festival of Education – Notes
Background: teacher 40 years Would never have believed teachers in London could have achieved what they have. 2 messages from that: don’t believe “it can’t be done because we’ve got circumstances x,y and z” all the good things being done in London replicable elsewhere Annual report: going to be more...
A Personal Vision of an Idealised School Culture – Roland S Barth
I would welcome the chance to work in a school characterised by a high level of collegiality, a place teeming with frequent, helpful personal and professional interactions. I would become excited about life in a school where a climate of risk taking is deliberately fostered and where a safety net protects those who may risk […]
Wald and Where The Bullets Aren’t
Love this, from Fast Company: In WWII, Allied bombers were key to strategic attacks, yet these lumbering giants were constantly shot down over enemy territory. The planes needed more armor, but armor is heavy. So extra plating could only go where the planes were being shot the most. A man named Abraham Wald, a Jewish […]
The Universe Is In Us
Keep coming back to this. [thanks Cristina]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s lesser-known poem “Skyfall”
… or Ulysses as he called it. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an agèd wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink […]
Pete’s Wonderful Tube Idea
Pete Jones has a great idea for schools to use the London tube map. It’s: to create a set of resources to help schools connect with their local stations. To investigate and explore their local areas in a myriad of ways and then to create an online exhibition of their creative responses which reflect what […]
Bertrand Russell on Doubt
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
The Ascent of Man
Watching Bronowski’s Ascent of Man again. Brilliant, briliant, brilliant.
Character building at school #pshe
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#SOLO Taxonomy Presentation for Primary School Children
Thought I’d share a little slideshow I’ve made to introduce my class to SOLO. Been mulling over trying it this summer and thank in large part to the theory here, some serendipitous resources mentioned by Ewan and the sheer enthusiasm of Tait, I’m taking the plunge. SOLO Taxonomy for Kids on Prezi Would love to […]