If you’re only as good as your last post on a subject then I am completely off my rocker to even try and attempt a second “Myth of…” post. The first one, on “The Myth of Progress Within Lessons” is closing in on 7000 views making it easily my most widely read post (by a […]
June 25, 2013
“If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.” This proverb, happily ‘borrowed’ from a Steve Munby presentation at the Festival of Education, is a pithy reflection of the philosophy that underpins Teachmeet Collaborate. A biannual event this teachmeet, itself a collaboration between Canons High and Park High […]
June 20, 2013
This is the ‘doing’ post I probably didn’t dream that I would be writing this year. It has only just been three years since our last Ofsted inspection, in which we were judged to be outstanding for all categories other than teaching and learning, and yet on Monday lunchtime the call came. And now, on […]
June 9, 2013
This ‘doing’ post is all about the work that I have been engaged in as a Deputy Head in the last year and a half or so. It comes with a bit of a health warning in that the school I am employed by is not actually a Teaching School. Last year we received a […]
June 3, 2013
This is the most uncomfortable I have been starting a post: much more uncomfortable than I was writing the one about the ten best education policies by Michael Gove. I have spent 36 hours actively mulling over whether to write it now and at least six months pondering the general theme, a theme I touched […]
June 29, 2013
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