Education

Escape from the Spirit People

When a re-wired, pack-rat educator takes a deep dive in the basement there's no telling what she will find in…

5 years ago

Angela Brazil, the Tribal World of School and School Change

Scooterons-nous vite. It's Back to School with Angela Brazil Long before Harry Potter - and indeed long before all those…

5 years ago

For No Good Reason

I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…

5 years ago

Angela Brazil – Rhymes With Dazzle – at Dunkirk

When intelligence officer Arthur Marshall was on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 he turned to the work of Angela…

5 years ago

Scissors and a Glue Stick

When I first became a head of school I had this daft idea that I would make personalized cut-and-paste greetings…

5 years ago

The Street of the Fruit Stalls

Amazing how hard it sometimes can be to find things on the intertubes. There was a poem I remembered from…

5 years ago

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

It's graduation season and across the land schools are saying goodbye to students and students are moving along and into…

6 years ago

Celebrating a Trevor Class and a Teacher Retirement

Just a few pictures of very lovely evening at Trevor Day School. Great appreciation to all who helped make this…

6 years ago

This is the Nazi Library

I think it must have been Ann Klotz's quite lovely post that did it. It's about her office and her…

6 years ago

Sticky Learning and the Dumbing Down of Exams

Do you remember what you were doing on the 22nd of June at 9.00am? I do - at least for…

6 years ago