Poetry

Two Cheers for Diversity and the Unfinished Work of America: Stronger Together

The NAIS Annual People Of Color Conference opens this week in Atlanta. It will draw independent educators from across the country. They…

8 years ago

Goodbye to all that

The first day of my new life as an idle good-for-nothing superannuated coffin-dodger (my brother's description of retirees) coincides with…

8 years ago

The Barrage Lifts

After forty five years it's time to re-wire! And the start of my re-wirement coincides with the centenary of the…

8 years ago

1915 and The Midnight of the Nations

On Christmas Day 1915 David Lloyd George the former radical liberal,then Minister of Munitions and soon to be Prime Minister…

9 years ago

School Leadership: Working Together and Birds in Flight

Have you ever seen a ton of starlings or red-wing blackbirds swooping about in unison as if they were in…

10 years ago

Paper Cuts: Josh at the Sewing Machine

The first day of alleged spring and another day disrupted by the rituals and routines of early dismissal. By  mid…

10 years ago

The Night Mail

This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters…

10 years ago

Modern Learning and the Shock of the New

Here's something terrific for free: It's an E-book of great articles from the always useful Educating Modern Learners, an online…

10 years ago

A Darkling Year or Joy Illimited.

BBC's Radio 4 first tweet for 2014 was a thrush with a bright blue sky background and a quotation from…

11 years ago

The Edge: A sudden unplanned flight of fancy

         Come to the Edge We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO…

12 years ago