I’ve recently read Daniel Coyle’s ‘The Culture Code‘ and it really gets you thinking about ‘belonging’, which is the special sauce that a lot of schools are looking for. Here is my take on the book and how it can be potentially applied to schools. According to Coyle all successful groups develop three “skills” or …
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WHAT’S HAPPENING?
(WHY WE’RE ALL ELLIOT MOORE WHEN IT COMES TO EXAM ANALYSIS) Recently I’ve decided to watch more films by the director M. Night Shyamalan. Obviously I have watched Sixth Sense and thoroughly enjoyed the Unbreakable/Split/Glass trilogy but what encouraged me to go further into his filmography was his recent adaptation of a graphic novel called …
HOW TO BE INTERESTING ABOUT SCHOOLS
At the beginning of the year, I started reading a book called ‘How To Be Interesting’ by Edward de Bono. The author is best known for creating the term ‘lateral thinking’ and wrote a very influential book on decision making called ‘Six Thinking Hats’. I’m not sure whether the book has made me more interesting …
STRESSED, NOT STRESSED
For months I’ve had a pain in my stomach. It comes and goes but generally it stays…just there, like an unwanted visitor, disrupting my life, like the Tiger That Came To Tea or more like the Gerbil That Came For A Snack. Every now and then it will get so bad in class, that I …
REBEL IDEAS IN EDUCATION
Recently I have been reading Matthew Syed’s ‘Rebel Ideas’ and his books are always rather thought provoking from an educational perspective. Previously he has written ‘Bounce’ that looked at Carol Dweck’s ‘growth mindset’ theory and ‘Black Box Thinking’ that leaned very hard on ‘The Checklist Manifesto’ by Atul Gawande, which inspired the book for schools …
IN DEFENCE OF MOBILE PHONES
At the start of a new term, there has been renewed calls for schools to ban mobile phones. As we can see in this BBC news article, just under half of parents want mobile phones banned in schools, according to a survey carried out by uSwitch. Many schools have already implemented a ban and it …
WHY EVERYONE INTERESTED IN EDUCATION SHOULD SUPPORT A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
Over the past few years, there has been an increasing interest in the idea of a Universal Basic Income across the globe. On the 7th May, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, attended the launch of a report by the RSA on how the Basic Income could become a UK reality and other countries have run …
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“Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency.”
In the Secret Barrister’s book ‘Stories of the Law and How it is Broken’, he discusses how the justice system is becoming more focused on getting cases through court in the name of efficiency, rather that the quality of the judgement. This is no surprise given the free market model that has been imposed on …
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