Listen, really listen, to our teachers. Our schools’ accountability systems need urgent change.
This global pandemic pause has forced us to reflect: we need to hear what teachers are really saying. Our accountability system in the UK needs urgent change.
Listen to the Maths: How teaching doubles encourages us to care for the world.
Who'd have thought teaching doubles to four year olds could save the world? Maths teaches us to reduce poverty. It is more than our moral duty; it is our only chance of long term survival. If you can't listen to your heart, listen to the maths.
Coronavirus: Nature’s Message to Us All.
We need more than science to save us from this pandemic. We need insight, humility and a sense of the sacred and the ability to made a sea change.
Rainbows Everywhere: the universal symbol of hope and unity
Rainbows are adorning windows and walls across the country as a symbol of unity and hope as we respond to coronavirus. What is beneath their universal appeal?
My Mother’s Feet: and what they have taught me about love.
Maundy Thursday recounts the story of The Last Supper. A poignant part of the story is where Jesus models humility and service in the washing of the disciples' feet but less of a focus is Peter's reluctance to receive it. The story teaches us about the nature of love and it reminds me of my mother's feet.
Jesus Wants Me for a SENDco*. Inclusion: belonging, unity, acceptance, love.
Inclusive practices, such as trauma-informed approaches, although based on modern research, echo a truth as old as life. Everything belongs.
Communing in a Locked Room
Collaboration, solving problems and pattern sniffing taps into our basic human drives to make sense of the cosmos we live in.
Shining a Light on Meaning and Purpose: What kind of a curriculum does that?
An illuminating curriculum that is delivered in alignment with its intent, brightens lives. It is not about programming minds to regurgitate information on command. We need to ensure children continue to THINK and CREATE.
Deep Dive into a Sense of Belonging – reflections of a SEND parent who happens to be a teacher…
Reflections on being a SEND parent, a teacher and wishing Ofsted did Deep Dives into belonging and acceptance - for the sakes of both children and their families.