We can't just 'take care of our own'. 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.
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.
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Listen to the Maths: How teaching doubles encourages us to care for the world.
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.
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Coronavirus: Nature’s Message to Us All.
Rainbows bring hope as they remind us of the power of 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?
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Rainbows Everywhere: the universal symbol of hope and unity
There is nothing about you that repulses Him.
Look after one another's feet...
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.
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My Mother’s Feet: and what they have taught me about love.
Inclusive practices, such as trauma-informed approaches, although based on modern research, echo a truth as old as life. Everything belongs.
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Jesus Wants Me for a SENDco*. Inclusion: belonging, unity, acceptance, love.
Collaboration, solving problems and pattern sniffing taps into our basic human drives to make sense of the cosmos we live in.
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Communing in a Locked Room
A great curriculum, delivered in alignment with its intent, brightens lives.
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.
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Shining a Light on Meaning and Purpose: What kind of a curriculum does that?
I wish Ofsted would Deep Dive into the sense of acceptance and belonging.
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.
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Deep Dive into a Sense of Belonging – reflections of a SEND parent who happens to be a teacher…
Love is the prescription.
But what if it doesn't work?
Up the dose.
When we meet difference, we feel threat. Without awareness, we attack and vilify, causing violence and harm. Love is the only way through.
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Humble Pie and Cringe Custard: Eating your words with a spoonful of self-compassion.
