Tag Archives: education
4 Pitfalls for Curriculum Publishing
MAT / Curriculum leads: are you looking to share your curriculum. Here are four pitfalls to avoid, to make it work for your team, avoid risk and maybe even help your budget! My Four Publishing Pitfalls 1 – Reputational damage … Continue reading
Why we perpetuate Climate Injustice in schools (written in collaboration with ChatGPT)
Imagine if even half the energy that has been put into thinking, debating and implementing ‘knowledge rich’ approaches and cognitive science informed pedagogy in the past 10 years had been directed towards a curriculum that seriously tackled the climate crisis … Continue reading
Posted in Decarbonisation, Opinion
Tagged climate education, climate justice, education, Pearson global learner survey, schools
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Decarbonising Curriculum Content: Food
Alongside the decolonisation of what we teach in schools, we need to urgently decarbonise our curriculum. There is so much great work going on in schools to promote climate justice – but very little change in the materials going into … Continue reading
Pimp your PGCE
The one year PGCE is one hell of a test of the human spirit. Amongst the few days out of school placements, there are brief deluges of information at Uni; drenching trainee teachers with professional wisdom. Somehow, they are expected … Continue reading
Larkrise 365
Our governing body has started using Office 365 improve collaboration and improve the way we work with school staff. Although we are right at the beginning of our journey, we have started to find paths through the forest of our … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Governance, thinking out loud
Tagged education, office 365, School governors, ukgovchat
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Message in a bottle – Assessing what matters
I am part of an exciting project to measure what matters in a primary school. We think others might be interested in working with us, or have already started this journey. This blog post is a ‘message in a … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Innovation, projects
Tagged 5Cs, assessment, education, oxford, schools
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Lessons for schools from oil rigs
It may seem unlikely, but the social norms of school staffrooms could learn something from the rough, masculine world of huge oil rigs. Inspired by wonderful story telling, I’ve been thinking that if oil men can transform their social norms, … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, thinking out loud
Tagged education, invisibilia, schools, sltchat, wellbeing
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I’m not a top blogger
I was shocked and surprised to find that I had been included in the UKEdChat Top Educational Blog 2015 list. Lovely as it is to be included, I cannot really accept this accolade. Simply, I do not blog often or … Continue reading
Connecting Collections Conference 2015
The education sector is huge, with many audiences, providers, policy makers and perspectives, and I spent part of last week getting to know the Arts and Culture world better; and it was a joy. I was grateful to the nice people … Continue reading
Posted in Events, presentations and workshops
Tagged #ccconf2015, Arts Council England, ArtsEd, ArtsEducation, culture24, education, schools, ukedchat
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Connecting Collections
There are the notes and slides from the talk by Chris Unitt and Eylan Ezekiel at the Connecting Collections Conference on 29 June 2015. The slides will be available on Slideshare shortly. Chris has a post about this too! Background Arts Council … Continue reading
Posted in Events, presentations and workshops
Tagged Arts Council England, ArtsEd, ArtsEducation, education, schools
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