Tag Archives: schools
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
Three steps to a better EdTech strategy
In my role as Trustee for A New Direction, London’s creative education agency, I wrote three guest posts to help their community in creating better Edtech in the Arts, Culture and Heritage sector. I offered advice in the form of three steps: … Continue reading
Digital Governance
School governors are a bit like hedgehogs. Our activity is mostly misunderstood, we can have a much bigger impact on the world than you might think, and we are busiest at night. Stretching this simile even further (with apologies to … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Innovation
Tagged governance, o365, School governors, schools, ukgovchat
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There Will be Blood – GDPR and EdTech
New EU regulations look set to bring some light into the often shady ‘Oil Rush’ in EdTech, drilling for data from our schools. Individuals will have new and powerful rights to their personal data, and organisation will have to show … Continue reading
Why? We need to Get Real
Why do we educate our children in the way we do? Our current public debate seems stuck on raising standards, improving parental choice, and beating international league tables; rather than considering this deeper question. Yes, kids need to be … Continue reading
Posted in Events, presentations and workshops
Tagged arts and culture, ArtsEd, culture24, schools
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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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Wrong Headed Jobs
The people the DfE are recruiting and contracting to bring about educational change are not only unhealthy for the schools they work with, but part of the reason policy is so out of touch with teachers. This advert from Premier … Continue reading