I read quite the inspirational educational story on The Atlantic this week, about a high school in Staten Island, New Drop, that was facing closure due to low performance. It had tried just about any trick in the book. It was down to a head teacher to investigate and find out that the students...
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I’ve been working on a project over the past few weeks that has been getting me involved with the realities of schools. I realised some harsh truths about how schools need to operate in order to tick the boxes they are asked to tick. I found out that often, educators get so wrapped up...
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Rhizo-what? – some background. I recently watched one of the latest additions to the RSAnimate YouTube channel, Manuel Lima talking about the power of networks. In this part of this talk, Lima shows how we, as humans, have changed the way we look at nature. Starting from the roots of modern science, where we...
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How appropriate to discuss language and language skills in a time our nation is flooded in a celebration of culture and language. Language is a fascinating thing. It is a window to a culture. It is a living thing. It is also an unbelievably practical tool that we rely on and use every day...
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I spoke with a few of my friends and colleagues this week who are all leaders in Education. We were talking about some of the challenges schools meet today and possible way of answering them. I discussed with them some of the ideas we are working on (briefly discussed in this post), their viability...
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