Mission & Vision
Getting marketing right
Marketing your new school is essential. It is important to communicate to all interested stakeholders the key aspects of your unique educational offering (your value proposition). An essential element...
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Thought for the week ahead Free
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What is 'great teaching'? Free
What is geat teaching? It sounds simple and obvious question but can we answer it? in spite of the intuitive conviction held by teachers that 'they know it when they see it' research would suggest that...
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What do you believe each student can achieve? Free
"The most important development in education in the 21st century is our growing understanding of human capability and the lack of evidence for the heredity of intelligence." (Dr. Deborah Eyre, High Performance...
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What's your WHY? Free
The beginning of a new chronological year (for those who follow the Julian calendar) is a good time to review why we are doing what we are doing, and what we wish to achieve in the coming year (our new...
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Happy Holidays Free
“If you want to be successful, you should have very high EQ (emotional intelligence), a way to get on with people. If you don’t want to lose quickly, you should have good IQ. If you want to be respected,...
Teaching and Learning
What's worth teaching?
An opening article from Harvard Project Zero contrasts traditional and contemporary view of 'what's worth teaching' 21st century students. We then consider new models of education that address issues...
Teaching and Learning
The Teenage Brain
Main message: The teenage brain is constantly changing. It is very responsive to the environment. It gets really excited about rewards, emotions and new experiences. Key quote: “I predict that, as we...
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Michaela Community School Free
I find that one of the best forms of professional development is to learn from what works in other schools. This blog focuses in on one specific school - dubbed to be the ‘strictest in Britain’ – which...
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Are you a designer of learning? Free
"Educators need to think of themselves as designers of learning...We are convinced that we need to move rapidly to the place where all learners feel connected and all learners are able to self-regulate...