"When do you think it's time to love something the most, child? When it's successful? And has made everything easy for us...

Recently I've been wondering how all of my educational ideologies hang together. I often experience the discomfort of feeling like so...

SchoolWell , a school staff wellbeing directory, asked me a few questions about wellbeing, marking, Twitter, reading and #OptimisticEd; the...

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I'm not a stranger to SATs result day nightmares ( read about it here ), and if it wasn't for my past experiences I dare say toda...

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The storm rolls in. Skies darken. Seas toss and turn; sleepless, restless. Ships flounder in the squall, doing all they can not to founder...

 Thanks to February I've racked up a fair few blog posts now and in looking back over them I can see there are definite recurring themes...

The word 'autonomy' comes from the Greek 'auto' meaning "self" and 'nomos' meaning "law", so t...

In this burgeoning age of celebrity teachers, is it OK to just be a teacher?  Teaching is a profession full of ambitious individuals but c...

When it comes to acknowledging the effect of music, research is barely necessary. The fact that music has power to change is universally a...

After reading an excellent and uplifting blog post by @BridgemaryTL it occurred to me that not all hopeful and optimistic people are walkin...

The most recent incarnation of the standards for headteachers centres around the skills and personality traits that excellent headteacher...

Today we are roughly 14% of the way through this year. I am currently at 12% of my way through reading the fifty books that I've chall...

In 'All In The Same Boat' I touched very briefly on today's subject matter and after a couple of conversations after yesterda...

I entered into the #teacher5aday29dayswriting challenge knowing that time and inspiration might be obstacles but feeling confident that I co...

"Now that you've been shown, you can practise on your own And you'll all be expert fliers by the time you're fully grow...

A popular call as a solution for teachers' workload is for teachers to be given extra time at school within working hours to get more o...

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping ...

Tonight is date night. I say that as if it's a regular fixture in our calendar but it's not. It should be though. My wife is a sta...