I was going to use my last #teacher5aday29dayswriting post to write up my notes from the Standards and Testing Agency meeting I went to to...

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

In my younger days I used to rap a lot. Late Saturday night customers to KFC were often treated to having their order taken by a freestyling...

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...

Now that we've all experienced the cocktail of initial relief , mild anger and nervous hilarity that the DfE's announcements yester...

Year 2 and 6 teachers - today we all became victims of 'Yo-Yo Pricing'. The biggest education news in the last 24 hours is of cou...

As with the impressive glass roof, the people were long gone. The barren orange trees that once grew there prophesied the eventual end of ...

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...

It wasn't love at first sight. And only those who really knew me believed it would work out. I wasn't even entirely convinced myse...

If teachers could save time on their everyday routine tasks then inevitably there could be more life in the balance. I love finding time...

Another example of what optimism isn't to kick things off: on the way home, the shuffle function on my iPod selected Go West's ...