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"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...

As we stand at the portal of an opening year we are wont to reflect and prepare; like Janus we look both backwards and forwards as we as...

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

C.S. Lewis once wrote a reply to a letter from a girl named Joan Lancaster. In it he offered her some valuable writing tips. One piece of...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

I was asked recently why you'd want to help anyone to be optimistic when you could help them to be realistic. The questioner, I think...

When you've had a bad day, don't exacerbate it. I covered an ill colleague's class today and let's just say they didn...

I go up, pull open the blinds, set up the little fold-out table and just sit, looking out over the city. It's not a particularly pictu...

Like damp rising within I've felt a fear: the fear that everything I write will be sneered at as idealistic, unrealistic, patronisi...