Tag: School

How to Combat Summer Reading Slide with Students

Education & Learning
I have 43 school days left and I can already feel it. That quiet guilt that starts sneaking in...

“Schools need to be boring”

Education & Learning
In 1957, when 3 o’clock came around, Chuck Berry ‘laid his burden down’, that burden being school. 33 years...

How I engaged learners without gimmicks

Education & Learning
This year, I’ve run an experiment with mastery learning rather than running a programme of unit/topic learning. It has...

Will Education ever reach its Tipping point?

Education & Learning
For more than 500 years, western culture has fallen into many major problems due to its sense of exceptionalism...

Hey Teachers, the Marshmallow test was wrong.

Education & Learning
I covered the disastrous impact that eugenic thinking had on high school design in my previous post. So, I...

Does a quiet classroom quietly harm children?

Education & Learning
I was talking to a teacher this week and he was telling me stories of how exciting it had...