Tag: teachers

Ordinary Life

Education & Learning
The man I love turned 50 yesterday. A milestone event, cataclysmic in its ordinarity really. Just live long enough...

Good Enough

Education & Learning
It’s been so long since I wrote, that I forgot my own website address. It’s not that there haven’t been...

This Year I Am Boring My Students (On Purpose)

Education & Learning
I have been thinking a lot about boredom. And how so many of us, yes, myself included, seem to...

Reclaim Your Weekends: Try Teacher Marking Assistant

Education & Learning
What if marking could fit into the gaps of a teacher’s day — the ten minutes in the staff...

Comparing the Top 3 K-12 Language Proficiency Tests for 2026

Education & Learning
Language proficiency is a pillar of K-12 education, as schools aim to equip students with the ability to communicate...

10 Ways to Begin Counteracting the Rewiring of Our Students’ Brains

Education & Learning
He tells me he is bored. As if that is the only reason I need in order to understand why...

When a Child Says They Hate Reading: What to Ask Next

Education & Learning
It seems, no matter what I do, it still happens. Year after year. I started this work in 2010 and...

Two Different Loses

Education & Learning
What we track. And what we miss. I keep thinking about the ones who came to us loving books. You know...

“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...