This blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...

Back in November 2010 I was invited to go down to London to lead a research seminar at the DfE on the reading for pleasure promotion...

1. The green passport was the first one in the series. Indeed, when I wrote it I thought it would be the only one but then when my...

Listening recently to Andy Hargreaves talking about professional capital on YouTube , I was struck by his definition of the third element...

Education is an exchange, but not a monetary one in most circumstances. Instead of exchanging money, a symbolic representation of labour...

Yesterday, Rob Shadbolt, Head of Wood Green School, Witney, Oxfordshire, hosted the first ever National Baccalaureate workshop....

Photo credit – Suffolk Maths http://www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/1growthmindset.htm You will have seen many diagrams by now explaining...

With this in mind I have decided on a slightly different approach to the revision sessions I will be running in Guernsey secondary...

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend a morning listening to David Didau talking about literacy. Like all good inset, this...

Hargreaves and Fullan now move on to the final part of their professional capital equation, DC – decisional capital as in PC = F (HC, SC,...

Teaching is complicated. Learners’ needs are multifarious and educational systems and qualifications frameworks are complex and...