On the 30th of December, back in 2012, I wrote a blog post about making and sustaining habit changes in education – read it here – based on my reading of the …
Can Chip and Dan Heath Help Improve Your School?
Elephants, riders and paths…just more management and consultant jargon surely? We have a class to teach – a department to run – a school to improve. Let’s leave all that nonsense to …
Coaching in Schools: Top Five Reads
There appears to be a significant rise in coaching in schools at the moment that provides hope for a more coherent approach to teacher improvement. The whole topic of Performance Development is …
Switch and Self-improvement in Schools
As a teacher I am always looking to take on the Sisyphean task of changing the habits of my students to make them better learners. What I have also realised as a …