Category Archives: presentations and workshops
Why? We need to Get Real
Why do we educate our children in the way we do? Our current public debate seems stuck on raising standards, improving parental choice, and beating international league tables; rather than considering this deeper question. Yes, kids need to be … Continue reading
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Tagged arts and culture, ArtsEd, culture24, schools
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#TMCulture24
There is a simple joy in creating a TeachMeet – that of bringing people together in a space for sharing ideas and stories. This week, #TMCulture24 brought teachers and cultural professionals together to form new relationships and new ideas. … Continue reading
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Tagged #tmculture24, arts and culture, ArtsEd, museum of london, teachmeet
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Pimp your PGCE
The one year PGCE is one hell of a test of the human spirit. Amongst the few days out of school placements, there are brief deluges of information at Uni; drenching trainee teachers with professional wisdom. Somehow, they are expected … Continue reading
Day Zero
All too often, we find ourselves in organisations doing the work, without thinking about why we are doing it. As a consultant, I am often asked to help organisations change and do new work. Quite often, this starts with trying … Continue reading
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Connecting Collections Conference 2015
The education sector is huge, with many audiences, providers, policy makers and perspectives, and I spent part of last week getting to know the Arts and Culture world better; and it was a joy. I was grateful to the nice people … Continue reading
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Tagged #ccconf2015, Arts Council England, ArtsEd, ArtsEducation, culture24, education, schools, ukedchat
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Connecting Collections
There are the notes and slides from the talk by Chris Unitt and Eylan Ezekiel at the Connecting Collections Conference on 29 June 2015. The slides will be available on Slideshare shortly. Chris has a post about this too! Background Arts Council … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts Council England, ArtsEd, ArtsEducation, education, schools
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Throwing the dummies out of the COT
Andrew Old makes a simplistic, but consistent, argument for how the members of the new College of Teaching should be constituted. Just teachers, he says. Simple. But, in seeking simplicity, he seems to miss equally simple ways to enhance the … Continue reading
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Tagged claimyourcollege, college of teaching, schools
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Hangout with a wise head
This week, the fantastic Bill Lord gave an impromptu master-class in Headship. This happened while we talked in a Google Hangout about the Arts in Education, as part of the work I am doing for the Arts Council England. Despite the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts Council England, ArtsEd, ArtsEducation, education, oxford, schools
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The 5Min Plan for Planning
My recent tweet sharing my 1st draft of a #5min plan for curriculum planning, got more retweets and favourites than anything single thing I have done on Twitter in ages! I think I know why. My guess is that so many people … Continue reading
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Tagged #5min, #5MinPlan, Curriculum, education, innovation, LTP, MTP, planning, Story Telling
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A Quantum of CPD – Atomic TeachMeet
The first Atomic TeachMeet took place this week, bringing Teachmeet back to it’s roots. When Brian Sharland and I started tweeting about this, our intention was to create a regular, social and small gathering of classroom practitioners,… Or a teach … Continue reading
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Tagged atomicteachmeet, cpd, teachmeet
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