Hold Your Nerve
johndabell I started this blog a year ago and I said that I would make it my New Year’s Resolution to write ‘a blog a day’. Drum roll please: I did…
2018
Is Your Line Manager X-Rated?
Douglas McGregor developed two contrasting theories that explained how managers’ beliefs about what motivates their people can affect their management style. He labelled these Theory X and Theory Y. I…
Is Your School Full Of Psychopaths?
Probably. Well, if not full, there will certainly be a few. The standard screening test for potential psychopaths is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. In the test, a clinician interviews a…
Newsround
What’s been in the news lately?
Where Have All The Enchanted Headteachers Gone?
If we look at the news then being a Headteacher isn’t something you want to be doing. It’s the job that has literally ended some people’s careers and they have…
Sleigh Again?
Sometimes we hear things differently. We hear words that aren’t there. We hear words that are there. We tune into what we think is being said. Sometimes a word can…
Christmas Crackers
It sounds crackers but Christmas was cancelled in 1649 when Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, following the execution of Charles I. Cromwell’s puritan Christian beliefs held no room…
Beware: It’s Christmas Eve
How are you feeling?
Learning Needs To Be Tense
Can folding our arms help us persist with problems?
16 Ways To Unleash Your Creative Splurge
For donkey’s years, many scientists have believed the right brain is the seat of creative thinking and the left brain is the home of logical thinking. When I first found…