The 5 Rights of a School Environment
johndabell There are certain workplace things that have to be in place as a ‘basic’ in order to feed your wellbeing. Teachers work in very different environments but the basics remain…
2021
Reconceptualising Failure
When you’ve dropped a clanged or epically failed at something, it can leave you feeling pretty low. But not if you look at not winning in a different light. Golfer…
Crab Mentality
Why are we so begrudging of other people doing well? It seems to be an almost national pastime in Britain to pull others down. This ‘Crab Mentality’ is a way…
The 5 H’s: Hope, Hugs, Hunting, Humour, & Hendrix
Mental health is a work in progress and something we are always tinkering with. It’s not something that we ‘achieve’ because it is constantly changing. There are various models and…
Cracking The Art Of Kintsugi
In her book Kintsugi Wellness, Candice Kumai reminds us that when we are broken, we can actually be more beautiful. Kintsugi is the Japanese art or repair related to ceramics…
Watch Your Pink Elephants
You will have heard of White Elephants but what on earth are Pink Elephants? Pink elephants are the unnecessary negatives that clutter your conversation and meaning, sending out the wrong…
Teaching And The Four-Minute Rule
What is the most important part of any lesson? The first four minutes. After that, it doesn’t matter. Game over. Well, if we are applying what Steve McDermott says then…
Are Your Meetings Spent Bikeshedding?
You’re probably guilty of bikeshedding but didn’t even realise. We are all guilty of bikeshedding. But what is it? Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson’s law of triviality, describes our tendency…
School Emails And The Napoleon Technique
When it comes to getting things done then sometimes it is better to not actually do anything. This might sound like a recipe for disaster but when we postpone things…
Do You Have Chutzpah?
There’s a colourful Yiddish word that we don’t hear enough of in education and it is ‘chutzpah’. This basically translates as audacity and can be negative or positive. In a…