When Children Go All ‘Akihi’
johndabell ‘Akihi’ is a Hawaiian term expressing a situation we are all familiar with – the forgetfulness felt immediately after being given directions. You know the sort of thing. You find…
July 2021
The Spectrum Policy
If you don’t already, make sure that you have a spectrum policy in place. When it comes to meetings and any sort of decision making then a spectrum policy is…
School Leaders and RACI
Do you have a Responsibility Assignment Matrix? Some school managers adopt a type of RAM called a RACI framework in order to help them with what needs to happen and…
Alphabent
One of the joys finding a book behind a book is coming across some gems that you’d parked and sort of forgotten. One book I stumbled across the other day…
Continuous Partial Attention
Have you noticed that everyone around us seems to be paying partial attention, continuously? We seem to be living in an age of interruption and hyperconnectivity where no one seems…
Wabi Sabi Schools
If we all need to live by one principle then wabi sabi is it. This is a Japanese way of being that states that nothing is perfect, nothing is finished…
The Fun Scale And School
Is school fun? Learning certainly can be and the rich array of experiences offered by schools means that fun is always on the menu. But what sort of fun are…
The St Swithin’s Day Fallacy
If it rains on St Swithin’s Day it will rain for the next 40 days. If St Swithin’s Day is dry, the next 40 days will also be dry. A…
Skimming and Scanning
Everyone is raving about the new reading framework. The reading framework: teaching the foundations of literacy is the latest guidance for schools to meet existing expectations for teaching early reading.…
A Novel Idea
When you impose constraints on writing then it becomes more of a challenge and that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing because it encourages you to think of alternatives…