The Four Fs of Active Reviewing
johndabell How do you review experience and plan for the future? The four Fs framework was designed by Dr Roger Greenaway, an expert on training teachers and facilitators. The idea is…
2021
The 7 Types of Rest We All Need
We all need a good rest. But what type? There are 7 types of rest we all need: 1. Physical 2. Mental 3. Social 4. Creative 5. Emotional 6. Spiritual…
Always Rinse Your Cottage Cheese
The little things matter but the tiniest things matter more. What do I mean? In a school, there are lots of macro issues that take centre stage and so they…
Broken Windows Theory
If you walk by a piece of litter then you have just contributed to breaking a window. Litter attracts more litter and that can soon attract criminal damage. Wilson and…
The Anniversary Effect
Have you ever noticed that your emotions can get all mushy around an anniversary? I don’t mean a birthday or a wedding but a significant event that has more unsettling…
Taking Children To The Threshold Of Failure
When children are given work that is ‘too easy’ then they soon get restless and revolt. Give them work that is more than they can cope with and they get…
Tableaux Vivants
As a child, our art teacher Mrs Montgomery, was ahead of her time. She took risks and dared to be creative whilst her colleagues tutted and ‘got on with the…
We Don’t Have Five Senses
Ask most people how many senses we have and they’ll probably opt for the classical Aristotelian answer of five: vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell. But this is wrong. We don’t…
The World’s Tallest Mountain?
On the bucket list of many adventurers is climbing Mount Everest. They want to do this because they want to reach the summit and say they are on top of…
Two Head Are Better Than One?
They say that ‘two heads are better than one’ but when it comes to leading a school, does this work? When it comes to simplifying educational leadership then having two…