Cancer And Stubborn Optimism
johndabell
The will to live is a force to be reckoned with. It’s as stubborn as a mule and refuses to budge. It digs its heels in, doesn’t follow the textbook…
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The League Of Panglossians
If you want to get on in education then you’ve got to be a Panglossian pedagogue. This means to be extremely optimistic regardless of the circumstances (especially in the face…
The Pollyanna Principle
How often do you play the ‘glad game’? Pollyanna played it all the time and it would do us all the world of good to do the same. Pollyanna lives…
The Planning Fallacy
Although teachers have to do loads of planning, some of us aren’t that good at it.