Best Gift Ever – thank a teacher
Here is a short post about the end of year and a story about a pupil, a teacher, a class reader and the end of year tradition to thank teachers. The pupil is Tom. I’m the teacher. (With my safeguarding …
Thinking about pupil behaviour – in a Special Education setting
I am investing time connecting with others via LinkedIn, learning and thinking hard. This professional learning edventure started with a Team Teach webinar with Dr Alec Clark and Jonathan Newport (Chief Learning Officer and Global Director of Team Teach.) It …
When you know “Special” education has your attention
I have always been committed to helping all pupils thrive and learn. My edventures in teaching therefore, focused and explored strategies and routines with broad impact, rather than targeted subsets of learners, for example low achieving boys (usually low-attaining also), …
The biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation
As a school leader, the twin stands of Organisational and People Management come only second to the Leadership of Teaching and Learning. And yet, they are arguably, inextricable linked. Every sector will be assessing the immediate, the imminent and expected …
AI for therapeutic purposes – Conversational Agents
More yellow cars. With an interest in neurodiversity and AI, it seems like that there has been a flood of articles cross my radar. More than a handful of articles and research papers on AI highlighted therapeutic use cases, superficially …
AI and Neurodiversity – classroom to staffroom
Ever played “Yellow car?” It is a simple car journey past time, that should need little explanation beyond it’s game title. I raise it, simply because, once you’ve played your first game of “Yellow car,” it is almost impossible not …
Scripting off-stage scenes – every exit, an entrance somewhere else.
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. The Player, the leader of troupe of traveling actors Fresh from …
EHCP landscape, numbers climbing
The current system is simply not sustainable. Paul Whiteman – General secretary of the school leaders union NAHT The sharp increase in the number of children with special educational needs – particularly those with complex needs that require an education, …