In Mental Toughness: Being the Best You Can Be I introduced our work on mental toughness. You may alternatively know mental toughness as character, grit, growth mindset, learned optimism, learning powers. Data on the mental toughness of young people across Blackpool reveals a high level of sensitivity and a very low level of toughness. Continue reading
In writing Schools that Enable All to Thrive and Flourish, we never sought to respond to Education Excellence Everywhere nor Schools that Work for Everyone rather to demonstrate there was another way; one in which our children and young people can thrive and flourish. Continue reading
In Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” the the classic line, “What have the Romans ever done for us?” Is responded to with a long list, “sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health”. Continue reading