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Redesigning Schools
Bread, Roses and Marshmallows plus a Bit of Vgotsky #Mindset
There’s nothing quite like Vgotsky’s zone of proximal development, the place where a teacher really earns his or her corn, to grab my attention. I first heard of it when learning about the Cognitive Acceleration in Science Programme in the early 1990’s. Dr Barry Hymer, Professor of Psychology in Education at the University of Cumbria brought the memories flooding back in his key note speech. Continue reading
Hattie, Hymer, Tomsett, Cameron and All that Jazz
It’s great to be able to blog about how I’ve shared the stage with John Hattie, John Tomsett, Barry Hymer and the real David Cameron; more rhetoric than reality. Speaking at the same conference isn’t quite the same as sharing the stage but since I spoke in the same room I thought a bit of exaggeration for effect might be allowed. Continue reading
If the White Paper Didn’t Exist What Would You Do? Do It Anyway
This title is taken from a Tom Sherrington tweet; just replace “the White Paper” with “Ofsted” to get the original. The White Paper has caused disquiet in quite a few places and a great deal of consternation in others. It lays out the path which ministers, though by no means all of their back benchers, would like to travel in educational terms during this Parliament. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
Liminal Leadership
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