Mar 12Global Citizenship 2.0 at StonehillOn Tuesday February 28th, the Leadership Team and Governing Council at Stonehill International School took the first step in developing a more updated, relevant understanding of what it means to be a ‘Global Citizen’. Our aim is to engage the whole Stonehill community in a conversation about Global Citizenship over…Education5 min readEducation5 min read
Nov 5, 2021Adapting your approach to teaching for times of unpredictable and inconsistent attendance (of students and teachers)Despite the warnings of dystopian novelists and doomsday heralds, I don’t imagine any of us seriously imagined that we would be teaching under the circumstances that the last eighteen months have forced us to adapt to. Levels of uncertainty and unpredictability have increased exponentially, and in an industry that relies…Education8 min readEducation8 min read
Jul 21, 2021Education for Social Change — Challenges and Opportunities in International Schools“The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.” (James Baldwin) I would imagine that if we asked all teachers around the world why they got into education…Education7 min readEducation7 min read
Jul 10, 2020Thoughts on the IB Results — A Dive into the Numbers this yearSince IB results were published on Monday, many students and teachers around the world have been scratching their heads trying to figure out how their scores were calculated. Some of these students and teachers have accused the IB of a lack of transparency and have cried ‘unfair’ in response to…Education8 min readEducation8 min read
Mar 15, 2020Member-onlyMoving Online: Lessons we’re about to learn as educatorsAs schools around the world move to a distance learning model due to the outbreak of Covid-19, we, as educators, are about to come face-to-face with many of the ideas that educational consultants have been throwing around for the past two decades. …Education7 min readEducation7 min read
Oct 8, 2019Genuine Teacher Appraisal — How do your students spend their time when they get to choose?I don’t know whether or not Malcolm Gladwell’s claim that it takes 10’000 hours to become competent or an expert in a particular field is still valid. In fact, I haven’t even read Outliers although I seem to have had various sections quoted at me in different professional development sessions…Education5 min readEducation5 min read
Jul 12, 2019Sorry Boris, Nigel, Donald and friends. A new English-speaking educated elite is on the rise.Sorry Boris, Nigel, Donald and friends. A new English-speaking educated elite is on the rise. For me, watching from a distance, the Trump administration’s desperate, futile defense of whiteness, nativism and masculinity over the past three years has always had at least a hint of bewildered amusement about it. …Education4 min readEducation4 min read
May 29, 2019Member-onlyOpening Doors, Timing it Right, Digging up Stories and Valuing People — What I’ve learned from eight years in school leadership.Most of the things I’ve done or had to do over the past eight years as a Vice Principal and Principal in a private school have involved me finding ways to keep things in ‘balance’. At the risk of sounding like Yoda, I have needed to bring balance to the…Education8 min readEducation8 min read
Mar 2, 2019The Wheat and the Chaff: Promising Pathways and Probable Pitfalls in Progressive EducationMaybe I’ve ended up in an echo chamber following various proponents of progressive education on twitter. I feel as though I’m constantly being encouraged to admire the incredible (yes, there’s always hyberbole) engagement of these middle school children because they got to choose which science project to work on, or…Education10 min readEducation10 min read
Jan 4, 2019Balancing the BookshelvesThere are 132 different authors represented on my bookshelves this morning. 107 of them were or are white, Euro-American males. A humble reflection on voice, choice and book buying. I like to count things. In fact, one of my colleagues at school once referred to me as the organisation’s ‘bean…Writing6 min readWriting6 min read
