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Many school leaders are great at managing courses. Teachers pick up PowerPoints, put marks into spreadsheets and kids get grades at the end.   Leaders with critical values are rarer on the ground.    Here I muse on values in education, of how to deal with the...

I've kept this website (advertisement free!) for over a decade. In that time my network of people I could speak to about my teaching has increased. Still, I wrote a lot of stuff that was meaningful at the time.  Here you can find miscellaneous musings about my...

I have planned and taken many courses. My thoughts on the materials are here.    Resources I create are available here too.      

Debate is a staple in international and private schools, but relative rare in state schools.   Resources and videos and ideas for teaching debate can be found here.        

'How to teach literature' is a rare post.   Literature is a difficult subject requiring xyz.      If you want acronyms, sentence stems etc, you can find them all here.   More conceptual approaches to teaching literature can also be found here.   ...

'How to teach writing' is the second most common search for you to get here.   Writing for school involves persuasive and descriptive writing. There are practical methods for improving writing that I summarise here with useful resources.    Click here to see examples...