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Dear Colleagues and Readers, It is time to say good-bye. This blog will become inactive at the end of February 2023. Thank you to anyone...
Towards the end of what is often known as “Lockdown One” in the UK, I remember sitting with a couple of colleagues and ruminating on the...
I can’t say that I know all the ins and outs of feminism but I do know that I am one. I can’t tell you all the details of the different...
A few weeks ago, I attended the fourth of a series of conferences about racism in Education. Oasis UK’s, “Break the Cycle” movement began...
Hi Everyone, A year of silence here but I'll be back soon with some more ideas for creating classroom environments rooted in love, care...
For the time being I am discontinuing my termly blogs. I have really enjoyed blogging over the last year but for now I am putting it...
"We" and "Us" Rather Than "Me" and "Them" Today, I am going to use a three step process to look at some of the concepts underlying why,...
Previously, in Part I and II of the "How To" series, I wrote about the initial steps a teaching team or leader might make to begin the...
When I worked in an International school in Central Asia, we would often talk about the dynamic of families, like mine, raising and...
The 3 R’s Here we are in the midst of Black History Month after an intense few weeks in a new academic year (in the northern hemisphere...
In this post I will continue an exploration of how to reform a school curriculum in the light of the Black Lives Matter movement and a...
In the last few weeks, I have been a part of a number of conversations with teachers about adapting the curriculum so that the...
This week, I had planned for us to begin to look at the “how to” aspects of critical pedagogy. I was going to introduce some of the...
In my thirties I had a 9 year gap from teaching in the UK whilst my husband and I studied and then worked overseas for a charity....
The first time I read Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” it was a bit like falling in love! Although I couldn’t understand...
This is a website I have been dreaming of creating for a couple of years. It comes as a result of 3 decades of exploring the world,...