Every now and again, I meet some special people who remind me in the most delightful of ways why I have spent the greater part of my life involved in education....
This post belongs to an occasional series on teacher professional development. Previous posts include The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner and Teacher P...
I’m sure that my Christian and Jewish friends see it differently, but from my secular and humanist perspective, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel i...
The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...
The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...
Despite the seeming diversity of social, cultural and political influences on educational policies and practices across the globe, the received wisdom around wh...
For as long as school has existed, the fundamental model of schooling has remained the same: scarcity of information and a paucity of means of access to that in...
Probably my favourite method of relaxation is to pick up my guitar in the privacy of my own home and pick away at a few chords. I occasionally even produce the ...
[This is a continuation of the previous post…] Too many who design network infrastructures for schools or campuses believe that they are creating somethin...