Sometimes students need great roles more than they need great lessons. Teachers should never lose sight of the fact that their impact on kids often transcends the lesson.

Honneur to France for recognising the State of Palestine! A slap in the face to the brutality of Benjamin Netanyahu’s band of murderers of the innocents.

As the last of the schools finished for summer this week, it’s finally time to slow down. Leadership isn’t always about action, it’s also about pace, perspective and pause. This summer, take time to reconnect with what matters most. What’s your non-negotiable for switching off?

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Kids don’t want to be bad. They want to have their needs met. It’s always a good thing when we can focus on understanding the students and meeting their needs… rather than just reacting to the “bad behavior.”

The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics was 13 years ago today in London; what a wonderful time for our city and country that was.

“Without radical ideas from the left – not reframed centrist tweaks – people will look elsewhere. Policy and narrative overhaul rooted in custodianship of communities, not profit. Economic sovereignty for towns, public ownership of generational uplift.” buzzmag.co.uk/michael-sheen-…

This is such excellent work, the potential for globalbridge to motivate and monitor students personal development is huge

Joey Barton's claim that the England Women's football team isn’t equal with the men’s proved right, as the Lionesses actually win tournaments

You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”

It’s hard for me to conceive of anything more important… than helping a student feel valued. And that’s one reason that relationships are so important. It is through personal connections, that we communicate to them their worth. Our investment in them tells them they matter.

London is thriving. And the right can’t stand it. They talk down our capital constantly, but the city is measurably becoming a better place to live. 6 facts that shatter their doom narrative:

On BBC Radio 4 Today this morning at 7.50 talking about why fewer students are taking up modern foreign languages - especially at A Level? My answers poverty (much more take up in affluent areas), lack of opportunity & therefore aspiration, plus relative scarcity of language teachers.

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AI is getting scary. People are arguing over videos that aren’t even real. 10 creepy examples that prove how far it’s gone: 1/bunnies overlap

So glad it’s Geoff Barton and not the usual suspects. Let’s hope the people that have been inclusive over time, despite the perverse incentives of the accountability/assessment systems, and still done the right thing are heard and not those that are now conveniently inclusive

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Teach them what to do.

It’s easier to throw stones than it is to make tough decisions.  And sometimes… being a leader involves coming to terms with the fact that any decision you make, will be the “wrong” one to a whole lot of people.

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