To the parents and pedagogues: The tools are here. The path is clear. The only question remaining is whether you are willing to step aside and let the next generation run. The future cannot wait for us to feel comfortable.
There’s a teacher somewhere near you who hasn’t sat down before 9pm in three weeks. Not because they’re disorganised. Not because they don’t care. Because the job has expanded to fill every hour available – and then some. Admin. Planning. Marking. Chasing resources that either don’t exist or cost money the school simply doesn’t have. […]
There are passions you choose, and then there are passions that choose you. Education chose me a long time ago — somewhere between a school desk in 1977 and a college lecture hall in 1980 — and it has never quite let go. I finished school in 1977. Like most young men of my generation […]