Art & culture Archives - Non-Positional Teacher Leadership

Media literacy, bottom-up change and café culture

I have neglected my blog for the last 2 months. My excuse? Competing deadlines. I am writing this in Caffe Nero where I have had the pleasure of bumping into other lap toppers including a philosophy lecturer who gave me some very helpful ideas.

The Joy of Real Writing

Apparently, Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary in the UK is worried about ‘overdiagnosis’. Those interested in the debate about that might want to read a new book ‘The Age of Diagnosis: sickness, health and why medicine has gone too far’.

A comic take on dialogue in learning

I am interested in how professional knowledge can be created, refreshed and cultivated. The recent HertsCam Annual Conference was a good opportunity to reflect on this. Knowledge-building through networking What happens when teachers get together to engage in networking? It is often assumed that the point of participating inREAD MORE

Weaving a learning community from silk in Almaty

People often travel to Kazakhstan to discover the ancient Silk Road, the trade route that linked China to Europe between the second century BCE and the middle of the fifteenth century. Not me though. I was visiting Almaty to advocate for teacher leadership, so I didn’t have time toREAD MORE

The power of narrative

In February 2020, I was spending a lot of time at the British Library, researching for a book I was writing. The BL is a great international hub and at that time there were thousands of students and researchers passing through every day. I caught Covid of course. LittleREAD MORE

Media literacy, bottom-up change and café culture

The Joy of Real Writing

A comic take on dialogue in learning

Weaving a learning community from silk in Almaty

The power of narrative

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