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December on The Learning Spy

Dec 30, 2015 | Category: blogging

December has traditionally been a bit of a fallow period as far as this blog is concerned, but this year, despite the inevitable Christmas lull I continued to churn out posts. Here they are in all the...

Why I ♥ blogging (and believe there is hope for Ofsted)

Dec 03, 2015 | Category: blogging

Earlier today I posted an outraged spume of invective directed at a recently publish Ofsted inspection report. Since then Sean Harford, Ofsted's National Director for Education, has been in touch to s...

#Ofsted

November on The Learning Spy

Dec 01, 2015 | Category: blogging

Here's all the stuff I wrote last month. Knock yourself out.3rd November Five techniques for overcoming overconfidence & improving decision-making - more wisdom from messrs Kahneman & Klein4th Novembe...

In praise of dignity and justice

Nov 11, 2015 | Category: blogging

They'll ask me how I got her I'll say I saved my money They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignityDignity, Deacon Blue In Microaggression and Moral Cultures, sociologists Bradley Campbell an...

#Jonathan Haidt #bullying #dignity #microaggression #Regina Rini #safe space #victimisation

How to deal with criticism

Nov 09, 2015 | Category: blogging

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.Robert Green Ingersoll Every now and then, someone pops up (usually a relative!) to tell me something I've...

October on The Learning Spy

Nov 01, 2015 | Category: blogging

Here's what I got up to in October. The major themes this month were accountability and teachers' judgement. Books I read which I found particularly interesting were Beyond the Checklist and Matthew S...

September on The Learning Spy

Sep 30, 2015 | Category: blogging

Last month was a bit on the patchy side. I blogged like fury, then nothing for a week. Anyway, here's my output over the month including the last, dying days of August: Can we make learning permanen...

You can have a voice

Sep 11, 2015 | Category: blogging

I am a product of social media. I've been writing this blog since June 2011 and whilst this pales next to the senescence of veteran edubloggers like Old Andrew and Tom Bennett, it does mark me as a co...

Some people on Twitter you may not currently follow but definitely should

Jul 02, 2015 | Category: blogging

Since writing a post 18 months ago recommending people to follow on Twitter, I've since met lots of other wonderful folk to whom I'd also like to draw your attention.To avoid petty rivalries and bruis...

#Twitter

Examining my gender bias

Jun 16, 2015 | Category: blogging

Here I am…. You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people’s comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant....

#gender bias