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A review of 2014
Dec 28, 2014 |
Category: Featured
I wrote 125 posts in 2014 bringing the running total to 336 posts. Here are the ten most popular this year:
Why do so many teachers leave teaching? (February 2013)
The Cult of Outstanding™: the pro...
Do I lack the courage of my convictions?
Jul 20, 2014 |
Category: Featured
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
An accusation that has been increasingly levelled at me is that, because I've publicly changed my mind about my views on...
Now we are three
Jul 03, 2014 |
Category: Featured
In a pleasingly synchronous turn of events this post marking the end of the third year of writing The Learning Spy is also the 300th post I've published on the site. That's about a blog every 4 days....
A round up of some of my favourite posts so far this year
May 28, 2014 |
Category: Featured
I was going to that thing where you round-up some of your favourite blog posts in the hope of getting a few more hits, but couldn't muster the enthusiasm. Instead, I thought I'd rip off some of the be...
Houston, we have influence: The Top 100 education blogs
Feb 04, 2013 |
Category: Featured
I started writing this blog on the 11th July 2011 with the intention of recording all the thoughts I've always had about teaching and learning. In the past I'd amaze myself with how what seemed profou...
A year in the life of an English teacher
Jul 12, 2012 |
Category: reflection
What a lot can happen in a year. It was only this time last July that I began my experiment with Twitter and blogging. I think it's fair to say that my professional life (and at times my personal life...
Election Fever
Dec 06, 2011 |
Category: Featured
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The last time I canvassed for votes was back in my school mock election in 1987. In typically awkw...
End of term
Oct 24, 2011 |
Category: Featured
Term 1 is always far more exhausting than I expect it to be. Some of the highlights from last term include meeting some cracking education types including Ian Gilbert, Phil Beadle and Jim Roberson; be...
Back to school
Sep 09, 2011 |
Category: leadership
What I really like about going back to school in September is that it's a new year with no mistakes. The students' books are graffiti free and and all the dates and titles have been neatly underlined....
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