Maslow

I know it's pretty cheap to reblog a post which sings your praises (and to be fair, I don't do it much) but this evaluation of a session on The Secret of Literacy I gave at Teach First's Impact Conference last week by primary teacher Jon Brunskill struck a chord. In it he talks about the concept of 'enlightened competence' and very kindly suggests that my ideas about literacy had the effect of engendering this quality in the audience. Maybe so, but more importantly (for me) it made me notice my own practice and descend - or ascend - into some sort [...]