Rebel Education – A Documentary
An Al Jazeera documentary about the work we did at the London Nautical School Department of English
Give them Hope
My last assembly presentation featuring one of my heroes and an exhortation to my students to be their wonderful selves.
It’s not the mountain we conquer
This presentation was made to an assembly of 15-18 year olds on the day of their receiving their results from a series of practice examinations. The quote can be attributed to Sir Edmund Hilary. Thanks …
Presentation: Unlock Achievement
As part of my Deus Ex Machina series, here is the information that went with my presentation to Teachmeet Islington. Heaps more detail about our Unlock Achievement project can be found in my Journal entry on …
Build a New English Department: Step Two – Unlock Achievement
In another step towards restoring authenticity to the secondary classroom, our department has completely re-created our process of assessment. We have abandoned the old ‘curriculum levels’ model and replaced it with a standards-based badged achievement system.
Deus ex Machina
Presentation to the Sunday Times Festival of Education, exploring the “God in the Machine”. The notion that it is through setting up a class environment that concentrates on the imperatives of authenticity and agency, the aspects …
Who I am, What I do.
This piece was written as a contribution to Rory Gallagher‘s “Who I am, What I do” teachers’ personal testimony blog. My path to the classroom started for me on the impossibly isolated South Island of New …