Agency through Authenticity

ADVICE

a mountain covered in snow and clouds at sunset

It’s not the mountain we conquer

by Christopher Waugh | Mar 28, 2015 | Advice, Featured, Presentations, Students

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.

PODCAST

Senior Reading

by Christopher Waugh | Apr 27, 2026 | Advice, Anecdotes, Open Classroom, Opinion, Pedagogy, Podcast

In this discussion, Bags, Chris and Emma Stilwell, the Christ's College librarian, examine the reported declining reading habits of adolescent boys and explore strategies we've employed successfully to reverse this trend. We highlight that while students value...

Resources

The essential English lesson for today

by Christopher Waugh | Jul 3, 2025 | Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Publications, Students

As published in the Christ’s College magazine “College”, Issue 44, 2024
HoD – English Chris Waugh opens the classroom door on the student experience.

SEXUALITY

Who I am, What I do.

by Christopher Waugh | May 31, 2014 | Anecdotes, Reflection, Sexuality

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 Zealand. It’s a story of how I was saved by literature and...

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It’s not the mountain we conquer

Senior Reading

The essential English lesson for today

Who I am, What I do.

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It’s not the mountain we conquer

Senior Reading

The essential English lesson for today

Who I am, What I do.

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