Rebel Education – A Documentary
An Al Jazeera documentary about the work we did at the London Nautical School Department of English
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“Except when they don’t, because sometimes they won’t”
Sometimes things just don’t go the way you’d hoped in a new school. Here is some advice for students and their parents about how to turn a bad situation around. It will not escape your …
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First Impressions Count
Here I write some of my thoughts as I head into the new teaching year. I recently received a message from a newly qualified teacher who was filled with anxiety about her first week at …
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Transcending Grade Boundaries
In the eye of the GCSE English “grade manipulation storm”, I’m seeing a silver lining Almost as soon as this year’s GCSE English grades were released, the twittersphere, broadsheets and tabloids were set alight, first …
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Why I’m an Openly Gay Teacher
The Importance of Being … Out Why Sexuality Matters in English Chris Waugh reflects on his experiences as a gay English teacher, arguing that openness about sexuality is a crucial element of the work …
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Enabling access to the .htaccess file in Mac OS X 10.5.x Server
Excuse this moment of geekery, but I simply couldn’t find this information anywhere online, and it would have saved me a lot of grief should I have – so I thought I should do the …