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Encouraging risk taking and resilience
Academic and emotional resilience and risk-taking are inextricably
linked to a growth mindset. By nurturing these traits, children are
more likely to become lifelong learners and be happier when they
become adults. Julie Keyes.
The art of persuasion
Persuasion is not about manipulation, it is about getting people to do
something that is either in their own best interests or for the
common good. Phil Garner.
The school as a business
Tom Packer discusses how understanding where the money is
going is critical to school success and how budgeting is the great
enabler in education.
Why we start with why
Cath Bufton-Green reflects on how you should consider framing
your 'vision, values and strategy'.
A global perspective
The number of British international schools is set to double to 20,000
over the next decade. This is going to present unprecedented
challenges and opportunities argues Phil Garner.
How to use metacognition in the classroom
Metacognition adds an average of 7 months additional progress and
is one of the cheapest strategies based on a strong body of
research. But what actually is it? And most importantly, how can we
help students develop it? Bradley Busch and Edward Watson.
Into the unknown: How an outdoor adventure
could transform your pupils outlook.
Gavin Sinnott of St. Hugh's School in Lincolnshire gives a first hand
account of the benefits of working with the Outward Bound Trust.
The brain’s favourite way of learning
Do educators too easily overlook the benefits of learning through
play in favour of more formal approaches? Zaib Unisa makes the
case.
The Last Word: Malaise in education
Tom Packer indulges in a hilarious, subversive, rip-roaring take
down of the culture of acronyms in education!
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