Forge Valley Community School

I was at Forge Valley Community School again this afternoon to see Diane McKinley, headteacher, and Rob Halliday, deputy headteacher and Mike Garnock-Jones, Schools Enterprise Champion, at their amazing new school building.

Dirk Gilleard and David Dickinson!

I met up with Dirk Gilleard and David Dickinson yesterday.

Resilience!

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."

Alexander Graham Bell

Creativity, Productivity, Work and Happiness!

Some important research over the past decade has focused on creativity, productivity, work and the psychology of happiness.

Adria Steinberg’s 6 A’s of project-based learning!

We need to look more seriously at project-based learning which has been used to achieve some fantastic outcomes by High Tech High and further developed here by Learning Futures in some of their amazing programmes. As Adria Steinberg puts it "Project-based Learning provides us with the opportunity to connect with young people's interests and passions in a way that is authentic, academic, rigorous, applied and active."

Stocksbridge High School

I was at Stocksbridge High School again this afternoon to see Peter Cole, headteacher, and Claire Jackson, assistant head teacher at their amazing new school building.

Bradfield School!

I was at Bradfield School again this morning to meet Ian Gilbert, deputy headteacher.

Yewlands Technology College

I was at Yewlands Technology College again this morning to meet Angela Armytage, headteacher at this amazing learning place.

Career Academies UK!

While I was at Longley Park Sixth Form College this morning I met Berni Edge who manages the Career Academies UK programme at the college.

Longley Park Sixth Form College!

I visited Longley Park Sixth Form College in North Sheffield this morning.

Northern Ballet's Perpetual Motion!

I went to see Northern Ballet's Perpetual Motion last night. This is the company's first programme of short dance pieces in their new home on Quarry Hill which is rapidly becoming the new Leeds cultural quarter.

"We all have the ability. 

The difference is how we use it."

Stevie Wonder 

I am right! You are wrong!

I have never understood why seemingly well-intentioned advocates present alternative strategies as an either-or choice—while those of us who have been working to make a real difference for a very long time know that it's all about AND!