We can release the magic!

After yet another wonderful week, the scary thing isn’t what we have achieved, but the potential we have to achieve so much more if only we can release the magic.

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few 

is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance 

under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."

Mark Twain

Sheffield!

I had a great session in Sheffield today planning some really interesting work for next term.  

"Life is 10% of what happens to me

and 90% of how I react to it."

John Maxwell

"The only real satisfaction there is, is to be growing up inwardly all the time, becoming more just, more true, more generous, more simple, more human, more kind and more active. All this we can do, by doing each day the day's work as well as we can."

James Freeman Clarke

Teacher Development!

I found this brilliant piece on Edutopia. I've cut it down to go on the blog but it is well worth reading in full.

"A life spent in making mistakes

is not only more honourable, 

but more useful than 

a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw

Superfoods!

I was reading an article the other day and these are apparently the 'superfoods' we should all be eating.

A Personal Philosophy!

Working in some great places over the years I have developed an approach that helps release the extraordinary potential and magic that lies dormant in most work places.

     
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Ghandi

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e.e. cummings

Character, Self-discipline and Grit!

Over the last thirty five years I have learnt the hard way that knowledge rarely changes people's behaviour.

We are not simply the victims of circumstances.

We have some choices to make!