Releasing the Magic!

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

STAND UP AND SHOUT!

ABOUT THE SCHOOLS YOU KNOW AND LOVE!
Because, if you don't, no-one else will!

It is not the critic who counts!

Whenever I am feeling that things are getting too much

and the criticism is driving me to drink

I remember this great quote...

Did you see the Moon?

Apparently, we had the biggest full moon last night for eighteen years...

Intelligent Accountability Needed!

What is it that is driving this uncompromising and relentlessly critical approach to standards, behaviour and provision by DfE and OFSTED?

HAPPY BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY!

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you"

Maori Proverb

Passion and Compassion!

We need to create organisations and enterprises that are at the same time both passionate and compassionate...

"People are always blaming their circumstances for where they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw

BRILLIANT LEARNING PLACES: Hartsholme Academy!

I was delighted to visit Hartsholme Academy in Lincoln today to meet Carl Jarvis, the head teacher, Sara Pearson, who is a curriculum leader at the academy, and some of their colleagues.

The Talent Code!

"I have always maintained that, excepting fools,
men do not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work."

Charles Darwin

Success comes in Cans!

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential.

Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

John Maxwell

Cutlers 'Made in Sheffield' Initiative!

I had another great day today at Yewlands Technology College in Sheffield with the four schools who are working together on the Cutlers 'Made in Sheffield' Initiative!

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

"Have no mean hours,
but be grateful for every hour,
and accept what it brings."

Henry David Thoreau

The Starfish Story!

I love this story...
"While walking along a beach, a man saw in the distance what looked like a boy dancing....

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BRILLIANT QUOTES!

"There is no passion to be found playing small -in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living."

Nelson Mandela

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

Nelson Mandela

"Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take but the moments that take our breath away."

Anonymous

"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.”

Wilfred Peterson

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

James Barrie

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve."

Martin Luther King

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."

Max Beerbohm

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential. For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible!"

Soren Kierkegaard

"If you are called to be a street sweeper, you should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry."

Martin Luther King

"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

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows, it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."

Booker T Washington

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

George Elliot

"Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

Mark Twain

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

Robert F. Kennedy

"There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world."

Norman Vincent Peale