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Will children who now mostly read time digitally understand “clockwise” and “anticlockwise”?Phrase of the week: Tick tick tick ⏰ I found the quote “Your urgency is not necessarily my urgency” in an old diary list of things I wanted to keep in mind at work. It was to remind myself

That’s ironic When I was a high school English teacher, I was tasked with teaching teenagers how to critique a “text” – to look at some writing and untangle its meaning, plus what techniques an author had used, and why. I enjoyed this part of the job, but it could

Work work work ⏰ Full disclosure, especially for my current colleagues reading this: these days, I am a professional person who can hold a job and do good work. But once upon a time, I was a young person who flitted from gig to gig, never really committing, often unsure of

Masterful plans, carried out by the kids What the films of the eighties seemed to be telling me, as I understood it back then, was that there was no end to the resourcefulness of children. They were full of kids inventing gadgets to foil adult villains, like in The Goonies;

Hey, teacher! Today’s episode is about teaching. It covers icy colleagues in Japan, teaching performances gone wrong, burnout, and the almost unbelievable tale of a primary school trip to the sewage treatment plant – coordinated by a teacher who truly must have drawn the short straw. 👉 Podcast episode 4: Hey,

On the air Without a hitch 👍 is now officially also a podcast! Available wherever you listen to podcasts: Apple podcasts, Spotify, Google podcasts, plus a bunch of others. Each episode will bundle featured website pieces in audio format, plus bonus material only included in the podcast. ✨ Here are the first