Insights

It might take years to help people understand how to learn, but that doesn’t mean to say that we can’t take time within our already busy school week.

You don’t necessarily need to be on the autistic spectrum to respond to your learning or work environment.  We all have individual differences and individual sensitivities.

The first and only place to begin is to educate parents and help them understand the dangers of what it was they were doing with over exposure to mobile phone touch screen technology.

Metacognition. It’s a phrase widely used amongst teachers and amongst managers and leaders in schools, I’m not so sure that it is widely understood and I’m not so sure that it is widely applied.

There’s a clear problem in a number of schools both domestically and globally, with overuse of technology.

Why does our environment matter so much when it comes to learning? Have you ever heard of the phrase I can’t hear myself think? Often our external environment can have a really detrimental effect on our attention, our focus and our output.

We thought it might be a good idea and quite good fun to make a suggestion of ten creative things you can do in your classroom to impact upon standards. Low-cost and no-cost options! By the time I’d finished thinking about it, actually came up with 20 things you could do with your classrooms, perhaps to improve engagement, literacy, etc.

How do we get women’s rights in the top table of management? All the world’s best, most highly functional boards have a 50/50 split male and female, and yet there are so few of those boards around, and yet everybody knows that they work best when there’s a rough split between male content, female content. How do we get to that position? We hear from Mrs. Joy Isa, president of Barwaaqo University in Somaliland and Mrs Bex Tear of Badminton School, Bristol. Fingers crossed, we have another go at doing one of these in the none too distant future! #future #school #university #femalemanagement #leadership

Have you ever wondered what it is like to design and build your own learning environment? f you are lucky enough to receive a golden ticket to our event, make sure you sign up straight away. February the 4th, 9 am, 8-10 New Fetter Place, London, at the KI showrooms.

As a head teacher or a deputy head you will have the chance to play with and create your own learning environments in real time using real furniture, real spaces, and with real people.

I’ve just returned from the annual girl’s school association conference in Manchester UK and I wanted to update you on some of the insights, some of the ideas, and some of the thoughts…

Creativity is…. …being creative with how we design the learning that goes on and how we design even the physical spaces!