Latest Posts

  • No, I Don’t Personalize Learning

    Originally posted on Moments, Snippets, Spirals: Personalized learning. Differentiated learning. Individualization of learning. Three jargon elements that twist any teacher’s grey matter in spectacular motions. Which is what? Add to that the pressure that may come through a school PD… Continue reading

  • New Challenges: Director of Curriculum & PD [for 2015-2017]

    In the exciting time of year where international school friends and colleagues are making decisions about their futures – stay or go, which fair, which country, which school – we feel some relief at having made the decision to stay.… Continue reading

  • Educate for hope, not despair, for a fair and sustainable world.

    I wrote this post in 2014, but come back to it often. See edits and additions below the main body. We tread a delicate line between hope and despair; between student action for change and not overwhelming our young learners… Continue reading

    Educate for hope, not despair, for a fair and sustainable world.

  • Making Meaning

    In amongst a million other things I am taking part in an IB Educators’ Network up-skilling course (as part of my role as an MYP Site Visitor). One of the discussion questions asked us to reflect on a memorable learning… Continue reading

  • Mars-Shot Thinking

    Howdy @MarsCuriosity ? Keep in touch. I'll be around. — ISRO's Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) September 24, 2014 Mangalyaan, the India Space Research Organisation‘s Mars Orbiter, has just become the first spacecraft from an Asian country to reach Mars – and… Continue reading

  • A pragmatic approach to inquiry: my article in IS magazine

    The most recent issue of International School Magazine has run a feature written by me on how we interpret and frame inquiry, and is adapted from one of my recent Bath MA assignments. Continue reading

  • Where do you come from? Where to next?

    Being an international school teacher is an extreme privilege; a series of opportunities that present a unique kind of dilemma, seemingly earlier each year. It becomes more complex with school-age children of our own, and is further complicated by having… Continue reading

  • Surfing in Wakayama

    We’ve been trying to make a real effort over the summer [and so far this year] to keep a sensible work-life balance. Picking up a second-hand car and surfboard has certainly helped! Continue reading

  • How NOT to be ignorant about the world.

    Hans Rosling, TED.com “Fame is easy to acquire. Impact is much more difficult.”  Update, 2018: As a Rosling fanboy, using their work on i-Biology since about 2008, I was saddened to hear of his death in 2017. However, his recent… Continue reading

  • Quick Review: Tony Butt’s Guide to Sustainable Surfing

    Quick review of a Kindle quick-read on sustainable surfing. Continue reading