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Character and Learning

“Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again…Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.” – Luke 14:34 Character is who we are when no one is looking. Lots of us have an easy time behaving well when all eyes are on us but may not find it...

Grab a good book

I like to write. It helps me think. I like to read. It helps me think. We live at a time when we are drowning in information but without the time to drink or swim. How do we drink or swim, rather than drown, in the sea of information that daily swamps us? Part of the...
Thoughts on friendship, love and learning

Thoughts on friendship, love and learning

Part of our job, as teachers, is to share the wisdom of others and to add to it some of our own so that our students can know it and in turn add their own and are therefore well-equipped to make their way in the world. ​As we move into term and the routines that help...

What does success mean to you?

A friend of mine is preparing a university graduation address. He has asked a number of us how we would answer the question, “What does success mean to you?” I responded with the following ideas that may not directly answer the question but head in its general...

Learning + Character + Effort = Success

We want our students to have as many opportunities for their future as possible, and success at school is one way to achieve this. Of course, we know that results are not the be all and the end all. The process and the outcome matter. The journey matters, as does the...

Are test results the enemy of learning?

There are some people who, on principle, don’t like testing in schools. They think, somehow, that testing is the enemy of learning. And while it is true that plenty of learning takes place without testing, if we think of test results as evidence of learning, then we...