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While the world changes quickly, education typically moves quite slowly.
The biggest challenge for education today is breaking out of the current paradigm — the idea that 1000 hours of school class‐time each year is worth far more than the 4800 waking hours each year a kid spends out of class, as though it’s only what happens in class...
Time to Ditch Reports
The written school report and the parent-teacher interviews are products of another era when we didn’t have access to the internet and emails. Every school has their own version of the report, which can provide a lot of information or sometimes little information...
Work for the Future
Education needs to decentralise from one key outcome, the Grade 12 score, and instead develop and value the full range of capabilities young people require for a successful future. Schools educate children for thirteen years, so have a prime role in developing the...
Teaching the UN Sustainable Goals
Here is attached a publication which has a twofold aim – to help students learn a language creatively whilst at the same time raising awareness of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through bringing together a range of innovative ideas for teaching...
Why? How? What? Who? Where? When?
Achieving our goals has become even more challenging. We live in a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. We need a learning system that ensures an “education worth having” - one that is fit for purpose enabling learning for all; one that is...
Critical & Creative Thinking
“It’s also important to understand that creativity is not the only thing that matters. There are all kinds of competencies, such as critical thinking, which are implicit in any understanding of how creativity works,” Ken Robinson said.. “There are skills of...