Never Let Ego Outshine Humility: What Kendrick Lamar’s “HUMBLE.” Teaches About Humility Every school I’ve worked in has asked its staff to be humble in some form. We ask teachers to welcome feedback after a lesson observation, to admit when a strategy isn’t working and to learn from colleagues with less experience than them. Far…… Continue reading Wisdom Wednesday #3
Tag: character education
Wisdom Wednesday #2
What Skepta’s “That’s Not Me” teaches About Authenticity Most leaders lose themselves gradually, by becoming the version of a leader the room seems to want. This can look like you adjusting the vocabulary for one audience and the opinions for another, until the person who walks into the Monday briefing has very little in common…… Continue reading Wisdom Wednesday #2
Training Day:
When the line moves one decision at a time Training Day is my favourite film and Denzel Washington is my favourite actor, so it was inevitable that, 25 years (yes, I know!) after the film came out in October 2001, I would end up writing about Alonzo Harris, the films central character. I’ve watched it…… Continue reading Training Day:
Change is Coming
Here is the link to PART 1 (incase you missed it) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion The British Commonwealth… 56 countries. They are among the world’s biggest, smallest, richest and poorest countries and home to almost 1/3 of the world’s population. I am going to sidestep the wider issue of how the Commonwealth came into existence…… Continue reading Change is Coming
Born in The Dark
Performance Virtues in Action By Adrian Mclean When we look at sport and the athletes who participate, we naturally focus on their performance and the character traits that are aligned with this. When we talk about performance virtues we are usually highlighting the traits you ‘see’ such as determination to qualify for the next round…… Continue reading Born in The Dark
Acceptance
This week’s blog centres on acceptance. Over the last few months, I have been really introspective. Examining who I am, what defines me, where am I going on this journey of life? To do this, I have had to hold the mirror up and examine what I see. Do I like what I see? Do…… Continue reading Acceptance
The Room Where it Happens
By Adrian Mclean Do you have a go-to tune that you play to psyche yourself up? I have a few, usually with heavy baselines and punchy lyrics that I can’t play when my children are in earshot! When I need to be strategic though, I play this one from the musical, Hamilton. Here’s the closing…… Continue reading The Room Where it Happens
Representation & Exposure
By Adrian Mclean You will have heard the phrase ‘You can’t be what you can’t see’. Those of us who are from any of the protected characteristic groups and those from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, will be particularly familiar with it. Quite simply, it means that it’s difficult to aspire to something, for which you have…… Continue reading Representation & Exposure
