Know your Value: An introduction to what I found to be the most impactful session of Saturday's wonderful event. And given that the list of speakers included Sean Harford, Christine Counsell and Clare Sealy, that does say something for Miss Hollie Jones, Lead for SMSC and Character Education at Joseph Leckie Academy. Building restraint -... Continue Reading →
Something as true-to-life as Participatory Budgeting in schools will invariably need to include some Project-Based Learning components across multiple work-groups simultaneously - So, how does that measure up to Barak Rosenshine's principles of instruction? The task for the mixed group of delegates on 20 May was to understand Participatory Budgeting as a concept to combine... Continue Reading →
For reasons outlined in the previous post on the shortcomings of EduTwitter, I am convinced that only by meeting in the controlled and safe environment of a Co-creative Conversation can antagonists successfully meet across the troubled waters of the education debate. [ 1-minute read ] With this in mind, Shared Future and I were quite... Continue Reading →
Next one-minute read on our collaborative initiative to introduce Participatory Budgeting into schools. Never mind core subjects: The format of debate and its associated behaviour will, literally, mean life or death for the democracy of the future. Forget seedy sites and Brexit: It is sufficient of a safeguarding issue for students to visit EduTwitter. Before... Continue Reading →
This is the second one-minute read on the outcomes of Monday’s workshop Empowering KS2-5 Learners through Participatory Budgeting. How do we up-skill learners to generate, present and vote for proposals on the school budget in harmony with the 2019 inspection framework? Certainly not in a vacuum. As any English teacher will tell you, there is... Continue Reading →
This is the first in a new series of one-minute reads on the outcomes of Monday’s workshop Empowering KS2-5 Learners through Participatory Budgeting: How do we up-skill learners to generate, present and vote for proposals on how to best spend a slice of the school budget? (And meet an endless range of curriculum objectives in... Continue Reading →
What do schools, universities, public bodies, global corporations and national governments all have in common? That an enigmatic blob of human beings is their key to success. [3 minute read] More monitoring tech, more management and more "evidence-based" intervention consistently fail to tackle 'poor performance' and other challenges when they approach human nature purely as... Continue Reading →
At first glance, Participatory Budgeting would seem to fit snugly into the left-wing, child-empowering, progressive fold. At second glance, you might say that it sits equally well with the competition-driven Dragon's Den of standard neo-liberal Enterprise Education. But, like Katharine Birbalsingh, Participatory Budgeting defies categorisation and, as such, could open a liminal space for a... Continue Reading →
A prudent Participatory Budgeting programme in schools can affect the civic engagement and financial success of individuals, businesses and, by extension, the state itself and may vastly improve the life quality for the generations of tomorrow. But, how could such a programme even be feasible for schools today? [5 minutes to read] Since 2014, the... Continue Reading →
