We do our students an awful disservice when our responses to wrong doing or even to negative feelings being experienced by accident don’t result in appropriate actions...

Empathy is both a cognitive and intuitive capability.

If your students are likely to provide answers like these, then my best guess is that you, like me for several years of my career, are operating an implicit practice framework...

"I was under pressure, I was emotional," says Adam Voigt. "And in an emotional state, locating the right words from within our long-term memory is a task of significant difficulty."

Encouraging students to turn their homework into paper mache swords for an end-of-year comp: good idea or problematic? Adam Voigt explains...

I was recently working with some School Leaders and I devised a basic model on the run with them about School Culture.

was embarrassed. I was ashamed and I felt a little humiliated as the lesson finally drew to an awkward close at the sound of that blessed bell.

Adam Voigt: "What I think I got wrong is that this model is probably far more important for Classroom Practitioners than it is for School Leaders. Allow me to explain why...

Adam Voigt explains the majesty and 'teaching moment' potential of fake apologies. I think the shorry that made me laugh the most was perhaps both the most bizarre... there was a game of Fortnite involved.

If instead, we sought to create a culture where participants are geared or conditioned to help each other, rather than compete, then we might find that rules and laws become less relevant.