Why giving children time and space to be creative is vital to their future selves

How do you feel when you have the opportunity to create something new or expand on an existing idea? Does it make you feel alive? Do you...

How you can Help Children Grow

Image Credit: Susy Morris Do you have an invested interest in promoting the health and wellbeing of young people? (that should be all ...

Will Qualifications Ever Stop Being our Primary Measure of Ability?

" learning " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by    michael pollak Can you imagine if one day qualifications stopped being the primary consider...

VIDEO Autism and Disability - Far From the Tree

Some remarkable insight into life with severe autism. We are reminded that these young people are not sick! It is about connecting, someth...

Five Debilitating Side Effects of the Way we Educate

" pain " ( CC BY-ND 2.0 ) by    nanny snowflake   Life is hard in our schools. I am speaking as someone who has spent the pa...

VIDEO How To Help a Child Fulfil Their Potential (Carol Dweck)

VIDEO The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle

Welcome to brief overview of The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle.  Look at the secrets behind deep practice and the way skill is grown. How ...

Surviving Life in the Exam Factories

" Exam " ( CC BY-NC 2.0 ) by    Perrimoon   As you read this more than nine million young people in China are in strict trai...

VIDEO A Second Opinion on Developmental Disorders - Aditi Shankardass

Take a look at Aditi's ground breaking work on developmental disorders as she points us in the direction of neurology instead of judgi...

The Wonderful Power of Difference

" silent diversity " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by    DryHundredFear   Difference matters more than we realise. It has the power to make...

VIDEO Dare to Imagine, Where will we be in Fifty Years?

I'm posting this video because we set our education system up to prepare young people for a future we can't see! The skills they d...

How Real Learning only Happens when we Care

" Learning " ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) by    CollegeDegrees360   My son has a real passion for lighting design. He spends every p...

VIDEO Why Some of us don't Have one True Calling

Explore how for many young people the thought of being a specialist fills them with boredom and dread.  Emile Wapnick talks about the wo...

VIDEO - Can you see Their Potential?

This wonderful short film from the Princes Trust challenges us to think about the lives our young people lead.

How to Recognise Introverts in Schools

" A quiet corner found " ( CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) by    Pesky Library   Our schools contain a real diversity of people many of wh...

VIDEO Suli Breaks & Why I Hate School but Love Education

VIDEO The Surprising Truth About Learning in Schools WILL RICHARDSON

How to Help Students Develop a Growth Mindset

" Thinking " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by    Moyan_Brenn   Young people look to the adults in positions of power for feedback on a regul...