Most of our consultancy work sits somewhere in the overlap between systems thinking and visual thinking, and in this article I want to share an example of how these two worlds could be interacting with each other. There...
The main job of a school isn’t to help pupils get high grades, it is to help provide meaning. This is the function of curriculum. I’ve just started reading Martin Robinson’s Trivium 21c, a book that draws...
If you happen to be near Parliament Square in London over the next few weeks, have a look at the rows of Brexit protestors standing opposite the gates. As you go past, notice how the dichotomy of the referendum question...
This time last year I posted an extract from Steven Pinker, in which he compared reading the word “stimulus” in an academic text to the phrase “tapping on the wrist”, which was what it actually...
I was talking to someone recently about government education policy and they said something like “what these people fail to realise is that a school is not a business“. I don’t want to get into...
Many thanks to all our wonderful clients and supporters for the many great experiences of 2018 – look forward to making more shared meaning with you in 2019. Click on the image for a higher resolution view and...
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that I firmly believe that businesses need better maps, for a whole host of reasons. Here’s another one: Maps help you tell better stories. ...
We were talking in the office last week about Growth Mindset – the idea popularised by Carol Dweck that attainment in classrooms is partly determined by whether pupils believe their ability is fixed or expandable...
