Maximising Student Potential
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The Wellbeing Industry Has Eaten Difficulty: We promised students comfort and called it care.
Somewhere right now, a Year 9 student is sitting in a beanbag in a softly lit room because quadratic equations made him feel overwhelmed. Someone will record the visit as a wellbeing intervention, the relevant box will be ticked, and everyone involved will have acted with entirely decent intentions. The student was distressed, a teacher…
Streaming Without Conviction: What schools call streaming is often just selective extraction
Schools are not nearly as uncomfortable with sorting students as they like to pretend. We talk about inclusion, belonging, mixed-ability learning, and meeting every student where they are, which are all noble enough ideas when they are taken seriously. At the same time, we run selective schools, opportunity classes, gifted pathways, accelerated streams, extension groups,…
Differentiation Is Not the Problem. Pretending It’s Easy Is.
Somewhere right now, a teacher is producing three versions of the same worksheet and calling it inclusive practice. There is the “support” version, where a few of the harder questions have quietly disappeared. There is the “extension” version, where the same questions have been given an extra verb, probably “evaluate”, because nothing says academic stretch…
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