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I’ve been doing another course with Dr Ryan Dunn and Dr Simon Breakspear. I’ve been deeply attracted to their model as it so closely aligns with my own view of how change in adult learning communities can happen. The detail … Continue reading →

In 1947 Albert Camus wrote this book. It is about a town that experiences the outbreak of a plague. The similarities with our current global situation are remarkable. The whole point of this blog is to reflect on my reading … Continue reading →

You can see it in people’s eyes. This quiet kind of crazy. An odd look, an edgy sideways glance, a glazed over disquiet. COVID is creeping up on us and we can’t see it. We can only see numbers, more … Continue reading →

Something interesting occurred. I knew it was interesting by the puzzled looks on the faces in the room. At first, the interesting thing was that people were actually trying to engage with the problem. Furrowed eyebrows, half-asked questions, probing looks … Continue reading →

With the end of Term 2 in my education jurisdiction, we all of a sudden come crashing to a halt. Well, more grinding at a glacial pace towards the finish line – which is actually an icy precipice. So, as … Continue reading →

Smack bang in the middle of COVID-19 lockdown is the perfect time to be asking what schools are for anyway! Has schooling been disrupted in your part of the world? Are there kids relentlessly banging a basketball off the bedroom … Continue reading →

Hind sight is a thing apparently. The problem is that you can’t have it before you’ve got it. An in order to get it, you have to go though not having it. Like so much else in life! So how … Continue reading →

Draft: Tomorrow, my whole school will be off to eperience the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra perform. How did this come to happen. So, the term ‘Agency’ is finally in vogue. It is just not fancy though. Schools pick it up and … Continue reading →

Brains are pretty cool. The material brain that is. How can a lump of organic matter sloshing in our skulls come to define some intrinsic part of itself as ‘other’. I’m talking about tumors here. Is there some organic dichotomous … Continue reading →