“When students get to know that you care about them as individuals…then the teacher’s discipline is judged and accepted within the understanding that the teacher cares about them” Bill Rogers, [...]

Why these Recovery Lessons? When I wrote about what would be needed as students return to school after lockdown I always knew that I would need to put the Connection ideas into practice. The [...]

I first came across a transformational coaching methodology around 2007 when I saw the Channel 4 programme  Ballet Hoo where marginalised young people from the West Midlands worked with a charity [...]

Every day I work with young people who are out of school – sometimes temporarily at home because of illness but often out of school because they are permanently excluded from one school and [...]

I am privileged to be invited into the homes of young people whose world has collapsed, so I tread gently. I am the professional and I am there to help but I am mostly working with people across [...]

A special educational brew was mashed in Birmingham this weekend in a very spruced-up pub, in a very-spruced up area of Birmingham not far from the future terminal for HS2 (not a terrifying Orc [...]

What is in a name? A lot, when you are setting up your own education business and going it alone! I chose Equal Parts Education, which is an abbreviated form of “Equal Parts…dark and light” [...]