It’s a cliche, but ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ holds up in my line of work. For a lot of young people, school can be a place of engagement, understanding and acceptance. For others, that’s [...]

Happiness at the best of times is deeply personal and often elusive…in fact, the range of people’s experiences over the last 14 months means that talk of happiness might be seen as glib, foolish, [...]

“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” [...]