Great Lines: Zora Neale Hurston
This blog series is devoted to great lines that strike - in literature, speech, music and film.
Read MoreThis Little Light
Teacher wellbeing is as vital as the role teachers perform.
Read MoreThe Love of Language - Part 1: Sound Effects
These ‘sound tools’ makes analysis infinitely more enjoyable, as they give students a license to describe the effects of language in fun and satisfying ways.
Read MoreGood Stuff
English teaching, done right, imparts a love of working language.
Read More'All the bright precious things'
I’ve often wondered at Lurhmann’s line and at this sweeping moment in his version of Gatsby.
Read MoreHow Do We Know? - Part 2: Bias
In our consumption of information, we like what we like, we follow what we like, and we believe what we like.
Read MoreHow Do We Know? - Part 1: Ways of Knowing
How do we know what we know? A blog series exploring knowledge in the digital age.
Read More'No One’s Coming'
The path of self-reliance is the only truly reliable one.
Read MoreSelf-Audit: Rubin's Four Tendencies
The crucial benefit of students learning their tendency is how the revelation can help them form habits and meet goals.
Read MoreSay It Crisply
This process of refinement - self-editing - is one of the most valuable any writer can undertake.
Read MoreRedeeming Time
What does it mean to lose time? And if we lose time, can we reclaim it?
Read MoreOn Mastery
Mastery is a mining of the self.
Read MoreCalling All Eves
Pay attention. Women are leading. Calling all Eves.
Read MoreThe Bridgerton Allure - Part 2: The Splendour
Splendour is infused with extrinsic value, and made splendid by the attention we pay it.
Read MoreAmanda Gorman: 'The Hill We Climb' (2021)
Gorman tackles the ugliness of racism head on, in a modern lyrical masterpiece that fuses free verse with spoken word, winding the listener through ancient and recent horrors to conclude on a hopeful call to action.
Read MoreThe Bridgerton Allure - Part 1: The Mashup
While Bridgerton is derivative, it is variously so; it’s a mashup of popular society narratives.
Read More'Sic Semper Tyrannis'
The phrase means ‘thus always to tyrants’, suggesting bad outcomes always befall tyrannical rulers.
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