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This page contains many articles I've written over the years in pursuit of learning, reflection, and personal development.

Themes include productivity, wellbeing, teaching, defusing bullying, culture, heritage, facilitation & more.

You will find that some of these posts are originally published on LinkedIn.

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Mar 122 min read

To shuffle, or not to shuffle? That is the question.

[#facilitation🙋🏻‍♀️] Have you, too, ever been met with resistance when you try to change groups up when you’re #facilitating? How do...

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Apr 28, 20232 min read

Reframing Differentiation: Meeting Needs and Fairness in the Classroom

[#facilitation👩🏻‍🏫] Today, I asked some *brilliant* teachers: what are some alternative words you would personally use to describe...

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Apr 11, 20231 min read

A Webinar Workshop: What is differentiation?

While Cambridge University Press Education resources provide a sound structure upon which to design and create lessons filled with...

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Apr 11, 20232 min read

PD Session - Universal Private School, Al Ain

One of the things I love most about @Cambridge University Press Education’s Primary & Lower Secondary core resources for schools, is that...

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Apr 7, 20232 min read

The 3-2-1 Plenary: Flexibility and Collaboration in Active Learning Workshops

Today, in a workshop with the lovely English team at #rosaryschoolhalwan we did a plenary activity called a 3-2-1. I learned how to do...

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Apr 2, 20231 min read

Facilitating a Session on #ActiveLearning

How can I tell when I’m working with a team who are well in the swing of professional development in their unique school context? When...

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Apr 2, 20232 min read

Training Programme - RAK

Having spent the last couple of weeks on virtual training sessions with the teaching team at the Pakistan Higher Secondary School RAK, it...

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