Tag: resilience

Drawing #mindset #grit #resilience #flow #learning

Posted by | Published on February 4, 2017

I cannot draw. This has been my mindset since about 8 years of age. Aged 48, I now understand how it came to be that […] 

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Mindfulness and Grit

Posted by | Published on December 20, 2016

In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as the best predictor of success.  And it wasn’t social intelligence, it wasn’t good looks, physical […] 

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7th Annual Optimism and Resilience Conference

Posted by | Published on December 18, 2015

Staff Development Days provide great opportunities to reinvigorate professional enthusiasms as well as to reflect on learning and life at school. For the last six […] 

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Nurturing Wellbeing: Sixth Annual Optimism and Resilience Conference

Posted by | Published on December 19, 2014

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”  Today, and I do feel a little sad about it, was our sixth and […] 

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Optimism & Resilience: Fourth Annual Conference

Posted by | Published on December 21, 2012

It is clichéd to comment about the impossibly rapid passing of time but I do find it difficult to believe this is our school’s fourth annual […] 

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Optimism & Resilience: Third Annual Conference

Posted by | Published on December 21, 2011

Our annual school conference is a special way to end the year on a high that we all look forward too. I blogged about our last […] 

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February 2015: My Reading  →

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There’s been a good variety of books completed this month including graphic novels, historical fiction, essays, memoirs, biographies, contemporary fiction, revolutionary pamphlets and plenty of history. Christopher Hitchens and Thomas […] 

#TheirBrilliantCareers #review and my #reading in September  →

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“Actually, most of my previous publications listed in ‘Their Brilliant Careers’ are made up! It’s all part of the joke. The only real one is ‘The Weight of a Human […] 

Orwell’s Scottish Ancestry & Slavery*  →

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This post has been updated. Read this one. “He hated Scotsmen!”    Kay Ekevall “He wrote under the name ‘Orwell’, partly because he preferred separate identity as an author, partly […] 

George Orwell and William Shakespeare  →

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George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-50) is now clearly second only to Shakespeare in the pantheon of English literary giants. In our current contemporary context, where hyperbole is coin of […] 

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