I'm sitting here feeling an overwhelm of love, grief, energy and sadness as I watch some of the beautiful videos made a group of 10 year old girls as part of a project with GDST (The Girls'​ Day School Trust) to support climate action and empowerment in schools.

Did you know you’re wearing glasses right now?

All of us are fitted with a pair of invisible glasses from childhood. They are our lens on the world, shaped by the land we’re born into, the cultures we’re a part of; the family we grow with, the education we receive and the values and mindsets that we are taught.

I spent lunchtime today with some desperate ten year old girls.

It wasn't intentional. The meeting was, but the despair wasn't planned and was very painful to encounter.

It was a beautiful sunny morning yesterday; the perfect weather for taking a slow meander along a Devon country lane. Armed with wicker basket and two good friends, I spent the morning wild food foraging. Little did I know that those four hours in that little quiet lane would profoundly change me, my understanding of the world; my connection to the past and the way I see the future unfolding around me.

I’m just back from a few days in Chester attending the Society of Heads conference on Sustainability in Schools. I was asked to offer the keynote exploring a whole-school approach and - as is becoming ever more common - once again found myself being an inconvenient woman.

What do radicals, radishes and revolutions have in common?

I never thought about the word radish much before, but this evening I've got radishes on my mind…

The work of reimagining education is complex and messy. Myself and the team at ThoughtBox practice Active Patience and Triple WellBeing to keep it all moving. But what does that mean, and how does it shape the way I lead?

What would happen if daydreaming was part of the National Curriculum? What role does education play in supporting learners to care for and thrive in the world we are co-creating? How can we all dare to care?

What does it mean to cultivate your inner salmon? How can education enable and allow our innate selves to flourish? What does it mean to be our authentic selves - both inside and outside of the classroom?

Suppose we all learned three things at school: empathy, critical thinking and systems thinking… imagine how different the world would be…

Last week I found myself incensed because of a cup. Not just any cup: Thérèse Coffey’s permanent cup.

I've experienced profound culture shock several times in my life. It happens whenever I re-enter western civilisation.

This time feels incredibly painful.

The Soul-Fire Papers is a selection of short provocation pieces written during a writing retreat in March 2022. Using the work of writer bel hooks as inspiration, we spent the weekend ‘writing ourselves on a journey from pain to power’…

Being a teenager is hard enough. There's hormones, there's family and friendships to navigate, there's the beginnings of love and all of the unravellings that come with that. Yet being a teenager in the 21st century also brings you a tidal wave of existential crises to not only face up to, but according to the rhetoric of many, to have to "fix"…

What sort of education do we need to face the challenges and opportunities of our time?

What sort of leadership do we need to meet the challenges and the opportunities of a VUCA world?

We were 15 strangers who met for a weekend’s writing retreat for activists and changemakers. Over the course of the weekend, we wrote and published a piece or writing together. Here it is…

We can tackle chronic social, emotional and environmental disconnection by putting relationships at the heart of teaching.

An open letter written in response to the DfE’s draft Climate & Sustainability proposals for schools.