On average, almost one-quarter of what teachers say in class is directly related to classroom management.
Something I will try and notice tomorrow.
On average, almost one-quarter of what teachers say in class is directly related to classroom management.
Something I will try and notice tomorrow.
Apparently, it started with an accident. This coming year will be the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. Except, the mouth was added the wrong way around… I kind of like them, hence buying a couple that arrived today.
20 back squats at 84kg (12/10)
9600m on the Assault Bike
20 back squats at 84kg (10/10)
21:11. (5 second pb)
Heart rate went up and stayed up. Though those little dips are where I moved from bar to bike and bike to bar.
It matters not at all whether we are holding our breath for a triumph or bracing for a tragedy. For as long as we are waiting, we are not living.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/21/henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle/
I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.
Haim G. Ginott
Clearly got the taste for it. Ordered this for dinner.
When your colleagues bring in chilli and they say it’s spicy. And considering that we live in a place famous for their spicy food. You believe them. This stuff was potent but amazing.
10 x 1min max effort Assault Bike, 3 minutes rest.
Calories for each round: 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.5, 20.6, 18.8, 18.8, 17.4, 17.1, 18.5
Started out well. Maintained 20calories until 5 minutes and then it got hard.
2 more weeks and I’ll have done 10000 steps a day for a 100 days. Which I just realised will be a 1 million steps.
After 100 days, I am planning to just switch to walk for 30 minutes every day. At the moment, I am doing ‘last minute’ walks to get myself over the line and it just feels silly.
10 pull ups
1000m row
10 pull ups
2400m Assault bike
10 pull ups
1000m row
10 pull ups
2400m Assault bike
10 pull ups
1000m row
10 pull ups
35:40
I said to my friend that I enjoyed that because I didn’t push too hard on the cardio parts. But still, I like to see how my heart rate rises and fall.
Safe to say I enjoyed that.
“The kind of art I make is about how I understand the world,” says Hsieh. “It’s how I mark the passing of time. That’s all life is, and it’s the one thing that makes us all equal. It doesn’t matter if you’re lazy or hard-working, poor or rich, we’re all just passing time.”
he likened the late-December-early-January stretch to the Covid lockdowns in microcosm: habituated behaviors and autopilot processes grind to a halt, not just individually but globally. We become dislodged from our routines, and in the gap that opens up between us & them, we glimpse a real opportunity to reconsider and reconstitute the ways we live, with more perspective and consideration than usual.
have a proposal to make: 2026 should be the year that you spend more time doing what you want. The new year should be the moment we commit to dedicating more of our finite hours on the planet to things we genuinely, deeply enjoy doing – to the activities that seize our interest, and that make us feel vibrantly alive. This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn yourself into a better person, and focus instead on actually leading a more absorbing life.
The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think … | New year | The Guardian
Since I go back to work tomorrow, officially the diet starts tomorrow too. So, I ordered one of the McGriddles before they disappear tomorrow just to see what it was like. Yeah, not a fan honestly. Not sure they go together.
An impressive body of research shows that people of all ages – including students in classrooms – are happier, healthier, and more productive when they have some say about what they’re doing. Indeed, the way children learn to make good decisions is by making decisions. Why, then, are so many classrooms more focused on eliciting their compliance than supporting their autonomy?
I’m trying to avoid Edu-Twitter because it can be very quite argumentative. Quite aside from feeling pretty Post-11 years old orientated. Anyway, I do like some of what he says.
https://austinkleon.com/2026/01/02/100-things-that-made-my-year-2025/
Maybe this is the year I finally subscribe. One of the few people, places on the internet I consistently love.
Such a difficult balance. Forever balancing.
The most dangerous story we tell in schools is that joy is seasonal that “serious work” requires emotional coldness once the decorations come down. We treat this energy as a Christmas novelty that can’t survive a grey Tuesday in February.
That story is a lie. The students who sang their hearts out in December haven’t changed by March. Their need for connection didn’t expire on New Year’s Day. Enthusiasm isn’t a reaction to a good day; it’s the tool you use to build one. If we want to bottle that energy for the bleakest months of the year, we have to treat it as a deliberate professional skill.
Hot Mess Soup - by Adrian Neibauer - Adrian’s Newsletter
Teaching has always been a both/and. Teaching is both an inspiring profession and a challenging career. Teaching is both a calling and a job. Teaching is both an impossible struggle and inherently joyful. Teaching is both rewarding and exasperating. And so the challenge becomes how can I move into the space between hot mess soup and the best school year ever? Instead of burying my head in the sand until June, how can I embrace my responsibilities while navigating the absurdity of this school year?
I’ve kept unreading this in my feed reader so that I can read it properly. Finally got it down with a coffee in McDonalds at 6am. I need to read it again though.
Is there a shortcut for getting the categories to appear in the Micro.blog app?
It’s a little too much friction to click ‘view > categories’ is all. Just me?
Not your typical James Hoffman coffee but really well done!
What is formative assessment, and why should anybody care? With professor Dylan Wiliam. .
Listened to this this morning on my walk. Probably should now listen to it again with my notebook to record things I wanted to record.
