
Red Metal, by Mark Greaney & Lt Col. H Ripley Rawlings IV.
What is it about? War between the West and Russia. Who wrote it? Mark Greaney, a military thriller author who was written some of the newer Tom Clancy franchise books. Lt Col. H Ripley Rawlings IV. Former US Marine, came from a family of academics and authors. Wrote this book and has been signed to write a series of military fiction. What can we learn from it? Russia is a huge threat to the West and as the US pivots to the Pacific and the Chinese threat Europe is exposed to a

Not being afraid to provide challenging texts in the classroom
I recently watched the fantastic tutorial delivered by Mary Myatt (find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIBOt3NIN6k) about literacy in the curriculum. I found it fascinating that she uses the example of the scholarship Marc Morris homework – where students have to read a paragraph and then answer questions on it. Interesting that it becomes effective when the teacher in question made some of the questions ‘low risk’ in the sense that he was encouraging students to gi

Do schools kill creativity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U What does Sir Ken’s TED talk state? Sir Ken highlights that education is seen as having value for two main purposes – preparation for economic participation and the building of national cultural narratives. He also expresses doubts held by a majority of students who believe the necessity of conventional education is not as advertised – conventional educational success is not always a guarantee of personal of professional success. He