Sisyphus Never Had to Answer Parent Messages
A colleague of mine, Dania, recently shared a thoughtful reflection about teacher exhaustion, and it resonated deeply with me. We expect teachers to be endlessly patient, creative, enthusiastic, adaptable and available. We ask them to plan excellent lessons, manage challenging and often inappropriate behaviour, respond to parents, attend meetings, complete
Josephine, Nick Wilde and the Art of Saying No: The Gentle Art of Avoiding Things You Do Not Enjoy
I certainly understand why it is much easier to say “no” when you are not face-to-face with someone. In fact, a few years ago, I created and memorised the following response: “Thank you for the invitation to blah blah. I am genuinely grateful to have received it. However,
The Chinese Bamboo Tree
Imagine writing a book with an invisible pen. Every evening, after a long and busy day, you sit down and write a few pages. When you finish, you close the book and go to bed. The following day, you open it again and continue where you left off. You cannot
Are humans God’s AI?
If yes, it sounds alarming and perhaps dangerous that we are trying to replicate God and create a(nother) form of AI. This endeavour may raise fundamental questions about our survival and ethics. What if God is, in fact, another more sophisticated form of intelligence that created humans as their

Questioning the ‘meaning of life’
So, what is life?? Is it happiness? Is it freedom? Is it travelling? Is it love? Is it a partnership? Is it fellowship? Is it ‘outstanding accomplishments’? Is it pothos? (Beautiful Greek word totally deserving some research on its meaning) Is it money? Is it solidarity? Is it all the

The Piano Routine
Thoughts, stories and ideas.

Leadership and Management
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Building Stronger Relationships
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The 5-minute rule
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