It happens in schools sometimes. Decisions get made from high up. Year 7 White, Year 7 Red, Year 7 Blue, Year 7 Gold and Year 7 Green were all meant to get their year level camp in 1979, my first year of high school. Someone decided that for that year it wasn’t happening. The camp…
Details… in a world that demands flexibility, lauds the multi-tasker and pronounces that today’s 15-year-old will have about 20 different jobs throughout their career… it isn’t difficult to build the argument against the specialist. You can see how the person who does one thing well could be dismissed as unsuitably equipped to make their way…
DetailsSome Time & Space Community people might know that Mem Fox’s picture book (illustrated by Julie Vivas), Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge gets a run in some of my presentations. It‘s a personal favourite. It is a story of a small boy who helps his ninety-six year old friend, Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, in the…
DetailsJosh is a Year 12 student at The Hutchins School in Hobart. He spoke as a panellist at a Time & Space night I facilitated for a group of Year 8 boys (average age 13) and their dads or mentors. He offered an insight that smashed a stereotype. You know the one: that wisdom only comes from…
DetailsThe star of this story signs off her messages to the world with the words… Be inspired. Be Inspiring. The words stand in comfortable alignment with the way she lives her life. Just before you go on reading, please, stop… … for a moment… … and think of a person who is a mentor to…
DetailsSay the name of your favorite teacher. There is simple beauty in this exercise because it does not matter how old you are. If you’re in Year Six, you probably know the name of the teacher who has been the greatest influence on you to this point. You could be 90 years old and still…
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