Uncategorized Creativity: emotions and healing 26 Apr 202026 Apr 2020 'Luce found a path to healthy by investing energy into a creative project', writes Marie Forgeard in her chapter in the The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. She opens her chapter…
Uncategorized Coaching Redefined 5 Oct 20195 Oct 2019 I'm so grateful to Sherry St. Clair for sending a copy of her new book, Coaching Redefined. She charts her journey towards a new paradigm of coaching in the first…
Uncategorized Appreciating the deeply unsatisfactory 30 Jul 201931 Jul 2019 'Most pupils end up as artistic illiterates' and 'arts education ... cannot produce creative pupils in the proper sense of the term'. What is the proper sense of the term…
Uncategorized My professional body 30 Jul 201930 Jul 2019 I never imagined I would complete fifteen years of teaching. I never imagined I would do fifteen years of anything and when I was half-way through my MMus I was…
Uncategorized The meaning of curriculum process 29 Jul 20193 Aug 2019 Whilst the kitchen is being removed from my home (and a new one is gradually installed) I started to notice some of the books I had forgotten I had. Dennis…
Uncategorized Developing composing through talk 29 Jul 2019 Developing composing through talk: Does the use of a ‘composing talk tally’ in the KS3 Music classroom improve the quality of creative response? Below is my research project I submitted…
Uncategorized Creating Significant Learning Experiences 27 Jul 2019 After an enjoyable year of professional development (that included the RSA Evidence Champions Network, Chartered College of Teaching Chartered Teacher Programme and the King's Academy Learning and Teaching Programme) I…
Uncategorized Should we question our beliefs in the arts? 26 Jul 2019 The ‘transformative power’ of the arts: History of an idea by Eleanora Belfiore is an interesting read in The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning. Belfiore highlights the claims many…
Uncategorized Making time for music 17 May 2019 We can find a justification for music as an important part of human development right back to Plato. In the Middle Ages, music continued to be seen as a tool…
Uncategorized Extending music beyond the classroom: MusicFirst 27 Apr 2019 City of London School for Girls provides students and staff with iPads, and all departments are encouraged to explore how best to integrate the use of mobile technology into the…
