A student can sit through years of lessons and still leave without the skills, mindsets and literacies they actually need for the world waiting outside the classroom. Knowing a subject and being equipped...

A pupil storms out of class after being asked to put away their phone. Another quietly withdraws, never causing trouble but never participating either. Most schools focus on changing behaviour, but...

Most education still trains students for a workplace that no longer exists. Subjects are taught in isolation, success is measured by recall, and the connection between what happens in a classroom and what...

Higher education is not dying. But the leadership model that has guided many colleges and universities for decades is being tested in ways we can no longer ignore. The university of tomorrow cannot...

The moment NM stated, “My son said when she’s gone, just chuck all of her stuff away,” was the moment I became a person-centred counselor. The client’s emotional blanket of once feeling safe..

Facts fade. Stories stay. A young person can forget a formula, a date, or a definition within days of learning it, yet remember a story they were told years ago in precise detail, right down to how it made...

Every young person has ideas worth hearing. What often stands between a good idea and real influence is not the idea itself, but whether the person holding it has been taught how to share it in a way...

As fate would have it, three separate incidents would occur within a few weeks that would ultimately turn me into a willing teenage Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant. A confidential informant...

Every year, students ask me for a strategy for the Singapore-Cambridge O-Level English Paper 3 Listening Comprehension examination. For Paper 1, time can be divided. For Paper 2, sections can be paced...

Is it ever beneficial to experience a bit of self-deception? When we begin a DIY project, optimism can carry us beyond our actual knowledge and skills. Yet that same confidence can inspire us to create...

Millions of people open a language app every day, keep a streak going for weeks or months, and then quietly realize they still cannot hold a real conversation. If that sounds familiar, you are not...

More and more celebrities as well as everyday people are ‘coming out’ as dyslexic, signalling a societal shift away from stigmatisation of dyslexia. There is also increasing awareness of dyslexia as much...

Some young people cannot easily explain why a worksheet leaves them cold while a piece of music, movement or drama draws them fully in. It is rarely a lack of ability. More often, it is a mismatch between...

Ambition is rarely the missing ingredient for young people in Alternative Provision. Many carry vivid ideas about becoming a performer, designer, writer, filmmaker, organiser or technician, or something...

“You work with youth? Wow, you’re brave.” Or “Teens are so tough, I don’t know how you do it!” If you are a youth-serving professional, you have heard these expressions several times in your career...

It is back-to-school season. Some students planned for months. Others decided at the last possible second that college, community college, or vocational school might actually be the move. If that is...

We book the appointments, run the assessments, and ask what's wrong with our children. We pour everything we have into finding answers for them. Very rarely, almost never, do we stop to turn the same...

I sat down to watch Narcissist’s Playbook expecting to take clinical notes. I've spent years working with survivors of narcissistic abuse, and I wanted a resource I could point clients toward, something...

The two-time Academy Award winner and five-time nominee has built an extraordinary career through research, culture, and visual storytelling. The return of her masterclass offers a larger lesson about how industry...

Most classrooms are built around a simple, familiar arrangement. One person holds the knowledge and the authority, and the other receives it. For many learners, this arrangement works well enough...

Whether you’re a parent trying to get out the door, a teacher guiding a classroom transition, or a caregiver supporting a child in a public space, you’ve felt that moment when cooperation suddenly...

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a young person who has decided that education is not for them. It is not defiance, and it is rarely laziness. It is the settled conclusion of a learner who...

Every year, I meet students who know the English language reasonably well, who can speak confidently, who can even write decent essays at home, and yet somehow collapse during the...

Most people have been taught to treat imagination and analysis as competitors: one generates possibilities, while the other closes them down. Yet our most meaningful ideas emerge when imagination...