What if you could wake up feeling well rested, in spite of spending all of that time on your laptop? Better yet, what if you could reduce any and all eye strain during the day while you’re working? Potentially even prevent those pesky migraines?
What if I told you that I’d tried and tested the solution? … More How to Combat Screen Fatigue: A Teacher’s Review of Yellow-Tinted Overlays
As a Head of History, I’ve seen the best and worst of AI in education. Here is how to avoid “Workslop” and keep the human touch in post-AI schools. … More How to avoid Workslop: a Teacher’s Guide to Intentional AI
By understanding brain chemistry, we can resist short-term pleasures and enhance our well-being sustainably, optimising for high-serotonin routines which go against these new dopamine detox trends. Here’s how. … More How to build a high-serotonin routine in a distracted world
Preparing healthy, hearty meals is hard work. Doing that as a teacher is even harder, and it’s so easy to devolve into junk food. What if there was another way? What if you could get everything done during the day and still have time to kill it in the kitchen? … More Reclaim your evenings: A Busy Teacher’s Guide to Healthy Meal prep
Here’s what to expect from the First 90 Days as a Head of Department at a UK Secondary School, with an honest look at how to establish yourself as a leader, not just a manager. … More The First 90 Days: How to survive (and thrive) as a new Head of History
Ready to transform your life? Stop waiting for January 1st to make changes. All it takes is answering 7 brutal questions to course-correct your life, by letting go of unnecessary commitments and tackling those daunting tasks head-on. Your future self will thank you. … More 7 Brutal Questions to Course-Correct your Life before 2026
Experimenting will lead you to making a lot of mistakes along the way. Thankfully, I’ve probably already made them all – and figured out how to avoid them, so that you don’t have to. Here’s my guide to the top five mistakes that all students make when taking notes at Uni – and how to fix them. … More The top 5 note-taking mistakes that every student makes (and how to fix them)
Here’s your must-read guide to the best way to take notes everywhere and anywhere you might work, whether it’s in a notebook, on your laptop, or anywhere else. Teacher-approved and perfect for college or University. … More Stop Wasting Time: A Teacher’s Take on the Best Note-Taking Tools for University
I’ve put together this really robust guide to prompt you on what’s actually needed for University, as well as a few things that you can afford to leave behind – as you get ready for Fresher’s Week, studying, and beyond – from a teacher’s perspective … More A Teacher’s Guide: 50 Things You Actually Need for University (And What You Can Leave Behind)
If I could read faster – maybe even as quickly as I can listen to audiobooks, which I think are best absorbed on 2x speed – then I’d be able to encounter more, exciting, stories. And that could only be a good thing, right?
Here are the 6 systems that I used to double the number of books that I was reading. … More How I doubled the number of books I read
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