Collaborative Decision-Making: the beating heart of classroom learning

This article describes my doctoral research into shared decision-making in the classroom and offers hope and encouragement to teachers and school leaders who seek greater collaboration with their pupils. In my mid-fifties, having worked as an Educational Psychologist for around 30 years, I decided that I needed to find a way to reinvigorate my professional…

No child will ever return to the school they left: how past disasters impacted on schools in Japan and New Zealand

As schools plan to reopen for all students, they can learn from the experiences of schools in Japan and New Zealand, where earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear disasters not only closed schools but shook the whole community. Teachers identified what helped and what hindered their attempts to get their schools up and running again. Unexpectedly, students…