
The importance of the ‘human’ teacher in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
It is truly wonderful that Andria Zafirakou has won the Varkey Foundation’s 2018 Global Teacher Prize. Her story is inspiring and unique,...

Global Goals Week, TEESNet 2017 and Sustainabeing
Well it's all happening this week! The Social Good Summit is on now in NY (live-streamed here) and it's the Global Goals Week - here are...

Global Goals in Local Classrooms
This article has just come out in the September 2017 issue of Brainfeed Magazine, read in schools and by teachers across India. It takes...

Mainstreaming global learning - dilemmas of definition and depth
Just over 10 years ago I wrote an article entitled 'The Global Education Terminology Debate: Exploring some of the issues' which appeared...

#TeachSDGs for educators in the UK
Having been asked by teachers in the UK for more information on the #TeachSDGs movement, I've put together a very quick response here. An...

Teaching the SDGs - 17 Goals to Transform Our World and Our Classrooms
Since their launch in September 2015, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) have been increasingly taken up by schools as both an...

Deepening engagement with global charity days in schools, communities and businesses.
Tomorrow is Red Nose Day day in the UK, where huge numbers of us engage in activities we perhaps normally wouldn’t. In the evening we sit...

The new ‘planetary time machine’ with huge potential for global learning
On Friday, Planet launched Planet Explorer Beta, an online tool that allows users to browse geospatial data through time and track...

Mentoring for all – why we all need to be a mentor and a mentee!
We all need a good mentor, and not just in the workplace. We’re in a time when most of us exist within the echo-chambers of social media....