I’m not saying I’m boring - but - the lengths some people go to so they can avoid speaking to me on a train. This is taking it to a new level...

Poetic water

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Last year I wrote a paper about Teacher Wellbeing for @OECDEduSkills It features research by @Doctob @TheNFER @Ofstednews Autonomy and Purpose are key to happier teachers. Have a read and let me know your thoughts. Link:

Window: St Martin-in-the-Fields. London.

Busker in Ireland 🇮🇪

On the flight back from Ireland, I watched the most boring movie I have ever seen. ‘Route to Destination’ lasts for an hour and is just an image of a plane flying from Shannon to Heathrow.

My eldest daughter just passed her PhD viva (Astrophysics). Out for a meal to celebrate...

When my dad was made redundant from his job in a factory, he became a window-cleaner. If he was ever in the company of anyone who was pretentious, he would say he was a "vision technician" or a "transparency enhancer" - and then give me a loving and knowing father-to-son wink

I was team psychologist when Arsenal played Real Madrid in 2006. Won 1-0. Thierry scored. Here's to a win for the Arsenal tonight. Come on you Gunners! Vamos!

My new Thesaurus is useless. It is also useless

Architecture: Modern and classic showcased in the sun in Birmingham. Courtesy @Doctob #Birmingham #LookUpBirmingham

The results are in: I'm 98% Irish 2% Scottish

Is anyone else irritated by those plastic lids that have recently become far too emotionally attached to bottles?

All schools communicate with parents - but that doesn’t mean that all schools connect with parents.

We must be careful about sanctifying research as absolute truth. We must also be careful about interpretations of research that are driven by confirmation bias.

It is problematic framing resilience as a fixed personality trait that people have or do not have. Resilience is emergent. It is also context-dependent: we adapt to some contexts and not to others.

I've been a member of a DfE Expert Advisory Group (Wellbeing) due to my research/applied work in the field over many years. I said it then, and I say it now. DfE expert groups should always include teachers. I mean classroom teachers. Their voice -an expert voice- must be heard.

A bit windy in the Cairngorms #Scotland #Reindeer

Today I have mostly been giving a keynote about why we behave the way we do and how we can behave better than we feel.

I was one of the first people on the platform today. I did that thing of standing confidently in a particular place - as if I knew exactly where the train stops and the doors open. I now have about ten people around or behind me. I have no clue where the train will stop.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… stop giving them human names. It only encourages them #StormKathleen