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What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2010-01-31

Interesting discussion with @DaleRockell and Philip Stanley about how we could collaborate on personal and social development in schools. # Reading the TES forums is scary. I really hope the blinkered, child-fearing/hating views are just people letting off steam. # Nice compliment for our website: http://bit.ly/6Xv2yH – how we've managed to build a useful site [...]

Making democracy fun and engaging with Youth Act

Asher and I had a interesting meeting with Ade Sofola of the Citizenship Foundation yesterday. She leads on an interesting project at the Foundation – Youth Act, which supports groups of 11–18 year-olds to identify issues of concern to them and their communities and to develop campaigns to tackle them. In terms of skills, this [...]

The dangers of Personalisation

Morning all, What better way to kick off a cold January week, than to read our response to the Cabinet Office’s call for evidence on Personalisation and learning. We really do treat you don’t we? That said, there is exciting elements of this which hint at the direction that involver is beginning to take. This has been on [...]

What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2010-01-24

.@joehallforluton Good job, but what's really important to find out is how they're empowering the children NOT on the school council. # @luke_cb the participation you want has to have value to the participant in itself. No additional rewards, make the opportunity rewarding. in reply to luke_cb # @JoeHallforLuton Good methods of communication are key, [...]

Ashley School – using school councils to teach Citizenship

A few pointers on how to get the most of of your school council for teaching citizenship and improving relationships in your school.

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What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2010-01-17

Just been looking around at free/cheap small business CRM, not sure if we really need it, http://civicrm.org/ looks interesting though # RT @citizenship 'Political parties must clarify plans for Citizenship Education' @hansardsociety http://bit.ly/6YkxLu & http://bit.ly/7qd6MT # @grahamallcott count me in (Greg too probably) in reply to grahamallcott # @CompareCRM Right now, no. We are a [...]

2010.

Hi all, Happy new year – hope everyone had a great festive season! I lost every snowball fight, got lots of new socks, fell over twice, and am excited about 2010. Sorry for not blogging much recently! But here’s a wee update: We’ve moved into our new office in Old Street – this is really [...]

What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2010-01-10

@gavinthomson Thanks Gavin, looks interesting. in reply to gavinthomson # Speaking with the Speaker event RT @gavinthomson: @AsherJac http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100125t1830vOT.aspx # Locked out of the new office already,and it's only the second day! I thought working from home was unproductive. # Just bought @scyne a spill resistant keyboard. About a minute outside the shop I spilt [...]

Raising achievement through student voice and data

I just read this really interesting article on how schools in Colorado are finding that in the quest to raise standards and achievement that data alone is a blunt tool; student voice sharpens this. Their recommendations are excellent, especially: Utilize student-led outreach to capture feedback from disengaged students. Have a read: http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2010/01/05/in-r2t-student-voice-will-sharpen-blunt-instruments/

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What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2010-01-03

@jonathan_mackin Better or worse than the book? Not made my mind up about it yet. #triffids in reply to jonathan_mackin # Was supposed to be at Villa with @grahamallcott and @chloedoherty but ended up spending 3 hrs on hard shoulder of the M6. Good company tho. # @damoward I use Twitter primarily for work and [...]

What Asher’s been Tweeting this week 2010-01-03

@jonathan_mackin Better or worse than the book? Not made my mind up about it yet. #triffids in reply to jonathan_mackin # Was supposed to be at Villa with @grahamallcott and @chloedoherty but ended up spending 3 hrs on hard shoulder of the M6. Good company tho. # @damoward I use Twitter primarily for work and [...]