100 Pure Thoughts: Cultivating Purity One Thought at a Time

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I am hopeful that, at Michaela, we can destroy all the remaining doubts that ‘children like these’ can achieve at the highest levels in the hardest subjects. However, many primary schools view themselves as a sort of ‘protection zone’ that allows children to be babyish as long as possible, with teachers vying to be the most ‘fun’, ‘entertaining’ and ‘caring’. Then there was my own career trajectory – I was about to become Head of English; my next career move would be Assistant Head, not Head of Department again.

This collection of essays provides some fascinating insights into the Michaela world and what can be achieved with leadership, determination, and a willingness to challenge the status quo.The only protection KS3 teachers have is the fact that the KS2 SATs FORCES teachers to do lots of exam practice, lots of teaching and children expected to work hard. In the summer of 2013, when Joe, Katie and Bodil were about to found what would become Michaela Community School, I thought briefly about trying to join them. One boy, who injured a woman by barging her into a door and then threatened to kill her, was suspended for 15 days and then let back in.

At the beginning of the poem, “now warm and capable” is used combining life and death imagery to describe the transience of life in the present. I felt that I was the only one who could see it or would admit it – “good behaviour is one of our strengths”.

And they still get it wrong in context – one said recently: ‘The Arctic is the zenith and the Antarctic is the nadir of planet earth.

Sexual sin is a visual sin, so therefore the best way to combat it is with visual illustrations and personal stories which engage the reader. view more Joe Kirby is an Evangelist who is involved in open air outreach and producing Gospel videos for his YouTube Channel Off the Kirb Ministries.The sort of behaviour that my secondary teacher friends have to put up with did not spring up over night in the 6 week holidays between year 6 and year 7! This book, by Frank Chalk, is about his experiences of teaching in a difficult school in England, and the consequences of low standards for some of our worst-off children in the country.

And yet instead of totally denouncing sin and getting as far away from the evil that God hates, we trade on the mercy of the Lord and say, Is it really that bad? Looking through teacher responses really helped me to see where my explanation had been clear, and where I need to clarify at a later inset. The author challenges us to look at them differently and ask ourselves how we can begin to put them to better use in our lives so that we are not just enjoying them but employing them for the benefit of others.One that views knowledge, high expectations and the privileging of community over the individual not as a form of restriction, but as a form of emancipation. When you do, you will be filled with the expectation of better days that are promised to you, and those better days add up to a better life. I then shared the forgetting curve, exploring the idea of revisiting to secure concepts in long-term memory, along with Willingham’s advice that ‘memory is the residue of thought’: we remember what we think hard about.