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Work Smarter, Not Harder

A Principal's Reflections

During my years as a teacher and principal, I would spend countless hours planning, researching, and attending professional learning events to hone my craft in order to become a better educator. I established hiring practices that resulted in the hiring of a lot of smart educators.

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Coffee and Geography: with Alistair Hamill

Living Geography

Alistair Hamill is the latest guest on Kit Marie Rackley's 'Coffee and Geography' podcast. Some links to things mentioned in the chat: Climate Ambassadors ( [link] ) Alistair's CoffeeGeogPod episode which includes discussion on the importance of Northern Ireland's Shared Education ( / coffee-geography-s02e11-alistair-hamill-no. )

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Festival of Geography - 16th June 2025

Living Geography

Like geography? How about a Festival of Geography! The Festival of Geography brings together colleagues from the Royal Geographical Society and Geographical Association (GA) for a joint celebration of geographical knowledge and understanding. I hope to see many of you down at the 'Home of Geography' for this special event.

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College ‘Deserts’ Disproportionately Deter Black and Hispanic Students from Higher Ed

ED Surge

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others. In other words, for low-income and underrepresented minority groups, living near a community college can be a crucial way to gain access to any higher education.

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Calling Scottish Geography Teachers.

Living Geography

Via the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Do you teach Geography in Scotland? Wed love to hear from you! The survey takes around 30 minutes to complete, and the closing date is 11th April 2025.

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Travle, the newest geography game

Geography Education

You know that I’m a fan of online geography games going way back. Below is a brief introduction to all of these online geography/mapping games. I’ve enjoyed the games like GeoGuessr as my go-to game to refine cultural landscape analysis and map navigation skills.

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GA EDI Report - newly published

Living Geography

GA press release says: Despite growing diversity of the geography GCSE cohort, at A level and at university geography is one of the least diverse of all subjects. The subject, and its institutions, are not serving all geography teachers nor all young people who could benefit from studying geography. Change is needed.