Spoke to the deputy head of Embley school about what I, a classroom teacher, think makes for good leadership in a school. https://anchor.fm/josepicardo/episodes/Alom-Shaha-e1uqhqd
Alom Shaha
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Dad. Physics Teacher. Author of Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder, The Young Atheist's Handbook, and Mr Shaha's Marvellous Machines, and more books coming in 2023
Ten🏳️‍⚧️Why is gravity so cheap?
Why Because it's mass-produced.
Had a busy couple of weeks, with a bit of unwanted drama, but one good thing is that a book I've taken AGES to write has moved much closer to publication - we've agreed a title and subtitle and a description, and if everything goes smoothly, you can read a copy on August 17!
The fact that Jacinda Ardern is standing down, instead of doing everything she can to remain in power, is yet another example of how different she is to the mostly awful people we have as “leaders” in everything from our governments to the little organisations we work for.
UK Science Teachers! If one of your students can come up with a clever mnemonic to help remember the names of all the SI prefixes, they could win ÂŁ200! https://www.npl.co.uk/si-prefix/mnemonic-challenge?utm_source=si-challenge-AH-promo&utm_medium=si-challenge-AH-promo&utm_campaign=si-challenge-AH-promo
“To find a science teacher is hard; to appoint a good, experienced and skilled science teacher is almost impossible!” https://edu.rsc.org/feature/where-have-all-the-science-specialists-gone/4016603.article
Good morning all. Giving this place another try as I’m increasingly uncomfortable with using Twitter, which is owned by someone who seems intent on proving himself amongst the worst people to ever exist. Here’s an incredibly depressing article I read first thing this morning https://www.propublica.org/article/milwaukee-fire-brunner-belen-landlord-tenant
Quite heartened by the fact that something like 80% of staff refused Musk’s stupid ultimatum and have quit. More billionaires need to hear “no” more often.
Around this time last year, I helped organise “A Month of Making” bringing together a bunch of people to make videos showing things you could make for Christmas presents. If you missed them last year, take a look now https://qeprize.org/videos/alom-shaha-sinkeroo-game
It’s “Museum Shop Sunday” on Sunday 27th November and I’ll be at The Brunel Museum doing a FREE Marvellous Machines workshop because they are kind enough to stock my book in their shop https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/culture/multifarious-museum-marvels/
