Lee Jackson - Award-Winning Motivational Speaker, Trainer and Presentation Coach
Lee Jackson is an Award-Winning Motivational Speaker, Presentation Expert and Trainer working in organisations businesses and education to help people Get Good® - his style is engaging, authentic and jargon free.
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‘Schools need to engage the Xbox generation’ – from @EdExec
‘Schools need to engage the Xbox generation’ Released 13/06/2012 The digital revolution risks bypassing UK education if schools don’t step up to the technological plate. But without more financial support, experts worry they could have little choice but to offer an analogue education in a digital world Schools need to offer a better digital education […]
Plan B: ‘I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don’t think it does’ c/o – guardian.co.uk
Strong stuff with bad language, but worth a read, very challenging… I have looked forward to root-canal surgery with greater enthusiasm than I could summon before watching Ill Manors. Few phrases in the English language conjure dread quite like “low-budget gritty social realism”, it being almost invariably shorthand for cartoonish rubbish that will make you […]
Riot report reveals ‘500,000 forgotten families’ + poor parenting + materialism… @tedxleeds1 @bettkultcha
A few weeks ago i spoke on the causes of the riots at the TEDxLeeds and Bettakultcha events and mentioned the elephant in the room… materialism… More info here – http://leejackson.org/tedtalk/ It appears that a new independent report seems to agree it was a cause…we must take notice or there may be riots again… Riot […]
The impact of poverty on young children’s experience of school | Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Summary Download as PDF 0.1 MB The UK Government is trying to break the link between child poverty and educational disadvantage. This study examines the extent to which poverty impacts on younger children’s experience of school and looks at life in primary schools in Northern Ireland from a child-centred perspective. Key points How most children […]
Be careful what you write – texting auto spellcheck error leads to lockdowns at high schools
An auto corrected text message, accidentally sent to the wrong number, was the catalyst to lockdowns Wednesday at West Hall middle and high schools. Just before noon, law enforcement and school officials issued the lockdowns after a West Hall community member reported a threatening text message. The text, saying “gunman be at west hall today,” […]
Some great quotes i found – ideal for speakers and teachers
Some great quotes i found – ideal for speakers and teachers Here you can browse the collection of best quotes I’ve been gathering for more than a decade (current total of over 500). There’s also a downloadable CSV file (58 KB) available. For a selection of the best famous quotes, check ’60 Selected Best Famous […]
Maths Teacher Jonny Griffiths Tells Student: Just Enjoy Being 17
A Norfolk maths teacher has been the subject of a furore on social networking site Twitter after he told a student to “just enjoy being 17” instead of being stressed about grades. Teacher Jonny Griffiths, a regular contributor to the Times Education Supplement (TES), recounted in the supplement a conversation he had with a student […]
School league tables show 107 secondaries are failing
More than 100 secondary schools in England face being closed and re-opened as academies for failing government targets, official data reveals. League tables of more than 3,300 secondaries published by the Department for Education on Thursday show that 107 schools are failing to reach minimum standards required by the coalition. In all schools, at least […]
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