Before I knew a god there was a river —a muddled, polite thing that mislaid its oar.I drifted to its rhythm like a man to free coffee;the lark tried a solo and hit the wrong note spectacularly. Before I knew a god there was a star,a glittering gossip in the sky’s dressing room.I leaned close, … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v5: A comical version
Revisionist Pedagogy – Revolutionizing Special Education: How Critical Theory Transforms SEND Teaching Methods for Equity and Empowerment
Abstract Critical theory and critical pedagogy offer conceptual tools that, when translated into operational practices, can materially improve Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision. This article synthesizes scholarly and practitioner literatures on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), co-teaching, student participation in Individualized Education Program (IEP) processes, Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), anti-ableism professional development, and … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Revolutionizing Special Education: How Critical Theory Transforms SEND Teaching Methods for Equity and Empowerment
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course
Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course presents itself less as a conventional how-to manual and more as a practiced teacher’s syllabus made beautifully portable. Its ambition—bridging the tactile minutiae of clay work with the larger problems of form, function and aesthetic intention—makes it an especially welcome book for the contemporary ceramicist who wants technique to serve … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course
Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v4: A darker version
Before I knew a god there was a river —not singing but pulling, a black lung drawing me down.I followed that current like a confession;the lark answered like something that remembers falling. Before I knew a god there was a star,a frost-scribed page in the throat of night.I read the margin until the ink bled … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v4: A darker version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing by Angelica Pozo
Angelica Pozo’s Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing reads at first like a craftsman’s primer and, on closer inspection, performs the subtler work of a modest modus operandi. It is both a handbook and a primer in temper — practical, kindly, and quietly persuasive. Where many how-to volumes insist on mastery as a destination, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing by Angelica Pozo
Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v3: A more narrative version
Before I knew a god there was a river,its pulse a promise. I moved toward that cadence;the lark took the promise in its throatand gave me a first, clear song.Before I knew a god there was a star,spilling small iron-lit pages across the dark.I read until the night turned colour —no hand stopped me from … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v3: A more narrative version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Making and Installing Handmade Tiles by Angelica Pozo
Angelica Pozo’s Making and Installing Handmade Tiles sits at an interesting crossroads: part technical manual, part artist’s manifesto, and part visual essay. The book announces itself as a practical companion for the person at the wheel or the trowel, but its most enduring achievement is how it insists that technique and meaning are inseparable. The … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Making and Installing Handmade Tiles by Angelica Pozo
Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v2
I knew a God…Some river before me —I followed its slow rhythm,as if to tell me it might happen:the lark sang its first song.Some star before me —I leaned into the glitter;no one stopped me from seeingthe last, most colourful page.Some rose before me —I turned toward the aroma,with only fate left to pluckthe first … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – I knew a God…, v2
Revisionist Pedagogy – Empowering Tomorrow’s Change-makers: Applying Critical Theory in Primary Education, v2
Critical theory — here understood as a set of tools for noticing power, asking who benefits from a given idea, and imagining fairer alternatives — can be translated into developmentally appropriate practice in primary schools. When paired with teacher supports, intentional assessment, and community engagement, it cultivates children who are observant, empathetic, and ready to … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Empowering Tomorrow’s Change-makers: Applying Critical Theory in Primary Education, v2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes. by Irene Poulton
Irene Poulton’s Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes reads, at first glance, like a practical compendium; read closely, it reveals itself as a meditation on the paradox at the heart of raku work — the persistent human desire to name, measure, and reproduce a process whose aesthetic power depends on chance. She gives … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes. by Irene Poulton
The New Renaissance Mindset 