The Series

The Room We Build

Thinking, observations, and evidence from inside the field. For schools, families, and organisations.

We teach kids what to learn. We almost never teach them how their own mind works.

It’s not about willpower, it’s how your brain is wired, and everyone’s is different.

The truth, it turns out, is a far better place to start than shame.

Attention was never missing. The ideas just had to go somewhere.

I spent a school career getting moved around a room that never changed. I’d rather the kids in mine now grow up in one that did.