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The Leadership Nobody Looks At

By Max Kelly August 17, 2026

Twenty or thirty people are leading something in your school today. Subject leaders, the office, site managers, the SENCo. Inspection judges the head and the senior team, and almost none of the rest is ever looked at as leadership at all. The first of five posts on a gap nobody owns.

Human Edge Mini Series: Education Extinct

Education: Extinct. The Overhead Projector

By Max Kelly August 7, 2026

Hot dust and warm plastic. Acetate pens that squeaked. A bulb that always went mid-lesson and a spare that was never where it should be. The final episode of Education: Extinct is the overhead projector - and what it still has to teach us about every shiny new thing since.

Mini Series: Education Extinct

Education: Extinct. The Literacy Hour

By Max Kelly August 6, 2026

Fifteen minutes whole class. Fifteen at sentence level. Twenty in groups. Ten for the plenary. If those numbers mean something to you, you were trained on the clock too. Day four of Education: Extinct is the Literacy Hour - what it genuinely bought us, what it cost, and why I'd still call it extinct.

Human Edge Mini Series: Education Extinct

Education: Extinct. Learning Styles

By Max Kelly August 5, 2026

I've stood in a school hall with fifty colleagues, fingers pressed to my collarbone, switching my brain on. Nobody laughed. Day three of Education: Extinct is the one we all believed - learning styles, Brain Gym and the training days we sat through - and the verdict is my sharpest yet.

Human Edge Mini Series: Education Extinct

Education: Extinct. The Computer Trolley

By Max Kelly August 4, 2026

All this week I'm digging up the bits of school that have quietly gone extinct in a single working lifetime. Today I'm going back to being a boy in the classroom, to talk about the class computer.

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The Leadership Nobody Looks At

Education: Extinct. The Overhead Projector

The Leadership Nobody Looks At

Education: Extinct. The Overhead Projector

Education: Extinct. The Literacy Hour

Education: Extinct. Learning Styles

Education: Extinct. The Computer Trolley

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