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The first ever picture book to make your school a better place
three sticky note doodles at a time.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the power of three pictures at a time. Which is exactly what former graphic designer turned teacher and leadership team member Ben Keeling has done.
As thought-provoking as it is simple, this book combines an expert knowledge of schools and learning, an enviable talent for graphic design and a keen sense of irony.
I’ve never seen an education book quite like it - an ingenious visual exploration of big themes presented with a light, but thought-provoking touch.”
Geoff Barton, Headteacher King Edward VI School, Suffolk
How can Ben Keeling write so little, but say so much? His approach of using three sticky notes for each section really draws you in and makes you think. Each time you look, you see more!”
Jane Hewitt, Consultant Editor, CTL magazine
In the delightfully stimulating My School Improvement Doodle Book, talented author, artist and teacher Ben Keeling offers us a great way to read, think and reflect creatively! It is refreshing to see such an engaging approach to thinking about school development.”
Sharon Ginnis, Teacher, independent trainer and consultant
three sticky note doodles at a time.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the power of three pictures at a time. Which is exactly what former graphic designer turned teacher and leadership team member Ben Keeling has done.
As thought-provoking as it is simple, this book combines an expert knowledge of schools and learning, an enviable talent for graphic design and a keen sense of irony.
I’ve never seen an education book quite like it - an ingenious visual exploration of big themes presented with a light, but thought-provoking touch.”
Geoff Barton, Headteacher King Edward VI School, Suffolk
How can Ben Keeling write so little, but say so much? His approach of using three sticky notes for each section really draws you in and makes you think. Each time you look, you see more!”
Jane Hewitt, Consultant Editor, CTL magazine
In the delightfully stimulating My School Improvement Doodle Book, talented author, artist and teacher Ben Keeling offers us a great way to read, think and reflect creatively! It is refreshing to see such an engaging approach to thinking about school development.”
Sharon Ginnis, Teacher, independent trainer and consultant
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Foreword:
When is a school improvement book not a school improvement book? Or, to put it another way, can a school improvement book that doesn’t tell you how to improve your school, that doesn’t give you any tips and ideas or fail-safe systems, that doesn’t offer quotes and insights from top school improvement gurus, that doesn’t even have any sentences in it, not really, can a book like that call itself a school improvement book at all?
Well, to be honest, that rather depends on you.
When Ben Keeling, working in a school in Indonesia, started putting together these three Post-it™ notes in a row’ little works of art, he did it as his way of getting to grips with some of the keys issues in education that were vexing him. Issues like what is the purpose of school? Are grades enough? Is the world of education changing as fast as the world outside education? What will happen if it doesn’t?
Rather than doing what so many people would do, are positively encouraged to do, and reach for the latest school improvement best-seller or go on a course or a year-long programme, he sat down and used his not inconsiderable talent as
an artist to kick start his own thinking about the issues. It was his way of reflecting on, thinking deeply about, coming to terms with, the very nature of education. And it helped him become a better teacher and a better colleague.
What it boils down to is that when things are changing fast, as they are in the world of education, today’s great answers are tomorrow’s passing fads. It’s not that the questions keep changing, far from it. How do we design a school system that gets the best out of the children in it?’ is the same question for us today as it was for the Ancient Greeks. It’s that the answers to those questions are constantly evolving - evolving to reflect the nature of what we
know about learning, what we know about leadership, what the world beyond school is like, what children are like, what classrooms are or could be or, better yet, should be like. But if you look for the answers from someone else you may never find the answer that your exact situation needs.
Independent Thinking, though, is about independent thinking. What we have tried to do over the years is (along with plenty of little tips and techniques that simply work when you use them in the classroom and that prove you can trust us) to encourage teachers and school leaders to think for themselves. To look for a system is to look for a way to not think for yourself. A system is fixed. Apart from the timetable and the calendar, nothing in school ever is. Applying a system in a school setting is like trying to do a jigsaw made of water. The in (which is more than just having children pass exams). What there is, is the professional application of possible answers to big questions that need constantly appraising as part of your journey. And that involves thinking long, hard, collaboratively and creatively about the questions.
Which is where this book comes in.
How you use this book is up to you. You can keep it in your desk for a quiet moment. You can put it by your bed or even by the loo. You can leave it lying around the staffroom. You can use all of it or just bits of it for staff meetings, leadership team away-days or full school INSET sessions. What counts is that you use it as a stimulus to your own thinking. After all, you are the expert; you know the school, you know the staff, you know the parents and, importantly, you know the children. Somewhere in the gap between your brain and the long-term success of each child there is the right path, the one where
you have come up with the right answers. This book will help you think your way between those two points. Even if it’s not really a book.
Ian Gilbert
Craig-Cefn-Parc
July 2012
Ben Keeling: A qualified but disillusioned graphic designer, Ben finally found true satisfaction in the classroom. Ben is a Key Stage Leader (Assistant Head) and says he is not an educationalist –just a human being (and a learner) who thinks we should all be trying to do things more effectively!
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Excerpt from My School Improvement Doodle Book
Foreword:
When is a school improvement book not a school improvement book? Or, to put it another way, can a school improvement book that doesn’t tell you how to improve your school, that doesn’t give you any tips and ideas or fail-safe systems, that doesn’t offer quotes and insights from top school improvement gurus, that doesn’t even have any sentences in it, not really, can a book like that call itself a school improvement book at all?
Well, to be honest, that rather depends on you.
When Ben Keeling, working in a school in Indonesia, started putting together these three Post-it™ notes in a row’ little works of art, he did it as his way of getting to grips with some of the keys issues in education that were vexing him. Issues like what is the purpose of school? Are grades enough? Is the world of education changing as fast as the world outside education? What will happen if it doesn’t?
Rather than doing what so many people would do, are positively encouraged to do, and reach for the latest school improvement best-seller or go on a course or a year-long programme, he sat down and used his not inconsiderable talent as
an artist to kick start his own thinking about the issues. It was his way of reflecting on, thinking deeply about, coming to terms with, the very nature of education. And it helped him become a better teacher and a better colleague.
What it boils down to is that when things are changing fast, as they are in the world of education, today’s great answers are tomorrow’s passing fads. It’s not that the questions keep changing, far from it. How do we design a school system that gets the best out of the children in it?’ is the same question for us today as it was for the Ancient Greeks. It’s that the answers to those questions are constantly evolving - evolving to reflect the nature of what we
know about learning, what we know about leadership, what the world beyond school is like, what children are like, what classrooms are or could be or, better yet, should be like. But if you look for the answers from someone else you may never find the answer that your exact situation needs.
Independent Thinking, though, is about independent thinking. What we have tried to do over the years is (along with plenty of little tips and techniques that simply work when you use them in the classroom and that prove you can trust us) to encourage teachers and school leaders to think for themselves. To look for a system is to look for a way to not think for yourself. A system is fixed. Apart from the timetable and the calendar, nothing in school ever is. Applying a system in a school setting is like trying to do a jigsaw made of water. The in (which is more than just having children pass exams). What there is, is the professional application of possible answers to big questions that need constantly appraising as part of your journey. And that involves thinking long, hard, collaboratively and creatively about the questions.
Which is where this book comes in.
How you use this book is up to you. You can keep it in your desk for a quiet moment. You can put it by your bed or even by the loo. You can leave it lying around the staffroom. You can use all of it or just bits of it for staff meetings, leadership team away-days or full school INSET sessions. What counts is that you use it as a stimulus to your own thinking. After all, you are the expert; you know the school, you know the staff, you know the parents and, importantly, you know the children. Somewhere in the gap between your brain and the long-term success of each child there is the right path, the one where
you have come up with the right answers. This book will help you think your way between those two points. Even if it’s not really a book.
Ian Gilbert
Craig-Cefn-Parc
July 2012
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