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Shorter notes and works-in-progress from the studio — ideas, sketches and lessons that don't need a full case study.

Latest10 Jul 2026

Designing a learning system is one job. Getting a room full of colleagues to run it as designed is a completely different one.

19 Jun 2026

Alongside every formal scheme of work there's a scruffier document that nobody else reads. Here's what it's actually for.

4 Jun 2026

I stopped treating the first delivery of a new unit as the finished thing. It's a prototype, and naming it that changed how I run it.

14 May 2026

Notes on why I always start curriculum design at the exam paper, not the first lesson — and what happens when I forget to.

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