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Teaching creative writing is hard, but here’s how you can embrace the imaginative and weird ideas students come up with

‘My literacy muscles had never been exercised so keenly,’ recalls English teacher Alan Gillespie of his time as a call centre worker

Helping pupils to hone their debating skills may be hard work, but the benefits speak for themselves, says Alan Gillespie

Every teacher should keep wellies and a raincoat handy so that they can free pupils from the ‘tyranny’ of social media, says Alan Gillespie

Missing school may not be the best way to make a sustained difference in the fight against the climate crisis, says Alan Gillespie

‘It’s disheartening to see screeds of students plumping for topics that appear to neither interest nor engage them‘