Author Archives: roycross

1. We should probably all read This Is What Happens To Your Brain When You’re In Back-To-Back Meetings from HuffPost  https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/meetings-breaks-office-brain-study_l_638e4f82e4b06fdc9d907e03 2. Something a little different: The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance edited by Stephen Boucher, … Continue reading →

1. An engaging Library of Congress interview with Howard W. French about his book, ‘Born in Blackness’, At the Heart of Modernity: Africa and Africans https://youtu.be/cmm6i2eV0uc From the blurb: “What happens when you consider the origins of modernity and center … Continue reading →

1. What role for aid in countries with and without a development bargain? is the title of this ODI (Overseas Development Institute, I think, but it doesn’t use its full name anymore!) event with Stefan Dercon at 18:00 UK time … Continue reading →

A day later than usual: busier yesterday than I expected to be! 1. Advancing Learning: Fast-forward 2023 is Macmillan English’s ninety-minute distillation of the best thirty ideas from their last season of professional development events, split into 3 main segments: … Continue reading →

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. During the recent IATEFL conference in Harrogate, the IATEFL media team interviewed a number of delegates around key ELT topics, including sustainability, and noted that a large percentage of people struggled or were uncomfortable discussing sustainability … Continue reading →

1. The International Booker Prize has just been won for the first time by a Bulgarian writer, Georgi Gospodinov (whose name, I think, translates as ‘Gentleman George’) for his novel, ‘Time Shelter’, translated by Angela Rodel. Here’s The Guardian’s review … Continue reading →

1. This Thursday, 25th May, at 16:00 UK time, Diana Mazgutova & Judith Hanks from Leeds University present Examining L2 learners’ perceptions of their writing strategies on an intensive EAP course in the UK. More info and registration here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2023/may/examining-l2-learners-perceptions-their-writing-strategies-intensive-eap-course-uk … Continue reading →

Some serious reading for the weekend: 1. Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Twenty Years of TIMSS is an open access publication examining trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education … Continue reading →

1. This looks likely to be interesting: Teaching House present Jason Anderson & Bobby Dunnett at 19:00 UK time this Thursday, 18th May. Jason will help us prepare for the unpredictable in our lessons; Bobby will extol the virtues of … Continue reading →

1. Another just in time job, alas, this one! This year’s NATESOL Annual Conference – From theory to classroom practice and back again: What are we doing and why? – is this Saturday, 13th May, from 10:00 to 15:00 UK … Continue reading →