KATE MARKLAND | THE JOURNAL
The Answers Are in the White Space.
Reflections on imagination, trust and the power of being heard, at eight or at eighty.
Thoughts and Evidence
Boys' Literacy Crisis: 7 Mistakes Schools Make
Boys are behind girls in reading by age 15. Two thirds of the bottom 10% are boys. The seven systemic mistakes schools make when trying to close the gap.
What Happens When We Stop Trying to Fix Boys
465 children across nine schools. The question is not why won't boys write. The question is why we demand compliance instead of inviting creation.
What Happened When Year 5 Became Authors for a Day at Beckfoot Allerton Primary
Year 5 children at Beckfoot Allerton Primary Bradford become authors for a day. What they produced and what they said about it.
What Jane Austen's Terrible Spelling Taught Me About Teaching Children to Write
ane Austen couldn't spell. What that tells us about what we are doing to children when we correct before they have finished creating.
BOOK KATE TO SPEAK
Build a world together, and trust follows.
Your people are being asked to trust each other across distance, across generations and through constant change. Most have never been shown how.
Kate Markland has. For a time she had one hour a week with her son Gabriel, on a FaceTime call. They spent it building a world. She asked one question, wrote down everything he said and corrected nothing. That world became three books and a method tested in nine UK schools.
In her keynote, Create the World You Want, Kate shows your audience how trust is really built, and gives them a method they can use the same evening.
For leadership, education and family audiences.
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
