Weeknote 12+13/2026: We build castles with our baggage Week 12 began with illness.

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 12+13/2026: We build castles with our baggage open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 10+11/2026: Ozymandias (After Shelley) open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 8+9/2026: For God's Sake, Take The Stairs! open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 7/2026: What stays? open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 6/2026: The work of becoming unnecessary. Capacity ✅, resilience ✅. Now the freedom to ride off into the sunset?

As we're getting into that last term before the GCSE exam, I'm making our programming tasks simpler and reminding students about the programming revision booklet I made - it's aimed at OCR, but I'm sure you could tweak it for other boards. #TeamCompSci
www.advanced-ict.info/examples/Pyt...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 5/2026: Growing pains that need new pathways. Learning that some spaces you have to build yourself open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 4/2026: Spaces That Hold. Quiet work and long echoes open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 3/2026: Kinder, Clearer Information. Deciding what information earns its place open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent: Weeknote 2/2026 - Kinder, Clearer Systems. Leadership lessons from snow drifts, death cleaning, and deliberate networking csteach.substack.com/p/weeknote-2...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 1/2026: Good Riddance, But Now What? open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 51+52/2025: Making Space open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 49+50/2025: Exploring and applying Schwartz's Values Wheel open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 47+48/2025: My tribe open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

An illustrated teacher with red hair points at a chalkboard that says “Make a Test.” Below the text is a pencil icon. To the side, there’s a paper airplane and a stack of books with an apple on top. The background is bright blue.

Make a Test by Alice Keeler lets you turn a Google Doc into a Google Form quiz by pulling your questions straight from the doc and creating the form for you so test building feels much faster.

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#EduSky #GoogleEDU #GoogleWorkspace

Weeknote 45+46/2025: The stops worth making When work and weather derail your journey

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 45+46/2025: The stops worth making open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Really interesting to see @metoffice.gov.uk starting to quantify and boundary some of their forecast probabilities, and how they are showing that graphically for reports (www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...).

Love the depth of information, and the clarity of the explanation - really interesting!

Results could be emailed right now tbh

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 43+44/2025: A fortnight of wows open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Fully agree. It's like once you raise a call, you have to live in their basement.

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 41+42/2025: open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

And teachers. #NoScotlandNoParty #WorldCup2026

Caffeine Tangent: Stop gatekeeping, I'm just trying to read open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

I'm deep in the October break, we head back on Monday 27th! Enjoy your holiday when it comes! #TeamCompSci

If you dig back in this blog you will see that one way or another I have been blogging since the turn of the century. It's never without its challenges but for me it is a key part of open practice. It is a positive way of moving things forward. There was a sudden... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n3a

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 39+40/2025: I would have gotten away with it too open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 38/2025: The Mentorship Web open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 36+37/2025: Ethics in the age of algorithms open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 35/2025: The view from the coffee shop open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

While riding the B or Q trains between Dekalb Ave station and the Manhattan Bridge, you may catch a glimpse of "Masstransiscope," a public art installation by Bill Brand. It was added to the #NYCsubway system in 1980.