œThe most success I™ve had in schools is by renaming things. Asking children to name the state they™re in allows them to take control of their learning. Bored, curious, excited, nervous are names given to the moods at the start of a lesson. The mood, invariably persistent, then predicts the direction of the lesson as reliably as the flow of flood waters.

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David is the author of a number of books to help teachers and students thrive in the classroom and beyond, including The Brainbox and The Little Book of Inspirational Teaching Activities: Bringing NLP into the Classroom. See his full collection here.