Finding my Voice Well hello there, and welcome to update #084!

Our young people are human beings first and learners second

There can be a tendency to focus on the second at the expense of the first

When the intellectual trumps the emotional

More below on the exciting programme with @creativehigg.bsky.social & others

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I made a starter pack for those fleeing #EduTwitter and joining #EduSky which should let you find a bunch of good people.

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Name’s Dan, Secondary Assistant Headteacher at an all-boys school in NW, looking at ways to address barriers to learning. Hi 👋

Misconceptions I think we've fallen into across England:

1. There is a thing called "subject knowledge" and you can apply "curriculum expertise" to it.
2. There is a thing called "subject knowledge" and you can then apply "evidence-based pedagogy" to it.

These are both forms of genericism.

How useful are generic educational ideas? The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre once made a helpful distinction between a ‘practice’ and an ‘institution’. For MacIntyre, a practice is a social activity that contains its own standards of excellen...

We’ve a tendency to think that the most significant improvements in a school come from whole-school strategies, but (apart from behaviour) I think most improvement is led at the subject level. This is why.

clioetcetera.com/2020/03/09/h...

Hello @bsky.app, I’ve made the switch from X. 🙌🏼