Wise words.

‘Gattaca’, anyone?

A Recipe for Meaningful Feedback: Review and Respond At the end of the school day, you’re faced with a daunting pile of English books—each needing thorough marking: spellings corrected, numbers in margins, feedback on improvements, and a comment on what...

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Thanks to @andrewpercivaled.bsky.social & @theeef.bsky.social who inspired this approach at our school and to @katejonesteach.bsky.social for continuing to make us think about effective feedback.

NEW ‘Power and Conflict - The Interpretations’ revision booklet. I always get students to consider 3 interpretations of each poem & ask them to consider which they agree with the most. Great springboard for debate/new ideas. I’ve collated these into a booklet here 👇🏻

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What is happening with writing? Writing problems, and solutions, can too often go undetected in schools. Unlike reading, there are relatively few specific writing assessments to detect issues that schools can use, so it is hard to f...

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'What is happening with writing?'

"Schools are trying to support struggling writers with ‘build-your-own’ approaches & interventions. Writing lacks good diagnostic assessment as well as interventions to address problems that emerge..."

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Have just added the ‘Macbeth’ cycle to this revision folder. As always, use/chuck/change as you see fit! 👉🏻 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...

Shakespeare sonnet from 17th century found by Oxford researcher Dr Leah Veronese uncovers the version of Sonnet 116 tucked away in a poetry collection in Oxford.

Goodness. This is endlessly fascinating #Shakespeare
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A few years back I started a small distribution list for people interested in Teaching and Learning updates. It's now over 2000 people so I've moved it somewhere more substantial - if you're interested please sign up here! Retweets appreciated 🙏🙏

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Six statements for discussion on An Inspector Calls that cover aspects of the play that students typically struggle with or form misconceptions about www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/stateme... 🔍

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Here are some revision lessons on language and literature I’ve made for the 2025 run up to exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! Help yourselves 👍🏻

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GCSE English Language: updates to our assessments for summer 2026 Announcing changes to increase exam paper and mark scheme clarity for GCSE English Language.

Updates to 2026 AQA English Language exam:

‘The changes will affect current Year 10 students taking exams in summer 2026 and onwards. Current Year 11 and those students resitting exams in November 2025 will not see any changes to the exam papers.’

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There are some brilliant things people are doing and sharing on social media, but it can sometimes lead to feelings of inadequacy. Don't let it. If you're turning up at school doing the business in the classroom you're having the biggest impact. Remember this.

One of the problems I have with ’D.E.A.R’, as it is currently implemented in some schools.

Centralised Resources: Less Time Planning, More Time Teaching Centralising educational resources enhances teaching effectiveness by providing a consistent repository of materials. This approach fosters collaboration, allows for flexibility, and ensures all st…

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Too much time is wasted on the what in education rather than the how.

Centralising your department's resources frees up time for teachers to focus on what truly matters!

This is why we centralise our resources and why you should too 👇
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Superb advice from Adam Boxer, as usual! - ‘We need to tell people what that means, what it looks like, and how you actually do it.’

Is an MA in Educational Leadership worth doing? I have an MA in English Literature already. I want to do something, but also conscious of how much it will cost!

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Yes, exactly this. I’ve seen first hand how those who are not in promoted posts by a certain (early!) stage in their career, are assumed to be lacking somehow, and are consequently looked down upon by leaders who are often much less experienced or skilled.

Teaching is one of the few professions where it can feel like experience counts for nothing, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. Why is that?

I absolutely agree, and I don’t understand why this is happening.

Great classroom teachers are absolute gold dust. They are the lifeblood of schools. Why aren’t they celebrated as such? What is the incentive for great teachers to stay in the classroom? As we struggle to recruit, I really can’t understand why good teachers aren’t valued as the gems they are.

This apocalyptic poem by Byron is wonderful!

A poem that lingers in you.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/...

It doesn’t work, in my experience. Around half the class will take part, which is lovely, but the rest will sit with an unopened book in front of them staring out of the window/doodling/pulling faces at each other. Not the way to inspire a love of reading - the opposite. Let’s read to them instead.

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I remember the bad old days of teachers performing for Ofsted to get a grade ‘1’, and the fallout that followed for those who did not. This fantastic thread examines the problems inherent in such a system.

Thanks! Very tempted 😊

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