Allo Darlin’s Bits and Pieces LP cover
First time I’ve had time to queue for #RecordStoreDay… 90 minutes later, I came out with this indie pop gem from Jumbo Records in Leeds.
Anyone else queuing today?
Beegu is a banger!
Alternatively, #FridayFive Favourites
1. The Last Time I Saw Richard. Joni.
2. The Big Sky. Kate.
3. Gigantic. Pixies.
4. When Doves Cry. Prince.
5. Bright Side of the Road. Van Morrison.
Still trying to not think about it.
#FridayFive Favourites
1. Into Dust (Still Falling). Four Tet.
2. Jupitus Pluvious. Me Rex.
3. Sex, Drugs & Existential Dread. Chloe Quisha.
4. Lights Burn Dimmer. Fred Again…
5. Hymn. Charlotte De Witte.
One year on — 365 daily folly postings! #HowardMonument #CastleHoward #NorthYorkshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
Special school Ofsted inspection report cards will no longer compare their cohorts to national mainstream averages after complaints from heads
schoolsweek.co.uk/special-school-ofsted-re...
And I should say that one reason I absolutely loved AM’s early stuff is because their name is so terrible (I’m guessing it was a riff on The Stone Roses, but in an embarrassingly lame way) - I couldn’t bring myself to talk to anyone about them for months whilst I got increasingly obsessed with them…
I drove from London to Manchester and back to see AM the Sunday before they released Dancefloor (and taught my class the next day) 😎 And, no, nothing has come close to their debut.
Stereophonics weren’t on my radar in The Days Before Streaming - really must give their catalogue a listen 🤔
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - WPSIA, TWIN
As I now know - My Friday Five this week has a couple of very long album titles, so I had to abbreviate something 😳
WPSIA, TWIN is a star witness in the tremendous ‘Artists Have either one great album or a career’s worth of the same pretty good thing in them’ pub conversation gambit 😎
#FridayFive Album opening tracks
1. At The Bottom of Everything. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. Bright Eyes.
2. All I Want. Blue. Joni Mitchell.
3. Moving. The Kick Inside. Kate Bush.
4. Around The World In a Day. Prince & the Revolution
5. The View from the Afternoon. WPSIA,TWIN. Arctic Monkeys.
Lump in the throat EVERY TIME
Number 1 is an absolute belter 😎
And for a bonus track to which you can dance yourself dizzy all the way back to the Tyne, Dance To Your Daddy by Nancy Kerr & James Fagan.
#FridayFive has an accent
1. Seventeen Going Under. Sam Fender.
2. Decent Days and Nights. The Futureheads.
3. The Night I Lost My Head. Maximo Park.
4. What Have We Got? Sting & Jimmy Nail.
5. The Testimony of Patience Kershaw. The Unthanks.
🚨NEW PODCAST🚨
SEND reforms are on the way, but are they the right reforms?
@samfr.bsky.social and @mrjlauder.bsky.social join me to discuss the Government's proposals for changing how children and young people with special needs are supported.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
In my latest podcast, @missmc.bsky.social said the Schools White Paper would have been better off replacing many of its 'one line policies' with more substantive plans for change.
Listen to the full episode here: insideyoured.com
As ‘Low Expectations’ are in the air again, here’s a polemic I wrote about origins of ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations’ soundbite a decade ago.
Whilst some things have changed, I’d still argue that ‘low expectations’ is unhelpful sleight of hand…
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Here's @profkime.bsky.social doing so many jazz hands that he's entering some sort of dimensional shift 👐 #rEDScand26 #rEDScan26 #rEDHan
And here are the slides from my presentation, including the error on page 9 - Primary progress (Student Growth) is a change between Y2 and Y6 (soon to be YR-Y6) 😎
www.databustingforschools.co.uk/uploads/3/3/...
And here are the slides from my presentation, including the error on page 9 - Primary progress (Student Growth) is a change between Y2 and Y6 (soon to be YR-Y6) 😎
www.databustingforschools.co.uk/uploads/3/3/...
Photo of a stage with a PowerPoint slide being shown (colours because of camera/projector refresh rates).
What makes a great teacher?
"One who is willing to do what it takes to be demonstrably more effective next year than this"
#RedScan26 #RedScand26 #RedHan
This year there is far less AI. A couple of years of peak and now educators have tried it, taken what works and moved on?
#RedScan26 #RedScand26 #RedHan
Final count down to #rEDScan tomorrow
#researchED
Livestreams, session details and more available here:
www.haninge.se/researched/
Sign reading ‘Stockholm Starts Here’
Looking forward to discussing England's Lessons in Student Data from the last decade at #rEDScan this Saturday! #Haninge
#researchED
The program for researchED Scandinavia in #Haninge is now live 🎉 #rEDScan March 14! Pi-day!
Check it out
researched.org.uk/event/resear...
Looking forward to presenting in Sweden on 14th March for researchED Scandinavia. My session will be on driving school improvement where I’ll also be sharing some research from my upcoming book ‘The Attention Blueprint’. I’ll be in room 2324 session one. www.miriamhussain.education
I've been appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences - which is quite cool given I'm not a social scientist. Hoping for physics next.
acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
Just shows how much contempt Reform has for their own supporters. This is a policy that helps the kids of the wealthy educated liberal elites they claim to despise. And would harm the types of constituency they do well in.
We're really excited to announce that @insighthq.bsky.social @jpembroke.bsky.social @richardselfridge.bsky.social will be running their 'Databusting Surrey with the Educakers' event with us in June.
Have a look at the link below for more information.
We'd love to meet so many of you in person!
