Turn your alarm off! X

I love that bbc2 has some good tunes on for the old codgers!

Happy half term - drink - bed!

What are the quickest wins in improving teaching? With Craig Barton

NEW EPISODE

This week, we are joined by the OG and GOAT of education podcasting 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁CRAIG BARTON!!

Craig knows so much about great teaching, it was a privilege to interview him:

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Last year, we ran a pioneering AI-enhanced dynamic assessment of writing. Year 6 students wrote a story, received feedback, and redrafted it.

We're running the project again this year and improving the feedback.

The deadline for signing up is 20 Feb.

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The best bit about traitors is we now know we have no clue who it is - deft move and one I wanted! @traitors

If you don't follow heritage schools on eventbrite, I really would...

You then receive notifications about their brilliant webinars.

Teachers say children do not know what a sentence is. This worries everyone. Possibly too much. Worrying is a hobby.

If children did not know what a sentence was, you would never get an answer. Or an argument. Or a complaint. You get all three daily.

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'Pedagogy' Who? Uncover the meaning of pedagogy and how historical contexts shape our current teaching practices and beliefs.

🚀 NEW BLOG

'Pedagogy' Who? 🤔

🗣️ “Every teacher should understand the word they use daily. Pedagogy is not just practice—it’s a historical lens on power, knowledge, and how we shape the minds in front of us.

@missmc.bsky.social do you have information on primary non-contact time from different countries? And have you ever posed the question about more pay rises v more non-contact time??

Yearly reminder, it’s Sunday! Turn your alarm off!

Here’s nearly here x

DfE ’notes’ calls for reasonable force training standards The DfE has issued new guidance on the use reasonable force in schools, but has not committed to creating national training standards despite 'strong calls'

ICYMI: The government has released final new guidance on the use reasonable force in schools, but has not committed to creating national training standards despite 'strong calls' for it

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Coming soon... A *fascinating* conversation with Jon Hutchinson and Lisa O'Loughlin about the CAR - what changed, what didn’t – and why...

What criteria for implementing the curriculum? Well hello there, and welcome to update #148!

I don’t think as much attention has been paid to implementing the curriculum as it has to the pedagogy to teach it.

It’s a bit like going into a restaurant where all the effort has gone in to making it look amazing...

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‘This isn’t my real writing’: The fate of children’s agency in narrow writing schemes Original article: LINK By Anne Haas Dyson In her research paper, Anne Hass Dyson discusses a young boy named Ta’Von, who loves writing about blues guitarists. He spent a long time working on …

‘This isn’t my real writing’: The fate of children’s agency in narrow writing schemes

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Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas for your classroom - Headteacher Update The new oracy framework will help teachers to improve discussions in their classrooms – here are some practical ideas

To mark the launch of the Implementing Oracy programme, Neil Mercer, @topsypage.bsky.social & @rethinkingjames.bsky.social from Oracy Cambridge discuss how we can engage students in productive classroom discussion – with 4 practical & concrete ideas: buff.ly/xMOf2VP #teaching #teachers #schools

Who’d of thought…play and relationships have a great impact on children!

More independent play yields happier, more socially competent children, according to an ever-expanding body of research.
#play #relationships

Book is on order - looking forward to reading it.

💻 Webinar: Beyond Inclusion: Embedding Belonging in Everyday Classroom Practice

Join Stuart Kime and guest speaker Dr Jamaal Matthews sharing insights from Jamaal's work on Belonging-Centered Instruction.

🗓️ 28th January
🕔 16:00 GMT

Register here: buff.ly/hcctvev

#EduSky #UKEd

Possibly the best book - I’ve not even finished it yet. Recommended by our lovely school reading lead Annabel Saladino. #reading

The Governors’ Gateway has launched!

We’re delight to share a new learning platform built for the realities of school governance.

It’s the brainchild of @catherinepriggs.bsky.social and we know it will be so helpful for governors.

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Reading aloud as intellectual inclusion Well hello there, and welcome to update #167!

Reading aloud is a high-leverage practice that has the capacity to support complex thinking and to provide access to disciplinary knowledge.

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Looking to do a road trip to visit some schools - not too far from southwest but definitely out of county. Focusing on early writing and writing in general.

All snuggled up - spent the night writing Christmas cards for our team with her at my feet. Puuurfect. #schoolteam

Yay! It is Kate. Love her. Next year! We are really looking forward to it. We’ve been using your book for 3 years now!

I’m all for calm leadership - sometimes it takes time to lean into it. But when you do, it also takes time for others to follow too! Guess you have to model it. Value led, step by step.

Calm Leadership Staying grounded, staying in control and staying the course

Writing about the importance of "honesty, integrity and humility. These three traits, when aligned to a compelling and worthy purpose, will allow you to lead calmly" @calmleadership.bsky.social : www.crownhouse.co.uk/calm-leaders... @crownhousepub.bsky.social

Or on the toilet surely!

So I'm absolutely delighted to have teamed up with Hywel to create a new professional learning programme called 'Implementing Botheredness'.

It combines Hywel’s work around the pedagogy of botheredness with the practical tools of implementation and improvement science.