I’d be really interested in reading this evidence.

Honestly it was so lovely to be running in sunshine. It’s going to be a lot worse when I move to Phnom Penh in the summer!

Demand, Diversity and the Canon If we want to broaden what schools teach, the case must be made on significance, not symbolism

The curriculum is not a mirror. It’s a selection.
If we replaced An Inspector Calls, the case for doing so shouldn’t be representational optics but literary & curricular merit. Still, it’s striking how many plausible alternatives exist. What stops us is expedience.
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Finished Newport marathon in 3 hours 38 mins and 44 seconds.
Legs an absolute mess.

Fair enough. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason you can’t order this stuff online.

Oasis don’t make me sing.

I’d rather listen to Agadoo. (And I really don’t want to ever have to do that again)

Read this thread twice. I have no idea what @stulock.bsky.social’s retail experience is here. I just can’t get my head around what’s going on. Would Cathie be able to explain it to me? (I suspect not)

I remember them all as godawful

Coffee, fine but defacating should wait.

Five principles of effective scaffolding If support is not temporary, responsive and designed to disappear, it's probably not effecive scaffolding

Scaffolding is not a synonym for support.
It should be temporary, responsive, and designed to disappear.
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Five principles of effective scaffolding If support is not temporary, responsive and designed to disappear, it's probably not effecive scaffolding

Scaffolding is not a synonym for support.
It should be temporary, responsive, and designed to disappear.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

I won't make it on my own, no one likes to be alone Chapter 56 of The Second Summer of Love

Chapter 56 of The Second Summer of Love
Fiona’s back open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

I’m not here for them

Easy Things Are Easy; Hard Things Are Hard On teacher charisma, classroom calm and the difficulty of building the habits of hard work

It’s easy to excite a roomful of kids. It’s much harder to build calm, order and the habit of hard work. Too often, schools mistake visible engagement for learning.
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You're such a hot temptation, you just walk right in Chapter 55 of The Second Summer of Love

A new chapter of The Second Summer of Love has just landed.
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Five principles of effective modelling Why exemplars so often fail, and how to make modelling genuinely instructive

NEW Five principles of effective modelling
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Good modelling is harder than it looks. It requires restraint, careful selection, and that teachers to think not only about what they want students to produce, but about what they want them to notice, compare and understand.

You’re welcome

Great read and an excellent evaluation of the strengths and pitfalls of modelling. Thanks @didau.bsky.social

Five principles of effective modelling Why exemplars so often fail, and how to make modelling genuinely instructive

NEW Five principles of effective modelling
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NEW chapter of The Second Summer of Love open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

NEW chapter of The Second Summer of Love open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Does checking for attention help students learn? Spoiler: yes. Yes it does.

Listening, attending, holding, and repeating are already forms of mental action. Students cannot infer or predict about an explanation they have not followed. Checking for attention is not the enemy of thought. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Does checking for attention help students learn? Spoiler: yes. Yes it does.

@cmooreanderson.bsky.social here you go open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Have you seen her, have you heard the way she plays? Chapter 53 of The Second Summer of Love

Chapter 53 of The Second Summer of Love open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Have you seen her, have you heard the way she plays? Chapter 53 of The Second Summer of Love

Chapter 53 of The Second Summer of Love open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Thanks

Brilliant analysis of the problems facing curriculum designers. Not seen a better ‘decomposition’ of the issue. Or a better use of the word ‘decompose’.

Yes, of course. But you still need to mo the process of finding *a* right answer