A joy to see this. Feedback from pupils and parents shows #ChangingHistoriesKS3 is changing the game for KS3 history Rich story, deep scholarly connections, rigorous enquiry questions and enquiry journeys all need to be embedded and integrated, not bolted on as extra texts.

You can read my article on using AI in the history classroom. www.history.org.uk/publications... @counsellc.bsky.social @andywalker1965.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social‬ @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social @edpodesta.bsky.social @apf102.bsky.social @hollyhiscox.bsky.social @historywo.bsky.social

Teachers of American history, @johnsimkin1945.bsky.social has pulled together a rather nifty and very interesting history of US tariffs across the 20th century.

Working on creating lessons based on the super new book Connected Worlds c 1000 -c1600 by @counsellc.bsky.social et al. Lessons Intended for equiv yr 8, French students so this might work for EAL. Possibly too ambitious as I have not taught these students before so no idea of their level but 💪

I am education podcasting my way around the gravel roads of #Hokkaido. First up, I enjoyed the final They Behave For Me of the year with @counsellc.bsky.social talking about her classic blog on genericism. I welcome these dips into the classic blogs of the past having missed them 1st time around.

open.spotify.com/episode/4UZr... Really good episode with excellent food for thought for any senior leader trying to embed consistency in T&L across a sch alongside maintaining subject rigour and validity. @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @amymayforrester.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social 🍎🎓📚

Listening to this pca.st/episode/5203... It's very good breakdown of all sorts of aspects of education changes over the last 10 years and @counsellc.bsky.social has a great sense of what went well and what mutated to more of the same.

Why did edu-legend @counsellc.bsky.social write Genericism's Children? Why is she worried about genericism, and why does she care so much about the dignity of individual subjects? All this and more, in a stonkingly good episode! open.spotify.com/episode/4UZr...

This short thread by Cat Priggs made me think: History planning is about tying things together into a shape, a flow – usually a story & often a parallel flow of the analytic direction created by the EQ. It isn't about breaking things up into propositions and it's rarely about teaching a procedure.

How does an enquiry question sustain interest, build momentum and give all pupils access to disciplinary thinking across a lesson sequence? How does the EQ help you to integrate compelling stories and rich, extended text? Register bit.ly/4nrA8Mv for Cat and Elizabeth's webinar on Tues 8 July 3.30pm

As I said in my lecture on Weds eve, receiving the Medlicott medal for services to history has been deeply special for me, not least because it allows me to celebrate and promote the importance of subject communities. We would be nowhere without @histassoc.bsky.social. Thank you HA. You're the best.

Last night I was honoured to receive an Honorary Fellowship from the @histassoc.bsky.social It’s hard to put into words what this means. It is more than an association to me; it’s a community that has supported, sustained and nurtured me at so many points in my career.

Brilliant to see Hachette Learning authors @catherinepriggs.bsky.social @davidjhibbert.bsky.social @michaeldoron.bsky.social and @lambhearttea.bsky.social receive their HA honorary fellowships. Huge congrats to #ChangingHistoriesKS3 series ed @counsellc.bsky.social on her Medlicott Medal too!

How does an enquiry question sustain interest, build momentum and give all pupils access to disciplinary thinking across a lesson sequence? How does the EQ help you to integrate compelling stories and rich, extended text? Register bit.ly/4nrA8Mv for Cat and Elizabeth's webinar on Tues 8 July 3.30pm

Looking for FREE CPD that can make a real difference to your KS3 history teaching? Look no further. The heat wave of our awesome Changing Histories webinar series continues. First @counsellc.bsky.social, then @paulalobo.bsky.social followed by @hughrichards.bsky.social and now Cat and Elizabeth 🌡️ ☀️

Genuinely been looking forward to this arriving - and just in time for planning next year. It looks just as fabulous as book 1! @counsellc.bsky.social #HomeEd #History

And here it is. Finally. Surrounded by some of the scholarship that shaped it. It’s beautiful and such fun to teach - it has given my Year 8 class stories to live inside. A parent messaged me to say history has ‘never been so fun!’ - all I did was tell the class stories from this book.

*Of course* school prepares children for their futures, but not by being a mini workplace. It’s by giving them a breadth of foundational knowledge and experience across the big, enduring disciplines and human pursuits. The kinds of things they won’t get chance to learn about or experience at work.

Big HA congratulations to Dr Christine Counsell on her OBE for services to education! 👏 She’s also receiving our 2025 Medlicott Medal for outstanding service to history. A year of well-earned recognition! Got a fave Christine moment? Tell us! #OBE #MedlicottMedal #HistoryEd

Delighted to see @counsellc.bsky.social recognised with an OBE. Where would we be without her wisdom on history, curriculum, assessment? She has profoundly shaped me as a history teacher and curriculum leader. schoolsweek.co.uk/kings-birthd...

Some amazing people honoured in education and I am particularly thrilled that it includes @counsellc.bsky.social. She’s brought so much wisdom and sharpness of thought to the sector. I’ve been so lucky to work with her and the impact she has had for me personally has been profound.

Couldn't have hoped for better company than these guys to celebrate PUBLICATION DAY! of our Year 8 #ChangingHistoriesKS3 And mega thanks to YOU, Will. Only the finest publisher could understand what it takes to define a new gold standard in textbooks & to support my brilliant team for 4 long years 👏

Congratulations @counsellc.bsky.social! Delighted to see your name here! schoolsweek.co.uk/kings-birthd...

An absolute pleasure. What a complete joy to work on this! Really enjoying supporting schools who are embracing Changing Histories and seeing a much richer, coherent, beautifully constructed curriculum as a result.

Couldn't have hoped for better company than these guys to celebrate PUBLICATION DAY! of our Year 8 #ChangingHistoriesKS3 And mega thanks to YOU, Will. Only the finest publisher could understand what it takes to define a new gold standard in textbooks & to support my brilliant team for 4 long years 👏

Children can read a LOT, and devour text greedily. In #OpeningWorlds by Y6, pupils read c1000 words each lesson in history, geography & RE. How do we do this? Intentional sequencing: every single tricky word not in bold – scour, meandered, gesture... – has been taught thoroughly before in Y3, 4 or 5

The ELP 2025-26 is now open for enrolment! Now in Year 6 and with our usual line up of amazing tutors like @counsellc.bsky.social & many more. For more information or to sign up..... knowledgehub.org.uk/elp

Reading should be a pleasure in each subject. So build it in, don't bolt it on. Let the scholarship used to design the lessons ooze through, in its cadences, rhythms & latent questions. And climb in thro well-crafted text: don't introduce knowledge as tidy, generalised facts. Publication in June...

This is going to be incredible! Please do come along or share with your networks friends @edfinch.bsky.social @marymyatt.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social

A few years ago, I met the incredibly talented Dr Rebecca Struthers - the UK's only watchmaker with a PhD in horology. We immediately hit it off and became friends... and then wrote this book together. Out in August, available to preorder now! geni.us/AboutTimeDK

Meanwhile, in the Dutch Republic... How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people. An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8 Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster

Children can read a LOT, and devour text greedily. In #OpeningWorlds by Y6, pupils read c1000 words each lesson in history, geography & RE. How do we do this? Intentional sequencing: every single tricky word not in bold – scour, meandered, gesture... – has been taught thoroughly before in Y3, 4 or 5

If you want to know how to transform the hero of this powerful story www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... into a brilliant sequence of lessons then come along to @1972shp.bsky.social summer conference and hear Andrew Wrenn share his inspiring work for KS2/3 store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

Meanwhile, in the Dutch Republic... How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people. An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8 Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster

If this arrives by my birthday (1 June) I will be happiest history person alive. And those of you trying to get reading into KS3, here's your Y8 answer. Stories, sources, scholarship all built in, not bolted on. Disciplinary journeys integrated by rich narrative. Magical planning by a fab team. ❤️

If you've been following @apf102.bsky.social's insightful reviews of A Practical Guide to Teaching History, then you'll know what a fantastic book it is. So win yourself a copy by getting your ticket for the @1972shp.bsky.social's summer conference from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

Makes me v happy when peop are not only kind enough to share this labour of love of 4 yrs (thank you Katie ❤️) but brilliantly sum up what we strove for: tight disciplinary focus (no dud EQs), rich engaging stories. If you want extended reading integrated into KS3, check out #ChangingHistoriesKS3

Finished this today. We’ve been reading and discussing as part of our morning time all year and it’s been brilliant - engaging, disciplinary, well structured storytelling. Book 2 is on order :) #HomeEd #History @counsellc.bsky.social

Session from @counsellc.bsky.social was predictably excellent - engaging and challenging us all to do better. Appreciated the reference to the research and evidence base to explain what makes an effective enquiry question #HAConf25

This is a career highlight. My Y8 class made me this Martin Luther frame for my birthday after saying ‘your face lights up whenever you mention him!’. Just shows your the power of the stories in @counsellc.bsky.social ‘s Connected Worlds series!

Thrilled to be receivin first copies a real team effort by so many great history teachers and educators @victoriacrooks.bsky.social @lauralondo1017.bsky.social @paulalobo.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social @mrmayhew.bsky.social @michaelfordham.bsky.social Dedicated to the great Helen Snelson

These books are just stunning. Every page is beautifully laid out and illustrated

These look brilliant. Can’t wait to see them - well done @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social and the fantastic author team. Amazing work.

Gorgeous text, gorgeous pages. We're on the home stretch with the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 Expanding Worlds c.1600-c1870 proofs, so here's an Easter treat of a few pages. Every spread in this book is a thing of beauty. I can't wait for you all to see it.

Tim is 100% correct about the Ofsted changes.

Very, very highly recommend this book. Really superb chapters, steeped in a deep grasp of the debates and advances of history teachers in recent decades. Well written and beautifully edited.

The power of the 'cumulative effect of curriculum - pupils can do this in Year 9 because they did this in Years 7 and 8.' With advice to leaders: 'hold your nerve' with a beautiful blend of trust and humility in line-managing subjects in your care. @counsellc.bsky.social gold! TY, Miss!

The sun's out, the sky is blue (no pun intended) and we have a new promo for the @1972shp.bsky.social Summer Conference! Early Bird tickets still available here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and full details on our website www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/summerconf/

#ChangingHistoriesKS3 - Changing the world of history textbooks for 11-14 year olds. With Book 1 Connected Worlds, we set a high bar for immersive story telling accompanied by beautiful looking pages. With Book 2 Expanding Worlds we're taking it to the next level. Samples coming soon!

What keeps going wrong with assessment in history? What can we learn from 35 yrs of the same mistakes? Looking forward to presenting, Tues 3.30pm, for Leicester Education Improvement Partnership @histassoc.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social @jonhutchinson.bsky.social @salwilson11.bsky.social