Exciting news to share! Phoenix Brothers by Sita Brahmachari has been nominated for the 2026 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social Medal for Writing! 🎉 From OUP's Super-Readable Rollercoasters series, this is a moving tale of resilience and identity. #Carnegies2026 #TeamEnglish @cilip.bsky.social

Loved this. Loved it even more when I found out the author is an English teacher!

If you’re an English teacher, please do this. Your views matter & we want them represented in our survey!

Brought half term to a close by reading about 'expressive writing'. So different to today's methods but there's still value in learning to 'write through writing' as @barbarableiman.bsky.social + I hope to show in our 'Big Picture Writing' webinar on Nov 25 www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/0a4b...

November's Big Picture Writing webinar with me + @barbarableiman.bsky.social explores 'composition-led writing' - getting something on paper + working with it. It's such an important part of any effective writing pedagogy! www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/0a4b...

Last week Hannah Pettit, EMC's social media content creator took part in the BFI LFF Critics Mentorship Programme. We're so proud she won a place on this prestigious programme for budding film critics. Here's what she wrote for The Standard as part of the programme www.standard.co.uk/culture/film...

Treat your classes to some wonderful poetry, along with resources designed by @barbarableiman.bsky.social for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social this Thursday! englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/resourc...

EMC TWILIGHTS ARE BACK Join us after school on October 23rd for engaging conversation, intellectual stimulation + the leftover refreshments from our 50th birthday celebrations! Refreshments from 4.30pm @darrenchetty.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/6fae...

The literary mind has much to tell & learn from the field of cognitive science. Very little of it bears any relationship to cogsci approaches imposed generically across subject areas 🙄

I missed this excellent report when it came out. Much-needed comments about a loss of creativity in schools. Creativity is at the core of everything @engmediacentre.bsky.social does + always will be because it's at the core of how language learning works educationappg.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Conjures up all sorts of thoughts about learning with & through literature - with a premium on a form of imaginative thinking akin to Judith Langer’s ‘possibility thinking’ in ‘Envisioning Literature’. Literature has such an important role to play in today’s classrooms

When you've gone super-early on your half-term reads and don't know whether you'll be able to hold out that long!

I've just realised that over half of the schools + colleges teaching A Level in the UK subscribe to emagazine and/ or MediaMagazine. That's a statistic to be proud of @barbarableiman.bsky.social www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazines/

We've been lucky enough at @engmediacentre.bsky.social to work with Raymond Antrobus on several occasions, so it was a real thrill to read his brilliant new memoir/ cultural history of D/deaf cultures. Highly recommended!

If the new curriculum allows space for books in translation then I can't think of a better one to include than this dystopian gem. Defies all expectations, sticks in the mind long after reading + compares brilliantly with other popular dystopias. The Road + Handmaid's Tale spring to mind

FREE EMC TWILIGHT We can't wait for this free event at our Webber Street base featuring two of our favourite writers. Book your place on our website while tickets are available @darrenchetty.bsky.social @theclpe.bsky.social @literacy-trust.bsky.social

It's conference season at EMC this term. A Level conferences for Language, Literature and Edexcel Poems of the Decade at Friends House, with online + in-person teacher conferences for A Level Eng Lang at our Webber Street base. Student ones at this link www.englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/

We aim to recruit 30 or so teachers to our full-day online courses, so I'm delighted that Kate Oliver and I will be working with 32 teachers tomorrow!

🧵Why Schools Should Sign Up for EMC’s Annual Webinar Package: 1. Sustained, high-quality, subject-specific CPD that aligns with research on what works. 2. Whole-department access, so no teacher is left behind, regardless of experience or schedule.

There's a bit of everything in this one - presentations, workshops, discussion groups. It's sure to be an enjoyable as well as an informative and stimulating day. A few places left if you book soon!

Wonderful to see English departments snapping up this brilliant offer which closes at 5pm tomorrow

I really enjoyed writing this blog about our brilliant Year 12 students' work on their NEA text, Brotherless Night by @sugi.bsky.social - their responses to the novel have been so powerful and it's been a lovely culmination of my work with @engmediacentre.bsky.social this year.

We invited the 25/26 Associate Teachers to our centre yesterday, along with the 24/25 cohort and had a wonderful time discussing all things English

One of the delights of having Associate Teachers with us this year has been the wonderful work they've given us access to

Looking forward to running this one gain next term. It always produces amazing responses from the teachers attending

EMC’s @andrewemc.bsky.social & @barbarableiman.bsky.social are signatories of this letter. Prioritising talk in any curriculum reforms is key to improving outcomes for young people

All the winning films are a joy to watch and looked especially amazing on the big screen at NFT1 last week

📰 See Guardian coverage here 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

And for 10 years we've had to put up with what was obvious fro the start. This from 2015 englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/english...

More than a week on from our 50th celebration - such a wonderful evening with progressive English + Media voices past, present + future!

It was lovely to see so many teachers coming to the centre after a hard day at the chalkface. Thanks to each + every one, plus Claire Pollard @mediamagemc.bsky.social

Looking ahead to next year's EMC CPD offer, it's thrilling to see @englangblog.bsky.social finding new areas of AL Language to explore. This teacher conference promises to be a 25/26 highlight!

Looking for a last minute summer read? There's still time to treat yourself to a copy of Beyond the Secret Garden by @darrenchetty.bsky.social + @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social. As recommended by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Final webinar of 24/25 done + dusted - about using generative AI in English. My thinking evolved during the session. Don't use AI to model writing; use it to mess around with writing, transform, recreate, interrogate, edit, get playful etc. Plus, read this book! www.waterstones.com/book/these-s...

Do read and share! Free and worth debating the individual- social and reflective ways forward rb.gy/4ih4ez @profsarahmcg.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social as well as the evidence on the associated benefits of reading!

It was such a privilege to be part of this conference and I was hugely inspired by the other speakers and the wonderful contributions of all the teachers - a powerful reminder that, as @andrewemc.bsky.social put it, “the good stuff works”!

Positive vibes coming from the classroom all day. Do @mediamagazin.bsky.social teachers have the most fun?

Such wise words in the @uklitassociation.bsky.social summer Voices newsletter. Taken from their submission to the Curriculum + Assessment Review. Let's hope they're listened to!

ENGLISH AND INCLUSION CONFERENCE Can't wait to host these great people at our centre on June 11. Bookings close 2 days before. Part of our 2-for-1 offer so not many slots left if you haven't yet booked @teresacremin.bsky.social @darrenchetty.bsky.social www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/4536...

We've had the privilege of working with 10 extremely talented teachers this academic year + are looking to recruit about 5 for next year. Looking forward to reading the applications carefully next week

A really powerful manifesto to back up Claire Pollard's powerful House of Lords performance @mediamagemc.bsky.social

Great to see schools taking advantage of this offer in various ways. Lots of mixed baskets, but also annual renewals of Christmas Carol, Jekyll and Hyde, Animal Farm etc. at a big discount

I've had the great pleasure of reading an advance copy of Sita Brahmachari's Phoenix Brothers (out 6/6). It's a brilliant sequel to the 'Amir + George' story featured in Iridescent Adolescent + imho is an absolute classic www.sitabrahmachari.com/my-books/pho....

Busy proofing our 25/26 catalogue, which details everything we do at EMC. Very proud that our small team has so much reach - and grateful to all the teachers who put their trust in our work!

.. and a nice flyer if you prefer graphics and QR codes..

PROMOTING THE FICTION EFFECT Thanks to the super-engaged and inspirational teachers who just took part in our What We Teach When We Teach the Novel at KS3 webinar this afternoon. Here's the closing slide, which sums up for me what makes teaching novels so exciting and interesting

Some interesting mixed baskets so far. Schools taking advantage of the discount to buy class sets of multiple different titles

It's been a real thrill to work with this year's inspirational Associate Teachers. It was the first time we ran the programme, so have tried to learn from the experience to inform how we work with next year's group

This online course will explore ways of using short clips to enhance the reading and analysis of Shakespeare's language. Bookings close: 8am on 9th May tinyurl.com/4ch7w8bc

Explore effective and meaningful methods of assessment with this face-to-face course! "I came away buzzing with ideas and a vision of how I would love to change what we do, and elements of how we do it." Bookings close: 8am on 19th May tinyurl.com/dtjsy2pf