Think 'The Manosphere' is the name of a zany 90s Saturday night tv show? Don't know your MGTOWs from your PUAs or your MRAs? Getting confused about blue pills, red pills and black pills? What do LDAR and ER mean? The answers are in this training session! www.eventbrite.com/e/red-pills-...

🚨 A Parent and Teacher's Guide to the Manosphere (and what 'Adolescence' got wrong about incels) 🚨 Get your tickets here! 👇 t.co/dKj2WD9gjV Please share widely with all your teacher friends and parents of boys!

I'm honoured to be delivering this webinar on helping boys to study in and out of the classroom, with Kate Jones. It'd be really nice if you could buy tickets. Kate's very clever and I'm skint. Also, you get a recording for your school just in time for exam season! Buy now 👇 !!!

Up early for a long walk and a hearty breakfast, before delivering some online training. Today's masterclass is called, 'Boys Do Cry' and it looks at practical steps that classroom teachers and pastoral leads can take to improve boys' emotional wellbeing.

I've had 64 student evaluations from yesterday's talk on TENDER MASCULINITY. It was a brand new talk, and the response has been great. 92% of students found the session useful. 98% found the session enjoyable. 88% rated the session as 'good' or 'excellent.' Here's some student comments 👇!

I’d love to chat with some Heads of RE about timetabling and staffing of RE (and PSHE). Comment below or DM if you have 5 mins to spare! Thanks 😊 #rechatuk #UKEd #EduSky

I've had 64 student evaluations from yesterday's talk on TENDER MASCULINITY. It was a brand new talk, and the response has been great. 92% of students found the session useful. 98% found the session enjoyable. 88% rated the session as 'good' or 'excellent.' Here's some student comments 👇!

A few bits of student feedback from today's student workshop on Tender Masculinity.

I'm hugely excited to be giving my first Tender Masculinity assembly tomorrow!

People's comments have alerted me to the fact that actually, yes, lots of boys are really good at hugging etc. I think it tends to be the older ones. Positive!

I think boys need to get better at (consensually) hugging one another. This relentless grabbing, play fighting, punching etc is getting tiresome now. They want platonic physical closeness but society has rendered that unacceptable. It's sad.

Morning everybody. All booked up for this year and already have three September dates booked up for next academic year. Still have the 8th September free and also the 1st September for staff INSET. If you're starting back in August I can help you there too!

Day 23. 17st 4lbs 6oz 110kg 19.3% bf

I'm on episode 3 of Twin Peaks. For the people who caught it the first time around, is it worth me persisting?

I realise I now need to leave X. My reason for staying is financial: I get a lot of job enquiries through here. Leaving will mean losing roughly 25 thousand contacts. Any self-employed people got advice for leaving X and making up for the loss of potential clients?

It's an honour to introduce the inaugural 'Will Boys be Boys' conference, which takes place this 19th Jan at @sjnbrigg.bsky.social Featuring amazing speakers, @whatmakesaman.bsky.social, Julie Richardson, Steve Hoey and Nathan Burns among others. Details here 👇 heyzine.com/flip-book/72...

Adore this feedback! Let me know if you want me in so that your DSL feels a little busier, and your students a lot safer!

Oh good. An after-school staff meeting where someone is reading a slide show out loud to a room full of educators. #OntEd #EduSky

For what it's worth, I'm of the opinion that if you reject the term 'toxic masculinity' you're also the type of person that says 'not all men.'

I still continue to use the term 'toxic masculinity' and I'm yet to be swayed by arguments that the phrase is damaging to young boys. Does anybody know of any actual empirical research into this theory? This idea that the phrase TM has a detrimental effect on boys' self esteem?

Agreed. When intervention is first implemented, year 11 is seen to be the most pressing need so they get the support. Every year after, do you continue tackling year 11 or do you focus on KS3/year 10 and "abandon" that current year 11? Feels like there's never enough time/money to do both.

I continue to believe that frantic, panicked interventions at year 11, in the last term before exam season are not where schools should be directing their intervention efforts.

It's an honour to introduce the inaugural 'Will Boys be Boys' conference, which takes place this 19th Jan at @sjnbrigg.bsky.social Featuring amazing speakers, @whatmakesaman.bsky.social, Julie Richardson, Steve Hoey and Nathan Burns among others. Details here 👇 heyzine.com/flip-book/72...

If you want to book me for next academic year, you can do so, here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Lovely testimonial from my INSET presentation at Stourport High yesterday. If you and your school wants/needs some of this next year, let me know!

What colours are people using for all their differentiated worksheets. I have 6 different sheets. #goodisholddays

Happy New Year everybody. As we approach the Spring term, some of you might be thinking about staff CPD/INSET for academic year 25-26. If you're interested in getting me in, please let me know!

Happy New Year everybody. As we approach the Spring term, some of you might be thinking about staff CPD/INSET for academic year 25-26. If you're interested in getting me in, please let me know!

No rest for the wicked! A full day of student talks followed by two staff sessions: one on misogyny in schools, and another on incel-related radicalisation and extremism. And then I'm looking forward to coming home to my Christmassy flat and treating myself to a rack of ribs!

A bit from me in The Times today. You can read the full article, here: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

I'm always learning. I know some of you will be disappointed that I've only just realised this, but I read somewhere that the use of the term 'Karen' is just pure misogyny, and I guess it is, actually. So that's it. Not going to use the term anymore.

We're only about twenty minutes away from my talk on boys' mental wellbeing. I'll be discussing: -Anger -Suicide -Talk -Connection -Body image

Great thread.

Testimonial from this weekend's work in Munich!

I'm heading home now, after a simply amazing day at Munich International School. It was so positive. I'm speechless and emotional and need time to process, but wow. Wow. Life changing for me, personally.

What? You naughty lot. Over 100 new followers in a day!! Who was at #SAAS24 too?

Yesterday, I delivered boys' wellbeing training to staff. Here's what attendees had to say about it. I still have a few days left this academic year to come in to talk to your staff. Do let me know if you want me in!

🧵 On this International Men's Day, I thought I'd take the time to address my thoughts about some common arguments made in the masculinity debate. 🧵 #InternationalMensDay #IMD24 See below 👇

Buzzing about my most recent staff testimonial. Let me know if you need me! (🐝)

Still... at least he gave boys “perhaps a bit of confidence at school”

#TeamEnglish #EduSky 🍎Jonathan’s blog is expiring in ten days! Who knows how / where we can save it? It is a loss to the profession if this goes off into the ether! 🦋 campaign to save Mr Peel’s blog starts here 🦋

When you've got the gym midday and a fight with Hector mid-afternoon.

When you've got the gym at midday and a fight with He tor mid-afternoon.

Here and now is probably a good time to say, 'Sorry for all the times I was a prick in that other place we used to hang out.'

Seeing as Bluesky feels like the good old days on Twitter back in the day, can people please post in the comments, tweets about education they would've posted back then? E.g. 'What are people doing for their Visual Learners?' Please RT and use the hashtag #goodisholddays.

Doesn't smell so musky here, does it.