True leaders unite people—across cultures, ideas, and backgrounds. Kids learn by watching us. Here’s Ian Wright showing what real leadership looks like. #Leadership #IanWright #RoleModel

Imagine if every school had a professional nutritionist working for their community … How would it impact on - the health & wellbeing of every child? - their learning and outcomes? - our collective productivity? - our quality of life and longevity? - NHS cost & efficiency

It’s Freedom Day in South Africa. We celebrate the anniversary of our first free elections on 25th April 1994 after more than 300 years of oppression, brutality, apartheid and rule by our colonisers. I hope one day soon the people of Palestine will be celebrating their Freedom Day too

If we lived in a kinder and more just world, today #StephenLawrence would be a successful 50 year old architect, living a comfortable life. Sadly on 2nd April 1993 his dreams were destroyed in a horrific racial attack at a bus stop in Eltham. 1/3

Happy Easter to everyone celebrating today 🐣

Last Thursday, I lost a former colleague to sepsis. She was dedicated, hardworking & for 25yrs put her pupils first And now, she’s gone. She never got time for herself. Never got to enjoy the pension she paid into. Prioritise taking care of yourself. Life won’t wait

#EidMubarak to all my friends celebrating

Happy #MothersDay

“There’s a girl in the wheelchair just like me” This is what equity, diversity and inclusion looks like #edi #dei #RepresentationMatters

A Superman poster from 1966 America when civil rights were a thing

Wow. And also, wow. When your own employees are blowing the gaff maybe its time to take a proper break and have a bit ofna think.

The new report card (below) for schools in England demonstrates the lack of system understanding by both Ofsted and the government. It replaces a single judgement on schools with a host of metrics. As a result, schools will now focus on a series of data sets which will entail more tracking,

Thinking about the many Black and Brown populations in Africa, Americas & Asia, Roma, Gay, People with disabilities, Muslim, Jewish, Irish, Armenians and so many other groups of people who have all been subjected to genocide #HolocaustRemembranceDay en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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❤️ As we enter a New Year I always remember what Mrs Brown says - that in London everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in. I think she must be right - because although I don’t look like anyone else, I really do feel at home Happy New Year Love, Paddington #HappyNewYear2025

Children can heal the world #edusky

It’s been a day of bombs being dropped on densly populated neighbourhoods in #Lebanon. More children will die, get injured & displaced. I'm reaching out to ask for support for a fundraiser I’ve set up to help a registered NGO feed 300 displaced, cold and hungry children daily gofund.me/fff59000

A chain I know well. Many of my pupils transitioned into their schools #edusky www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I’ve set up a GoFundMe to support the work of a #teacher I worked with, who always went above & beyond to support #education internationally. She is now asking for our urgent help to support #children in #Lebanon who are suffering. More details in 🧵 below #edusky gofund.me/e593977c

We had a fruit only policy whether the pupils were school dinners or packed lunch and guess what? Everyone survived! Kids don’t need sugary desserts every day www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

In my yoga class today, as part of our reflection, the yoga teacher said our education system teaches us that everything is about right and wrong and destroys our curiosity. I wish I could disagree and feel so disappointed that that is how we are viewed from the outside #edusky

We all have the right to equity and dignity

I'm trying to kick the #Amazon habit and this website is really helping (I just ordered a book from Rossiters and they recommended the site): uk.bookshop.org

Blue Sky is no 1 on the App Store and twitter’s value has dropped by 80% 🥳

Great story about a heroine librarian, attacked by book-banning parents she thought were friends. “The crazy thing about this case is they get to wave the freedom of speech flag in the lawsuit, but what started all this is they want to ban books,” said Jones’s lawyer www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/b...

Not all Jews are Israeli Not all Israelis are Jews Not all Israelis are white Not all Jews and/or Israelis can tolerate Netanyahu, Likud, or Kahanism

This is what those MATs pushing the teachers must follow a script agenda is pushing us towards Teachers ⬇️ Script Following Instructors ⬇️ Teacherless AI Classrooms #edusky news.sky.com/story/uks-fi...

Single word judgments may have gone but I will never forgive the negligence of the failure in duty of care for school leaders. Irrespective of the outcomes, we all paid very high personal and emotional costs and that should never be part of anyone’s job description #edusky #ofsted

The school year is often punctuated by the false urgency of people making money out of schools. This time of year, particularly if schools haven’t done as well with outcomes as they would have liked, can play on school leaders’ fears. Take a breath. Resist the seduction of cruel optimism.

Everybody should get library cards even if you're not gonna use them because it makes the numbers look better and makes the government fund them more.

Please repost: (prompted by a post I saw yesterday) what are the top five challenges facing ethnic minority teachers in the sector? #EDUSky #UKEd #EdChat

1.Lack of racial literacy among school leaders & policy makers 2.Systemic racism & stereotyping 3.A eurocentric curriculum that doesn't value diverse/hidden perspectives & lived experience of EM teachers 4.Lack of other EM teachers to connect with 5.Narcassim among school leaders.

Jaw-dropping’ number of children in England with anxiety shocks even professionals - but now we need to look at what can be done www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

#Paralympics2024 opens in Paris this week & we will be inspired, celebrate humanity & enjoy a festival of competitive support. Across the paralympics we will remember #SirLudwigGuttmann, his life & legacy. Learn more: poppaguttmanntrust.org/poppa/

An Unexpected Case for #reparations #entropy #arbitrage - john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/14/reparations.html. statusl.ink/anunexpected...

I was asked by friends how I feel about Bluesky and I said, ‘No substance. Feels like a cheese and wine party at your in laws’ Can’t help feeling like I’m the only Black in the village. A few smiles here and there but will anyone engage with me? Seriously awkward

BlueSky Thinking? I’ve ✍🏾 about my move from Twitter and the tension I’m feeling. On the one hand, I appreciate the civil, pleasant interactions here. But are we missing the critical, challenging conversations that push us to think deeper and engage more meaningfully? www.linkedin.com/posts/adam-v...

🎄🎄🎄FREE TREES 🎄🎄🎄 Applications close TODAY, 26th August www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/...

In 2023, 90,000 students took GCSE Computer Science, which equates to about 15% of the UK's total 16-year-old population; the remaining 85% will have had no formal education in computer science since the age of 14, and the vast majority will never study computing again. Girls make up just 21% of tot

I love this idea. Off to find out more about onetreeplanted.org

Cracker of a letter in today’s Times #GCSEday #edusky

UK school librarians told to remove LGBTQ books, including titles like Heartstopper. This is Section 28 by the back door. You can’t teach children to be gay but you can teach them that it’s ok if they are. www.attitude.co.uk/culture/hear...

Good morning #EduSky, who can identify?

Found this in an interesting post on the other one today. What do you teach your pupils? What would you say to the parent? What do you get if you enter 1/0 into a calculator What’s the pattern? - 8 ÷ 8 - 8 ÷ 4 - 8 ÷ 2 - 8 ÷ 1 - 8 ÷ 0.5 - 8 ÷ 0.25 - 8 ÷ 0.125

This is welcome news. It’s very clear that hatred of women & girls is rising, spurred on by the likes of tate etc. The rise in right wing politics also has an impact with bodily autonomy being attacked widely & misogynoir is even worse for our black & brown sisters. www.bbc.com/news/article...