What does it mean to be SEND trained? I'm asking to try to understand the commonly understood parts, and the levels of variation. If we are all to have SEND training, let's make sure that it is clearly defined first. With a definition based in clearly agreed upon evidence.

Post: ● The pros of teaching without powerpoint If teaching is transmission, the presentation is a vital tool. If, we see it as conversing to coordinate the meaning of content, then PowerPoint sits in the way of interaction between teachers and students. christianmooreanderson.com/pros-of-teac...

www.justgiving.com/page/k-amery... Ran my first of 4 half marathons today for my lovely friend’s charity ‘Laughter Africa’. If you can spare any change to help me reach my target - that would be ace (also hit my PB of 1 hour 52 mins and 16 seconds!)

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

By all means, have a laugh at how out of place Paul Tierney looks alongside the Chelsea players. But remember, this is how it begins. Give it six months and he’ll be annexing Greenland and bombing Iran.

You'd think living without a single drop of blood in your body would make you sluggish. Not my guy Jared

To celebrate Women’s History Month the @endsexisminschools.bsky.social ESIS History team are launching our new resource to support teachers in putting women back into the history they helped create. To learn more, read my first ever blog: endsexisminschools.org.uk/women-who-ch...

Excellent reporting from Beirut by @justinsalhani.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

As somebody who has benefited on several occasions from time away from work after a medical diagnosis of acute depression - the alternative in my head at the time being to walk into heavy traffic with my eyes closed - this framing by the BBC can fuck right off.

Mind you on such a big news day it’s understandable. The guardian had an article about the crucial issue of warming your teacup and putting the water back into the kettle.

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

A sheet of kitchen roll the size of Wales.

Curriculum PATHS is committed to delivering empowering history for young people in their unique contexts. We trust in the expertise and professionalism of history teachers to enable this. We depend on teachers like you to collaborate and share units which speak to the PATHS Principles.

I still hear this justification re: AI in classrooms: “It’s out there & we can't be left behind.” Friendly challenge: which happens more often? 1. Schools regretted waiting too long to adopt a technology. 2. Schools regretted adopting a technology before they fully understood how to use it.

On the new #WutheringHeights film. I've co-curated an exhibition (Bronte Parsonage Museum) showing what the Bronte children read & wrote (they invented their own colonies) & how Wuthering Heights was inspired by their colonial reading material. www.bronte.org.uk/news/new-exh...

NEXT SUNDAY! All Remembered Mothers' names to me please by 10p.m Saturday 14th. Reposts appreciated.

#Genocide and #WarCrimes by #Israel.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

I just joined the @quitgpt boycott. OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit. Join us: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT

I found out this week that Woodrow Wilson’s mum was from Carlisle and he loved cycling holidays in the Lake District. My Cumbrian Y12 history nerds were very happy to learn this fact (as was I!)

This mix of Cloud Number 9 was always trash. Beautiful song on the album yet this album makes it sound like bad lift muzak

For those who want to understand Iran, here's a gem of a new episode of Legacy, where Professor Ali Ansari explains to me and @afuahirsch.bsky.social how leaders in Iran see the outside world - and how power structures actually work/worked podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

2003. The names have changed but as always, George was right 🖤

The healthiest way to deal with it is probably not to indulge the innocence but to say "you absolutely knew this was who they were, you just didn't want to think about it". Anything else feels like gaslighting.

You think the Moyes tweet can't be beaten but Igor Tudor shows that you are just a baby

Given that Isabel Oakeshott is of fighting age, I assume she'll remain in Dubai and fight to defend her new homeland? That's how that works, right?

Once again.

Bored of peace, Donald?

Delighted to share a joint blog written by myself and the history lead at one of our feeder primary schools open.substack.com/pub/petejack... #historyteacher

you would think that Reform would be celebrating that a white local working-class tradesperson has beaten an elite, out-of-touch academic who was parachuted in to the constituency

Starmer set himself up as Macron. Today he looks more like Biden or Hollande. And why claims of the rise of sectarianism in British politics ring hollow. Apparently British Muslims, uniquely, aren't allowed to decide who best represents them. New substack from me open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Potentially sleepwalking into familiar failure mode. Swapping capacity for paperwork. Question is whether there are adults, time, space & specialist input to make the plan real. Inclusion is not a list of objects, it is designed conditions of teaching, routines & support that hold up under load.

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win. The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong. Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

Hello darkness my old friend...

Reform, which spent its by-election campaign warning about the UK's "Christian heritage" being under threat, while proposing a ban on visas from predominantly Muslim countries, now accuses their opponents of engaging in "sectarian politics"

Is 'family voting' whole non-white households going to vote at the same time?

General comment, but this whole “keep teens off social media” thing does increasingly seem like it misses the point that a swathe of older people are becoming massively radicalised online.

ALERT! ‼️ Only 2 days left on the 99p ebook deal for my funny book Ask A Historian www.amazon.co.uk/Ask-Historia...

I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Most of the words I have to say are pointless, hurtful, and violent.

Safeguarding Network have produced your in-depth guide to the array of changes in the KCSiE 2026 consultation. Download from our website and please share with your colleagues! Visit zurl.co/pz2bs kcsie

Teaching about the Salem Witch trials this week and found the name 'Increase' Mather weird, so naturally fell down a Puritan name rabbit hole... It got so much worse😭

Most of us in Britain aren’t Christian in our beliefs, practices, or identity. The only basis for national identity in our country is around the shared values and institutions of our plural society. Christian Nationalism is a divisive dead end. humanists.uk/2026/02/23/d...

Absolutely this.

Encouraging to see another sign of fightback against Trump’s Orwellian vision of the USA: www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/p...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

This is inspiring from Kompany. Should be shared in schools