A reminder that ‘knowing’ is not binary, it's not an on/off thing. We move through stages; hearing, recognising, recalling, mastering, before knowledge becomes truly usable. This example of of children's different phrases of 'knowing' words from Beck, McKeown, and Kucan is so useful

Here's a reflection tip: ⬇️ Change "Why didn't they listen" to "why didn't they remember?"

🚨BIG NEWS: I am moving to Sierra Leone from Sept - March It's been a difficult decision to give up my current role but I will be working with the charity EducAid on some improvement work whilst I'm there. If you want to work together remotely please get in contact 😊

👏👏👏 Snuck in whilst everyone was distracted by the boats. 🍾🍾🍾

Amazing, energising day recruiting our first GM100 cohort with @thereachfoundation.bsky.social. The children of Greater Manchester are in safe hands with this brilliant group of leaders.

Change the culture in an underperforming school, they said. What a crazy but beautiful ride with this Year 11 cohort. Really looking forward to seeing how results day comes out. ✨️

First up at #ReDBmouth was a very thought provoking look at assessment from @s-donarski.bsky.social - big takeaway being that "assessment" can't be separated from curriculum design and delivery.

Wonderful keynote to drive the afternoon on oracy @claresealy.bsky.social ✨️ thank you.

"Pupils ignored two years of deeper learning and focused their revision too narrowly, thanks to advice they had watched online" Good read. More awareness of this is needed.🙏

Lesson feedback: don't send it, don't give it - co-construct it. Otherwise, it won't be worth it. teacherhead.com/2024/01/28/l...

"Technique is what the teacher uses until the real teacher shows up." Only a few pages in and already inspired to remember the value of teachers as people, not simply deliverers of content. Thank you @megvertebrae.bsky.social for the recommendation.

Wow.. over 10,000 educators registered for this now. Going live at 4pm GMT info.mheducation.com/science-lear...

Super proud of my husband who has achieved his PhD in parasitology. 🥳 Celebration dinner last night.

HERE WE GO! All prepped for exam mode, taking 51 beautiful key amber kids in the final stretch. All of our key kids kicking off Friday with 121 support or final intervention. Can't be more PROUD of these kids.

Keats' To Solitude was published on this day, in 1816. Still beautiful. "If I must with thee dwell..." 🖤

Some reflections on two terms on my new role

🗓️ Community Forum 🗓️ Grab your ticket for the next community forum for trust leaders with @s-donarski.bsky.social. This session is entitled 'Large-Scale Curriculum Design: When, how and why?'. To book: https://buff.ly/47PpGH2 Slides from Session 1: https://buff.ly/41kfkOi #LitdriveCPD

My @litdrive.bsky.social with @greeborunner.bsky.social was an absolutely blast this afternoon. Thank you to everyone who came and shared their experiences of trust-wide leadership; there was a wonderful community feel to the session.

Some useful reminders and discussion points www.edutopia.org/article/educ...

A big problem is that there’s certainly a lasting impact from COVID but it’s difficult to discern from the data because KS2 writing results were probably overinflated pre-pandemic. That drop is not just COVID related. And reading results didn’t drop at all. Hard to tell anything from these results.

This is an essential read and a sobering reminder for secondary teachers about the oncoming impact of COVID on our learners.

🗓️ Community Forum 🗓️ NEW FOR 2024/2025 Community Forum for English Trust Leaders! Join Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social in a new series of sessions to share effective practice of leading English at system level. For more info and to book, https://buff.ly/3MNHN6N #LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish

205 years ago, on 19th Sept, John Keats wrote 'To Autumn', inspired by his walk along the River Itchen. 5 years ago (on its bicentennial), @drchendrick.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to do the same. I come back to this every year today: "Season of mists..."

🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 👀 Steplab is bringing the education community together to explore great teaching and PD in a very special conference! 🗓️ Friday 17th January 2025 🗺️ London, UK ❓Want to join us? 📣 Booking now open to non Steplab users! 🎟️ Don't delay, book tickets now: steplab.co/news/steplab...

For anyone interested in a book club or study group on our book this term, here are some questions to stimulate discussion. @paulkirschner.bsky.social

Would you like me to work with your organisation? I am available on Fridays for CPD and consultancy work. Please get into contact using the Google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1VQd...

**NEW** ResED National 24: 'Spiralling Curriculum' Slides perspected.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/r... 🖐️ My slides are now available to download. Thanks to everyone who came to my talk; also to @tombennett71.bsky.social and @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social for making such an inspiring movement in education.

*** New Blog*** Prompted by this weekends #rEd2024 and follow-up conversations on here. Thanks to @pepsmccrea.bsky.social @evidencebasededu.bsky.social, @collegeofteaching.bsky.social and @carolaj.bsky.social plus many others 🙂 teachreal.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/w...

**NEW** ResED National 24: 'Spiralling Curriculum' Slides perspected.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/r... 🖐️ My slides are now available to download. Thanks to everyone who came to my talk; also to @tombennett71.bsky.social and @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social for making such an inspiring movement in education.

Thank you for the talk. Awesome as always!

Thanks @musingsofadr.bsky.social for summarising my talk today. Dusseldorf is next! 🙌 Thread below.

Absolutely exhausted after the first week back and two talks at #rED24 - but loved spending the day with so many brilliant people, who care so much about making our schools great places for young people to learn and flourish. Hugely inspired to do more and do better!

Session 5 - Sarah Donarski on spiralling assessment! #rED24