This is a crazy bit of fun and I say that not only because I am in it. There are more UK teachers and education people than I realised forming a nice cluster on the edge of the galaxy!

I am a bit late to reading this and very much enjoyed it from a human interest point of view. However, I also thought it was great on how to use AI effectively when studying something on your own. Recommended for law students of any age!

Hi #EduSky - it's time for my #Saturday3 and no real theme this week other than they are all about the nitty-gritty of the classroom. The first one is a short read from the @teachlikeachamp.bsky.social team on how teaching vocab needs to be explicit and implicit. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Breaking News! @suchmo83.bsky.social now has a Substack. A great start as you would expect and I hope that we might see him on here a bit more. substack.com/home/post/p-...

As grown-ups we can often fall into the trap of leaning towards serious or ‘issue heavy’ kid’s books, forgetting that kids also need and deserve books that just bring joy. So for #KidsBooksFriday this week, what are your top fun / silly / joyful book recommendations? #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Share your love of reading this year. To celebrate the National Year of Reading, we've teamed up with children's reading charity @corambeanstalk.bsky.social. We want to help them recruit 250 extra volunteers to provide one-to-one reading support in primary schools.

Add this from @karenvaites.bsky.social to the pile of “don’t use LLMs to accurately answer difficult questions” research. Interesting topic although not something which has affected us in the same way in the UK. open.substack.com/pub/karenvai...

It’s one of those nights in Asia when I go to bed thinking that the whole political picture may look dramatically different in the morning.

I was really enjoying this fun primary-focused A-Z leadership blog by the @theeducakers.bsky.social until I got to X…. I think you can guess why my mood changed. 🤦‍♂️ open.substack.com/pub/theeduca...

Annoying #EduSky pedant. It’s not actually a strict hierarchy…

Interesting. I think, at some point, X’s flouting of laws will result in it being taken offline in some European states.

I saw today a student-facing behaviour policy that lists as one of its reasons for immediate removal from class “Public refusal to follow rules” and I think this is rather good - that it encapsulates (far better than “low level disruption”) the main reason for sanctions in schools🧵#UkEd #EduSky

Simply because it was cheap, I did a conversion Law Degree last year. Have written here about what it was like, how AI did and didn’t help, and why the experience felt like playing 1990s football manager games. www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-...

It’s only tangentially to do with schools but it’s another funny and insightful @daisychristo.bsky.social piece on mobile phones and shifting social norms. Someone should really give her a newspaper column…. open.substack.com/pub/daisychr...

A long but really long thought-provoking read by @didau.bsky.social on mimicry, performance as a proxy for learning and transfer of knowledge to new contexts. Well worth sitting down with a hot beverage to read! open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

"Imagine you're taking a test. Question after question feels easy, and before long you're scoring near the maximum. Great news for you, but bad news for anyone trying to measure how much you really know. That problem has a name: the ceiling effect." evidencebased.education/resource/whe...

Just got around to looking at this and it’s the inconsistency between subjects that is so striking. Just 2 for English?!? The other weakness is that primary seems hardly represented at all.

Hi #EduSky - it's time for my #Saturday3 and despite seeing many laments for the golden age of EduTwitter, I again find there was a huge amount of quality blogs published this week. So much so that I had to adopt a theme to whittle them down. So welcome to "things not to do" week!

Loving my Christmas present of The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything by @jonnelledge.bsky.social. However, on number systems, whilst I appreciated the Indian version of lakhs and crores, I think he missed a trick by not also including the Japanese version of "man", "oku" and "cho". Here it is!

Great story although @amymayforrester.bsky.social must be a bit embarrassed that the helpful teens weren’t from Cumbria or even Lancashire but from the right side of the Pennines. *ducks for cover*

This statistic should shock us. I have views on what is causing this but would be fascinating to hear from any schools who think they have managed to get a grip on it.

Interesting opportunity here!

At the risk of preaching not just to the choir but to the house of bishops, for my New Statesman column this week I have written about leaving Twitter a year ago, and how surreal it's been watching people make excuses for sharing a site with an AI sex pest tool www.newstatesman.com/culture/soci...

I realise this is a minority interest but this (and similar educational nerdery) is very much the content I am on social media for! Great write up.

Thank you to all those primary teachers filling this in for us! If you are involved with KS2, we'd love to hear from you! Please share @ruthswailes.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social @writingrocks.bsky.social

This is a beautiful piece of writing from @benansell.bsky.social.

This is as entertaining and thought-provoking as all the politics nerds are saying!

Oh - just noticed and used a great new feature on @bsky.app! If you click the three dots at the bottom on your post, you can copy the post text. Super news for people who spot their typos seconds after they post!

I am a bit late to this but it is a typically sharp analysis by @samfr.bsky.social on the difficulties of the British state. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...

Available via all Maths Hubs in England - more info at www.ncetm.org.uk/maths-hubs-p... - application window closes on 23 April 2026

At what point will the BBC stop describing this guy as an “academic” because he hasn’t been one for ages? Absolute nonsense to boost credibility of someone who is now a professional far-right grifter. Academic unveiled as Reform by-election candidate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh, Elon Musk has just followed me. I am sure this is because he has heard about my campaign to get teachers off X and it isn’t an impersonation account.

My Twitter/X account has been hacked, and I can no longer access it. In other words, I'm no longer on Twitter/X and any new messages aren't from me. You can still follow me on BlueSky. Please spread the word here and also on Twitter/X.

Hi #EduSky - it wws incredibly hard to pick a #Saturday3 this week. I normally save about 5-8 that look interesting to read and this week, I have read 15 or so! Anyway, here were 3 that I particularly enjoyed…

Great to see someone thinking seriously about curriculum in KS3. It’s part of tackling the disengagement that sets in. We also need to think about how to transition kids more successfully from top of primary to Yr 7 in other ways.

I don’t really agree with the 3 main heretical thoughts but this one is entirely correct. Hardly ever read a serious non-fiction book without thinking it could have been edited a lot. #BookSky

Thar she blows! (Interesting to me that the numbers just keep steadily growing with only minor fluctuations now)

One of my questions about this is whether YouTube would count as social media? Primary and teen kids use it that way but are we really going to prevent the from accessing it at all?

This may not be the best platform to ask but does anyone know how much the BTS tickets are going to be when my daughter gets to the front of the queue? She is surprisingly close…

Would be great if people could comment here. I am not the best one to help since I was not in the classroom in 2016.

I liked this blog by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social but also felt we shouldn’t beat ourselves up too much if we were a bit slow to remove a child for very human reasons. Teachers are human after all! (If the systems don’t work, that’s a more serious issue). open.substack.com/pub/carousel...

Wow - these look amazing!

SCHOOLS! Would you like £500 of FREE books?! I do a thing called "The Big Green Books 500 Club" Lovely people donate £1 each week & when I get £500, I send a school a load of books. We're close to £500, so if you'd like some books, get in touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Specialise, Conjecture and Generalise. A three-step plan to encourage and develop mathematical thinking. I'm going to use this thread to share a few of my favourite tasks that lend itself nicely to this idea. It would be amazing if everyone added their own in the replies.

Kind of interesting that nobody has followed Jenrick out of the Tories into Reform, isn't it?

Quintessential Lao PDR picture.

Lovely and useful blog from Tom. Looking forward to 12 of these!

Hi #Edusky - it's time for my #Saturday3 and I thought I would focus on the nitty-gritty of school life this week. First, this thought-provoking piece from @claireharley.bsky.social on whether we do what we say we do... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Are people doing 'eduthreads' any more? Thought I'd give one a go. Some thoughts on the 'revolution' of whole-class feedback (and a cautionary tale). #EduSky

Just for some context here, the Hmong are a people predominantly from Laos, many of whom fought alongside US troops in the “Secret War” taking place at the same time as the Vietnam War. After the Pathet Lao (communist regime) took over in Laos in 1975, some fled and settled in the US.