Summer reading: Been on my TBR pile for a while. Really enjoyed it. Recommend. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

A beautiful gem of a book - just 154 pages. Highly recommend.

"Give me a little less with every dawn." @marjorielotfi.bsky.social performs John Burnside's "Prayer" in a film directed by Savannah Acquah, from our new series created with @writersmosaic.bsky.social. www.brinkerhoffpoetr...

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The best recent poetry – review roundup

This Department for Education short course on ‘Supporting reading in secondary school’ is an excellent free resource with useful video to build understanding for this crucial area: www.gov.uk/government/p...

‪In the first of our new series of films in collaboration with the @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social the poet @marjorielotfi.bsky.social reads from 'The Hebridean Crab Apple'. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah bit.ly/42EqUTq

Powerpoint and IWBs - time to reclaim analogue teaching. My latest blog. thinkingflexibly.com/2025/04/19/p...

✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.

*New post* This time on systems and school leadership. Beguiling events and how systems can fool school leaders birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/b...

New post⤵️ ▸The fad's purpose is what it does◂ ...and not what its authors thought it would do Educational fads seen through systems theory (AKA cybernetics). Please share (tough for bloggers recently) #UKEd #EduSky #EruditePedagogy #Cybernetics cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...

A really brilliant blog on writing in secondary English by my colleague @andrewemc.bsky.social. A must-read in my view! www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-wri...

As a new #oracy lead in a secondary school, I’ve been thinking about Oracy based #revision techniques. I thought I’d share ten of my favourites here as we hit the final weeks before exams. 🎓 🍎 #edusky #uked #gcse #Alevel Let me know if you find them useful!

A really good blog on the power of poetry in schools - with important messages for implementation both now and in the discussions about a newly reformed curriculum. Applies to both primary & secondary. @piecorbett.bsky.social childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/03/27/p...

Enjoyable day at Voice 21’s Speaking Summit in London. Particularly good to hear from teachers enacting an oracy education.

My favourite children's book of the year: SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan. Absolutely beautiful & brilliant; every school & library should have a copy. To which end, I am giving away FREE COPIES TO SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES! Repost & follow to enter; closes 25th Jan 2025! #BooksOfTheYear #books #giveaway

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December. I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky. One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat! UK only.

Simple worksheet to help students reflect on the characterisation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/charact... 👑 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

NEW BLOG: Looking at writers - does he ever stop smoking? learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/12/look... #engchat #engchatuk

Poetry: For Edexcel A level English Lit pupils compare 21st century poems: an Unseen poem compared with a studied poem from Poems of the Decade. It gives me the wonderful excuse to wander round gorgeous recent poems. Here’s four more I’ve discovered recently mini 🧵 🎓🍎#TeamEnglish #poetry

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… On BBC R4 Inside Science (14 Nov) they read two poems - one was AI. To me it was blindingly obvious - but I like poetry, I read it and teach it. The example was very Hallmark card - perfect rhyme scheme, cliched imagery, dull. Worth listening to the discussion! 🎓#EduSkyky

If you'd like to write for us, please complete this short form: forms.office.com/r/PrBAwZhBcK #UKEd #UKEduBlog #EduSky #AcademicSky

Such an interesting & valuable piece on the limits of ChatGPT /Large Language Models when it comes to the meaning to be found in the ‘multiple functions’ of silence, ambiguity… #EduSky #TeamEnglish

Some numbers from the past 96 hours compared to a 96 hour period a week ago: 13M likes -> 104.6M likes 1.4M follows -> 100.8M follows 1.3M reposts -> 11M reposts 26k new users -> 2.11M new users This really drives home how insane the increase in activity around here has been Welcome to Bluesky :)

Another 🔥 poem to add to teaching Unseen Poetry at #AlevelEnglishLit 🎓🍎 #TeamEnglish For me (teaching Edexcel) I would compare it with from #PoemsoftheDecade A Minor Role by UA Fanthorpe Theme: illness.

Back-to-work blues? Sunday scaries? New-year nerves? 😟😢😱😳 #edpsychs #edusky Here’s a few tips for an uplifting return to work: 🧵 @pippatep.bsky.social @ephoughton.bsky.social @viola-jane.bsky.social @edpsydan.bsky.social @edpsy.bsky.social @maxpurpose.bsky.social @aspenpsychology.bsky.social

I am delighted to have our panel announced, and to be working with such a fantastic group schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-12-....

FREE copy—Repost this to enter😃 (random selection in a week) Enactive cogsci seen through detailed lesson examples. This is a new model, a new way of seeing and being. amazon.co.uk/dp/8409634309 #UKEd #iTeachBio #Cogscisci #EduSky

📢 App Version 1.90 is rolling out now (1/11) This release is focused on personal moderation controls, and includes a lot of new tools for reducing unwanted attention! Open this thread for more details. 👀

padlet.com/helenwitty20... 1/2 Might be useful for #BacktoSchool. This is an interactive #SEND #CPD catalogue. Content is colour coded for ease of use. Feel free to share, embed etc #EduSky #UKEd

This is an amazing collection of #autism related infographics, videos, and resources. Helpful for teachers, parents/carers, and professionals as children go #BackToSchool. #EduSky #EdPsychs padlet.com/spectrumgami...

Finally remembered to claim my tax back on union fees (backdated 5 years). Just checked what other professional associations count and English Association is on the list! Did you all know that already? #TeamEnglish

A first resource to share on Bluesky! Reference pages for three of the GCSE English Literature texts www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/gcse-en... Designed to be stuck into books at the start of a sequence of lessons 👑 👻 ❄️

Worth a watch 👇- and being an English teacher importance of language and reading was, of course, music to my ears! Definitely agree with the importance of schools and teachers being ‘learning-led not label-led’!

A very interesting read on classroom talk - with lots of pointers to further reading.🍎🎓

Fascinating workshop on developing teacher capacity for curriculum making, led by Audrey Doyle and Nienke Nieveen #ECER2024

Came across a set of fascinating research images from UCL 🍎🎓 1/2 This one is called: Accelerated Forgetting ‘This image shows responses to a memory test … participants copy a drawing, and then draw it again from memory three times’ at intervals. www.ucl.ac.uk/gs/research-...

One of my favourite #OldEnglish poems, 'The Dream of the Rood', refers to humans as 'reordberend' - 'voice-bearers'. That's a defining part of our humanity, the poem implies: to be able to #speak, to have a #voice. I've thought of this a lot over the past few days.

If you’re getting ready to learn lots of new names, there are some hints and tips in my book on how you might do this. LINK BELOW and you won’t have to wait too long hopefully! amzn.eu/d/4n48Eh5

Today, we’re sharing Plum and Luck, two poems by Jenny Bornholdt that we published in PN Review’s July - August 2024 issue. The link to subscribe, and read more of her poems (there are five more in this issue, and they’re free to read on our website!) is in our bio.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... this links in my mind to @marymyatt.bsky.social 's point about humans first and professionals second. It argues we can reduce burn-out if we recognise patients, pupils?, clients? as human too.

Here's a little thread of thoughts on Clare's blog on oracy, which I read with great interest. I have some points of agreement but also reservations about some of the way in which she presents what's at stake for teachers in classrooms. First the agreements...1/

Calling all #EnglishFE Teachers delivering Pearson 2.0 📣 @englishassociation.bsky.social Book here now: lnkd.in/eTCyc3uN

As the blog bears the end of its premium features- another blast from the past. 1: this for #litdrive jwpblog.com/2021/07/03/w...

That's really good to hear - helps them feel more involved too I imagine. Just something that wandered across my idealistic mind recently, hence scribbling this with trainees in mind. thinkinghistory.co.uk/EnquirySkill...

Whilst we all hope it is a bubble that will pop and work hard to help this along, younger years will unfortunately witness the models of undesirable behaviour and that in itself could mean the bubble takes longer to pop… www.theguardian.com/education/ar...

#edublogs 🍎🎓 Interesting read👇. Made me think about all the various edu teams I am a part of and how well they are functioning. Like many teachers I’m part of a: ✅ faculty/department team ✅ school-wide T&L team ✅ pastoral year group team (as a form tutor) and various mini teams!

I wrote something about mark reviews (you may know these as re-marks) which summarises what I think every year when I read social media, but never say. sallythorne.com/2024/08/25/m... TLDR: if you put in bulk review requests, consider spending the money on interventions instead. #edusky

School exclusions (via @‌teachertapp). This is an excellent blog. Governors, do we are not the ones who take the decision to exclude, I would still recommend you read this blog. theteacherfilesexposed.wordpress.com/2024/08/18/t... #UKEdGovs #UKEd #EduSky

A few ways to get tasks started. Made with #SEND and ADHD in mind but could work for everyone. Pdf in folder (see profile) if it's useful 👍 #SENDfamily #UKEd #EduSky