Not the best of weekends… but the chickens are clean, the dog is happy and the decorations made it out of storage even if the cake still isn’t made! Let’s go December!

I am delighted to talk for the #AutismEducationTrust on #AI. We need solid conversations on what AI means for #Autistics and #SEND young people. So please attend, it's free ⬇️ this matters. Rarely voices on #AI are Autistic ones.⬇️ events.autismeducationtrust.org.uk/website/15512/

Can anyone recommend any good books for a teenager who has just had an ASD diagnosis? She is academically quite able and doesn’t want “ones for kids”…

We really do get the most beautiful sunrises here!

A lovely box of treats from my friend (& former department member!)arrived today at work, after a hard week last week it was such a lovely thought!

Lovely afternoon at the rugby yesterday despite the result!

Day 2 of an inspection and at 9am the snow starts to fall! Every teacher had the same bemused look!!!

Spreadsheets this week across key stage 3, data collection and data handling is so important today for our young people! Budgeting, graphs, and even some data collection of their own!

Year 9 parents evening tonight, 2 hours in a busy, warm room with 4 min appointments to discuss progress… not totally sure parents evenings like this do what they should, but this seems to be a very common model in secondary schools!

View from my classroom early this morning… look carefully and you can see England!

More new displays up in the classroom now, starting to put together our curriculum map, digital resilience area and some aspirational things too!!

Another successful writing session this morning and another 1,000 of the draft findings now written. Leadership appears to be everything!!!

1 week back after half term and the classroom displays are taking shape. The key digital skills needed by employers which will be foundation of our year 7/8/9 curriculum

Today at the beach - it may have been a winter weather clothes day but it was exactly what was needed! (& Keith found a lovely dead spider crab to play with!)

We are thrilled! This article for @schoolsweek.bsky.social by @vivienneporritt.bsky.social gives us hope the issues #WomenEd campaigns on will be tackled to achieve more equitable, fair treatment of women in education. 💜💜 Amazing! 💥💥💥💥 schoolsweek.co.uk/three-reason... #womensupportingwomen

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!! (Network issues!)

Cluster Digital Planning day tomorrow at school, hoping we get consensus & good plans being developed about on we want our young people AND our staff to be capable and confident with in today’s increasingly digital world. 🤞🏻💾

Completed a 6km walk on Saturday in the sunshine with friends, raising money for this amazing charity & a cause close to my heart. (Still taking donations by the way! www.justgiving.com/page/mrsksga...)

Q and A with curriculum review chair Becky Francis | Schools Week https://buff.ly/47FbIHP < "There’s a lot of debate about the amount of content in the curriculum and the appropriateness of assessment at different stages. We’ll be wanting to look at all of that..."

Teachers/Headteachers: Teach Well Toolkit is launching an independent review: 'The Impact of Burnout on the Teaching Profession in the UK'. Findings will be shared publicly and with DfE. We are looking for former/current educators to join our panel www.teachwelltoolkit.com/pages/teach-...

Lovely morning walking in Cardiff and raising money for Alzheimer’s Society with friends.

Week 4 back at school, shattered. Getting the basics right on the kids digital skills - logging in, saving with file names, remembering on a presentation sometimes less is best! Ready for the weekend - a charity walk & some thesis writing!

This week has been up and down - at least in terms of our WiFi in school, always an adventure teaching digital skills when you aren’t sure if the devices will work!!! But some great learning around digital resilience and how generative AI uses your data! (Good thing oracy is a focus for us!)

Becoming best friends with my 4 highlighters, 1 for each of my main themes in this EdD but above all, Culture is standing out and that comes from Leadership… feel a chapter or two starting to form! #52weeksofEdD

Sunday evening feeling #bemoreKeith

Week 2 done! Almost a full set of laptops working now but still a lot of kit needing sorting - and there is still the small matter of actually teaching!!!

Just finished Babel by RF Kuang, what a brilliant book! Next up Near the Bone by Christina Harry!!! #booksky

Aims for next week - 1. Find the 4 missing laptops (!) 2. Learn my form classes names 3. Write a blog post 4. Revisit my data and look for similarities and differences! What are yours? #networkedchat #uked

Getting ready for some rewriting of the EdD today… analysis process and if the brain is engaged enough and outline of my findings chapters! #52weeksofEdD

It’s nearly 7pm on the first Friday of term for lots of us… what 1 word describes your week? I’ll go first… RELENTLESS! @tygolding.bsky.social @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social @catrplace.bsky.social @mrwisechs.bsky.social @darcyprior.bsky.social #ukedu

Kids started yr10 this week… already got their first exam date in just over 8 weeks. The stress has already begun!

Day 2 and the network and I fell out! It’s a regular occurrence teaching IT but I had forgotten how disruptive it can be to a first lesson! Fingers crossed either it gets better or I remember the tricks to make it function! (I wonder why digital skills are often neglected in secondary schools!)

A good start to the term welcoming the new 7BB to school - I am confident they will maintain the great work of the 7BB’s that have come before them & do our BB motto proud - Be Nice!

Lanyard & keys found ✅ Breakfast prep ✅ Lunch prep ✅ Alarm set ✅ Clothes sorted ✅ Half term holiday sorted ✅ Rising sense of panic / dread ✅ ✅ ✅

Sunday chores all done, school bag packed, lunch and breakfast prepped… time to relax #BeMoreKeith

Back to the classroom on Monday so think it is time to resurrect the blog, here is a post from way back when - posting today on Otis’s 7th birthday. How has the promise of CfW started to be delivered for him and the young people in Wales? wp.me/p8hjRU-70

Had my EdD supervision this morning, another thought provoking session… I am getting somewhere! Big focus this next month (as well as school!) is the findings chapter… here we go, end is in sight! #EdDLife

www.gov.uk/government/n... So what is this Trustworthy GenAI then? Where does the data come from? What value will these give to teachers above what already exists? Is it really a good use of that kind of money?? AI is here to stay, but we also have a duty of care to our young people!

Yr7/8&9 outline planned for this term and benchmark quizzes written! I know it will be frantic when I get back so good to have some plans already there as a start point! Think that is me done (apart from writing out my timetable and colour coding it!)

Local day out with Twin 2 and the dog! Counting down to next Monday and the sleepless nights have begun but determined to have some good days this week!

Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here! primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...

Twins turned 14 today - 1 year of the teens done, only 4 more and they move out right?? (Love them really but it doesn’t get easier does it!!)

Totally agree - in Wales where we have A*-G all those grades are passes, and as long as the young person has done the best they can in the circumstances they had, then let’s celebrate all those grades.

Blood Brothers at the Cardiff Millennium Centre tonight … what a performance!

Lovely waterfall walk today with the family, such a beautiful part of the world we live in!

NetworkEd began as a weekly online discussion, led by guests who brought insight & provocations #networkedchat - we’ve hosted professional learning, small events & shared blogs. We are @tygolding.bsky.social @catrplace.bsky.social - if interested, please listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Looking to set up some sensible education dialogue on here, across a number of topics - please keep an eye out for @networkedpld.bsky.social ❤️😁

Another 1500 words on the first of my findings chapter written today! #EdD - it’s probably all gonna end up either deleted or in a totally different layout but I’ve got to start somewhere!!! 1500 goal for tomorrow & then sending to the supervisors!!

Croeso @tygolding.bsky.social @catrplace.bsky.social lovely to see you here!

What a lovely & insightful read by Emma Gannon.