@teachertapp.bsky.social Made it!

Release day! The ebook & hardback are live. The first book for teachers based on *enactive* cognitive science, please consider leaving a review when you're done (it really helps). (Paperback readers: Amazon is having a glitch, so it's slightly delayed.) mybook.to/teachingmean...

10 years since Prince died. What a talent. Not a day goes by without one of his songs bouncing around my head. What are your favourite Prince tracks / memories? There are so many for me: I'll pick "Joy in repetition" as a track and the first time I saw him play Purple Rain live as a moment.

Blaming the poor state of the economy, especially youth unemployment, on the school curriculum is really dumb. And Milburn's suggestion to teach more 'life skills' without lowering standards, has been proven to lower standards wherever it's been tried. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I didn't post about it here, but it's been a rough week. I'm in a choir since September, we were hard at work setting up a big show in June. Suddenly and unexpectedly, our choir director passed away last Tuesday. He was a brilliant mind and we're all in shock. I drew this because this is how I cope.

Big news stories this week about Sweden & Norway moving away from screens in the classrooom. People are realising that some technologies are just not suited for some purposes. It is hard to read deeply & concentrate on a tablet. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/education-...

I’ve published a new book! 🥳 It is pitched at new teachers. Short. Easy reading. Helps make sense of what goes on in schools. Check it out. share.google/hsTGxb7gkEFt...

#Edurunners 5km progression run this morning How's your exercise?

#Edurunners 10 km easy this morning, finishing with some strides. How's your exercise?

#FridayFive 5byFave5 1. Summer Rain - Belinda Carlisle 2. Jacob’s Ladder - Huey Lewis 3. If She Knew What She Wants - Bangles 4. Union City Blue - Blondie 5. What Time Is Love - The KLF

#FridayFive. Your five favourite songs by your five favourite artists. Don't overthink it. 1. Gimmie Shelter. The Rolling Stones. 2. Come As You Are. Nirvana. 3. Let England Shake. P J Harvey. 4. Under the Pressure. The War on Drugs. 5. Don't Delete the Kisses. Wolf Alice.

#Edurunners 10km run back from dentist How's your exercise?

Episode 4: in a galaxy not far, far away.

Maths & SPAG revision sheets ✨ Can be used in a variety of ways: - Send them home to parents - Children quiz each other - Display big versions on the wall You can download these for free (colour & b/w versions) from this y6 guide (they’re in the first few pages): tinyurl.com/Year6guide

#Edurunners 5k this morning. Lovely run: bit chilly though. How's your exercise?

This goes out to those of you looking for the perfect photo for you PowerPoint or worksheet or cutting out letters for your display (banners are the remedy for this). Get your class to do most of the admin. Handing out, collecting in and resource management aren’t teacher jobs.

*NEW POST* Absolute vs Relative Assessment. www.insightinform.co.uk/2026/04/10/a...

I saw her posting about this on Instagram. Good to see mainstream media reporting on it. #aifakes https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/907111/murphy-campbell-folk-music-ai-copyright

#Edurunners 10 miles this morning. And new Asics How's your exercise?

#Edurunners Back on the grove: 5km today How's your exercise?

Managed a few gym classes in the week and ran 5km this morning, fastest one so far this year. 😁 #Edurunners

Yes I think this is true and something people outside teaching don't understand well enough. The greatest driver of learning is motivation and humans are not naturally motivated to want to learn stuff. So you need to be inspired to do it. Humans are needed for that.

Let them try it. Teaching is easy when you’ve never spent any time in front of kids. And kids desperately need those breaks, to just be kids.

The "long school holidays" bit is the most clichéd, dishonest, reactionary pablum you could apply to teaching. But this is precisely the sort of tripe that the BBC now holds up as journalism.

#FridayFive. Album opening tracks. 1. Smells Like Teen Spirit. Nevermind. Nirvana. 2. A Thousand Trees. Word Gets.. Stereophonics. 3. Rock n Roll Star. Def Maybe. Oasis. 4. Cherub Rock. Siamese Dreams. Smashing Pumpkins. 5. Welcome to the Jungle. Appetite for Destruction. Smashing Pumpkins.

Does anyone include a "how you can help at home" type section in their parent reports?

#Edurunners No running for me this week. Hows your exercise?

Suspect it will end a bit like food. Mass production has made it a lot cheaper and more accessible but it's also made you realise how much better the real stuff is.

We want to believe that technology is a neutral container for ideas. It isn’t. It changes the way we think and engage with content. open.substack.com/pub/daisychr...

#FridayFive has an accent. 1. Mulder and Scully. Catatonia. 2. Heads Roll Off. Frightened Rabbit. 3. Fake Tales of San Francisco. Arctic Monkeys. 4. Put Him Down. Miss Dynamite. 5. Rock and Roll Star. Oasis

Stay to the end for the laugh out loud moment. Perfect delivery: no notes.

Thread #SEN : I’ve been contemplating the SEN reforms. With a limited budget, how will government ensure all schools have equal & fair access to Experts at Hand? The single Case Study cited as an example of EaH in practice has given me cause to think. It’s screenshotted below with link in ALT text /

Terrific piece by @bennewmark.bsky.social on SEND and inclusion in England

What do pastoral leads in private schools do all day? What do you say to colleagues who are choosing rubbish activities that they think are great? Is it better to teach in specialism or share classes in science? All this and more, tune in and share! open.spotify.com/episode/2Dvc...

This is so important. The same words we use don’t mean the same thing to everyone. This is even the case within schools. Ask your Sendco what it means and then ask your AHT for T&L.

New. Things Can Get Worse. On why the SEND crisis is worse than ever because nobody is facing the philosophical contradictions. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...

This gets to the heart of the core issues. A system based on numerous individual reasonable* adjustments is either not viable or not effective. *Lots of what is touted as reasonable in this space is phlogiston.

#Edurunners Another 100km month. Not sure how many that is consecutively (I'll have to check) Hows your exercise?

Oh good. Another f***ing form. That'll fix it.

Training Day with the vampire Lesson Observation with the vampire...

#Edurunners 5km this morning: plus a surprise in the post. How's your exercise?

Tappit by Teacher Tapp @teachertapp.bsky.social I scored 6/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Can you beat (equal) me? teachertapp.com/articles/tap...

Today is publication day!! Incredibly excited for *Developing a Metacognitive Curriculum* to be out! More posts coming on this in the next few days, as well as plenty of shout outs for the incredible teachers who contributed. Please do go and check it out! www.amazon.co.uk/Developing-M...

And yes "so what"

MATHS TEACHERS! We are expanding our team due to increased curriculum time. *2 posts available* Lovely, dedicated & supportive team. Easily commutable from Leeds & York. Happy to answer questions via DM. Please share if you can. www.king-james.co.uk/job/teacher-... Reposts appreciated!

#UkEd #Edusky More of this please. 😍 Thanks Jon

A guide to expectation...😉 chrischiversthinks.weebly.com/blog-thinkin...

I think Ofsted are mistaking causation for correlation. Whilst low expectations will cause lower than average outcomes, not all those schools with lower than average outcomes have low expectations. Maybe it would help if you recognised this distinction.

As people know, my view is it's unlikely to work anyway, but it definitely won't if we can't read each other's rooms. The leadership skill required to navigate the next few years will be vast. I think primaries will mostly be OK, secondaries will struggle.