New on the #BELMASBlog: Orla Jackson reflects on leadership, learning, and liminality following two profound professional encounters with Andy Hargreaves and Graham Powell. Read it here. tinyurl.com/26fn3jv8 @onishiacais.bsky.social

This is so powerful, please read it. "Despite the horror, we students of Gaza still hold our pens like weapons of truth. We write, we learn, we dream. Our schools may be reduced to rubble, but our will is stronger than any bomb."

2/3] The ECR panel also commended: Dr Alan Sheehan for his paper on “The Assessment Machine-A Foucauldian Analysis of Pupils’ Perspectives of the Assessment Process” supervised by Prof Kathy Hall @UCC… and

This Tedtalk is at once terrifying and inspiring. youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

Coming up next mth. 31 quotes in 31 Days from my new book, Making of an Educator. @crownhousepub.bsky.social @vivienneporritt.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @agavrielatos.bsky.social @belmasoffice.bsky.social Preface by @pasisahlberg.bsky.social

BREAKING: The FBI arrested a Wisconsin county judge accused of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement in escalation of Trump's fight with the judiciary.

The cover story for Trump's attack on universities is antisemitism but it's a ruse. 🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚 🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

Check out this recently published paper by Dr Ciara O'Donnell on teachers' careers following secondment! doi.org/10.1080/0332...

Why do teachers love becoming teacher educators? "We're on the cutting edge of policy & research, have deep professional conversations daily, and learn more from schools than they do from us." - fascinating insights from Dr. Ciara O'Donnell

The era of populism we are in is disturbing. Taking literary canons from library shelves and warning Irish students that their activism will affect their chance of obtaining a J1 visa. I spent more time at the gates of Leinster Hoise than I did in lectures in TCD. ❤️ every minute of it!

What's it mean to become an educator, to be formed generationally during a transition to populism? Here's what shaped me during the onset of Thatcherism & what it means for teaching, freedom of speech, & ed research today. @stevemunby.bsky.social @alisonpeacock.bsky.social @agavrielatos.bsky.social

How can we respond to authoritarian populism in education? @dianeravitch.bsky.social & I led a discussion with 8 govts for the ARC Ed Collaboratory this month. @eduinternational.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @olliebray.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇺🇾 🇮🇸

Watching today’s events unfold in the White House.

“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.” www.politico.eu/article/volo...

What do Kelly Clarkson, The Commitments, Pink Floyd & networks all have in common? They all have a dark side. Read more in my open access editorial for @alm30.bsky.social journal Slam. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @danetteparsley.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social

Online learning "drains teaching of its emotional pull". I've just been teaching 100s of Australian educators in person - we think, wonder, doubt, challenge, laugh, cry, sing, & face our biases as a community. This is what we have lost. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @pasisahlberg.bsky.social

Happy new term. We're lucky to have our lives and our jobs.

Worth a read now that Science teachers in Ireland are planning for new specifications #edchatie #cogscisci #lcreform

Incredible photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walks towards an Israeli tank.

Piece I wrote for RTE Brainstorm about #Headford #Lace www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #heritage #storytelling #history

For everyone in Irish education: a proposal to revive #edchatie Monday evening discussions on Bluesky. Every two weeks in term-time. First session details on the graphic. More: www.juliangirdham.com/blog/edchati... Please repost within Ireland as much as poss & spread the word elsewhere.

www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... Well done to everyone in St Aidan's.....maith sibh!👏