Foundational knowledge seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment - but what does it look like though a subject lens? open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...

Our new research with @ucl.ac.uk l.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social finds that setting in maths does not appear to significantly harm the attainment of low prior-attaining or socio-economically disadvantaged secondary school students. Explore the full report: tinyurl.com/3rbmrfdk

The head of a school held up by the government as an exemplar of its planned school food revolution says current funding levels are 'not sufficient' as it has to spend thousands of pounds offsetting costs schoolsweek.co.uk/school-food-...

This, alongside the ending of the National School Breakfast Programme in secondary is about to make this government even less popular with young people and their families than it already is

Couldn’t agree more @bennewmark.bsky.social Can you convene a sensible conference exploring these ideas? Where people with lived experience and access to the evidence can listen to and learn from each other? 🙏🏼

This

Hugely important piece of research

Problem faced. Policy applied. Policy worked. Politics can work.

Want to understand the SEND crisis in England? This is an excellent summary of the policy issues from the @theifs.bsky.social ‘England’s SEND crisis: costs, challenges and the case for reform’ ifs.org.uk/articles/eng...

The last one for now in my ‘Back to School’ series on Inclusion. This is one for leaders leading school improvement in challenging circumstances. Sometimes the simplest answers are right in front of us streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/09/l...

Another highlight was @nimishlad.bsky.social who asked us if a model of learning was enough? I was left wondering what we lose when we condense things and talked by his call to prioritise coherence over consistency

You can see @nimishlad.bsky.social looking on intently 😂#NoHeckles

A highlight for me was @lekhasharma.bsky.social and her wonderful new boss Julian sharing their blueprint for uniting people, practices and performance at Life Education Trust

Next at Research Ed I saw @daisychristo.bsky.social sharing her insights on whether or not AI in education is worth the hype. Some very interesting findings re assessment and a crucial reminder of the importance of keeping the human in the loop

Inspired to hear @olicav.bsky.social talk on The Professional Mind at Research Ed yesterday. He offered so many interesting provocations, my favourite being ‘Are you allowed subjectivity in cognitive science?’

Profoundly unhelpful and flat out untrue. No parent would endure the misery of the ECHP system unless they felt it was really necessary.

People seem to be enjoying these so here is another one on Inclusion. This time on Provision Mapping. Not the software but meaningful implementation to enable effective, targeted interventions. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/03/p...

New from me. The Dangers of Diagnosis. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...

It's somewhat Secondary specific, so if people would like a Primary one do let me know...

Another one in the Inclusion Series, about how to line manage SENDCos well. It's mostly just me saying 'read The SEND Code of Practice' in several different ways but there is a resource at the end that leaders might find helpful. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/02/l...

The third in the 'Back to School' series on Inclusion. This one is about High Quality Teaching and my reflections on why we're not getting it right yet.. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/01/n...

NEW POST The second in my series on Inclusion exploring my notion of Radical Inclusion (which is really just placing Inclusion at the heart of everything, which shouldn't be radical at all). streamlinedsendco.com/2025/08/30/r...

First post in my series on Inclusion about our lack of shared vision for inclusion and the important of getting diverse actors together in a conversation in order to establish one. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/08/21/w...

Whilst my blog is entitled streamlined SENDCo, I’ve rarely written explicitly about the nuts and bolts of leading SEND. Over the next weeks I will publish a ‘back to school’ toolkit to support those leading SEND and Inclusion provision to do so intentionally, holistically, effectively & sustainably.

Good luck everyone involved in Results Day. May the tears be mostly happy, and the unhappy ones turned around after a couple of phone calls. x

Hello London

An excellent article with a careful argument

If AI is being used extensively in office jobs, then should we be letting students use AI in the classroom? No - here's why. With reference to 3 papers that show what you do in a job isn't the template for what you do in the classroom. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/education-...

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This! Desirable difficulty is absolutely critical to any learning process. AI often makes it too easy. However, the reflective process is just one purpose of writing. Where I think AI can really help us in education is getting us clear on what the purpose of the tasks we ask our students to do.

1. I have not seen a better analysis of the current state of the SEND system than this. @pepsmccrea.bsky.social points to some interesting potential drivers of these problems and suggests what teachers might do about it.

On Dartmoor, good geology hides a lot of problems. The latest official figures show that just 0.1% of Dartmoor's nature reserves - its SSSIs - are in favourable condition. As @tonydartmoor.bsky.social says, 'Dartmoor is dying'. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They also outperform the other 4 in 5 at GCSE.

Really important thread from Ben. Thought experiment: Almost all schools have an AHT i/c of T&L & have a SENCO. What if the SENCO was i/c of T&L, with a deputy SENCO supporting for the statutory stuff? I reckon much >50% of provision schools need to make for SEND is actually ensuring…

Some reflections on leading across a MAT: researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/06/27/s...

Absolutely this from @bennewmark.bsky.social proposing adopting one simple principle towards diagnosis: ‘every action has potential positive effects and risks’ bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/d...

Honestly there is no better feeling than seeing someone be so inspired by something something you’ve written that they’re moved to write themselves. Blushing! @nimishlad.bsky.social

New post. Seem to be doing edu-philosphy. Towards a Curriculum of Animacy open.substack.com/pub/aurorare...

The update you didn't know you needed. here is the pestle and mortar all it's glazed glory.. it can't handle even the gentlest pinch of peppercorns but never mind

How might we have better 'difficult conversations'? aurorareid.substack.com/p/the-power-...

Giving voice to what I’ve felt deeply but haven’t been able to articulate”If experience skews her view.. what about the male reporters sitting alongside her.. Aren’t they biased by what they haven’t experienced.. If experience equals bias, then we all have it. “ www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

Insane if true. Utterly indefensible

Very interesting antidote to the dominant narratives on AI

"Diversifying the curriculum isn’t about relevance. It means asking uncomfortable questions about whose voices have always dominated & why. It’s about digging into the assumptions we’ve made about what counts as knowledge & who gets to decide that..." @benniekara.bsky.social 1/2

I seem to have spun myself a three-part yarn. Click here for more hideous puns, tortured knitting analogies and a throw back to UKG 🧶 streamlinedsendco.com/2025/05/26/r...

And @righttoroam.bsky.social has won!! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camping on Dartmoor 🎉👏. Huge congratulations to all involved! Now Government must step up & pass a comprehensive Right to Roam Act, to protect & extend public rights of access to nature across England

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Such powerful research by @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social being shared by @creativehigg.bsky.social #TheKidsAreNotAlright

Love hearing @creativehigg.bsky.social sharing the importance of powerful curriculum, challenge and being embodied in engaging children IRL

I want a clear conversation about the climate impact of AI. I know data warehouses are bad but I don’t really know what scale I’m working with here