Fabulous day in Torridan

Nice if you can get it. University staff got 1.4% this year after 15 years of below inflation rises (excepting VCs of course, who have also done nicely)

Lovely light on Dumyat this evening

Quite incredible this is even being discussed. Quoting Charlie Kirk and Musk’s plans for us. And traitorous Farage as their way in. All those moronic Brexiters calling for ‘control’ and ‘sovereignty’, now happy to be kicked around by American fascists. It’s horrific and it must not happen. (Times)

A stark reminder that wealth and social capital are what matter in the UK www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Why is Education for Sustainable Development Goals #SDSs not enough to equip students to achieve #Sustainability and what can be done better www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chamonix with @andreahgp.bsky.social after 4 big mountain days - Lac Leman to Servoz 😁

Trekking in Baltistan with @andreahgp. Magnificent views and the friendliest most hospitable people we’ve had the pleasure to meet

Now available for preorder www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teacher-a...

MORE THAN 24H ABOVE ZERO ON TOP OF MONT BLANC! The station located at Colle Major, 4750 m, on Mont Blanc recorded a maximum of +3.7°C on 28/06, while the minimum today, 29/06, was +1.1°C, more than 24 hours above zero! But don't worry, it's summer... 🙃😱 Data source @meteovalledaosta

This distressing situation is a terrible indictment of 14 years of Tory misgovernment, but the neglect goes back decades. The UK - the ‘sick man of Europe’ and the result of deliberate policy decisions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Do read this article. It is an important area to understand.

Link to the timeline for Scotland’s education reform programme. Plenty here of interest to education professionals www.gov.scot/publications...

Really delighted to see this collaborative research which is on such an important area & from a great team of colleagues. Many congrats to you Nuzhat and @andreahgp.bsky.social and @stellamouroutsou.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk

My privilege to contribute to this research study & article alongside @andreahgp.bsky.social & @stellamouroutsou.bsky.social looking at how our student's understanding on issues of #SocialJustice evolves through engagement in #InclusiveEducation #TeamStirling 🎉 doi.org/10.1002/curj...

Our book, Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach, was published in 2015. The 2nd Edition - substantially updated - has just been submitted to the publisher- should be published next year 😁

Watch this vieeo about the Dumyat hill race - something that @andreahgp.bsky.social and I have done a few times www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

We look forward to the final #EPA session today and thank all colleagues for such high quality contributions. @uofgheadship.bsky.social @markpriestley.bsky.social @rushtondr.bsky.social @bruceadamson.bsky.social @sineadgormally.bsky.social #StephenMcKinney #HelenMartin #ChrisChapman #SeonaidhBlack

My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of generative AI. I think the wildfires have something to do with it – the environmental impact of data centers, the scarcity of water, the terrible losses they’re seeing. . . it makes the ‘abstract’ of the climate crisis very real.

Definitely worth coming along to hear @kaysoclearn.bsky.social

Here is a link to my newly published post on the @beranews.bsky.social blog Curriculum making: A brief history and future directions @scrcm.bsky.social www.bera.ac.uk/blog/curricu...

The Nature Discovery Map Scotland is a suite of six map-based tools developed by @NatureScot on behalf of @scotgov with teachers & pupils to support Learning for Sustainability. nature.scot/professional-advice/young-people-learning-outdoors-and-developing-skills/nature-discovery-map-scotland

**Breaking News** I'm exploring the gap in research on #AntiracistEducation in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 thro my EdD.I'm launching 👇🏽network to connect with others doing similar work in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 schools,further or higher education. If you're involved in this or know anyone that is,please get in touch and share. Thanks so much.

Another lovely Highlands day. Fine traverse of Meall Greigh, Meall Garbh, An Stuc, Ben Lawers, Meall Corranaich and Ben Glas with @andreahgp.bsky.social and the hounds Strava flyover at strava.app.link/9XofW0kziSb

Fabulous day yesterday on some Crianlarich Munros - Looking to Ben Lomond 😊

Hopefully a wake up call to the Government - some big concerns here that the CIC alone will not fix, welcome though it is. No mention in the article of the large elephant in the room - the measurement/audit culture that distorts so many good policy intentions

Interesting @beranews.bsky.social blog on language ideologies by @iancushing.bsky.social www.bera.ac.uk/blog/documen...

"Confronting and dismantling language ideologies requires not only new theories of language which resist deficit labels but also a theory of change which connects efforts for linguistic justice with broader struggles for social justice."

Listen here to @stavrphili.bsky.social and me - appearing as guests on the FooknConversation podcast with @fooknconversation.bsky.social. We talk about our work in the curriculum field. www.fooknconversation.com/podcast/epis...

What’s incredible is that men have hardly smashed this leadership thing for the last six years…

20/ I'm never not shocked when I see these stats. @gemmaclark.bsky.social sharing these from a study by the Girl Guides recently. Also lots of info abt how we continue to socialise girls and boys from birth and set dated expectations of how they should be.

Trump has emboldened every bigot on the planet

Hi all, just sent out this piece on the 30 day ceasefire proposal that the US and Ukraine agreed (piece is all free). I tried to present the optimistic and pessimistic readings. The reason to be worried…Ukraine gets nothing it did not have a few weeks ago… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Published today by UNESCO-IBE ‘Towards a typology of curriculum policy approaches’ unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

‘What’s the most challenging thing about working in AI?’ I was interviewed by the BBC on a theme of the proportion of women working in AI development and why we need to change it. This proportion is currently 22%. Happy International Women’s Day! Let’s keep pushing!

Very early draft of the front page for the next print edition, but you can see where we're heading with this MOB RULE: How the World's Policeman Became a Global Gangster

Great to collaborate & share our approaches to inclusive education on our ITE programmes with Danish MPs as part of their visit to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scottishgov.bsky.social with @andreahgp.bsky.social. Thank you @qmuniversity.bsky.social for the warm hosting & to Innes Alves @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk

This is an excellent blog post by Rachel Shanks. Much of what is claimed for school uniforms has little or no empirical basis

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr... The motivation behind wealth, is the WANT to get richer The motivation behind those in poverty, is a NEED not to starve … and the wealthy elites know this!!

Great to begin our day of learning on #Into #Headship @stir.ac.uk with an excellent contribution on #teacher #agency led by @markrpriestley.bsky.social

Amazing sunrises and sunsets on Dumyat this week and snow today 🤩

There's a discussion to be had here (albeit a far less simplistic one) but Reform Scotland is a secretive lobbying group that won't say who funds it - and that should matter.

Latest report on CfE from Reform Scotland - quite right to critique CfE’s downgrading of knowledge, but problematic in advocating and England-style knowledge rich approach 🧵 www.reformscotland.com/publication/...

Sign up the next SCRCM free webinar on Monday 4 February, 4-5.30pm "What's a Student Council?" - Initial Findings in Student-led Negotiated Curriculum for Democratic Education Led by John O’Reilly and Éabha Hughes, University of Limerick www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

Future SCRCM webinar - Wed 2 April, 4-5.30 'Curriculum and leadership making: the challenges and potential ways forward', @lekhasharma.bsky.social, School Improvement Leader and the author of ‘Curriculum to Classroom and Building Culture’ @lekha Sign up at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

"knowledge-rich has been in place for more than a decade and it has slowly become established through accountability levers, not necessarily through adherence to curriculum ideas" Interesting take in this fascinating Q&A with @markrpriestley.bsky.social

Great to see this contribution on #curriculum control & #teachers from @markrpriestley.bsky.social Director of @scrcm.bsky.social

Really interesting article… I’ve been leaning pretty heavily on @markrpriestley.bsky.social’s work in my PhD and this is well worth a read…