Glorious few family days - what a beautiful spring we’re having! ☀️ 🌷 🌳

The OUP team are at the @litdrive.bsky.social conference today! Come and say hi to Katie & Alex to check out #Rollercoasters plus #OxfordRevise English Language & NEW English Literature revision guides! 👋📚 #TeamEnglish #LitdriveCPD25 @funkypedagogy.bsky.social @lyndsaybawden.bsky.social

English teachers and Y11 parents! I have two copies of my Power and Conflict #OxfordRevise to give away. Follow and repost for a chance to win one 📚 #TeamEnglish #EduSky

Meet #AQATeamEnglish – experts shaping the future of English assessment. Made up of former teachers, examiners, and assessment writers, they’re here to support you and build a community where every voice matters. Find out more. 👇 bit.ly/4i3Iwic

Is literary theory ‘a thing’ in GCSE and A Level English Literature? (13 March 2025, 16:45 – 17:30) Exploring the literary theoretical coordinates of GCSE and A Level English Literature to support your teaching. Free, online! Join us! Sign up ! englishassociation.ac.uk/is-literary-...

We're so excited to announce the release of Learn Anything's Key Stage Two platform for English, in collaboration with @thequotationbank.bsky.social. Visit learnanything.com to explore what we hope helps Primary teachers around the UK. #PrimaryTeachers @litdrive.bsky.social @teamenglish1.bsky.social

Join us on 8th March for a day of empowering discussions and actions for women's rights, equality, and empowerment for all women and girls! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womened-ri... @womened.bsky.social

Brand new #WomenEd global online event to celebrate #IWD25. Join us to discuss how women’s voices and rights can be safeguarded www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womened-ri...

Free book, anyone? oupform.edcowebsites.co.uk/literacy/req...

Have you seen the changes to AQA GCSE English Language questions for 2026? The sample papers are live now - do make sure your teams have seen these: www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/eng...

Feeling personally attacked 😆 #acpconference2025

Love a conference! #acpconference2025

Breaking: The government has said a 2.8 per cent teacher pay rise 'would be appropriate' for 2025-26

Christmas-ready! 😍🎄 And no I’m not sure why we have three trees, either.

"Through this chapter I share my personal journey with miscarriage & offer advice on how to help & support colleagues, employees & friends who may be going through the loss of a baby." A terrific chapter in @womened.bsky.social's 'Disruptive Women' Esther Mustamu-Daniels. Thanks for sharing, Esther.

Very excited that #EduDrinks is back this month on 29th November from 7:30pm. It’s always a great evening and a chance to see old friends and make new ones from the education world. DM either @deputypaul.bsky.social or me for the Zoom link.

Don't give up

Forgot about BlueSky for a bit. Came back and found it thriving! So good to see all the positivity #EduSky

Went on a guided mushroom forage this morning; what a lovely way to start the day!

One page overview of sentence structures from The Writing Revolution www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/writing... ✍️

🚨 NEW 🚨 ‘Writing and the 'final mile' problem’ “Effectively, we ask pupils to do think hard about making improvements when they have fewest mental resources to do the job.” alexquigley.co.uk/writing-and-...

Really useful breakdown:

Let the Heartstopper marathon commence! 🌈

Free entry to London Zoo for teachers on Saturday www.londonzoo.org/education/ev...

Could I ask a favour? If you could all share this I’d be really grateful! The Boy Who Cried Ghost is 99p today on the Kindle or available from all good indie bookshops! 👻🎃🖤 #KidLit #BookSky #EduSky #PrimaryEduSky

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

Keep an eye out for this exciting series on WomenEd’s YouTube channel featuring three of our wonderful authors 💜 WomenEd Book Club will host conversations with @hugheshaili.bsky.social , @gemmaclark.bsky.social and Rachel Macfarlane about their books – coming this October! 📚

➡️ Speech and language is in crisis - what can schools do next? The S&L crisis is not a Covid blip, it is a long-term problem that is damaging the outcomes of too many children and schools are being left to cope alone. A critical long read this morning www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Teacher and leader wellbeing is at a crisis point, use of supply teachers is increasing, and the TA role is expanding rapidly: the findings you need to know about from 3 DfE reports

What the actual. Maternity pay has gone too far, says Badenoch www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is exciting - wish we lived closer! There’s a huge waiting list near us Allotment holders wanted for new plots www.bbc.com/news/article...

When does homework go wrong, and how can we put it right? By me for @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/arc...

Post on a teacher FB page: school’s new policy is for verbal feedback/live marking to be evidenced by the student changing pen colour after every interaction to ‘prove’ teacher input. I’m sure someone had the best of intentions with this, but it shows how we still have a long way to go as a sector.

Diverse Words and Voices, a collection of 30 extracts from writers with a range of identities, will be published 7th October. I am proud to have edited the collection. Have a look to see which extracts we have included!

Woohoo! Look what we received today in all its purple gorgeousness!! 💜💜 Are you a Disruptive Woman? You will be when you read this book! #DisruptiveWomen Buy it here! uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/di...

New blog: hodandheart.co.uk/2024/09/25/t...

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🚺💜🚺💜🚺💜🚺💜🚺💜🚺💜 Dr. Lizana Oberholzer, Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, is delighted to invite you to engage with the WomenEd Book launch on the 25th September 2024! Click the link to book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university... We look forward to seeing you there!

This is tomorrow! Come and join us ☕️

🚨 NEW BLOG 🚨 'The rare vocabulary problem in English Literature' English Literature texts "prove difficult to access even for avid teen readers, whilst weaker readers have even less chance to engage with the language of the texts" alexquigley.co.uk/the-rare-voc...

Years after parliament voted to enact this law it will now come in to force. Thanks to all who fought. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve got participants signing up now and hoping for a few more! If you: 1) have worked in an English mainstream state-funded secondary school 2) have an opinion on research informed practice I want to hear from you! callforparticipants.my.canva.site Please share!

I also appreciate that they can be done well, and why there is strong evidence behind them. Here is an article from the ALTA team, nailing why exit tickets can be so powerful and how they ought to be delivered in order to maximise their positive outcomes. alta-education.com/2024/02/04/g...

GCSE English and maths resits policy in focus again as new @fftedudatalab.bsky.social analysis suggests a third of students could face resits. What is perhaps most striking is perhaps the numbers achieving below a grade 3. Story by @jasminenorden.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new... .

Possibly the most middle-aged-and-working-from-home shopping basket ever

Create the conditions where people can thrive. That is the primary purpose of leadership.

Heading off to Folkestone soon for the @womened.bsky.social book launch hosted by @kerryceo.bsky.social. Can’t wait for some positive disruption!

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Really good article with a terrible headline and photo! One thing missed here is that sustaining care for your own children and elders is very hard as a teacher. Flexibility matters. 🎓