When half term starts with a delivery from your publisher! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Thanks to @bloomsburyed.bsky.social for the advance copy. ❤️ @gwenelope.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social

English teacher: Vacancy for a full-time permanent teacher at our school: www.juliangirdham.com/blog/vacancy... #edchatie

I am looking for recommended reading on ‘I do We do You do’ in English teaching, please. Grateful for all suggestions. TIA

Link to shop: www.s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket

*** NEW POST *** @greeborunner.bsky.social explores why you sometimes just need to get out of teachers' way... wp.me/p7mhqT-OI

One conversation can make such a difference.

Is ‘Journey to the River Sea’ more suitable for kS2 or KS3? Thanks

Happy New Year! Just a quick reminder that I offer online and face-to-face GCSE English assessment, advice, tuition and training, specialising in the Eduqas qualifications. Have a look here to find out more. hughlester.wixsite.com/hughlester #eduqas #teamenglish

Don’t mIss our first Shakespeare webinar: Monday 6pm GMT, link below. Buckle in: this is the first of ….41!

Agree with this. We need to help teachers make better decisions not make the decisions for them. This isn't just being nice. Prescription usually doesn't work beyond basic agreed stuff around procedural routines. Even these will be subverted if people don't understand the reasons.

“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

Lovely English teachers - what do you have as ‘seminal world texts’ in your KS3 curriculum? Thank you

As 2024 draws to a close, we’re reflecting on a standout moment: @samiraahmed.bsky.social's inspiring school visits⭐ We’re now giving UK schools the chance to win copies of THIS BOOK WON'T BURN and INTERNMENT by sharing this post! A thread 1/3 #ReadingForPleasure

1/? Yes, you need a menopause policy. 📝 You need it because you have a legal obligation to support employees through perimenopause and into menopause. 📝 You need it because it enables you to consider what that support might look like - and put reasonable boundaries on it. #Edusky #UKEd

i have secured funding to run a summer school for secondary school teachers on language and social in/justice. it'll be over 3 days and involve teachers engaging with linguistic justice theory and applying this to practice. more details soon but feel free to express interest!💜

To our incredible authors, without whom we wouldn't be half the company we are: @patrickcragg.bsky.social @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social @amy117.bsky.social @mrs-denglish.bsky.social @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social And we have The Quotation Bank: The Tempest coming in March!!

*** NEW POST *** The curriculum should be there to serve pupils, not teachers, argues @greeborunner.bsky.social wp.me/p7mhqT-O4

Having a debate about this: what constitutes a Scheme of Work? Particularly in English. Love to hear your thoughts.

'King Lear' scene by scene: 11 podcasts covering the play. Just one left to come, on the final scene. www.juliangirdham.com/blog/the-kin...

📖 Litdrive CPD 📖 Dickens: This informative session from Mary Hind-Portley and Fe Brewer looks at whether A Christmas Carol is a religious or secular text and more. 🐝 Find it here: https://buff.ly/49m1kpi #LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish

One of the things that keeps me going back to Twitter is that I get fairly regular DMs on there asking me for advice about reading. Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason. Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.

Ofsted’s latest grading proposals.

@greeborunner.bsky.social is one of my role models. Thank you Zoe for all you do for English and English teachers.

To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway. Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100. You have until noon on Sunday 17th November

A starter pack for those interested in English teaching here. go.bsky.app/M4WaetA

I’ve written a Teacher guide on an incredible book! Please share with A level English teachers collins.co.uk/products/978... @headofenglish.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @tomneedham.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social @shadylady222.bsky.social @hywelroberts.bsky.social

Just spent a brilliant evening at the Lit in Colour event. So many amazing performances - and exposure to writing by global majority playwrights. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/l...

Last November, I had successful cancer treatment. Now, I'm giving something back. Instead of growing a 'tache, I've devised Coachember. I'll coach 90 men for 60 minutes each in 30 days. You can donate and find a link to book your session on my Just Giving page. www.justgiving.com/page/nick-we...

Half-term reading.

Lots of learning this week. Personal reflections etc. organisation of curriculum coming along - changed based on reflections. Better structural organisation and communication. -#teamwork #EduSky

Find the map here - www.suttontrust.com/school-admis...

For the first time, the Sutton Trust can reveal school by school information on how secondary pupil intakes reflect their local community. Our accompanying analysis looks at which local authorities in England have the most and least socially segregated schools ⬇️🧵

Today’s learning: over communicate and communicate even the obvious.

What would be your recommended reading on improving boys’ performance, particularly wwc pp. thanks

My brother in law reminded me yesterday that I love teaching. It was a good reminder.

Thanks Mary, more here www.sussex.ac.uk/education/ct... and examples of schools here films.myattandco.com/categories/f...

Thinking about starting and Eduqas Lang and Lit community here. Please ‘like’ if you would like to be involved.

Looking forward to starting Faster Read with Y7 in Sept - if you’ve had experience of it (or similar) and can offer any feedback/advice/tips, please share 📖 #teamenglish

Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here! primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...

New: A 44 page booklet for KS3 study of Romeo & Juliet, including things like: * knowledge organiser * key speeches with Q prompts * act by act knowledge quizzes * social & cultural context info * writing tasks Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mvzvc...

Academic publishing houses' profit (2023): Elsevier $2.3 billion Taylor & Francis $1.1 billion Springer $572 million The amount they pay article authors and reviewers (2023): $0 If you ever want an article I wrote, email me at [email protected] and it's yours free.

#TeamEnglish - A synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 1 Examiners' Report for June 2024: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9... (Paper 2 to follow shortly)

Eduqas GCSE grade boundaries over time for Lang and Lit if useful to anyone: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/biowo...

When analysing results what is Nat av? England only 16 yo? England all candidates or uk 16 or Uk all candidates?

I should have worn a scarf.

Bleak weather today.

Nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked People will remember: - your vast and trunkless legs of stone - your frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command - your works, ye Mighty

For any new teachers: Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Teaching carlhendrick.com/2017/05/06/f...