Another cracking episode from @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and @amymayforrester.bsky.social with Carl Hendrick. I think this one may have to go in the staff bulletin. Also good to hear how Adam has reformed his social media persona! #UKEd #UKTeaching 🍎🎓 open.spotify.com/episode/0JW7...

“A Helping Hand” by L, age 8 (title by her mother)

“Ribbons” by L, age 8.

6/ Real change takes years. Schools we studied transformed behaviour and attendance through long-term culture building: clarity of purpose, investment in staff, consistent follow-through.

Turns out Jacqueline Wilson writes for adults too - in almost exactly the same style as her children’s books! 📚 #BookSky

School experiences that are universal via bedtime conversations with my kids. 6 year old: “we had loads of different teaching assistants in year 1. They kept changing” 8 year old: “I didn’t enjoy PE today so I went to the toilet half way through and deliberately did everything really slowly” 🍎🎓

Really interesting episode with Nick Gibb open.spotify.com/episode/1cPe... 🍎🎓 @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @amymayforrester.bsky.social

Teachers, unions, education leaders: AI does not clearly do what it's being marketed and hyped as doing in education. It won't save time, solve inequality, raise achievement, and it's not inevitable. But it will line their wallets. Still time to call a pause on it nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai

Best line so far from this podcast “I remember my headmaster saying: ‘when you all leave, some of yous are gona be crooks. For yous that are gona be crooks, be good ones, cos it’s only the ones that are not good that get caught’” #Gangster www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

'Twas the night before training And all through the house Not a teacher was stirring Not even the Scouse The adults were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of KCSiE danced in their heads.

This blog is really interesting and worth reading, might make you think next time you go to use the word ‘idiot’ as an insult.

Cupboard clear out. Memories !

Finally finished this. It took me a long time to get through but I’m overall glad I persevered. Not as compelling as her others, but I actually preferred the second half. #Booksky 📚

This might be the best video I’ve seen all year

Good SLT day in school ‘dress rehearsing’ for INSET. Bring on Monday! 🍎🎓

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They’re *intended* to make you feel uneasy. Intimidation of the ‘out-group’ is part of the core intent. Divisiveness, at its kindest. Are you a patriot, or of ‘us’, or a traitor (I was called this to my face at a protest in Hull)? Whatever we show, it shouldn’t be fear.

1. The Flags have arrived in my area. They make me uneasy. It isn't I have a problem with them when we're celebrating something. Football. Olympics. Even a royal wedding. But right now they don't *feel* like a positive affirmation of stuff we like but more a protest against things people don't..

For the first lesson in #CoreMaths I like to get students to look at some recent news articles and do a bit of Fermi estimation using the figures. The news is a bit bleak at the moment, but here are a few articles I've spotted this week - feel free to add suggestions to the thread! #MathsToday

I can now tick ‘going to carnival’ off my bucket list ✅ 🇯🇲 🇩🇲 🇧🇧 🇹🇹 🇬🇧

This isn’t just about grades. It locks inequality into place. Young people born into poor circumstances are more likely to stay poorer as adults. Resits help to tackle this. By 19, 83% now hold a pass in GCSE English and 79% in maths. Because of resits, the “forgotten third” no longer exists.

The state of Florida came in overnight and painted over the Pulse Memorial site crosswalk in Orlando. This crosswalk abided by the state’s laws and was originally installed by them. To be clear, the state surreptitiously painted over this memorial at night against the city’s wishes. Cowards.

Mad times #AI #Fakes

Introducing our new series of brief (15-min) @ippr.org podcasts looking at different aspects of what inclusion in education means now … and how it could look in the future. First conversation is with national SEND expert @mmulholland.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/5G7A...

That might be… quite a good way to put it…

This piece made me want to reimagine the way my own syllabus looks and that is absolutely a good thing. 🙏

Interesting read for a non MFL specialist. Is it silly I spent the whole time trying to work out if you were pro-pillar or anti-pillar?! 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🍎 🎓

New post Link below ⬇️ substack.com/inbox/post/1...

No words.

Very entertaining writing, especially the bit about LinkedIn and the long extended metaphor of a school as a body! 🫶🍎🎓

Just come across this on improving writing from a while ago at Totteridge Academy, how fantastic: 📌🎓🍎 #UKEd readytowritecouk.wordpress.com/2022/03/10/d...

First ride of the summer ☀️ 🚲

Today’s production 🫶 #Art #Holidays #Playdate

Probably the key stat is that 1 in 6 people IN the UK are born overseas. So they are less likely that Brits born in Britain to become criminals. Where is the responsible journalism @ipso.co.uk - there's got to be the limit to the non-stop nonsense Shame on you, ‪‪ @mattdathan.bsky.social

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 5 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. The media, their framing, IS the problem

I enjoyed interviewing these two superstars 🌟 www.linkedin.com/posts/harris...

Nothing flashy: a couple of reworked GCSE English Language papers (AQA) that include the 2026 changes www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/reworke... 🖋️

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

There seem to be disturbing stories coming out of the USA daily/hourly via my bluesky, but very little on the BBC… why?

Parents with grievances about schools can now just fire off ChatGPT-powered rage emails and schools can't cope www.tes.com/magazine/new...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Nicotine pouches sold as sweets: Pretty scary and good for educators to be aware of #EduSky #UKEd 🍎🎓

Today I had a hysteroscopy. This isn’t a criticism of the hospital staff, they were kind & professional. But the procedure was brutal, so much so, we had to abandon it. Please sign/share this petition from calling for adequate pain relief: chng.it/DrTQsJcxsf

We won!!! 🦁 ⚽️ First game my girls have watched - I had to explain all the rules to them, what a pleasure!

If you are medically eligible, when did you last #GiveBlood? Or, if you’re inspired/reminded by this post, when will you next? #GiveBloodNHS 🩸

Attempting to give blood for the first time in four years… wish me luck… 🩸 #GiveBlood

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

📚 Steplab Summer Reads is here! Each week this summer, we’re giving away a brilliant CPD book written by one of our expert team. Entering is as easy as 1, 2, 3: 1️⃣ Follow us 2️⃣ Like the giveaway post 3️⃣ Repost Winners will be announced later that week. Stay tuned - the first giveaway drops tomorrow!

open.spotify.com/episode/4UZr... Really good episode with excellent food for thought for any senior leader trying to embed consistency in T&L across a sch alongside maintaining subject rigour and validity. @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @amymayforrester.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social 🍎🎓📚

I’ve finally read this which was on my ‘to read’ list for ages. It’s so easy to read as it’s written as a story. Brilliant way to apply a theory! Read it quickly and really enjoyed it. As for practical applications, that’s a bigger job than reading it! 📚🍎🎓 #PatrickLencioni #BookSky #UKed #EduSky