Over one in five pupils in England speak English as an Additional Language - making multilingual classrooms the norm in many schools. But what opportunities might schools be missing when supporting EAL? View our full interactive story: https://bit.ly/4nSDHe8

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Boycott Eurovision

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

Trump steps up a campaign against teaching English to immigrant kids www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Long thread: I've done interviews on Labour's latest anti-asylum policy today, but, unfortunately, had to turn down some for this evening. So, in addition to the clip from earlier, let me just set out why and how this latest Labour piece of cruelty won't work, but will cause far more harm. 1/38

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

The Israeli official and convicted terrorist who just yesterday declared his support for a military unit that assaulted a CNN crew & killed a 78-year-old Palestinian-American is now today drinking champagne to celebrate a new law to execute Palestinians.

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

The last time the Olympics had widespread sex eligibility testing, the results were disastrous. Add social media to that fire now. Intersex athletes will not only have their lives upended, they'll be brutally targeted for harassment and potential violence. www.erininthemorning.com/p/under-new-...

Israel Passes Law to Allow Hanging of Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Israel just made it legal to hang Palestinians who have a 99.74% conviction rate in their courts For Israelis it's a 1.9% conviction rate for crimes against Palestinians but the death penalty is still illegal Israel can now kill any Palestinian they accuse

Israel is about to start executing Palestinians but not Israelis. Israel has a 99.74% conviction rate for Palestinians, but only a 1.9% conviction rate for Israelis who commit crimes against Palestinians. This means ANY Palestinian who is accused will be executed, guilty or not

Iran is “trolling” the US with LEGO cartoons

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Il y a 22 ans, le fiasco européen du RC Lens face à Gaziantepspor

SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News

What does the latest EAL pupil evidence mean for schools? Our Director Diana Sutton explores the findings from our latest EAL research with @education.ox.ac.uk and what schools can do to support EAL learners to reach their potential. Read the article for useful insights: https://bit.ly/4acopxh

Excellent response from @ealglasgow.bsky.social to #Farage. "..the narrative that EAL learners are bringing attainment figures down is false as well..because..as young people get more fluent in their language, they actually outperform in the general figures." www.scotsman.com/education/ou...

We've launched our latest evidence on EAL learner attainment with @education.ox.ac.uk. This builds on 10 years’ worth of research and reinforces the importance of assessing proficiency in English. We asked teachers for their key takeaways⬇️ bit.ly/vidcovsuf View the report: bit.ly/43YoaSk

Our latest evidence from @education.ox.ac.uk shows that the later an EAL pupil joins school, the harder it is for them to catch up in education. Late arriving monolingual pupils do not face this same attainment penalty, however. Explore the findings in our data story: https://bit.ly/3JJVmGp

#Oracy is important for success in education and later in life. For all pupils to benefit however, the specific needs of #EAL pupils must be considered. Teachers must provide learners with a structured approach that exposes them to language and builds their confidence: https://bit.ly/4nSDEje

Can we just address the fact that the UK should not, under any circumstances, be detaining and forcibly removing victims of trafficking or torture to another country. This government is going to end up being the cause of death for already traumatized individuals. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

#NALDIC 's Regional and Special Interest Groups are spaces where you can share your practice and meet local and global colleagues working with #EAL RIG and SIG mailing lists and meetings are open, for free, to members and non-members. naldic.org.uk/rigs-and-sigs/

Looking for some FREE illustrated simple stories in many languages to explain school rules and routines to your newcomer students? Here are my pre-made ones for you to use: sites.google.com/view/eslfair... #OntEd #MLL #Ml #EAL #ESL

As pupils return to school, #oracy skills have never been more important. But how can teachers teach oracy skills to pupils who speak English as an Additional Language (EAL)? Glynis Lloyd offers practical tips for primary schools to ensure an oracy-rich curriculum for multilingual learners:

The curriculum review is an important opportunity to reform a system that often fails to support EAL learners effectively. We’re calling for more flexibility around learning and assessment, to support EAL students to learn English, and access the curriculum through English: https://bit.ly/4nSDEje

Team member @nuthmani.bsky.social writes about the urgent need for educators to embrace the fact that education IS political. bylines.scot/news/educati...

"Education can be a powerful force.... Standing in solidarity with the global community, working for a cleaner, safer world with greater equality, peace and justice." A powerful call for Global Citizenship Education by Charlotte Dwyer of @scotdec.bsky.social app.scotsman.com/story/528335...

📣 Our co-founder and director, Jehan Al-Azzawi will be on BBC radio Scotland on Saturday morning from 8am discussing the events outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk last week and the role for educators.

#EAL pupils’ English proficiency = biggest achievement predictor at school. It explains 4-6 times as much variation in attainment as gender, FSM and ethnicity combined. Assessment of proficiency is key to effective classroom support and should be reintroduced in England: bit.ly/4nSDEje

Resources for emergent bilinguals! The English Learner Family Toolkit is available in four languages (English, Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish) #ELL #ESL #ESOL #Multilingual #EduSky ncela.ed.gov/educator-sup...

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize. First Book: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire Main award: Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth Judging panel: Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne. Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

Anyone wanting to refer Esol students let us know @learnenglishyh.bsky.social #esol

The silence from the education community, especially when so many 'stood' with Ukraine, is deafening

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I've created, so far, 6 starter packs of educators who teach or are interested in #EAL, #EAL/D, #ELL, #MLL, #EFL, #ESL, #bilingualism and #multilingualism. Please tag others so that I can add to these lists. Please DM me if you wish to be removed from any of the lists.

Multilingual classrooms are now the norm, with over 1 in 5 pupils speaking #EAL in England. But a policy vacuum, alongside the disappearance of expertise and services, has left learners unsupported and teachers unprepared. We’re calling for urgent changes to plug the gap: bit.ly/4nSDEje

Of course we’re angry about how we treat people in our asylum system, But we should also be furious at the immense waste of public money that this failed deterrence policy represents. That money belongs to us & should be used to support our communities, not terrorise migrants!

Nice electrcical circuit symbols poster from the IET education.theiet.org/media/0ino10...

Gazeteci Timur Soykan, serbest bırakılmasının ardından adliye önünde sevinçle karşılandı

I didn’t support the Assisted Dying Bill at Second Reading, a decision I reached after a great deal of thought. Since then, several reasonable safeguards have been rejected, which has only deepened my concerns about this Bill. I’ll be voting against at Third Reading today.

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq. Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes. Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same. The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

In December 2023, the Israeli President Isaac Herzog signed an artillery shell before it was fired to massacre Palestinians in Gaza. He belongs in the dock at The Hague, not platformed on the BBC.

This is the second time this woman (“Britain’s strictest headteacher”) has claimed there’s a secret school in London she won’t name that has replaced Shakespeare with me. It’s complete bullshit of course but why’s she so obsessed with me