New! My 196th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2026/02/5-ma... Hat tips to follow. #mathstoday #ukmathschat #alevelmaths

And The New Dark Ages now has a cover! Bitter years of book reviewing have taught me not to get excited and that most books are fated to be ignored. But I am finding it hard to stay entirely jaded in this instance…

Love it that Putin was in the excellent bbc adaptation of Tinkor, Tailor...

Monsters cannot be announced. As soon as we try to announce our monster, we turn them into pets.

Giving Braverman the education brief is quite a choice for Reform. I was on an education commission with her once before she went completely mad and she knew absolutely nothing at all.

Braverman as Education Secretary

A long shot, but has anyone read Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller?

Just started reading about the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's so bloody obvious.

Joe Pesci is 83. Here’s the pivotal scene from Goodfellas when he gets elaborately whacked by the mob for killing Billy Batts.

Desperate to say 'rebarbative' in a sentence

Apparently Halt and Catch Fire is awesome tv

Three sets of increasingly difficult questions, designed to identify gaps in the basic skills needed to be successful on a GCSE paper. All @tessmaths.bsky.social's idea. mathsbot.com/gcse/skillsT...

14. Argh one more - we should also be mindful that if schools become more disrupted, less calm, more uncertain they will be environments which more and more children and adults find unpleasant - we could get into a cycle of worse attendance and behaviour as a result.

Absolutely. There will be a significant minority of students in huge numbers of schools, including 'Outstanding' schools who go round deliberately ruining lessons, ruining the chances of other students and damaging the health of teachers. That's the truth.

Thoughts on this mess. 🧵👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone read this?

#ALevelMaths Can anyone explain how they go about these questions. Do you adjust what you're doing based on where you're trying to get to?

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!

Where's the bluesky gym bros? I'm benching 75kg right now. Going for 100 by the summer.

It's Friday. It's the shortest amount of time anyone has ever owned a trouser press. youtu.be/tNqn5bKmKNc?...

I just wrote this for a project I am working on and it basically sums up the last 4 years of my life working in school improvement

I'm gonna write a book set in a school from the perspective of a quiet kid whose chance of escape from his awful home life is ruined by badly behaved kids and the adults who do nothing about it.

Christmas is not easy for everyone 📱

Many of you may know that we recently had our third child. You probably don't know that we struggled with secondary infertility and went through IVF. Very grateful to @jewishchron.bsky.social for publishing my reflections on something we don't talk about enough. www.thejc.com/community/in...

'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2

What school leaders need to do is tie together their philosophy of Education with how it affects a lesson run by a cover teacher on a Friday afternoon. If you can get consistency of expectation running through that, then I call that leadership.

What's the one thing you've always wanted to know about Teaching? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 For me, it's what exactly is a 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut and what is its etymology?

STOIC - the acronym - very helpful!

Kids watching the Wallis and Gromit shows. Oh wow, they're absolute genius. Some of them must be 30 years old now and they hold up outstandingly well

Highlights from my school years. substack.com/@rufus292428...

My 13 year old only really reads History books. He's read some good ones by Dominic Sandbrook. Can anyone recommend some others? For now, he seems to be interested in the big 20th Century events.

Did they get the management consultants in or something?

I’m loving angles instead.

This, from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social is absolutely the best thing you can read on Substack. Free to your inbox every Friday. New atheist cringe, hunter gatherer social life, rule by lawyers, origins of Google, the most worthless degrees open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

*** NEW POST *** 1/ 🚀 Schools are extraordinary places – but so much of what they achieve goes unseen. This is why @greeborunner.bsky.social and I wrote How Do They Do It? Peak inside here and order a copy teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/l...

If you would like to know more about our new book, there's a useful thread here.

Going to see Belle & Sebastian doing Tigermilk ♥️♥️

My A Levels in Film & English gave me great opportunities like teaching A Level Film & English to get students A Levels in Film & English.

Red moon

Anyone who wants to do this with me (online support), please let me know #Teacherswhorun

Back into teacher-mode. I know we're three weeks out but I'm going to start talking about teaching again.

Despite cycling to work, playing tennis and lifting weights, I have completely lost the ability to run. So, back to couch to 5k which I thought was incredible when I did it years ago. First walk/run today #Teacherswhorun

On the Lucy Letby case, MD writes: the conclusion of the UK’s most senior neonatologist on last weekend’s ITV documentary was clear. You don’t need to invent a murderer, or methods of murder, to explain how these babies died. MD's latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.

A must-watch documentary