The report featured in the Guardian today on the inclusion of women in hustory lessons is really important - lets make women’s voices heard and their actions remembered. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Lovely review of Tom’s play northernartsreview.co.uk/north-east/r...

Essex school leaders will see their students in every word Vic says here. @vicgoddard.bsky.social

This is my flag.

Toms new play dates and link It’s a comedy linktr.ee/mangoensemble

"..in which they can be successful & feel fulfilled, is a significant driver for me." My latest blog post, on 'Women in school leadership': jillberry102.blog/2025/08/02/w... 2/2

Honoured to write this.

Had a chat with Billy Bragg at Latitude while we were both eating lunch. He told me that teachers and school leaders make more of a difference to the world than musicians ever can and he shook my hand. He made a difference to me today for sure. He is such a nice, humble bloke.

Toms next play on tour this Autumn www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/...

Just a day to go now….

"36 years on, I am so grateful I chose teaching & that this morphed into school leadership & then trust leadership." Huge congratulations, @morsecat.bsky.social, on all you've achieved - & very best wishes for the next stage of the adventure! It can be rich & full! www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

"One of the things I am most proud of is the talented women who have been able to follow in my wake as headteachers." @morsecat.bsky.social writes in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

My close friend Jim Stewart has died, aged 67, after a rapid progression of Parkinson's. We taught English, organised @NATEfeed conferences & wrote books together. He taught me much about teaching, Shakespeare, music & the hills, and even more about laughter. He's deeply missed.

In the latest post on our Substack I try to make sense of the mutual incomprehension between teachers & students about the role of AI. Is it OK for students to use AI to write their assignments if that's the most efficient thing to do? If not, why not? substack.nomoremarking.com/p/what-is-th...

Process, inclusion, and the cost of convenience. inco14.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/j...

Farage is of the far right. He went to an elite school where he admired the Nazis, is a millionaire and laughs about you behind your back because he has persuaded you that he ‘talks sense’ and is ordinary like you. He isn’t. He is very sinister.

Congratulations Caroline- very well deserved recognition of an outstanding career and contribution to state education! 😊

Pleased to see @counsellc.bsky.social in the Honours list for her influential work in education and our own Angela Dixon for being a magnificent Chief Exec for the inspiring place that is Saffron Hall. Congratulations! Both brilliant women!

When I was 22 and trained to be a teacher I never imagined that one day I would be invited to a Royal Garden Party! Thank you @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social for making this happen for 7,000 educators yesterday. Turns out that not all Secretaries of State for Education think of us as ‘the blob’!

In my last term of school leadership. I did it my way, I guess!

Trump is pushing the world into recession. By learning the lessons of 2008, we can still prevent it Hope Reeves and Starmer are listening to the old wise head

School leaders! What are you most worried about? An unfunded pay rise? A new Ofsted framework? Recruiting staff? The first two are the ones keeping the leaders I speak to awake at night. @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social @ascl-uk.bsky.social

"The American state has been captured by a group of people who do not see the world as we do ... To their credit, they don’t pretend to be anything else. To our discredit, we lie to ourselves that they do." Good piece by @lewisgoodall.com. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

I’m guessing that it took the DfE around 3 nanoseconds to conduct their public interest test when drafting this FOI response

My thoughts on the terrible OFSTED report card proposals mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...

Wondered if history folk are feeling the same @bennewmark.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social @michaelfordham.bsky.social mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...

Brilliant commentary on the failings of the Ofsted proposals with practical solutions on how to make it better.

Very good read. “Schools in deprived and sidelined contexts will, almost certainly, be disproportionately labelled as ‘causing concern’” Also in my view we just need effective, action needed, not effective.

@morsecat.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social Some thoughts on OFSTED report card proposals mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...

Some thoughts I agree with from the guy I am married to.

Wondered if history folk are feeling the same @bennewmark.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social @michaelfordham.bsky.social mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...

An interesting first take on Ofsted’s proposed report cards.

@morsecat.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social Some thoughts on OFSTED report card proposals mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...

My thoughts on the terrible OFSTED report card proposals mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...

“The schools bill has, of course, put outliers in our system on the defensive, but they don’t speak for the majority of the profession" @headsroundtable.bsky.social with a very strong message to those publicly criticising the Schools Bill www.tes.com/magazine/new...

We have written to the SoS Education in support of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. We have summarised it here in a letter to The Times and the included in an article.

Helpful!

We can “shift the conversation towards equity, collaboration and innovation’. Fantastic piece from HTRT member @andrewoneill.bsky.social in @tesmagazine.bsky.social on Labour’s School’s Bill. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Thank you to DfE and Bridget Phillipson for inviting members of HTRT this evening.

Thank you for your support! ✊ #PayUp24

Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich youtu.be/SA8T29zWNCw?...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A bit of an insult after 14 years of lower settlements to see nothing yet agreed for our sixth form College when nearby academy sixth form gets 5.5% like all school staff

Husband on strike tomorrow. Why? Because he has not had the teacher pay rise because he works in a Sixth Form College that is not an academy. The Sixth Form College right next door is an academy and their staff, teaching the same courses, are getting the pay rise. Go figure!

Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need. A few initial thoughts: 🧵

Over 50 city & municipal governments are embedding the concepts and tools of Doughnut Economics in their strategies, policies and processes - check out how they are getting started with some fantastic peer-to-peer inspiration summed up in our new report.... doughnuteconomics.org/tools/cities...

Hello, new BlueSky followers. In April, I was proud to be asked to chair the Oracy Education Commission. You can read our final report ('We Need to Talk') here: tinyurl.com/yr9pp9af And there are dozens of podcast conversations exploring #oracy in its many forms: open.spotify.com/show/5UwEJKk...