🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘Learning Barriers, not labels’ “Would you teach differently if you were to learn about the designation of the special educational need?” alexquigley.co.uk/learning-bar...

Engaging in, or condoning, practices based on false information maintains misconceptions and multiplies its influence. Our blog on the use of coloured overlays in schools: ‘Papering Over the Reading Gap’ explains more wp.me/p4hKgx-7Xq (7 min read). #EduBlogUK #EduSky

Why are so many schools picking the same texts for English literature GCSE students? @jasminenorden.bsky.social investigates

The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win. The winner will be selected 19th April.

Would love this! @suchmo83.bsky.social is someone I have a great deal of respect for! Whomever wins this will be in for a treat! 📚📖

One of the most effective ways to drive effective inclusion is to make our teaching ‘accessible by default’. Let's dig into what that means: ↓

Good notes are notes that are: -Formatted for spaced retrieval practice -Condensing large amounts of information -Building understanding -Recording and monitoring understanding #EduSky www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/3/28

"..and the physics & the maths involved became relatable to what I was doing." Interview with astronaut Tim Peake in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: tes.com/magazine/tea... 2/2

🚨BANGING NEW EXPERIMENTAL STUDY on effective teacher development just dropped. Quick summary: ↓

*New post!* Choral response & 'I Say You Say' are two techniques I use with high frequency during my explanations. Although they seem simple, there is a lot of thinking behind them. bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/c...

@lauraturnerr.bsky.social @jgg4.bsky.social @clairerohdie.bsky.social @stevehickman.bsky.social @stupotwakefield.bsky.social @kknteachlearn.bsky.social @hartleyian.bsky.social . Ken Browne's A level Sociology hashtags. Use to build a bank of l A Level Soc resources. bsky.app/profile/brow...

"We should perhaps be cautious about being superficially impressed by someone who oozes charisma." My new blog post this week: jillberry102.blog/2025/02/04/c...

NEW BLOG: Where have all the Headteachers gone? #Edusky #Schools #Headteacher @headteacherchat.bsky.social @teachertapp.bsky.social pls share. southgloshead.wordpress.com/2024/08/31/w...

We must ask whether SEND determination is useful to those assigned the labels. Too often it isn't because the processes and associated actions are so inconsistent they're meaningless. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/i...

We know students love stories but how you do you actually tell them? How do they connect with your wider lesson sequence and its enquiry question? What do you get pupils to do with them? @hughrichards.bsky.social will explain, using beautiful examples from our new KS3 textbooks #ChangingHistoriesKS3

***New Post*** Twitter folk got quite upset about the idea of 40 lesson observations a few weeks back. My take on why it doesn't have to be the beast of old and can give us some real opportunities. teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/s...

*NEW post* Becoming Better People. Do your pupils become more polite, more hard working & more responsible each year they progress through school? bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/b...

At Reach there’s no limit to what you can achieve within our values-driven culture of high expectations & strong relationships built on mutual respect. @lilystaff.bsky.social reading programme is proof of this. Want to join us & grow your career? reachacademyhanworthpark.com/jointheteam/

I keep seeing comment about lessons being fun, so why not roll out my old article on the matter? We need fun for its own sake, but no need to pretend that it's part of the learning www.tes.com/magazine/arc...

Global development module- we looked at the patterns of the key terms to help learn them- prefixes, suffixes, portmanteau words and initialisms. #sociology . We also plotted the whole module on a tree.

#geographyteachers see below link to 'Geography for all our futures'. It sets out some of opportunitues & challenges facing geog as the GA develops our new 2025-30 strategy. & feedback & views welcome on [email protected] geography.org.uk/geography-fo...

It means so much to me that @hugheshaili.bsky.social had such nice things to say about my upcoming book: "This isn’t just a book; it’s a toolkit for educators who care deeply about their students’ long-term success." Find out more & preorder here: theeffortfuleducator.com/do-i-have-yo... #edusky

✍️ If getting your students to write longer responses is an issue, @greeborunner.bsky.social has three tips to make the best use of live modelling

Love this (from the Literary Review):

What a great video. Sums it up so well. 👏🙏

@clairerohdie.bsky.social data on gender, ethnicity, free school meal eligibility and key stage 5 subject choice from ffteducationdatalab ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2024/11/inte...

Here’s my November kids/YA round-up!

‼️ 🔔 Competition Want to win a copy of my book Is Leadership A Race? Repost this post Winner announced Sunday at 10pm

Updated my starter pack on the Effective Teaching of Reading - researchers, practitioners and advocates 👇🏼 go.bsky.app/Usy7iDv

I made a starter pack for researchers, practitioners, and advocates in evidence-based literacy instruction. #leaningscience #readingresearch #EduSky #scienceofreading #literacy #sor go.bsky.app/DrhYgSX

This is excellent on measuring reading fluency in primary from @fftedudatalab.bsky.social. It’s vital to understand typical reading progression & reliable tools to measure it.

Analogies for Learning An easy way to relate to students and start a discussion about using more advantageous learning strategies like retrieval practice and spaced practice. theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/11/10/a...

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘Teacher Development: What, Why, and How’ ““In most cases, there is a description of what to do and how to do it, but no description of why it might work.” alexquigley.co.uk/teacher-deve...

Given the strength of feeling on this, I've written a response and my own thoughts here... clairewarrenconsulting.co.uk/blog #edusky #teachsky #books #reading #schools #libraries #libsky #readingforpleasure

Encourage reading for pleasure and whole school literacy with my new Christmas book quiz! Perfect for tutor time, get your students talking about books...take a look at my TES shop, details are on my website! #EduSky #TeachSky #LibSky #readingforpleasure #kidsbooks #christmasactivity #education

NEW POST Leader says "please do x" Staff then don't do x It's not because they are lazy, incompetent or deliberately undermining. So why is it? achemicalorthodoxy.co.uk/2024/10/30/y...

I wrote this partly in response to a tendency of some SLT to read classrooms in generic ways, & so not to notice when generic pedagogies weigh so heavily on a subject that its curriculum can't breathe. 6 yrs on, it's still an issue #CurriculumandAssessmentReview my.chartered.college/impact_artic...

Another great article from Adam. “Too often, school leaders assume that all that’s required is to “say the thing” or “write the thing.” To have done an inset on the thing or to have written a policy about the thing and magically the thing is now in play.”

#UKEd #EduSky The Learning WalkThrus website is launched! Go to walkthrus.co.uk and you'll discover how you can access this site and its many resources for your staff and parents. Here are four videos on different parts of the resources.

Great piece by @ensermark.bsky.social about ambition and what it actually means in our schools.

‘How was your day?’ Can often get the response: ‘Nothing’. The question is too big for them to cope with after a long day at school. #parenting #edusky #parents #parentlife #parenthood #teacher #teachers #teaching #oracy #school #parentadvice

An important piece on the lives that don't seem to matter and the stories that don't seem to fit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Running a 'Building a Classroom Reading Culture' session on Monday 14th October. Will be looking at reading identities, book talk, the importance of peer recommendations, reading champions, etc. Lots of practical and sustainable suggestions. www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/jon-biddle...

New Post Classroom Seating and Student Achievement How does the classroom seating arrangement impact student behavior? theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/10/10/c... #edusky #cogsciscii

*new this week* Tackling Low Participation Tasks - Addressing how we can minimise copying - Practical ideas for ensure students think about what we read curriculumteamleader.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/t...