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Ex-HMI and national geography lead
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Wanderer of hills, wonderer of everything else.
Posting on Education, Folklore, Dungeons & Dragons and music.
Teacher 28 yrs inc. 10 yr stint as HoF. North Mancs regional advocate for Litdrive. Teaching, tennis, books, Egypt. Views my own. #teamenglish 🏳️🌈
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Co-Founder of TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Former editor of Schools Week & Guardian columnist. Once a teacher, always a teacher.
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Education, education, education. Work at the Education Endowment Foundation. Write books, write for TES, and blog: https://alexquigley.co.uk/
Trust Director of Curriculum Development | Assessment | Physics | Author: MARGE model of learning in Action | UCL grad | Primary school governor | Views are my own | All typos owned and apologised for in advance
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Co-founder and Chief Analyst, Teacher Tapp, surveying over 12,000 teachers every day.
Dad | Professor of applied sciences @AcademicaUoAS | Dubliner | PhD @KingsCollegeLon | Keats devotee | persecuted by an integer
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Former UK English teacher and senior leader, now training, speaking and consulting on all things DEI, curriculum, literacy and leadership. Co-Founder of Diverse Educators.
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Trust Teacher Development & Curriculum Lead, GMET | Deputy Chair,TrustCPDLeads | Speaker,co-Auth ‘The Trouble With English’, ‘Love the One You’re With-Why Teachers Stay & What We Can Learn From Them’. | LeadingTrusts100 | Running, Reading, Red | Views Own.
English teacher/Head of Department and freshly minted Trust Secondary English Lead. Based in Essex. NPQML/NPQLTD currently doing NPQSL. Wrote a book once:
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Teacher. Senior associate for Teaching & Learning at Evidence Based Education. Author. Mum.
Connecting and elevating current and aspiring women leaders in education. Global Charity 1201314.
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Founder of TryThisTeaching, Cofounder of The BAMEED Network charity.
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English Teacher. Lead Practitioner. Faculty Lead for English. Mostly seen wandering around Manchester and sitting in coffee shops.
Psychologist. Author. Research Illuminator. Director at InnerDrive
English leader. Former School Improvement Officer. 30th year in education. Passionate about high standards, Language and Literature and reading for all. Apparently ‘formidable’
Englishy things to model and share and also opinions. Former English HoD, examiner, current edu-adjacent person. Mediocre parent.
'I have a hyperbolic tongue. It catches fire as it goes.'
Recovering English teacher, headteacher, and union baron. Chiefly: food, books, Shakespeare, oracy, articles of interest … and gratuitous pics of border terrier Molly B.
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Information designer of education schemas and mental models. Author of Dual Coding with Teachers, co-author of Organise Ideas, and The Extended Mind. Co-creator of Teaching WalkThrus book and resources. Websites:
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Director of R&D at Evidence Based Education; Senior Associate at Education Endowment Foundation; Visiting Professor at Loughborough University.
Former maths teacher and professor of education
Author | KS4 Coordinator | Governor | Examiner | MA Teaching | @TLLeedsConf | @LitdriveUk RL | Learning Teaching Specialist for English | Lover of Brunches | Mum of 4 boys | Themed Party Planner by weekends | Chasing rainbows | Serial chai drinker ☕️
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Teacher, researcher, writer, mostly interested in the power of education to transform lives and how to do it better.
Award winning Early Years and Primary Advisor, lead curriculum developer and author. Unashamedly child - centred EY nerd. Occasionally outspoken rebel with a cause. No unsolicited DM’s unless I know you, thanks.
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English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5
EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/
English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
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Passionate teacher and Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching. Learning without Limits.
Head of English📚NW Regional Lead @LitDriveUK 📚 Author 📚NPQLTD #TeamEnglish 🏒Hockey fan of @SeattleKraken 🦑
Education author/blogger and consultant. Co-founder of Huh with Mary Myatt. Trainer for WalkThrus. Erstwhile headteacher of Huntington School, York. Contact: jtomsett@hotmail.com
Director @walkthrus.bsky.social walkthrus.co.uk
Author of WalkThrus with @olicav.bsky.social
Blogs/podcast/youtube via teacherhead.com
Currently on sabbatical in Australia/Indonesia. Back in action from March ‘25.
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Teacher of English, media & drama for 24 years; now an adviser. Literacy, English & all things teaching. Views are personal. jamesdurran.blog
Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Documenting and dismantling linguistic injustice in schools. Editor, Critical Studies in Education. Leverhulme Prize 2025.
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Making scientific research on learning accessible to students and educators. We aim to motivate students to study and increase the use of effective study and teaching strategies that are backed by research.
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Blogs and writes about writing, the written word and education. Director of the National Association for the Teaching of English.
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Award-winning charity supporting English and Media teachers with publications, CPD, consultancy + conferences. Putting curiosity + pleasure at the heart of learning.
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Director of Research; Writer; English teacher.
History teacher, Founder of Teachers Talk Radio, Education #ukteaching
Educationalist, sometime academic, committed to supporting social justice and evidence-led policymaking and practice in education.
CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation. Chaired the Curriculum and Assessment Review (2024-2025) but now back at the EEF
Community Manager, UK Education at Oxford University Press 📚 Oxford Children’s, OUP Primary, OUP Secondary #UKEd #EduSky
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Vice Principal. Teacher of English. Writer.
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English teacher. Vice Principal for Quality of Education. All views my own. ‘Ready to Teach’ Macbeth/ ACC and ‘100 for 100’ Macbeth: tiny.cc/9uspuz
Director of Behaviour| @tes Behaviour Columnist| English Teacher| ELE| MA T+L| EdSec Gove fan | author of The Complete Guide to Pastoral Leadership 💗
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Director of Education at No More Marking, an ed tech start-up. Author of 3 books about education & 1 about football. West Ham & cricket fan.
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Education writer and speaker.
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Director of Learning, Impact and Influence @voice21oracy.bsky.social. Co-author of 'Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative'. Interested in: teaching & learning, education policy and all things oracy.
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Educator, presenter and author of the award winning ‘Opening Doors’ series of books.
Fellow of The English Association.
Contact me for support for routes to ambitious English for all.
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The Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England, chaired by @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social
Providing a blueprint for a national entitlement to oracy education.
Education consultant, writer of fiction & children's poetry; passionately committed to English as a subject, to education, and to the idea that learning is founded on dialogue. Poems on Dirigible Balloon & Northern Gravy.
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Teacher at The British School of Brussels, KS3 English Lead, International Oracy Leader, Trustee of The English and Media Centre.
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
School improvement lead for a small but varied and beautifully formed trust. TES columnist.
Education, improving things for our most vulnerable. Literature, Yorkshire, folklore.
English teacher, head of department, geek, avid reader of books, blogger
Blog: https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/
Associate Professor, English education, IoE, University of Reading.
Trust Director of English and Literacy at Carlton Academy Trust | Author | Speaker | CPD | Mum | Wife | ADHD | Founder: The Literacy Community | #EduSky | #UKTeaching | 🇬🇧 🇰🇳
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Assistant Principal (Teaching and Learning) | NPQSL | RTT: Macbeth / A Christmas Carol’ and ‘100 for 100: Macbeth’ 🗡👻 @JohnCattEd - https://tinyurl.com/RTTMacCC
Professor of mentoring and coaching at Academica Uoas. Director of PD at All Saints MAT, English teacher for 15+ years. Speaker. Author. CCT Council. ECF & NPQ facilitator. DfE Associate. UCL Associate. English Lead at Embrace SCITT
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