Mr T

One for international women's day. Great from the New Yorker. Terrible on behalf of men as 100% I have unintentionally done shades of this in the past.

As a fellow job hunter it's an unfathomable moras of opinion piece and dejection. There are some bright sparks but generally somewhat depressing and not suited to those less likely to blow their own trumpets.

Do schools kill creativity? The case for knowledge before novelty and why constraint enables original thought

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Home - OxWell : OxWell share.google/ywhLD5xeQXnW...

Another excellent piece of work worth sharing. I had nothing to do with this FYI just like it.

Schools white paper: The key SEND reform policies DfE documents finally flesh out proposed 'layered' approach

Your evening schools white paper round-up...

Firstly - the 14 key points you need to know from the SEND reforms. Including the three new 'layers' of support, new individual support plans and duties for schools

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-whit...

No, Direct Instruction Will Not Make a Renaissance at Alpha School I'm sorry, last post and then I'm done writing about this

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Properly interesting. Have seen tech in education done ok and done awfully. Emotive and financially motivated discourse abounds.

How very 'American Beauty' of you.

Yes. I think you will see a pull out. It's been the goose that lays golden eggs for so long the relative reduction in profit margin will thin out some. Others will make decisions based on maintaining their margin through other means. Some will have the moral fortitude to continue to do great work.

Transforming Attendance in Cornwall | Marc Rowland Here is our report on 'Transforming attendance in Cornwall', looking at attendance to school and attendance to learning in rural and coastal communities: https://lnkd.in/eQFFRBz5

Marc Rowland and chums work on attendance (no idea if they are bluesky or not) is excellent and too good to not share. www.linkedin.com/posts/marc-r...

L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday.
R: News headline, today.

Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.

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Charlie 1 - possible exception

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world

More appalling news from dystopia central

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Deceptacon

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Obscure banger. #hiddengems

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Reading in another place a review of my work by someone. Surreal experience being referred to by the organisation I work for as opposed to as a person equally weird when the interaction is incredibly personalised. Hadn't really clocked that I am seen in the same light as people view the Borg.

From the excellent Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter. These feel like some solid ideas for a school's approach to data analysis. See lots of MIS data sheets with no interpretation and plenty of impenetrable excel analysis that masquerades as data work in schools.

Who says high quality journalism is dead.

Arab astronomers in the early Islamic Golden Age were pioneers of science and innovation. They developed technologies for navigation, timekeeping and the study of the cosmos.

Discover the texts that shaped the training of these scholars: www.qdl.qa/en

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Perception or reality Q - it feels like there are less and less jobs in the UK education market based around school improvement and system leadership. Is this a symptom of tightening belts or am I just looking at the wrong websites?!?

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Some excellent resources here. Thank you
@nationaltheatre.org.uk

His reading of 'Under Milkwood' from the National was also fantastic and is on YouTube and other services.

Owain & Henry | Michael Sheen fel/as Owain Glyndŵr YouTube video by Wales Millennium Centre / Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru

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Total excellence.

Swallowed - Remastered

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Feeling this one on the lunch time back catalogue browse.

#obsureexcellence

I'm not sure this is as revolutionary as it's suggesting it is. Coherent and effective emotional literacy teaching has been fundamental in decent schools, probably forever.

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

—from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Young Love (feat. Laura Marling)

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Not sure this was a hit the first time round but an excellent track. I'm enjoying these even if no one else does.

#selfish

Underated on many levels

Geno - 2000 Remaster

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Apparently on a roll with these. Before they recorded every wedding DJs favourite finishing move they had this banger.

#obscureexcellence