🚨New Resources Alert🚨
March is now online featuring:
⚙️ Should social media influencers be more accountable for their content?
⚙️ Castle Bravo
⚙️ Aretha Franklin
⚙️ Have you ever wondered what taxes are spent on?
Comprehension starts with powerful knowledge
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Controversial opinion alert.
The Leadership Pay Scale should start at the value of UPS3 plus the top of TLR1, not at UPS3.
Reading comprehension is not a skill. It’s an outcome of what you know. Strategies plateau. Knowledge compounds.
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My latest article for Educate magazine is all about verse novels. In it, I explore how they can help make reading possible for children who might feel overwhelmed by the amount of text on a page, why they work brilliantly as read-alouds and how they're helpful for developing empathy.
1265 is the maximum number of hours a teacher can be directed to work. It isn't a target. The closer your contact time with students gets to 1265 the more workload is pushed outside the school day. It must either be protected or reformed to include ALL work. #SaveEducation
No solutions from the Chancellor for school budgets but at least she managed to find a nice 5% pay rise for MPs this year so... yeah... every cloud has a silver lining.
##SaveEducation
🚨April resources are now LIVE🚨
This month features:
⚙️ NATO
⚙️ The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
⚙️ Mackenzie Scott
⚙️ How much money £1billion really is
We equip young people with the essential knowledge to comprehend the world around them
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For the non-English teachers the quotes are hallucinated (except one). We have extensive expert created revision materials that we provide both internally and externally created. This student had handed off the thinking to AI to create these nonsense cards & sat learning them.
I confiscated these cards this morning from a Year 11 student revising prior to their first Literature exam.
Can you see the problem? #SnapChatAI
Surely those that successfully applied to draft the new national curriculum can consult outside their group to gather voices/evidence of what works well. Many subjects have organisations named as part of the draft team that you would hope bring their own diversity to the table.
1997. Communal IT room in halls of residence. My flatmate had to teach me this super secret way of searching for things by loading up yahoo. I then emailed a mate in a completely different university using the same email formula my uni used. I thought I was a hacker.
That is York Minster in all its 8am glory.
True story. I sacrificed one Year 9 lesson to use 6-7 19 times. Year 9 didn't do it again. Ever.
What is this blue stuff? 😲
It was a non uniform day at school today. As there always is there was a handful of students in uniform. The looks of relief and gratitude on their faces when they saw my suit was heartbreaking.
Promotional image for the book Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn
After taking 7 years to write and draw, my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication is out in less than a week! At long last! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
This looks very interesting indeed - CC @cmooreanderson.bsky.social
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#VisualLiteracy
What movie moment made you exclaim…
"THIS IS CINEMA!"
Mind = blown by this thread. I mean... I can't say I've spent much time actively thinking about ice dancing but I just assumed they picked a random song and made up a different routine for each competition. 🤯
The iPad and Chromebook were touted as the paperless future of education. (Typed as I stand beside a rhythmic photocopier)
ICYMI This Week's Blog
Which Experts Should Be Leading Literacy?
We have a vast wealth of expertise in education across academia and classroom practice with experts across the board. But which experts should we listen to?
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Excellent summary of where the expertise of academic researchers vs classroom-based practitioners lies, and why it can be hard to bring together.
How much "surplus" do you have to have invested to earn £4million from it?!? 😲
New Blog Alert
Which Experts Should Be Leading Literacy?
We have a vast wealth of expertise in education across academia and classroom practice with experts across the board. But which experts should we listen to?
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My fears with oracy were always:
- promotes deficit narratives, especially around race and class
- is really about debunked approaches like enforced group work and 21st century skills
This seems to enthusiastically double down on both, plus makes some wild claims about the attainment gap, and AI.
ICYMI This week's blog takes a look at how we can start to bridge the cultural disadvantage gap via reading.
Includes 5 evidence based strategies to use in your classroom.
#GetReadingIntoIt
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I've had to start pushing back when asked to do things.
"What would you like me to stop doing so I can do that?", is now a default answer. It's surprising how often the "new thing" becomes a "non thing" when you push back.
We can't start to tackle workload until we accept that we are at 100%.
"Every adult is being used for every minute of the day" is an excellent thing to consider for anyone who wants change in schools. The pace and intensity of work in schools is remarkable. It shocks people when they first experience it.
