🚨NEW BLOG🚨 One for new #ITT #PGCE #ECT #teachers starting in school in the new school year. This one is all about why and how we set ground rules and articulate our expectations around #behaviour. #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/07/31/c...

Consistency, Consistency, Consistency: Articulating Ground Rules and Establishing Expectations in the Classroom

Photo by Caleb Oquendo on Pexels.com Every year my main message when teaching beginning teachers about behaviour management is CONSISTENCY. This week, I’ve been dropping my child off at a holiday c…

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Making me want to rewrite (I can’t do every unit in KS3!) Maybe I can tweak. #historyteacher I was only looking for evidence in Stamford and for Capability Brown who did the landscaping at Burghley, and now I’ve added more to the list of stuff. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... It’s open access

It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.

Not at all concerning! Don’t buy The Beano 😂

Just been to where they invented the rainbow 😂

The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

An excellent feature on #NoDAPL ten years on. Again, if you are teaching the American West at GCSE I highly recommend you watch this (and the follow up feature) youtu.be/aoAmfczDS2Q?... #historyteacher

ICT Newscast | July 31, 2026 | #NoDAPL, Save Oak Flat, hoop dancing and more

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The irony of this statement popping up on a Sex Matters post detailing why trans and non-binary pupils should not be afforded privacy is excruciating.

Interesting watch for anyone enjoying the new Little House on the Prairie Netflix series youtu.be/DCEwXLsEkTw?...

The Dark Truth About Little House On The Prairie That NBC Didn’t Expose In the 1970’s & 1980’s

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Finally there is a focus on the battle for curriculum time. I leave this here as a provocation because I wonder now, nearly 20 years later, if the thieves of curriculum time have indeed managed to eat away at the space we make for real historical thinking and, ultimately, historical consciousness.

The absolute irony of the libertarians supporting this large scale surveillance of people! Big data and AI are never your friends - their potential for abuse is too great

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 5d ago

Law enforcement agencies, some working with ICE, were searching local Flock camera data during Operation Metro Surge.

Reading @cculpin.bsky.social 's 2007 Medlicott Lecture again today. I am struck by how relevant so much of this lecture remains. Partly in educating a new generation of #historyteacher s about past struggles and partly because those struggles are still playing out 🧵 www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...

What are the biggest challenges facing school history today? If you teach History in KS1-5 I would love to know your thoughts. Should take a few minutes. Bullets/single words fine. Planning to use this as a launching point with #historyteacher Trainees next year. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/8DcC99x8Vq

Gerry Dee Says 'We Did A Survey' on Family Feud

ALT: Gerry Dee Says 'We Did A Survey' on Family Feud

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The Telegraph-Tory complex are having a huge internal fight about climate change. I’m finding it mildly diverting. Of course they’re mostly still bonkers, but it seems like the bonkers window is shifting from “it’s not happening” to “OK it is so should we do anything or nah” bsky.app/profile/leoh...

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

The best part is the map showed the Ivory Coast was landlocked and they didn't bat an eye.

Sam Heller | سام هيلر@abujamajem.com · 6d ago

Stupid empire x.com/reutersafric...

Cundhill History Prize long list 🗃️ publishingperspectives.com/2026/07/long...

Longlist Announced for the 2026 Cundill History Prize - Publishing Perspectives

The world’s leading prize for a work of history written or translated into English, the Cundill History Prize today announced its 2026 longlist of 15 books, chosen from almost 400 submissions from acr...

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Michael Gove breaking irony meters across the nation today!

I think Hell just froze over

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

Tim Stanley has found Climate.

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

I think we desperately need a history VQ of some kind. Keep on at them!

I've been trying to get people to listen to me about this since I started at OCR!!

#LandBack win! Centuries after it was taken, the Pamunkey Tribe bought back 13 acres of ancestral land along the Pamunkey River in Virginia. They're planning to use the land to provide cultural, educational and economic opportunities. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Very interested to see how Burnham’s focus on vocational education impacts on the work of the CAR. Presumably there needs to be a shift in emphasis in terms of the revised national curriculum / GCSE subject content. Might be time to revive History and Heritage or Pilot @historyrichk.bsky.social

#ICYMI Bonkers how this is still making rounds to be the most viewed article on @redpopnews.bsky.social with 10K views. There's a whole other conversation I want to continue with this regarding the symbolism of oppression. redpopnews.com/netflixs-lit...

Netflix's Little House on the Prairie Proves the Story was Always Big Enough for the Truth and Authenticity

When Netflix's new Little House on the Prairie premiered on July 9, millions of viewers settled in expecting the comfort food they remembered: a wagon, a fiddle, a girl in braids running through tall ...

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I do wonder if half the challenges we now see in schools come from the fact we talk about knowledge as something to acquire or transfer...rather than something which we form as individuals and communities..... and back to work

I do wonder if this might also be a good way in for GCSE teachers? A lesson or two exploring how the show writers and advisors adapted and updated the original interpretation ? Wonder if we could craft them? @carolinepennock.bsky.social @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social @ciscstudies.bsky.social

Alex Ford@apf102.bsky.social · last wk.

A brilliantly written and encouraging review of Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie by @johnniejae.bsky.social . Was keen to see this but didn’t know what to expect. Might well watch it with the 9yo now. Definitely one for American West #historyteacher s in the UK redpopnews.com/netflixs-lit...

A brilliantly written and encouraging review of Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie by @johnniejae.bsky.social . Was keen to see this but didn’t know what to expect. Might well watch it with the 9yo now. Definitely one for American West #historyteacher s in the UK redpopnews.com/netflixs-lit...

Really interesting provocation here on how we enact stories through video games via Sara Humphreys “Manifest Destiny 2.0”. Am now having to play RDR on Switch 2 for research… despite the brilliant conversion on Switch 2, it’s already making me feel quite uncomfortable

Encouraging violence against minorities, journalists and basically anyone who disagrees with him. There's no convincing reason to stay on there whilst he remains in charge

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"