#rEDEastAnglia 📅 Saturday 13th June 🏫 Mildenhall College Academy 🎟️ Last few days to buy tickets 💫 Don't miss out! ⬇️ More info and to buy tickets: lnkd.in/e8Wv9MvR
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An ✨epic✨ group of voices coming to #rEDEastAnglia in Suffolk on 13 June! ✈️ This amount of INCREDIBLE expertise under one roof... don't miss it! 🤩 📍 Book now: tinyurl.com/mryr325c #UKEduChat #EduSky #EducationConference @tombennett71.bsky.social @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social @academytrust.bsky.social
We're ready for some BIG #curriculum conversations at #rEDEastAnglia! ✈️ Take a look at Kat Howard, Katherine Lewis-Ward & @summerturner.bsky.social & @benarscott.bsky.social's incredible session sneak peek & book your place now 👀👇 🎟️ tinyurl.com/mryr325c #TransformingPD #TransformingLives #EduSky
Really looking forward to this. We'll be talking about how, despite a changing focus from government and the inspectorate, putting energy into improving curriculum is still the best bet for school improvement. #ResearchED
ATT Institute@attinstitute.bsky.social · 3mo agoDepth, challenge & practical takeaways—that’s what #rEDEastAnglia is all about! ✈️ We’re incredibly excited to welcome @summerturner.bsky.social & @benarscott.bsky.social, Lorraine Prince & Shelley Luddington in June. 🎟️ Book now: tinyurl.com/mryr325c #TransformingPD #EduSky @academytrust.bsky.social
Depth, challenge & practical takeaways—that’s what #rEDEastAnglia is all about! ✈️ We’re incredibly excited to welcome @summerturner.bsky.social & @benarscott.bsky.social, Lorraine Prince & Shelley Luddington in June. 🎟️ Book now: tinyurl.com/mryr325c #TransformingPD #EduSky @academytrust.bsky.social
Just arrived at #arksoane26 history conference. Looking forward to a day of great CPD and presenting on how I've wrestled with enquiry wording when teaching the age of revolutions.
English lessons can fire imaginations and open minds, but the DfE should consider five points when implementing recommendations of the curriculum review, writes Summer Turner schoolsweek.co.uk/teachers-can...
How teachers can make English sing
Despite some concerns about the curriculum review, there is room for hopeful interpretation
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I really have no idea how I missed Wild East by Ashley Hickson-Lovence when it first came out. It's one of the finest verse novels I've ever read. A love-letter to the power of poetry, and a storyline that secondary school pupils will definitely relate to. Track down a copy!
Thanks to @egcarr.bsky.social, @counsellc.bsky.social and all the other editors of Teaching History who put in so many hours to put together this amazing journal. For this edition, I really enjoyed writing up my thinking process for an enquiry on Toussaint L'Ouverture.
Elizabeth Carr@egcarr.bsky.social · 8mo agoTeaching History 201 from @histassoc.bsky.social is online. Brilliant authors sharing their varied approaches to teaching about interpretations. Great CPD for history teachers and subject leads! @sehartsmith.bsky.social @historysuperfan.bsky.social @benarscott.bsky.social and others
🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨 Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25. Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today. Presenters & link below 👇
Just finished Ben Arscott’s piece on unpacking the enquiry puzzle in TH198. Found myself nodding at a few bits: the difficulty on setting a good EQ and the need to focus carefully on the pupil experience. However I would like to raise some points in the spirit of critical debate /1
Do you remember when we stopped using levels and for a while lots of schools went mad creating even worse versions of levels but with colours and bizarre labels, and measuring things that shouldn’t be measured? Seems a fitting time to mention that happened.
Such an important point made so pithily: "Resist common headings across subjects". So much unnecessary confusion is caused across the sector by a desire for neat and consistent ways to capture and present curricula.
Christine Counsell@counsellc.bsky.social · 2y agoMy @schoolsweek.bsky.social piece on curriculum reviews. If we learn from 35 yrs of them, we might avoid the ever-recurring problems. But without strong subject-curricular training, espec for senior/system leaders, the finest rubric will still feed old distortions. schoolsweek.co.uk/what-a-natio...
This list of chapter titles looks brilliant. So exciting that pupils around the country can be immersed in these stories.
Christine Counsell@counsellc.bsky.social · 2y agoToday is contents reveal day for Book 2 (Year 8) of my #ChangingHistoriesKS3 series - Expanding Worlds. Excited and proud to have worked with such a dedicated and inspiring team of authors. If you want to see how the sequel to Connected Worlds will look, here you go: ow.ly/ctbe50TyXvz
A brilliant blog which really hits the nail on the head of the pitfalls of using assessment materials to teach. [Effective teaching] "needs the space created by not imitating the assessment over and over"
Alex Quigley@alexjquigley.bsky.social · 2y ago*** NEW POST *** 'Streaked tenrecs and improving reading' On reading assessment, reading comprehension tests, and a call for different practice in schools. alexquigley.co.uk/streaked-ten...
Really enjoyed @stulock.bsky.social 's session on best bets. He suggests trying to separate the decision from the results: can you think of a good decision you've made which didn't lead to a good outcome?
Great session from @priteshraichura.bsky.social at #rED24 on getting 100% attention. "There's always a vacuum when creating a classroom culture. Either the teacher fills the vacuum or the pupils do."
In session 2 at #rED24, @summerturner.bsky.social challenges some of the questionable uses of CPD time and identifies some solutions.
On the train for #rED24. In session 1, we'll be talking all things KS2 writing, subject communities and thorny questions about assessing writing. Plus we'll be sharing our draft anthology of annotated Y3 writing.
We are going to be at #REd24 #ResearchEd National Conference. Session 1, M23 Come along and find out how we’ve improved the work of English leads and quality of KS2 writing across a whole city and the research base for our work.
Excited to be attending this. @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social , Hannah Milton and I will be discussing the work we've been doing on trying to improve KS2 writing outcomes across Norwich. We've been doing this by trying to build communities of practice across the city. We'll be in M27 during session 1.
Tom Bennett OBE@tombennett71.bsky.social · 2y agoFor the BlueSky people- the researchED 2024 program is FINALLY HERE. I’ll send out the downloadable link later this evening. It’s a MONSTER
I'm very saddened by this news. I never met Helen in person but her work has been a huge influence on me. Particularly poignant as this summer I have been reworking an enquiry on the seventeenth century inspired by her brilliant EQ: What mattered to people during the seventeenth century?
Christine Counsell@counsellc.bsky.social · 2y agoDesperately sad and struggling to comprehend a world without the distinctive voice that was Helen Snelson. But she lives on in the classrooms of countless history teachers – in York, around Britain, across Europe – profoundly touched by her exceptional care, courageous insight and boundless vision.
