Cat Stephens
@catstephens.bsky.social
A city girl moving to the country. Education, evidence, continuous learning, instructional leadership, writing, sustainability...all opinions are (definitely) mine.
A Model for Great Teaching Today we focus on Dimension 1: Understanding the content ✍️ Great teachers understand the content they are teaching and how it is learnt. This means teachers should have deep and fluent knowledge and flexible understanding of the content they are teaching. #EduSky
Does subject knowledge matter more than teaching techniques? That is a terrible question. teacherhead.com/2025/04/20/d...
Does subject knowledge matter more than teaching techniques? That is a terrible question.
Earlier this week I got sucked into a stupid ‘debate’ about subject knowledge after making some comments on X and replying to some other posts. It seemed to me that various people ̵…
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Autumn evening in the beautiful Macedon Ranges, Victoria Australia
Good notes are notes that are: -Formatted for spaced retrieval practice -Condensing large amounts of information -Building understanding -Recording and monitoring understanding #EduSky www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/3/28
Notetaking Formats — The Learning Scientists
One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that ...
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Is coaching really the ideal form of professional development? "Coaching is education’s new professional development buzzword – but does the evidence bear out its growing use?" Read Dr Ourania Ventista and @cjrauch.bsky.social article @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/is-coaching-...
The Knowledge: Does coaching live up to its current hype?
It's the new buzzword, but has teacher CPD really found its ideal form?
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Australia is facing 5 big challenges. And the clock is ticking… buff.ly/DMVtafn #auspol
Orange Book 2025: Australia’s Big 5 challenges - Grattan Institute
Transitioning to net zero, tackling the housing crisis, deepening talent pools, meeting the needs of an ageing population, fixing the budget.
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Have you ever thought of using video feedback to improve your practice? Use video to: ✔️ Focus attention on the areas that matter most to student learning, with a feedback rubric aligned to the Model for Great Teaching. ✔️ Embed habits and motivate improvement through regular cycles of feedback.
Video feedback
Our video feedback tool is designed to support your teacher development processes in the Great Teaching Toolkit.
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Zelenskyy’s courage in the face of these monsters was inspiring.
Lisa Reyna Loe@lisaloe.bsky.social · 2y agoThe world is united. Against the United States of America. Trump did that. As @briantylercohen.bsky.social states below, Trump’s destroying our alliances in real time. Listen as Brian reads responses from numerous world leaders after today’s shocking Oval Office travesty. youtu.be/vd4y1mBxnP4
If you deserve loyalty, you don’t have to demand it.
‘Why should we read aloud in class?’ “The teacher reading aloud and expertly modelling fluency (pace, expression, volume etc.) is likely a better bet than selecting underpractised pupils to read.” alexquigley.co.uk/who-should-r...
Who should read aloud in class?
There are fewer more important acts in all of education than reading in the classroom. From what is read, to the specifics of when, why, and by whom, the how of reading in the classroom can prove a vi...
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We've argued that students shouldn't use AI to help them with assessments. We've also argued that teachers should use AI to help them with marking. Are we being hypocritical? Read more here. https://buff.ly/4huML64
I like this by James Clear: “In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don’t have much time? Scale it down. Don’t have much energy? Do the easy version. Adaptability is the way of consistency.” Rather than taking on gargantuan feats of effort (which mostly fail) we should be adaptable.
Just finished listening to an interesting interview with Antony Blinken from @nytimes.com but can we please stop with the ‘greatest country on Earth’ shtick? American exceptionalism is part of the problem, not the solution.
Happy New Year everyone and especially to my fellow educators! It’s been a massive year and I hope everyone is able to rest and recharge over the break. One of my resolutions is to post a bit more so here’s a pic of my favourite beach in the world to start with, Point Leo (Victoria, Australia).
A class-action lawsuit was filed today in Massachusetts against the publisher, Heinemann, its top authors Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, and Columbia University. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...
Lawsuit calls reading curriculum 'deceptive' and 'defective'
A class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts claims that the educational publishing company Heinemann falsely advertised its products as “research-backed” and “data-based.”
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💻 Webinar Join @ProfKime and @ProfCoe for a session as they dive into coaching for Great Teaching. 📆 3rd December 🕓 16:00 GMT Sing up here 👉 https://buff.ly/3B2hpUs https://buff.ly/3OtfDPe #EduSky
Coaching for Great Teaching
Join Stuart and Rob in this webinar as they explore coaching for Great Teaching
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🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1. Gold Class waitress 2. Netball umpire 3. Australian Geographic sales assistant 4. Out Of Hours Care 5. Secondary school teacher 6. Public Servant 7. Chocolate and coffee taster (this one is wishful thinking)
Reid Smith@smithre5.bsky.social · 2y ago🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1. Fast food employee 2. Mining surveyor 3. Internet cafe manager 4. Research immunologist (briefly) 5. Silver service waiter 6. Tour guide at a gaol for the criminally insane
Good afternoon Blue Sky (well, grey here but we won’t let that stop us.) I’m Cat - Melbourne (Australia), educator, writer and childless cat lady. Nice to open a fresh chapter!
