Charlotte Hacking
@charliehacking.bsky.social
First, foremost and always a teacher. Also Education Consultant, including with CLPE, and Speaker. Co-creator of The Balancing Act: http://bit.ly/42D93f9. Poetry editor with Otter Barry Books. Shortlisted for Branford Boase Award 2024 for The Final Year.
A real honour to write the introduction to The Poetry World of John Agard from @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social I shared John’s poetry with many of the classes I taught over the years. The book is a beautiful collection of greatest hits, edited by @charliehacking.bsky.social
There was no time for speeches but for me, this work and the awards and recognition for it would not have been possible without the work of two incredible women in particular. Margaret Meek Spencer and Myra Barrs, who led the way on the power of texts and the connections between reading and writing.
Charlotte Hacking@charliehacking.bsky.social · last yr.About last night… Hugely grateful to The UKLA panels for this recognition of The Balancing Act & the Double Helix of Reading and Writing by Dominic Wyse and I. Being a member of the UKLA is hugely professionally nourishing and to be recognised by them in particular means so much.
About last night… Hugely grateful to The UKLA panels for this recognition of The Balancing Act & the Double Helix of Reading and Writing by Dominic Wyse and I. Being a member of the UKLA is hugely professionally nourishing and to be recognised by them in particular means so much.
"That’s what I want. For a child to hold their breath for a second. To feel something stir." The day after the winner of #CLiPPA2025 is announced, @charliehacking.bsky.social interviews 2020 winner, Zaro Weil about her new book, I HEAR THE TREES #Poetry #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/the-...
Following the recent headlines from HarperCollins UK and now from the National Literacy Trust, here’s an article I wrote for Books for Keeps about the decline in Reading for Pleasure, the issues involved and what might be done about it: booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/read...
Reading for Pleasure – Why the decline and what could we do about it? – Books For Keeps
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Target-rich environment, this speech. 1/n
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Looking forward to hearing the inimitable Dominic Wyse on Saturday June 28th 2.30pm at @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference in Liverpool! Not too late to buy a ticket! #thisismyukla
“The blame doesn’t sit at the door of parents… It’s at the heart of the society that has been created with its ever-widening inequality gap.” The brilliant @charliehacking.bsky.social responds to the reading for pleasure decline in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/read...
Reading for Pleasure – Why the decline and what could we do about it? – Books For Keeps
booksforkeeps.co.uk
Long thread alert🧵 I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests
Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love
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Oof. This makes for grim reading and should be a huge wake up call on the need to rethink education, making it work for today’s children and teachers. Teaching should be one of the best jobs in the world, but too many things aren’t working for long term recruitment and retention.
Jack Worth@jackworth.bsky.social · 2y agoNFER's 2025 annual report on the teacher labour market is out today - Postgrad ITT recruitment remains persistently poor - Teacher leaving rates have not improved since pre-Covid - Teacher shortages are having impacts on pupils Read here 👇 www.nfer.ac.uk/publications...
Great launch @theclpe.bsky.social for new BEYOND THE SECRET GARDEN book. Congrats @darrenchetty.bsky.social & Karen Sands-O'Connor & illus Lucy Farfort. We're proud to publish their columns in #BfK & delighted they're available (+ more) as an @engmediacentre.bsky.social book tinyurl.com/24j7wccf
Brilliant critique of media reporting on literacy - by Dr. Mauren Aukerman, an internationally recognized scholar in the study of literacy education tinyurl.com/3cbvfksf @narscinyeg.bsky.social @charliehacking.bsky.social
The Science of Reading and the Media: How Do Current Reporting Patterns Cause Damage? - Literacy Research Association
The Science of Reading and the Media: How Do Current Reporting Patterns Cause Damage? Maren Aukerman, University of Calgary In the field of reading education, we are in the midst of what can fairly...
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👾LAUNCHING TODAY!!👾 “An invaluable resource.” @charliehacking.bsky.social / @theclpe.bsky.social “sparks the conversations we need to be having about the stories we tell and how we tell them” Jeffrey Boakye @darrenchetty.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social
Really enjoying proof copy of the latest by Matt Goodfellow. Pacy, complex, gets the reader thinking. And it's about transition from primary to secondary - so must have school use! @charliehacking.bsky.social
How exciting this arrived today! I am getting stuck in straight away! Thanks @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social @mattgoodfellow.bsky.social yahoo! Can’t wait ! 😜 @mattcourtney.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social
Excellent, as always, from Megan Dixon. There are issues in education and they’re also inextricably linked to wider societal issues. It is indeed time to take stock and work out how to fix this. Children are at the centre of this.
Tes magazine@tesmagazine.bsky.social · 2y agoAs we look ahead to 2025, we need to take stock of the troubling state of our system, argues Megan Dixon – and then work out how to fix it…
🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.
New piece by @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & I for @the-bookseller.bsky.social on today's #ReflectingRealities report by @theclpe.bsky.social
Darren Chetty@darrenchetty.bsky.social · 2y ago'So yes, it is easier to sell them another book by one of those celebrities who Blacked-up on television, rather than by an unknown author who is consciously trying to avoid telling the kind of story they grew up reading.' www.thebookseller.com/comment/clpe...
Another day, and another wave of university redundancy news: today's universities shedding jobs are Leeds St Trinity and Loughborough. The wave of job losses is speeding up, and there's nothing left to say now really.
QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · 2y agoWith Leeds Trinity and Loughborough we're now actually at 83, or exactly half of the 166 universities @timeshighered.bsky.social counts. HALF OF OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE SHEDDING STAFF. In a normal timeline, politicians would care about this and try to do *something*, *anything*, right?
You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.
This is concerning but sadly, unsurprising. @suttontrust.bsky.social do such vital work. With the economic climate as it has been, of course disadvantaged students stay closer to home, it’s financially crippling for them otherwise. And these subjects can be seen as an unaffordable luxury for many.
Tony McEnery@tonymcenery.bsky.social · 2y agoNew work suggests that 'cold spots' are developing in the study of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: wonkhe.com/blogs/there-...
I think more and more we are seeing the 'evidence based' narrative used to push a specific ideological position. Ofsted are particularly guilty of this and indeed they have been picked up on for using research to justify things it doesn't actually say. #EduSky
Our CLPE School Membership just got even better 😍 Find out how you can support all teachers in your school to engage children in fantastic books, and improve their reading and writing with our lesson plans, curriculum maps, online CPD and more! 👉 clpe.org.uk/membership
The @theclpe.bsky.social also recently published a handbook for teachers which “teaches us and highlights how engagement with inclusive literature positively impacts school reading cultures and wider teaching and learning”. Deets here: clpe.org.uk/research/rep...
Representation in Children's Literature: Reflecting Realities in the Classroom | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
Representation in Children's Literature: Reflecting Realities in the Classroom is authored by our Research and Development Director, Farrah Serroukh, and is a p...
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Mary Bousted is great for this, but I hope there’ll be conversation & collaboration with the curriculum & assessment review commission panel as these two things are intrinsically interlinked. Half the problem in education is too many things operating in isolation without looking at the big picture.
Schools Week@schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2y agoExclusive: Former union leader Mary Bousted will chair a new commission on teaching to draw up suggestions for the government to solve the recruitment and retention crisis
My Balancing Act co-writer Dominic Wyse has joined us here on Blue Sky; give him a follow here @domwyse.bsky.social. He’s a fount of knowledge and a thoroughly decent chap too!
Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ... Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...
This was such a wonderful session. @rogmcdonald.bsky.social’s students are always so enthusiastic, reflective and engaged as we talk about the importance of poetry and walk through a range of poetry activities. Sessions that live in my memory and bring a smile as I think of these students in schools
Roger McDonald@rogmcdonald.bsky.social · 2y agoFantastic day for the University of Greenwich BA QTS students at the amazing CLPE with a session on poetry with the brilliant @charliehacking.bsky.social
