One of the (many) things that irks me about our current PD ecosystem is that deeply researched & classroom tested approaches like Christian’s have to fight for airtime and recognition, while EduGurus get paid 5-figures for Temu TedTalks & big box curriculum companies suck up funding.

Christian Moore-Anderson@cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 12h ago

In the last year I've written a book with a distinct *enactive* view of teaching and learning. I've also put out some long posts/essays, and submitted two new papers. But, my book's stopped selling, and I'm about out of steam.

I believe this purposeful non-academic chat to be important. It's about building a web of recursive conversations, in which students find they have a place. It lies in tension with the "every second counts" and "Do Nows". Which are often just about storage and separation.

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 3h ago

"I decided to reserve five minutes at the beginning of class for nonacademic conversations and check-ins with my students." I appreciated this read this evening after a long week because this is something I don't often do, as I'm always the one diving right into instruction. Maybe I shouldn't?

We need social media to be a functioning vehicle for educational discussion again. At the moment it is just the established voices that are heard by everyone. Nobody is proposing a consistent and coherent focus on the interactions that lead to learning apart from yourself Christian.

I guess if you're not doing the consultant/ speaker thing it must be very hard to plug your book... Btw everyone, it's an excellent book, buy it if you're edu adjacent. Cheaper than 2 months subs to the TES and totally worth it...

In the last year I've written a book with a distinct *enactive* view of teaching and learning. I've also put out some long posts/essays, and submitted two new papers. But, my book's stopped selling, and I'm about out of steam.

The Discourse™️: “Kids don’t read. They would rather watch brain rot than learn.” My student: “The philosophy we discussed today was so cool. The energy in class was so hype that it felt like a sporting event.” Teaching is so complicated, but the ingredients can be simple. Books. Ideas. Dialogue.

I have a new @evidencepolicy.bsky.social blog out where I discuss Ofsted, research misuse, and research-washing - much dirtier than it sounds: evidenceandpolicy.home.blog/2026/09/16/a...

Airing the dirty laundry about research misuse: whose job is it to clean up?

In a new debate article in Evidence & Policy, I argue that Ofsted, the body that inspects England’s schools, engaged in what I term research-washing when it published its 2021 Mathematics…

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Got to say it, I'm a big fan of this journal: constructivist.info/21/3

*** NEW POST *** What happens to a country when geography is devalued as a subject? A sobering look at the state of geography in American schools. enserm.substack.com/p/are-americ...

Are Americans Lost?

What Happens When Geography Goes Missing

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I am a professional. My classroom is open to all. If you come into my room and offer a critique for not using adopted materials, I will bring out years of evidence to illustrate how we have taken your materials and improved coherence, increased alignment with standards, and support student success.

MathIsLife@damianmolinari.bsky.social · 3d ago

This part of the new district classroom walk-through rubric made me experience all of the emotions. Laughed out loud > offended > a little angry > worried about what this means for academic freedom and making decisions based on the students I teach.

From my view, the necessity of variation in learning & perception isn’t an a priori assumption. It's an abstraction from the coherence of our lived experience. We use it all the time. For example, Joni Mitchell told us "You don't know what you've got till its gone".

'everybody' and 'nobody' as synonyms for 'the in group' and 'the out group' is something I can't stop seeing now that I've noticed it I feel like I agree with nobody a lot more than I agree with everybody

When all of this Alpha School stuff inevitably self combusts, I really wish there would be a reckoning for the media coverage that played a role in allowing it to get as far as it has. I know there won't be any accountability, but there should be.

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 4d ago

New narrative unlocked! “As I read more about Alpha School’s design and its founder, MacKenzie Price, I was struck by how bizarrely similar it seemed to Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes’s Silicon Valley start-up.” fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

I think the gist of warnings like this one is correct: we urgently need binding international regulations before use of AI does serious harm. I'm also concerned that the debate is being distorted by the language & framings that those in the industry have imbibed. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner

We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence

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Loved this episode of the Many Minds podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/2NHw...

Coming of age in Ngogo

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Think blogs are dead? They’re not — people still love them. We’re big fans at Norfolk Research School, so Susi Waters has written a post about writing blogs. If you enjoy great blogs, read Susi’s new piece — it might inspire you to create instead of just consume. Find it here: buff.ly/RJ7ynZy

Educators on LinkedIn boasting that their approach is free of 'ideology', as opposed to those other approaches that are 'ideologically-driven'. This is bullshit. ALL approaches are ideologically driven, even those that are 'evidence based' - what counts as evidence is inherently ideological. #EduSky

Hi #EduSky - the big news this week was PISA results but I already shared the most interesting posts and stats (to me) so Instead wanted to respond in my #Saturday3 to this excellent blog by @claireharley.bsky.social because I am not sure that edublogging is in such a dire state as she feels…

Claire Harley@claireharley.bsky.social · last wk.

New post! First one and probably last one for a while as this term is crazy! Where will teachers disagree? The rise and fall of the classroom edublog

Can AI spread like a virus and erode cognitive autonomy? Our new paper models how LLM adoption can cross tipping points, triggering runaway dependence and tech lock-in, suggesting routes to "cognitive immunization". arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344 @ruffini.bsky.social @francesca-castaldo.bsky.social

Cohort details are important to clarify too. This would skew the 'data'. 'There are also some signs that England’s sample of students was upwardly biased, with a much lower percentage of students on free school meals or with special educational needs and disabilities than some other countries.'

DamsonEd@damsoned.bsky.social · last wk.

Fantastic article by Christian pointing out why it isn’t really justified to draw causal conclusions about the effect of policy decisions from PISA. The results aren’t really worth celebrating… and are showing some worrying trends that need careful reflection. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

The interesting thing is that the brain has also no other means than continuosly monitor internal physiological states to find out what's going on in the outside environment. In fact, that's all the brain does, keeping track of various body variables and controlling them to assure its survival. 🙂

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot@oecs-bot.bsky.social · 2w ago

The brain’s continuous monitoring of internal physiological states may be the fundamental mechanism that grounds our sense of self. Interoception by Catherine Tallon-Baudry https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.84963756 #CognitiveScience

In our whole-school T&L CPD today, I included @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social's work on live-modelling (diagrams), talk-rich classrooms and teaching without PowerPoint. It generated lots of really good discussion about active learning & inclusive classrooms. Thanks Christian.

Well... I thought their ed model was messed up. I thought their marketing technique messed up (buying influencers). And this really is messed up:

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2w ago

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2w ago

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

Interesting data from the new PISA report on the use of AI and performance in science:

Average PISA results (global):

New PISA ranking for science: www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

PISA results out today, I hear.

Today we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the birthday of Francisco Varela (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001), who remains one of the most visionary and influential figures in the history of cognitive science having transformed how we think about consciousness, life, and experience.

I really enjoyed this post. An interesting perspective 👏

Alex Ford@apf102.bsky.social · 2w ago

nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/the-great-... Another really interesting blog from @nickdennis.bsky.social on where things are heading with education. My key takeaway is that, if we are to see change, the DfE need to fundamentally rethink how they engage with the wider profession. #ukedchat