Thread. This is what the pandemic was like for teachers in schools. Schools were open ALL THE WAY THROUGH the pandemic. Let’s not forget what it was like for some, whilst others were partying. bsky.app/profile/eyes...

Teaching with my eyes shut@eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 3d ago

As everyone seems to be discussing schools closing during the COVID pandemic here’s a reminder of what it was like here 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 just before the first lockdown. 🧵 I was teaching 33 P7s (11-12 upper primary) in an open plan classroom 5m x 10m. Covid was thought to be transmitted by touching surfaces. 1/

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NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

The Nerve 🤝 The Rest is Politics Alastair Campbell acknowledges our own Carole Cadwalladr’s fearless reporting on Nigel Farage all these years. Subscribe to our newsletter at thenerve.news to make sure Carole can continue her investigative work

In the nick of time for the celebratory weekend in the 🇺🇸, here's "Trumpy Doodle" - our 250th anniversary version of "Yankee Doodle" that you can also download as a song on Bandcamp! youtu.be/EnZY_08vnHc #nokings #america250 🎶🚫👑✊

"Trumpy Doodle" - Marsh Family version of "Yankee Doodle" for the USA's 250th anniversary antics

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I’m the grandchild of 2 immigrants. German Jews who arrived in the late 1930s fleeing the Nazis. They would recognise the scenes in Belfast last night for what it was, not a protest. The only reason it won’t happen to me is because they were white & my family’s history doesn’t show on my skin.

Teacher friends this is worth reading ✨

AR@psalisbury.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know I sound like a broken record, but I share this with teachers at the start of every term. Some of our kids have such chaotic lives, a week can feel like a lifetime away to them, so these things need to be returned to.. philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/w...

“4 competant and experienced women and one glamorous man with none…” Says it all bsky.app/profile/then...

THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 3mo ago

Carole Cadwalladr on why appointing Matt Brittin as director general could be a huge mistake for the BBC

Essential thread 👇

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧵 A postcard from the country that already crashed the car, sent with love and a small amount of nausea, to the cousins who are about to crash a bigger one. — @therickwilson.bsky.social's warning from America 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 1/12

the best kind of problem to have tbh

George Penney@georgepenney.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: In a library, a small human (4?) is trying to pick a book but she's not sure which one! (Oh no!) Does she want this one... This one? THESE ONES? THOSE ones?! With an exasperated roar, she beseeches the library gods: "WHY are there SO MANY?!" (1)

Welcome to the ✨For You✨ feed! It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently. 📌 Pin to add it to your top bar ❤️ Like the feed and repost to spread the goodness

Scroll this 🧵 and hope.

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Let’s make a thread. Post the antithesis of mutually assured destruction. Sending love and peace to all. We are better than this man, this war.

If this threat is carried out, it won't be "a civilisation" dying. It will effectively be civilisation as we have known it dying, largely on the whim of one person, aided and abetted by his hand-chosen henchmen and women. The TV "celebrity" creating his own biopic in real time.

"Nobody in that school or my primary school knew that there was a lot more going on for me than the death of my Dad." Hidden trauma and the challenge of helping those who do not seem to need help. A powerful, difficult, deeply personal read www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

What my ‘hidden’ trauma taught me about belonging in schools

We can’t always know what a child is going through, writes trust leader David Clayton, who says his own childhood experience has shown him the need to make schools ‘sanctuaries’ for those suffering tr...

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Thread… This is the sort of brave leadership/school dev practice that develops innovative solutions to complex problems…. It is not the Ofsted implementation model. Neither is it a quick win. It takes time to develop the behaviours needed to develop well. bsky.app/profile/jdur...

James Durran@jdurran.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Beware of lowest common denominator teaching & learning policies Thinking of teaching and learning approaches as things to 'implement' in a school, rather than as things which evolve organically in the practice of reflective professionals and/or (in the secondary phase) reflective ...

This is a powerful read from Edmund Barnett-Ward #RuthPerry @edmund-b-w.bsky.social difficultlessons.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/d...

Driving on Regardless

Where is OFSTED going? What have they learned?

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Today is World Kidney Day It's important to take care of your kidneys and to be aware of the symptoms of kidney disease. Please share this so others can be aware also. #WorldKidneyDay #KidneysMatter #DontKidYourself

A small human (3?) sitting behind his business-suited dad as they cycle into town has worked out a way to make this ride entertaining. Poking Dad's bottom as Dad pedals. Dad wryly saying: "Yeah, not helping, mate." Howling with laughter, Poking Small Human disagrees. (3)

NEW Blog Post www.whentheadultschange.com/post/trainin...

Training teachers in SEND

There are some incredible teachers, support professionals and leaders whose schools/settings are inclusive, the boundaries are clear and kindness never means a lack of ambition. In these environments training and development in all areas of additional needs falls on rich foundations.InclusionIn settings where there is more fear, more focus on compliance than connection and where inclusivity is conditional, things are different. SEND training feels at odds with the values. No excuses, super stric

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I think the paper is also trying to address the disparity in the issuing of EHCP's (depending on parents, location, school demographic, social factors etc). There is no consistency nationally (or even locally), and this means 'SEND' looks very different in different schools.

Some cynics might have thought we'd seen all this stuff before, but clearly things have changed: the triangle is now upside-down. 😆

Ummmmmm…. So it seems being responsive and compassionate is a better approach than punishment. Who knew? Only research from the last 30 years, rather than outdated behaviourism. Why have children been subjected to these experiments? www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Rewarding good behaviour key to success, hubs evaluation finds

The DfE's behaviour hubs programme saw schools shifting towards restorative rather than zero-tolerance behaviour management policies, says final evaluation report

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@marshfamilysongs.bsky.social how do you manage to hit the right spot every time? Thank you.

NormandieCJ@normandiecj.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The always excellent Marsh family and Minnesota. I found this really affecting. It's almost impossible to believe what the US is becoming and so quickly.

This is awful and the scariest part is that there are some people in this country who think it’s a good thing.

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 7mo ago

At Minneapolis airport, @maitlis.bsky.social watches on as shackled ICE deportees board an aircraft. "It's one of the most dystopian, the most chilling things, I think i've ever witnessed." "The plane doesn’t have a name or number, it’s a 'dark plane' - it doesn’t officially exist."

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Can all the behaviour gurus out there do me a favour? Specify which sector of education you’re talking about. Because what’s called disruptive behaviours in high school is developmentally normal behaviour in lower primary. Pupils don’t magically stop doing them, primary teachers show them how.

a group of peanuts characters sit at their desks

ALT: a group of peanuts characters sit at their desks

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I am writing. Part 1. The tragedy of hidden schools, in hidden communities meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/03/p...

Part 1.

My writing, I have decided, will include reflections, thoughts and ideas about education. But, I cannot ignore the situation I am in (see previous writing) and so, I will also be adding bits and pi…

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I am writing - here is my first blog of 2026. This year will be the year where I write all those things I promised myself I would write, when I had the time. Now I have the time. meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/02/p...

Pivoting

In November 2024, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. A nasty, sneaky, fast growing type of breast cancer: stage 3, grade 3, locally invasive triple negative breast cancer for those who know about …

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Good thread. It’s really hard to move the conversation forward if we don’t have agreement on the language used… bsky.app/profile/rlro...

RR@rlrossi64.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I’m really surprised by this headline from The Sutton Trust. Children don’t get diagnosed with SEND. SEND is about provision. Children get diagnosed with ASD/ADHD/dyslexia/DLD etc which MAY lead to them having SEND.