When half term starts with a delivery from your publisher! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Thanks to @bloomsburyed.bsky.social for the advance copy. ❤️ @gwenelope.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social
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English leader. Former School Improvement Officer. 30th year in education. Passionate about high standards, Language and Literature and reading for all. Apparently ‘formidable’
English teacher: Vacancy for a full-time permanent teacher at our school: www.juliangirdham.com/blog/vacancy... #edchatie
Vacancy for English teacher — Julian Girdham
We have a vacancy for a full-time English teacher, starting in September 2025.
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I am looking for recommended reading on ‘I do We do You do’ in English teaching, please. Grateful for all suggestions. TIA
*** NEW POST *** @greeborunner.bsky.social explores why you sometimes just need to get out of teachers' way... wp.me/p7mhqT-OI
Getting Out of the Way
Much of my adult identity was bound up in being a teacher. For over 20 years I had lived my life by bells and terms and assessment deadlines. Most of my friends were teachers (that is still the cas…
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Is ‘Journey to the River Sea’ more suitable for kS2 or KS3? Thanks
Happy New Year! Just a quick reminder that I offer online and face-to-face GCSE English assessment, advice, tuition and training, specialising in the Eduqas qualifications. Have a look here to find out more. hughlester.wixsite.com/hughlester #eduqas #teamenglish
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Hugh Lester GCSE English assessment and training.
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Don’t mIss our first Shakespeare webinar: Monday 6pm GMT, link below. Buckle in: this is the first of ….41!
Faculty of English, University of Oxford@engfac.bsky.social · 2y agoLet the Oxford English Faculty help with your new year resolutions: 1) Learn about poetry with A.E. Stallings' newsletters 2) Brush up on Shakespeare with monthly webinars with Prof Emma Smith 3) Take on a writing challenge & enter our storytelling competition #PoetrySky #BookSky Links below👇
Agree with this. We need to help teachers make better decisions not make the decisions for them. This isn't just being nice. Prescription usually doesn't work beyond basic agreed stuff around procedural routines. Even these will be subverted if people don't understand the reasons.
Tom Sherrington@teacherhead.bsky.social · 2y agoEvidence-informed teaching has to be built around each teacher's personality and desire for autonomy; let's celebrate that. @walkthrus.bsky.social teacherhead.com/2024/01/07/e...
“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.
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Lovely English teachers - what do you have as ‘seminal world texts’ in your KS3 curriculum? Thank you
As 2024 draws to a close, we’re reflecting on a standout moment: @samiraahmed.bsky.social's inspiring school visits⭐ We’re now giving UK schools the chance to win copies of THIS BOOK WON'T BURN and INTERNMENT by sharing this post! A thread 1/3 #ReadingForPleasure
i have secured funding to run a summer school for secondary school teachers on language and social in/justice. it'll be over 3 days and involve teachers engaging with linguistic justice theory and applying this to practice. more details soon but feel free to express interest!💜
To our incredible authors, without whom we wouldn't be half the company we are: @patrickcragg.bsky.social @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social @amy117.bsky.social @mrs-denglish.bsky.social @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social And we have The Quotation Bank: The Tempest coming in March!!
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Whose curriculum is it anyway?
I am aware that some of the things I am about to say are going to be considered controversial by some. That is why I want to begin by clarifying a few things. First, I believe that teachers are inc…
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Having a debate about this: what constitutes a Scheme of Work? Particularly in English. Love to hear your thoughts.
'King Lear' scene by scene: 11 podcasts covering the play. Just one left to come, on the final scene. www.juliangirdham.com/blog/the-kin...
The 'King Lear scene by scene' series — Julian Girdham
Links to all the podcasts and transcripts from the ‘King Lear scene by scene’ series.
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One of the things that keeps me going back to Twitter is that I get fairly regular DMs on there asking me for advice about reading. Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason. Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.
@greeborunner.bsky.social is one of my role models. Thank you Zoe for all you do for English and English teachers.
To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway. Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100. You have until noon on Sunday 17th November
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A starter pack for those interested in English teaching here. go.bsky.app/M4WaetA
I’ve written a Teacher guide on an incredible book! Please share with A level English teachers collins.co.uk/products/978... @headofenglish.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @tomneedham.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social @shadylady222.bsky.social @hywelroberts.bsky.social
Just spent a brilliant evening at the Lit in Colour event. So many amazing performances - and exposure to writing by global majority playwrights. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/l...
Bloomsbury launches its (Incomplete) Lit in Colour Play List to support inclusive drama in schools
Bloomsbury today released its (Incomplete) Lit in Colour Play List aiming to introduce new plays that will support schools to create more representative and inclusive drama experiences within the Engl...
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Last November, I had successful cancer treatment. Now, I'm giving something back. Instead of growing a 'tache, I've devised Coachember. I'll coach 90 men for 60 minutes each in 30 days. You can donate and find a link to book your session on my Just Giving page. www.justgiving.com/page/nick-we...
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Help Nick Wells raise money to support Movember
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