Melissa B
@drboyd.bsky.social
Soon to be ex-Head of English. Voracious reader. Searching for an inclusive and representative curriculum. Melanoma:3b. Cat Rescue. TeachFirst'15.
#BecauseofYouThisisMe by @jazampawfarr.bsky.social is coming this July! ✨ Learn more about this title & pre-order your copy now at: buff.ly/WsxOj0S Can’t wait? 👀 Read this exclusive look inside on our website now: buff.ly/T7v2OzR @itlworldwide.bsky.social #Edusky #Booksky
I’m so sick of these stories. I’m exhausted, enraged & frustrated. Misogyny in medicine kills. The patriarchy kills. The health gap kills. We all have these stories. Some of us are lucky enough to survive, but many aren’t. Tell your stories. Keep screaming until this never happens again:
Georgia O'Connor, U.K. boxer, dies at 25 after saying doctors 'gaslit' her on cancer concerns for months
O'Connor announced her cancer diagnosis in January, saying, "Not one doctor took me seriously."
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Modified AQA past papers to fit what's been published for 2026. I am not linked to AQA - not official, just my interpretation. Only June - Nov to follow - will go in same folder! Hope it saves some time - all and any feedback welcome! www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/y9wf4...
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US artist Alison Saar's "Rise" is a linoleum print created in 2020 as a response to the Black Lives Matter movement #WomensArt
Cancer changes you forever. Even if you’re lucky enough, like me, to have the type of cancer that can be cured. Your body is not the same. Life is not the same. It can feel very isolating when friends and family don’t understand this. #graphicmedicine #cansky
I was honoured to deliver a speech today at the International Roma Day celebrations in Glasgow, to listen to everyone’s amazing speeches & match with the community. A million thanks to Romano Lav for the amazing work! Opre Roma
speaking in non-dominant patterns and using non-standard grammar has nothing empirically to do with ‘bad behaviour’ but it has lots to do with it ideologically
Ian Cushing@iancushing.bsky.social · last yr.what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
am giving a talk at Goldsmith's on the 21 May on collaborating with teachers to design futures of linguistic justice in schools, it'll be fun and it's free 💜 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
I hope you have someone who can be there alongside you through these difficult times. I hope that if help is available, you are strong enough to ask for it and accept it. 4/7
this is the story of how the so-called word gap came to be embedded in England's education policy, and how it (re)normalised discourses of linguistic deficiency which framed the acquisition of 'more words' and 'better words' as a social justice tool www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Word rich or word poor? Deficit discourses, raciolinguistic ideologies and the resurgence of the ‘word gap’ in England’s education policy
Educational linguists across England and the USA have long critiqued deficit-based language ideologies in schools, yet since the early 2010s, these have enjoyed a marked resurgence in England’s edu...
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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
My teacher bestie is leaving. Not just our school, but education. She is one of the best, inspirational, creative teachers I know. A sad day for all the children she could have taught. Hopefully everything she is hoping for will materialise. This could have been prevented. Look after your staff!
✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects. Today's prompt is from @joedunthorne.bsky.social, (...)
Had quite a few people ask for my @LitdriveUK PowerPoint. #LitdriveCPD25 Here it is: dropbox.com/scl/fi/j10pbmn… Probably will make very little sense without my commentary so will blog about it at a later date. Got 60 English Lit Paper 2s to mark by Friday.
A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
'Further thoughts on Etymology' Including chains of understanding Polygon-Polymer-Polytheism-Monotheism-Monomer mrtaylormaths2.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/f... Feedback appreciated 👍🏼
Further Thoughts on Etymology
A previous post was about how etymology can help with the common misconception of getting the concept of Area and Perimeter the wrong way around. I wanted to have the excuse to discuss further some…
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English teachers and Y11 parents! I have two copies of my Power and Conflict #OxfordRevise to give away. Follow and repost for a chance to win one 📚 #TeamEnglish #EduSky
‘Arts & Humanities researchers …find themselves increasingly having to produce outputs in their own time…Such circumstances make it feel odd to decouple Arts & Humanities researchers from their outputs…egregious when that decoupling means those outputs cannot move with the researchers who made them’
The English Association@englishassociation.bsky.social · last yr.REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
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The English Association@englishassociation.bsky.social · last yr.REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
‘there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created.’ This must be changed.
The English Association@englishassociation.bsky.social · last yr.REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
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Sister and Friend, 2024 ♀ by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian feminist painter #WomensArt #InternationalWomensDay ♀
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Area or Perimeter – using Etymology to Understand Better
The Persistent ProblemAll subjects have a plethora of technical vocabulary that students need to interact with and learn in order to progress with their knowledge acquisition.Mathematics is a very …
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