I watched a Y8 student complete the annual school survey. He put 7/10 agree for Every. Single. Question. I wonder how many others do the same?

This is so good. A great A Level discussion point too youtu.be/PS9Bc_GQBEs?...

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An informed, compelling and grim take on fall of English Literature in education and in our wider culture by @daisychristo.bsky.social. I hope there can be a cultural shift that sees the traditions of reading come back to the fore but I struggle to see just how right now.

Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo.bsky.social · 2y ago

A lot of discussion lately about the reasons for the decline of Eng Lit A-level. Are the Gove curriculum & exam reforms to blame? I don't think so, because the decline of Eng Lit / the humanities more broadly is a global trend. More here.

What an honour to have a chapter in this fabulous book. Big thanks to @jofacer.bsky.social and the whole ResearchEd shebang

A brilliant blog which really hits the nail on the head of the pitfalls of using assessment materials to teach. [Effective teaching] "needs the space created by not imitating the assessment over and over"

Alex Quigley@alexjquigley.bsky.social · 2y ago

*** NEW POST *** 'Streaked tenrecs and improving reading' On reading assessment, reading comprehension tests, and a call for different practice in schools. alexquigley.co.uk/streaked-ten...

Suddenly realised I was an NQT 10 years ago! Being trained by the amazing @jofacer.bsky.social (lucky me) in an incredible school in Islington. Still feel privileged to work in this profession. Any other decennials celebrating?

I will be talking at #rED24 about professional development at scale. My premise is that most of it doesn’t have impact BUT there are some ways we can and should change that! Join me in K31 in session 2 if you want to know more.

Amazing dept meeting yesterday discussing core elements of lit texts run by our fab HoD. Julius Ceasar - the tension between the threat of tyranny vs the threat of civil war, alongside the power of rhetoric. Love teaching English

We are going to be at #REd24 #ResearchEd National Conference. Session 1, M23 Come along and find out how we’ve improved the work of English leads and quality of KS2 writing across a whole city and the research base for our work.

Reluctant to open this debate again, but I love/hate booklets. Keen to know how people get over the negatives: Love - all the obvious things. Workload, collective planning, clarity, clear pathways etc. Hate - so hard to adapt. Can add to workload when they’re not appropriate for my

We share this every year on Teacher Tapp as it’s a great way to learn names at start of term

For all its shortcomings & limitations, there’s some impressive power in using AI to summarise and interpret. I gave Claude.AI a complex, dense table about “exam progression matrices” and asked it to interpret. Here’s the impressive thing that happened next. www.informededucation.com/analysing-ed...

Analysing education data with AI - David Weston

Over on BlueSky, which suddenly become the main place where education discussion happens, a chance discussion has shown how powerful AI can be in analysing and interpreting data. Ben Newmark started a discussion about the need to abandon all use of predicted grades. In all the target grades chat there’s a fair few sensible people … Continue reading "Analysing education data with AI"

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Have you had a chance to read any of my All About SEMH books? Perhaps you want to buy them for your staff team or for your own CPD. If you’ve read them I would love you to write a review as it helps others make a choice on what they spend their money on. #SEND #SEMH #EduSky #UKed

The only thing I miss about the other place is my one claim to fame - an early follow from @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

I once overheard a student saying "the Italians do not have a language". When I asked what they meant, they said, "they say normal words like pizza and pasta, but with an accent" 🤦🏼‍♂️

I want to hear your funny classroom stories please. The ones you tell at dinner that make people jealous that we get to spend time with kids cracking up. I’ll go first - a wonderful child found she didn’t have a chair in the classroom so instead of asking for

‘How to do disciplinary literacy?’ “Done well, and done collaboratively, disciplinary literacy can offer pupils a set of tools to crack open the curriculum.” alexquigley.co.uk/what-is-disc...

How to do disciplinary literacy?

How pupils read, write, talk, and the vocabulary they use in every classroom is specialist and unique. There are general words and literacy strategies to deploy, but as pupils move up through school, ...

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I don’t want to go back to the bad place so if you’re part of the edu-exodus & looking for people to follow, I’m going to start a little thread of some familiar faces from edutwitter already posting here. Please tag people to this thread as I know it’s tricky to get started when you first join.👇🏼

So will bluesky resurrect the edublog?! 🤞🤞 looking forward to getting stuck in to some

New profile old picture - need a new one… hi #UKEd