Loving this book. A must read for anyone interested in food security and social justice.
Mark Enser
@ensermark.bsky.social
Yorkshire based freelance writer, TES columnist, author of books and school support person. Ex-HMI and national geography lead Once a teacher Wanderer of hills, wonderer of everything else. Posting on Education, Folklore, Dungeons & Dragons and music.
A very interesting approach! Thank you @drewperkins.bsky.social and @ensermark.bsky.social for this episode. A further thought: 🧵
Drew Perkins@drewperkins.bsky.social · 2w agoI love these conversations & connections. Thanks to @cmooreanderson.bsky.social for sharing @ensermark.bsky.social's work. Here he describes his journey from the false binary of instructional approaches to synergistic powerful knowledge & pedagogy. Full episode: wegrowteachers.com/thoughtstret...
I introduced @drewperkins.bsky.social to @ensermark.bsky.social 's work, and we now get to listen to their conversation here: Mark discusses the distinction between unstructured inquiry and "disciplined inquiry", e.g. geographical inquiry, historical inquiry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzK...
Synergizing Dialogue, Inquiry, and Cognitive Science for Powerful Knowledge Pedagogy
YouTube video by ThoughtStretchers Education
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A wonferful place to visit on a Sunday - check it out
Willerby@welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 2w agoWelcome to Willerby, a village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable as the weather. Over fifty free stories to read or listen to with original art, photos and music. Visit us for tales of ghosts, timeslips and the Secret Commonwealth. Stories to start with www.welcometowillerby.co.uk 👇🏻
Oh that's nothing. I saw a WEREWOLF drinkin' a piña colada at TRADER VIC'S. And his hair was PERFECT.
Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 4w agoTerribly socialized dogs, off leash dogs, people bringing their dogs into business despite signs posted forbidding it, huge badly behaved dogs on the subway, I stg I saw an OFF LEASH DOG in TRADER JOE’S during RUSH HOUR
A geography teacher's three superpowers an app can't fake: reading a room mid-discussion, knowing exactly when to pull a scaffold away, and catching the precise shape of a misconception before it hardens. 1/2
The challenge for EdTech
Can you take the teacher out of the geography classroom?
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This may be my new favourite book of all time. Beautifully written, it someone manages to capture the excitement and freedom of the trail on each page. #DirtbagDreams #ultrarunning #trailrunning
Could there *BE* an author or book more perfect to celebrate on Northern Horror Hub? @davidmbarnett.bsky.social's latest novel Scratch Moss is set in a northern mining town - and it's a folk horror triumph. In true folk horror style, this isolated and insular community holds dark secrets.
Added to my list! If you like a slightly esoteric collection of running facts/tales from across history then I can recommend this too:
Ditto. You have probably both read but I loved Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
Thanks both for these - right in my wheel house. If you've not read this book about Emil Zatopek I can't recommend it highly enough
This may be my new favourite book of all time. Beautifully written, it someone manages to capture the excitement and freedom of the trail on each page. #DirtbagDreams #ultrarunning #trailrunning
This may be my new favourite book of all time. Beautifully written, it someone manages to capture the excitement and freedom of the trail on each page. #DirtbagDreams #ultrarunning #trailrunning
A geography teacher's three superpowers an app can't fake: reading a room mid-discussion, knowing exactly when to pull a scaffold away, and catching the precise shape of a misconception before it hardens. 1/2
The challenge for EdTech
Can you take the teacher out of the geography classroom?
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One for the teachers of BlueSky!
Mark Enser@ensermark.bsky.social · last mo.My answer: not one pedagogy. Three, working together. Dialogue. Enquiry. Cognitive science. Each one converts knowledge into something pupils can actually think with. Pull any one out and the other two stop working properly. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
A knowledge-rich curriculum is only ever potentially powerful, as Margaret Roberts puts it. Writing the curriculum is the easy part. The harder question: what pedagogy actually realises that potential? 🧵
First, a cracking post from @ensermark.bsky.social on why your CPD should focus on *principles* not practice. If you can align on principles (easier said than done), good practice and teacher autonomy should follow. substack.com/@markenser1/...
Why principles beat practices every time
What CPD gets wrong, and what it costs us
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Whatever you teach, the question isn't which of the three you're best at. It's which one is quietly missing from your classroom this week. Full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
A Pedagogy for Powerful Knowledge
Why dialogue, enquiry and cognitive science aren’t competing answers
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A knowledge-rich curriculum is only ever potentially powerful, as Margaret Roberts puts it. Writing the curriculum is the easy part. The harder question: what pedagogy actually realises that potential? 🧵
*** NEW POST *** If teachers only ever follow a playbook, who understands enough to write the next one? 1/3
*** NEW POST *** If teachers only ever follow a playbook, who understands enough to write the next one? 1/3
Everything Will Swallow You by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social. I’ve thought about this book again and again since I finished it. Absolutely stunning book exploring love, loss, friendship, and the wackiness of life and its choices. Just brilliant.
I feel like it’s a risk for me to trust ANY publisher after my previous one fucked off with more than 20 grand of my earnings. Yet *I* am the risk - as an author who has 2000+ readers who buy every book he writes - just because I temporarily decide to write in a shorter form? Pure insanity.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2mo agoPublishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.” Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”
*** NEW POST *** A response to an interesting piece from Aidan Hesslewood in the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social journal Teaching Geography - is hope and a future-facing curriuclum really a problem in geography education? open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
Hope, futures and the purpose of geography
Responding to Aidan Hesslewood's Teaching Geography article
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It’s good this isn’t it, for any teacher of some experience there will be few surprises. I don’t have enough experience of sensory circuits to comment on that but most of the others I recognise. The EHCP paragraph is very telling. I often found those odd.
Increasingly convinced that we need to spend more time on morphology. When you hear kids link related words, you realise its power. This is a great blog by @ensermark.bsky.social on doing that in geography – a subject that is particularly well-suited to it. enserm.substack.com/p/teaching-a...
Teaching and Learning Vocabulary
Why geography teachers need to think more about morphology
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Why is it #Saturday3.5 this week? Well, the third item above was drawn to my attention by @ensermark.bsky.social who has produced his own review here. Very much worth a read over the half-term break if you read the above and wonder what you should do next. enserm.substack.com/p/sen-suppor...
SEN Support and the Monday Morning Problem
A review of Mccrea & Barker’s evidence summary on SEN interventions — and a guide to what comes next
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*** NEW POST *** Reflecting on 10 Common SEN (Mis)Interventions from @pepsmccrea.bsky.social and Dr Jennifer Barker - and considering what it means for teachers on a Monday morning. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
SEN Support and the Monday Morning Problem
A review of Mccrea & Barker’s evidence summary on SEN interventions — and a guide to what comes next
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'The deepest thread running through Common SEN (Mis)Interventions isn’t really about any of the ten items. It’s about something more fundamental: the difference between support that follows from assessed need and support that follows from diagnostic labels.' SEN provision should meet need, not Dx.
Mark Enser@ensermark.bsky.social · 3mo ago*** NEW POST *** Reflecting on 10 Common SEN (Mis)Interventions from @pepsmccrea.bsky.social and Dr Jennifer Barker - and considering what it means for teachers on a Monday morning. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...