As somebody once told me, in the world of work your *actual* HR department is your union rep. Make sure you join one!
Paul Cochrane
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Ultracrepidarian. Noli me sequi 🇦🇷🇳🇴🇲🇽
@unistrathclyde.bsky.social @sstatradeunion.bsky.social Heading up to represent the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association - a specialist secondary teachers association. Please come and say hello, sign up (free) for us and look forward to a year of support, webinars and collegiality!
Scotrail new app. Get in the sea. The need for people in leadership to change/improve things to bolster their CV is noxious. The utter simplicity of the previous app compared to this one? Wow! Did nobody test this? Still cannot get it to work - in the digital age. @scotrailtrains.bsky.social
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [📹 vanguardmotors] Original post
One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’.
Before my career ended I was teaching history I had lived through. That was an interesting experience! www.amazon.co.uk/Cold-Grade-H...
The Cold War (A-Grade History Lectures Book 7)
The Cold War (A-Grade History Lectures Book 7) eBook : Harris, George: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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George Harris@historylecturer.bsky.social · 4w agoHistory? Studying it at school, or maybe just interested. Here's a list of possible holiday reading that is brief, cheap and by no means superficial. Worth checking out. (NB The Edinburgh book now has a second edition. That's the one to get) georgehharris.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-bi...
California has reduced student-teacher ratios from 12:1 to 10:1. That progress has helped drive: ▪️Higher grades ▪️Higher graduation rates ▪️Decreases in chronic absenteeism ▪️Decreases in suspension rates
A plane that can’t stop at the end of the runway could be kept safe with a special type of concrete that is being installed at more airports.
Count on Jesse for the dumbest hot take.
Jesse Watters Dragged After Sounding The Alarm Over Video Of Mamdani Speaking Mandarin
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@neilmackay.bsky.social I should not laugh but ‘The Nerd Reich’ fair cheered me up! Btw ‘Nigel Farage Will ‘Beat the Blob’ on the letters page? Full Viz!🤠🤠🤠
Agreed. ES recognise its importance but lack resources.
One phrase that brings vacant expressions at Inset Days. "You need to meet children's needs." Meaningless yet ubiquitous.
John Locke's Shocked Expression
ALT: John Locke's Shocked Expression
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Anyone else use their pill box to tell you what day it is?😁
Thanks for the mention, Paul. A pedantic point - the categories (macro etc) are not levels or people in our model - they are forms of activity (1/)
This Possibly an intractable issue for schools, LAs and SG due to resources?
Prof Mark Priestley@markrpriestley.bsky.social · 2d agoMeso curriculum making - the leadership /networking /resources that help connect policy and practice and support curriculum making in schools is very important and should involve teachers. It is under-resourced and under-developed in Scotland
Meso curriculum making - the leadership /networking /resources that help connect policy and practice and support curriculum making in schools is very important and should involve teachers. It is under-resourced and under-developed in Scotland
"Pro-Israel Groups Want You to Believe That Israel’s National Security Minister… Doesn’t Represent Israel" Parts of the pro-Israel lobby are calling for Itamar Ben-Gvir to be ousted from government, after he called for the mass murder of Palestinians. So what will they do when he isn’t?
Pro-Israel Groups Want You to Believe That Israel’s National Security Minister… Doesn’t Represent Israel
Parts of the pro-Israel lobby are calling for the far-right Itamar Ben-Gvir to be ousted from government, after he called for the mass murder of Palestinians. So what will they do when he isn’t?
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A rare education blog from me. cochrane1964.wixsite.com/website/post...
Who Makes the Curriculum?
The what? Professor Mark Priestley in a GTCS article and blog in 2021 suggested the following definition of the curriculum.“…View the curriculum as the multi-layered social practices, through which ed...
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'Immigrants are now routinely described as rapists and predators – as are trans women. Why must an act of criminality, or failing, by one member of a group be carried as a burden of sin by all members of that group?' || @neilmackay.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
Film, television and theatre star Phyllida Law, mother of Emma Thompson, has died at the age of 94 www.heraldscotland.com/news... 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘞𝘗𝘈 𝘗𝘰𝘰𝘭/𝘎𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
Could people please post this image on Truth Social with flattering language to see if we can get him to repost it? Thx
Stepien: Ossoff should apologize because it was below the belt. Boykin: You worked for Donald Trump. How could you say anything is below the belt when you work for Donald Trump in the White House? For you to come here and have this fake outrage…
😆 SURPRISE! Donald Trump voted by mail in Florida’s Republican primary while SCREAMING mail-in voting is totally fraudulent and must be abolished.
Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida
Voting records from Palm Beach County show the president requested his ballot in late July and it was returned on Aug. 13.
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