to: all of the big companies from: all of us per our previous email, hire people to answer the phone
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French and Spanish teacher. I like to play football in the park with my brother. Last weekend I went shopping. Next weekend if it is sunny I would like to swim. https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/
www.gov.uk/guidance/tec... Can’t help feeling sad that this project is basically funnelling young people into the military industrial complex. So we can’t use a trans child’s pronouns but we can let year 9 have assemblies from Northrop Grumman and Palantir? I’m sure parents are ok with that..
TechFirst
TechFirst is the government’s flagship tech skills programme opening pathways into the UK’s fast-growing tech sector, providing opportunities across all parts of the UK.
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Hi @clareseccombe.bsky.social Please can you point me in the direction of Spanish phonics on lightbulb I can pass on to one of our Primaries? I have found your sound files page. Is there a phonics introduction on there somewhere? Hope you are having a great summer...
Was at the Highland Games in Skye today and before the hill race got chatting to a young American who was here because he made friends with a group of Scots in Boston during the World Cup and they invited him over. This is a brilliant world.
Nail on head again- we already have a broad range of vocational options at all levels- if they aren't being utilised/accessed to best effect, ministers need to spend the time analysing why and addressing that rather than reinventing the wheel (again)
Laura McInerney@missmc.bsky.social · yesterdayFolks: these days the England system has BTECs, T-Levels, degree apprenticeships, a whole load of other apprenticeship assessments, and very flexible HE entry across a broad range of providers, including foundation years for those without L3. We already *have* a lot of pathways!
Today I rescued some people from a car parking fine. They put in number plate (with help) and then card and pin. It then said, No receipt available. Continue?" So they hit No and walked away. I called them back and said I think they had just aborted the whole thing and got them to start again.
Austin Evans: Everything Is A Scam!
ALT: Austin Evans: Everything Is A Scam!
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'While just around 3,000 of the 150,000 or so tests have been invalidated, all students – including those who, like Velázquez, are not suspected of cheating – have been left in limbo pending the result of UNAM’s investigation into the matter.' edition.cnn.com/2026/08/02/a...
The AI cheating scandal rocking Mexico’s most prestigious university | CNN
Thousands of students have been left in limbo amid a cheating scandal that erupted after the prestigious institution offered its exam online for the first time ever.
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Teaching doctors about smoking is a moral imperative. And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking the tobacco industry's money or doing nothing!
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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If an exam is too hard, they use the grade boundaries to bring it into line. If an exam is too easy, they use the grade boundaries to bring it into line. Except for languages. Where they use the grade boundaries to make sure it's out of line. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/08/ling...
Linguistics in Year 7
I have been meaning for a while to write a post on the idea of Linguistics in schools and its relation to language teaching. Or more precis...
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22,000 signatures so far for our petition against the corrupt UK media. Please sign at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... and then share the hell out of it.
Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform
Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...
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It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Wordle 1,873 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Albino red panda tenderly picks up Siamese twin baby squirrel. This is getting ridiculous. Who sets these?
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2023/10/colo... Also I can spell privilege. It's the same as in French/Spanish.
Colonial Curriculum
At the same time as " the knowledge curriculum " is promoting the study of authoritative voices, the "best" of great literature and "standa...
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Mr E@theniceman.bsky.social · 23h agoPriveligeing Roman stories as somehow the key culture of which we are the inheritors, with ideas of conquest, empire, superiority, slavery is a narrow and deliberate choice. When we as a small island were colonising areas of the fertile crescent or India that had written history going back to when
Healing becomes less mysterious when you realize the body is not a machine asking for efficiency but an ecosystem asking for a relationship.
"As one executive stated directly, “'We don’t ask the woman whether she is interested [in a more challenging role]; we simply assume she is not.'"
What 60 Years of Data Reveals About How Men and Women Experience Leadership
In 1965, Harvard Business Review surveyed 2,000 male and female executives to track perceptions of women in leadership. Since then, researchers have replicated that study every twenty years to gauge s...
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Tío Ricky's visit frustrates his nephew, who must accompany him + translate, until his #bilingual skills help his uncle in an emergency making him appreciate his special gift. Written by @maritererbellas.bsky.social w/ art by Jayri Gómez. Lil’ Libros #childrensbooks #booksky wp.me/p3X25n-bsA
Tío Ricky Doesn’t Speak English - Tío Ricky no habla inglés
Tío Ricky's visit frustrates a boy who must always accompany him and translate, until his bilingual skills help his uncle when he falls ill.
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He’s Saruman without the intellect and fashion sense.
Conversation group connects medical students, community members for language learning
Conversation group connects medical students, community members for language learning
" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/charlar_02.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1" />Monthly gatherings of Charlar Con Cafecito, or chat with coffee, provides Fort Worthians a way to practice Spanish and English.
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Not only that, but we now have 60+ years of Census, BLS, and other data showing that *occupations become more poorly paid when more women move into them,* and vice versa. www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/u...
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops (Published 2016)
Work done by women pays less because women do it, research shows.
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Kim Weeden@weedenkim.bsky.social · yesterdayExcept for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
