Penelope Shortland-Palmer

The whole rewilding experience just feels like the positive direction that we’re so missing in other areas. Nature is so good at everything, if we start there, it’s a path. #geography #nature #trees

Definitely a compliment!

More of this please - this is what technology should be doing. #tech #geography #geographyteacher

It wouldn’t matter what the schools taught - when these kids are on the streets the gang members are absolute authorities on the police and evading the law - the kids believe anything the gang tells them. It’s a type of brain washing.

It’s understandable that they don’t fight. Pensions seem like an archaic thing even though they shouldn’t be. I think young people understand that wealth and income is going to look very different in the future.

I need a good education book editor to help me sort out my manuscript - any recommendations please? #writing #education #editor #editingnonfiction

That whole piece… I wish it was surprising but it’s just the echoes of justification from generations past

Soon, many people will know entirely made up facts about everything but won’t even suspect. Terrifying.

I love this site but this is an especially good little graphic - enjoy #geography #life #information #education

My parents who are extremely pro science and vaccines apparently didn’t get us whooping cough vaccines due to a scare at the time (80’s) we had all our others. I deliberated about the sheer number of shots our boys had as infants. It needs a big public health drive.

In more general terms further to Isabelle’s point - buy in requires community, inclusion and identity - all of which are driven by very different drivers to academic improvement and are much harder to measure. Good schools are felt, not paper exercises.

Some of the smartest people I know are obsessive doodlers and neurodivergent learners often learn best without ‘tracking’ because it’s not how their attention works. This is why blanket rules are dangerous - they remove the teachers discretion to facilitate real learning as opposed to compliance

Poor mental health is the inevitable consequence of the complete removal of security and economic safety from people’s lives. Mental health services are critical but the numbers will just keep rising if people can’t keep a house, job, friends, health etc

Have a cousin who has been in prison for over a decade for theft offence on IPP. It’s absolutely insane that this exists.

That is why the whole ‘bag’ of rules should be minimal - the more lines there are the more suffocating it feels. Do you need a sock rule? Or an eye movement rule?

I loved learning but hated school because of all the petty rules, especially uniform. Felt like every tiny attempt at self expression was stamped on so I played truant a lot.

I loved that - I avoid rewatching things for that very reason.

‘ we have to start thinking of school not just as factory that has an output – but as a home, in which students live, grow, and find a sense of belonging in the society that nurtures them.’

Is it just an English version of Astrid? I really liked that and I’d be surprised if a remake were any good.

Indeed - I think the issue is too many people who are making those policies are people who liked school, value rules and grew up around education. For those of us that hated school, pointless rules about uniform are just another daily torture. I loved learning but found school suffocating.

That said, your point about the language is spot on - get rid of the ambiguity and false messaging in favour of transparency.

It blows my mind that nails, socks and other infractions of essentially mild self expression end up in #isolation and in some schools this can go on for days on end. #behaviour Sweat the small stuff was never meant to be about turning schools into Victorian city states.

Just watching GofT for the 1st time and it’s awesome!

Well that should be really helpful 🤬 it’s not like parents haven’t been clamouring to anyone who will listen for literally years!

You don’t need to try to make JRM look like Ebeneezer 🤣🤣

The trouble is how many times have we had these same conversations, heard the same arguments and still there has been no systemic change for generations

This is such dangerous nonsense and it’s a rising narrative. Students do. Students do not become ‘dependent’ if support is appropriate and correct. What they do do is develop critical trusting relationships which allow the child to thrive. It’s the whole ‘resilience’ fantasy again.

You can’t be worried about offending schools - they desperately need to know the damage so many of them are doing, not that it’s necessarily their fault as the chasms in provision are system wide and schools are front line

A “Round, Bruising Sort of Pain”: Autistic Girls’ Social Camouflaging in Inclusive High School Settings - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Although autistic females often “camouflage” their autism, few studies examine the degree to which adolescent females demonstrate these behaviors in inclusive school settings. We examined: (a) the nat...

This is well worth a read.
Autistic girls, & camouflaging/masking, at school.
How friendships with other neurodivergent young people are a lifesaver.
How bullying & exclusion happens from nonautistic pupils.
Who has the behaviour and social skills problems, eh?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We all miss Hans Rosling #geography #geographyteacher