Simon Renshaw

Really looking forward to this!

#UKEd #EduSky
This is always on my mind when reading evidence about graphic organisers (aka word-diagrams). Without such context, I don't know how meaningful any conclusions could be. The same goes for the studies covered in Mayer's MultiMedia Learning book.

From Organise Ideas.

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”

Augustine of Hippo

My prayer is that hope - and it’s two beautiful daughters - will fill your day!

1. A story. Please read.
Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit.
I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.

I'm currently out bird watching with Sinead O'Connor. So far, it's been seven owls and fifteen jays.

This Department for Education short course on ‘Supporting reading in secondary school’ is an excellent free resource with useful video to build understanding for this crucial area:

www.gov.uk/government/p...

How Labour can drive school absenteeism down (again) Labour have solved school attendance before - and a new report shows how they can do it again

🎒 'We have solved this problem before, and that should give us hope'

@timleunig.bsky.social

Great to see this timely report on the future of professional development from @ambitioninstitute.bsky.social www.ambition.org.uk/news/new-rep...

DfE published some hefty changes to the ITT recruitment targets this morning
- down overall and across phases by around 20%
- some subjects like physics/ MFL down by more than a third

Are you a passionate geographer, who’d love to be involved in coaching and supporting trainee teachers in an amazing teacher training programme? Would you like to work with a great team in a flexible and supportive environment? I may have news for you…

www.teachfirst.org.uk/sites/defaul...

@neilgilbride.bsky.social Good evening Neil. Recently read your self efficacy book and found it excellent! Wondered if you might be interested in a speaking opportunity next academic year?

Just read this - cor blimey it’s ridiculously good!

What every teacher needs to know about assessment.

eBook on how effective teaching requires ongoing professional development in assessment.

Download now: t.ly/HRqOE

#EduSky

Getting the final touches sorted of the new blog ‘Bridging the Gap’ sorted. The idea is that an academic & a practitioner answer a question linked to working in UK schools

The aim is to understand if/where/why there is a gap between theory & practice so that we can bridge it to all of our benefit!

So, can AI assess writing? Results of our big new Comparative Judgement AI trial

We've been sceptical about AI marking. Not any more!

When the facts change, we change our minds.

We think this is really big.

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/so-can-ai-...

“The wealth of bands, orchestras, concerts and gigs we see today isn’t a predictor of our musical future, it’s a reflection of our educational past”: powerful @theguardian.com letter on the bleak decline of music in state schools …

Geoff Barton: How the week that ‘changed education forever’ unfolded Five years ago this week, Covid closed schools across England and Geoff Barton, then ASCL general secretary, was at the heart of the process. He explains how it happened and what it taught us

Gripping account of lock down from @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social - brings it back so vividly. It is shocking how society has moved on, while the consequences of the pandemic remain so evidently with us www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Curriculum review interim report: The 14 reforms Here's what you need to know about the first report from the Francis review

The interim curriculum review report has landed. From an EBacc review, to less content in primary school lessons and fewer GCSE exams - here's the 14 key things school leaders need to know ...

About - 100% Assessment Assessment insights for schools. Click to read 100% Assessment, a Substack publication. Launched an hour ago.

🚀 Matthew Evans @head-teach.bsky.social and I have launched 100% Assessment, a Substack dedicated to exploring assessment in schools.

We'll be posting weekly insights for everyone, from teachers through to Heads and Assessment Leads.

Find us here - 100assessment.substack.com/about

Tom Campbell: ‘Survivor’s guilt drove my leadership obsession’ Our How I Lead series asks education leaders to reflect on their career, experience and leadership philosophy. This month, we talk to Tom Campbell, CEO at E-ACT

"Maybe the leadership thing became an obsession. I knew life could stop at any moment. I didn’t want to hang around”

Startling honesty about his life and his view of the system from @tom-campbell.bsky.social

An important, challenging read.
www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

Extraordinary few passages in Richard Buckminster Fuller's "Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth" (1969) where he dwells on humanity's exploitation and use of fossil fuels:

"lethally ignorant and utterly irresponsible to our upcoming generations"

archive.org/details/oper...

Tackling teacher retention is about more than just money The executive director of education for the Church of England explains why it has launched two courses aimed at helping teachers and leaders to flourish

Writing in TES today to share the vision for our new Flourishing Leaders/Flourishing Teachers Programmes launching at our national conference today 🙌

All part of re-imagining education as a career in which adults could expect to flourish. 👍 🌳 🙏

www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

About 8 years ago, @siobhanleahy50 and I prepared a Quick Reference Guide for Embedding Formative Assessment. It's now out of print, so the copyright has reverted to us, and we are free to share it with anyone who wants it: bit.ly/EFAQRG (pdf).

A #Leicestershire villages thread.

1. Ab Kettleby. A Roman mosaic and pavement were found beneath the churchyard of St James’s, indicating the presence of a villa. The Everard Digby memorialised in the church died in 1628 so is not (contra Wikipedia) the Gunpowder plotter.

Ah, we had a lovely chat this morning David!

‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as melting permafrost ice leaves little behind

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #geosky #geomorphology

The Governance Lab Deepening Our Understanding of How to Govern More Effectively and Legitimately Through Technology

Interested in connecting with anyone using alignment assemblies in education. thegovlab.org

Great @schoolsweek.bsky.social podcast @missmc.bsky.social interviews Sir David Carter with 5 top questions for MAT evaluation at the end.

Four providers awarded contracts to deliver ECF Best Practice Network - one of the current providers of the Early Career Framework - has not been awarded a new contract, Tes understands

Outcomes of the ECF 2025 contracts via the TES. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Oak AI Experiments Oak AI experiments offers some experimental generative AI tools designed for and freely available to teachers. We are actively looking for your feedback to refine and optimise these tools, making them...

Half of me thinks this is brilliant, the other half is concerned. Proceed with caution amigos labs.thenational.academy