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This is positive after a slowdown in the reflection of our children’s realities last Year. These reports are so vital and have driven change over time. Well done to all @theclpe.bsky.social

Surely anything you bring with you from the place younhave fled and risked your life to get to this country is sentimental?

The more I hear the more terrifying it is.

Something not awful in today's news! 🥳

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This is nice to hear. Earliernin my career we had very detailed plans for every lesson. They could be changed and adapted but that’s what a shared scheme looked like- fully resourced and with an accompanying plan. Much better than all the admin KS leads Do now

With lots of CPD coming up this term, here's a taste of what teachers have had to say about some of our recent courses!

Particularly weird as it was after a kids video on the solar system I’d watched with my toddler on YouTube? Like what kind of targeting is that…

Yeah it was a couple in bed looking sad and then I think it was either google AI or chatgpt offering to help deal with anxiety over moving in with a partner and snoring issues…

This feels similar to issues I have watching BBC news at the moment. great article

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

I just saw one offering relationship counselling. It’s terrifying

Weekend reading on #Shakespeare and teaching with some great articles to provoke thought and some great resources discussed too. #TeamEnglish

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www.britishshakespeare.ws/wp-content/u... New edition of Teaching Shakespeare magazine- some great articles. Useful perhaps for teachers but also to share with students. @britgrad.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @lateteachers.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social #TeamEnglish #edusky

www.britishshakespeare.ws/wp-content/u... New edition of Teaching Shakespeare magazine- some great articles. Useful perhaps for teachers but also to share with students. @britgrad.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @lateteachers.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social #TeamEnglish #edusky

That’s it. Through the ‘how’ a school can nurture community, belonging, accountability in class, when learning, not just in tutor groups and extra curricular.

Just takes me to a list of articles about the Carnegie! Thanks that would be great- love the premise of the book

I do this all the time, no AI or even computer needed. It's called mind-mapping, or marginal comments, or Talmud, or Tumblr, or Post-its, or scholia, or Emily Dickinson's writing practice, or drafts, or revises, or amends, or "expand this," or highlighting, or developing an idea, or ...

So glad to have known other disrupters, I was hoping we’d be the mainstream but fear we’ll still have tondo the work!

I agree-I’m disappointed before It’s even come out. We need to reckon with what certain kinds of pastoral and t&l policies within schools have done to children’s mental health and sense of themselves. The idea that what and how we teach is seperate from how kids feel in and after school is so flawed

Would love to see the full review and excerpt but it doesn’t come up on that link I’m afraid.

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I love this because it recognises that our pedagogies and teaching practices are also important. If you teach a diverse range of books but have never thought about how your institution teachers those it makes pupils of all backgrounds feel, then you’ve not decolonised anything #edusky

I know a lot of the ‘big ones’ but it was the way he transformed into a dragon that got me 😹 I love your account and the arthur rackham illustrations

This is a good round up. Anyone who tries to say ‘teachers work so hard we can’t reform the system’ isn’t speaking for me. I’ve been working within but railing against the system for most of my career!

I have no reason to go to Boston, please can someone in the UK do this? How awesome

What a wild story.

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