I genuinely don't understand why some MATs employ highly qualified teachers and then tell them exactly how and what they must teach, even down to the exact timing of lessons. I couldn't work under those conditions and I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same. #EduSky

Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong | BBC Science Focus Magazine Genetics, audio processing and environment can all impact how our brains connect sounds to the symbols we use to read

Check out this article featuring our work via BBC Science Focus. Thank you, Nate Scharping, for a thoughtful piece on #dyslexia and its causes:
"Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong."
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Can all the behaviour gurus out there do me a favour? Specify which sector of education you’re talking about. Because what’s called disruptive behaviours in high school is developmentally normal behaviour in lower primary. Pupils don’t magically stop doing them, primary teachers show them how.

It’s the #NationalYearOfReading2026! Here is a poem, one of many available FREE on my website www.joshuaseigal.co.uk Enjoy, and feel free to SHARE #BookSky #EduSky

Congratulations; so well deserved. I do hope that you'll share a story and recommend a book when you receive your CBE.

The more we read about our world, the more connected we feel to it. Books spark curiosity, deepen understanding, and remind us that even small actions can lead to big change.

📚 Which book will inspire the way you protect our planet? Find the full booklist on our website #EmpathyActionMonth

EmpathyLab Managing Director, imogen Bond, introduces a panel of cross sector experts, each sharing insights into how a greater empathy focus could support with the multiple challenges our young people face.

#EmpathyEducation

Our next panel, chaired by EmpathyLab co founder Sarah Mears, opens up the perspectives of authors and teachers who can bring the empathy message direct to children and young people. How we can use books differently to challenge the crises we see in reading and wellbeing.

Sussex University psychology team share groundbreaking research investigating the intertwined nature of reading enjoyment, ability and empathy development, is the first of it’s kind to be carried out longitudinally over 4 years in UK primary schools.

Read the findings summary on our website

Hundreds of thousands of children with lifelong speech and language challenges, from children with Developmental Language Disorder to autistic children, desperately need teachers who know how to teach them.

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Three slides from the resource about dyslexia awareness. Signs of dyslexia, facts about dyslexia and identifying dyslexia. The image contacts small icons links to explanations.

I post every morning between 07.00-07.15am with low effort, high impact T&L ideas/resources/links.
Today-
It’s #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek
So here is an editable assembly & resource by me & @stammer_teacher www.trythisteaching.com/2019/10/dysl...
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Well, it’s the Daily Mail university league tables for Edge Hill University and - look at what the best course is! And no.1 out of 35! Nice one - and all thanks to brilliant students and totally brilliant team who steered us through some rocky times this year!!

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#TheBoyWhoBecameQueen by CHRISTINA BALIT @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social
“A beautiful, enchanting story of a boy’s journey from rags to theatre riches” Derek Jacobi
@christinabalit.bsky.social's illustrated story of a young actor in Shakespeare’s London is available at #TheGlobe bookshop bit.ly/46LeCw9

Fix basic literacy before promoting reading for pleasure The government's priority should be helping the many pupils who are behind with their reading – and we know exactly how to do it, writes FFT's Mike Fischer

The government’s priority should be helping the many pupils who are behind with their reading – and we know exactly how to do it, writes @fftedu.bsky.social’s Mike Fischer

Do read and share! Free and worth debating the individual- social and reflective ways forward rb.gy/4ih4ez @profsarahmcg.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social as well as the evidence on the associated benefits of reading!

Once again, you nail it with your blog. I've lost count of the number of children who are just reading words & assigning no meaning to stunning children's literature. This is an ongoing & ongrowing catastrophe.

There are great “simplifying” diagrams out there in eduland.

A bloke called Peps McCrea is by far my favourite:

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