✨English Teachers✨
English Meet Cork is Back!!
Absolutely delighted to announce this free in-person CPD event!
- Friendly vibes
- Short presentations
- Wide range of topics
- Teas, coffees and chats
🗓️Thursday, Feb 12th
Register now!
www.eventbrite.com/e/english-me...
✨English Teachers✨
English Meet Cork is Back!!
Absolutely delighted to announce this free in-person CPD event!
- Friendly vibes
- Short presentations
- Wide range of topics
- Teas, coffees and chats
🗓️Thursday, Feb 12th
Register now!
www.eventbrite.com/e/english-me...
We’re teaching children to see struggle as signs of mental ill health. In doing so, schools risk becoming traumagenic. What if suffering is a sane response to adversity, not a condition to be treated? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
17.01.2026 07:36 — 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 2
Wonderful essay by Katherine Rundell.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
An interesting piece to add to how we work through Othello and other plays with students
24.03.2025 18:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 @NCCAie are offering you the opportunity to be part of Regional Focus Groups on the draft specification for Leaving Cert English. Follow the link for more details on these one day events & to register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
18.03.2025 16:23 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The 100 best Irish fiction books of the 21st century so far: No 100 to No 51. We assembled a panel of 60 experts – writers, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers & journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of 2000-2025
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Remaining #edchatie sessions this term after that:
Leadership in Irish schools: challenges & opportunities with @joerolston.bsky.social
ESD in Ireland: the role of education in helping Ireland become climate leaders with @codie1cory@bsky.social
& Leaving Certificate reform: pros & cons with me
Another great Irish debut. Frogs for Lapdogs, published by New Island. Launched tonight. A wonderful child narrator with not a trace of sentimentality. A descendant of the Big House novel too. My Q&A with author Seán Farrell is in Irish Times Saturday week
12.02.2025 19:01 — 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
I’ll be adding much of today’s ‘Irish Times’ article to my ‘Macbeth’ unit of work on kingship and power. Lots to think about here….😩
12.02.2025 06:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Approaches to Teaching the Theme of Kingship in 'Macbeth' with @sarfern
Date: Tuesday, 4th March 2025
Time: 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Target Audience: Post Primary Leaving Cert English Teachers
Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
✨This Thursday!
Cork Teachers of English are gathering for an in-person English Meet at Bandon Grammar School
- Short presentations on a variety of topics
- Relaxed vibes (I hope!)
Still time to sign up at the link below!
#edchatie @inotenews.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.ie/e/1213062114...
🖊️ Opportunities for writers!
Check out late January and February deadlines for submissions, competitions, bursaries, residencies and more opportunities.
irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...
For tonight's #edchatie discussion: anyone interested, I put this draft list together of provocative and helpful thinkers (mostly relevant for English). Mentioning writers like @marcwatkins.bsky.social & @janerosenzweig.bsky.social & @audreywatters.bsky.social
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/ai-reso...
"A thoughtfully structured session—4 stars."
Join us for Untamed: Writing Without Fear.
📅 16th Feb 2025
💸 £20 tickets for Bluesky followers.
🔗 shorturl.at/aHUmE
My name is not on it but I'll be talking at this event at Ennis Book Club Festival on March 8, remembering Edna O'Brien, whom I worked with when I lived in London.
Info here: glor.ie/events/ennis...
✨English Meet Cork is rapidly approaching! ✨
Thursday, Feb 13th-6:30pm
Free event.
Teachers sharing ideas and practice in person.
If you can make it to Bandon, do sign up 🙏!
Link below.
This event is supported by INOTE
www.eventbrite.ie/e/1213062114...
#EdChatie on Bluesky All sessions on Monday evenings, 8:30–9:30 PM. Jan 13th: How can Ireland address its teacher recruitment and retention crisis? Host: @humphreyjones.bsky.social Jan 27th: AI in Irish education. Host: @john-hurley.bsky.social Feb 10th: Cognitive Science in Irish education. Host: @patjburke.bsky.social Feb 24th: Supporting additional needs in Irish schools: barriers and opportunities. Host: @trinagolden.bsky.social Mar 10th: Leadership in Irish schools: challenges and opportunities. Host: @joerolston.bsky.social Mar 24th: ESD in Ireland: the role of education in helping Ireland become climate leaders. Host: @codie1cory.bsky.social April 7th: Open to offers.
AI in Irish education.
Give your opinion TONIGHT on #edchatie!
8.30-9.30pm, hosted by @john-hurley.bsky.social
Pls Repost ...
Michael Longley’s Life of Poetry | BBC Radio 3
In honour of the late poet Michael Longley, BBC Radio 3 will rebroadcast the series he made with Olivia O’Leary in 2024 to mark his 85th birthday. Tune in nightly 10th-14th February at 9:45pm.
Listen back on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Are you a writer aged 18—26? Applications are now open for the Cúirt Young Writer Delegates Programme in partnership with The Irish Writers Centre!
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
booksirelandmagazine.com/applications...
Characteristically thought provoking blog from @greeborunner.bsky.social 👌
26.01.2025 21:05 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Winter-themed border of blue snowflakes on a pale grey background. Text reads: Publishing Your Work | Poetry & Writing Calls for Submissions January 2025: Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies.
Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
03.01.2025 17:30 — 👍 174 🔁 103 💬 10 📌 6In Macbeth, people initially go along to get along and uphold the appearance of the state they had. It takes a chaotic public performance by Macbeth and a sense that bloody knives may be directed at anyone to turn the tide. Macduff's principled dissent then brings along a wave of pragmatic dissent.
21.01.2025 23:23 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Most secondary teachers will struggle to authenticate students’ work under Leaving Cert reforms, survey finds
22.01.2025 00:02 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3
Delighted to be taking part in this year's Ennis Book Club Festival. I'll be interviewed by the wonderful @neilhegarty.bsky.social on 8 March. We'll be chatting about Ghost Mountain and EVERYTHING.
Tickets in the link 👇
Do come!
ennisbookclubfestival.com/Event_slug/r...
#UKEd #EduSky #UKteaching
I'm keen to give this platform more of a go as Twitter descends further into bin fire territory...
I really miss seeing posts from #TeamEnglish. Some of the regulars from the golden age of blogs / sharing resources / discussion on Twitter never appear here...
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Check this out if you’re in the Cork area. A highly enjoyable in person CPD event with @sarfern.bsky.social & many more engaging English teachers.
20.01.2025 17:40 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
✨English Meet Cork is Back!!
Absolutely delighted to announce this free in-person CPD event!
- Friendly vibes
- Short presentations
- Wide range of topics
- Teas, coffees and chats
- Goodie bags and spot prizes!
🗓️Thursday, Feb 13th
Register Now
www.eventbrite.ie/e/1213062114...
Interesting.
Sweden starts to move back from digital in the classroom
#edchatie
“We were all so wrong”: Sweden’s government confirms screens are harming students’ academic performance - Jason Deegan jasondeegan.com/we-were-all-...
Discrete😂gr lesson on prepositions- core knowledge + lots of delib practice. Followed by writing lesson - ppls use MWs to construct sentences describing setting using prep/prep phrases b4 looking at wide, medium, close up + prep phrases. Result -layered descriptions - PP and ENP
14.01.2025 11:36 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0