🔊 Live at 9am — Darren Lester
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These girls and everything they stand for - what a great message for young people 💙
This speaks loudly to me. I find it difficult to manage sudden changes.
'But in rushing to “save” them, we may actually be denying them the very thing that could help them learn: having enough time to think deeply about your question and successfully retrieving the answer.'
The power of pause!
I feel for Italy ... I don't really. C'mon England!!!
*NEW* for 2026 onwards: updated and some brand new specimen AQA Lang P2s with accompanying PPT slide decks to support teaching. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish
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Will a secondary one be included in the future?
I’m pretty sure every woman leader has had a cry at work. We are human. When our work matters, and we care about it, we feel it.
#imwithrachel
#imwithrachel
You can all access - for free - a copy of our year 9 booklet for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ via dropbox.com/scl/fi/e6lw96k…
Our @ttradioofficial.bsky.social event has loads of #TeamRE speaking!
Catch @re-mcgee.bsky.social @karensteele.bsky.social @educatormissm.bsky.social Celina Sullivan and more tobe anmounced!!
Get your FREE ticket now www.eventbrite.com/e/teachers-t...
Calling all Humanities teachers! Did you know @ttradioofficial.bsky.social has a free event coming up this September for all #Historyteacher, Geography and #teamre teachers? Great networking & CPD!
Stick it in your calendar and grab your ticket here while stocks! www.eventbrite.com/e/teachers-t...
This is 🔥
Definitely worth the buy
My first Substack post - 'Unlocking the Power of Joy in Education'
Let me know what you think
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I think this is spot on 👇
Collaboration between schools, MATs and wider institutions will benefit the entire education system.
I'd love to hear your stories of successful collaboration
What happens when we feel we belong?
At High Performance Learning global conference, @profkime.bsky.social explored how belonging, drawing from Bantu African-origin value systems, fuels learning. It’s not optional. It’s essential.
What’s one way you help students feel they belong?
My daughter is taking great pleasure in telling me about the water cycle. I'm having to pretend I'm learning this for the first time, although everything she knows, I already know.
Joys of parenting.
Feel free to repost. Shop for free in West Bromwich on 25th May.
And it has finally arrived!
I love teaching this unit on protest with our year 9 students. Their engagement and intellectual conversations bring me much joy.
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800 sign-ups and going up by the minute!
Still time to join my set of 6 hour-long webinars, exploring all things metacognition, modelling, questioning, feedback, revision and developing independence.
And yes, it is completely FREE!
Yes - FREE!
And if you can't attend live, grab the recording!
I'm looking forward to these, Nathan. I know that they'll be fantastic
6 HOURS OF FREE PD!
I'm delighted to release further details of my 6 completely free to access webinars, running over June and July.
Full details in the poster below!
Recordings available too (same sign-up link)
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Let's arrange it. Send me a text?
When I lose direction, it's the book I go back to. How are you doing? I haven't heard from you in a long time!
