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What Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold would bring to Real Madrid Alexander-Arnold finally looks set to join Real Madrid this summer. How significant could it be on the pitch?

Interrupt your regular, scheduled educhat, for some football related news…

www.nytimes.com/athletic/632... What Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold would bring to Real Madrid

Re-reading this. For those who claim that the techniques in this book are motivated by a desire for coercive control or are “literally tyranny”, I would encourage you to read the preface and explore Lemov’s motives for yourself, even if you read no further #Edusky

Here's a 15 second teaser for #CoachingWalkthrus. It's a beautiful piece of work. Such a joy to have the opportunity to work with @mattteachcoach.bsky.social and @olicav.bsky.social on this book. You will want a copy! Out in September we hope.

He loves to start confrontation and then backs down at the first sign of pushback. Standard behaviour for bullies.

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For a number of reasons, I’ve haven’t read much this academic year, so I’m excited to dig into these… #EduSky

Interesting task design discussion:

So true - am currently doing the NPQSL and it’s much better than the old NPQML I did in 2014. But so much of the content and tasks ignore my current context. Our cycle on behaviour, for instance, contained lots that just wouldn’t be necessary internationally.

YouTube video by St Andrews International School Bangkok STA’s Makaton Version of Firework | Inclusion Week 2025

Inclusion Week 2025 - “Firework” in Makaton youtu.be/qiHxoZjQmoc?... STA is such a special place to be ❤️🤍💙💛💚

All are safe and sound - thank you for asking!

My day at school today. Literally got the “Captain, my Captain” treatment from my Y13s in our last lesson, a lovely speech, and beautiful note and gift. Then, an earthquake 🥴 Still here at our Primary site with hundreds of kids.

And you gotta feel for the kids growing up in this online environment. The complexity of a teen’s internal world is so vast, without adding all this. So glad to have missed the net and social media in my teen years.

Just on episode 3. Frightening.

#SundayCPD Really important Expert-led Talk Webinar on Leading Inclusion as part of Best Practice Network’s NPQSL #Edusky

The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism From media to culture and the arts to the refusal to abide by court orders, we’re nearing ‘Defcon 1 for our democracy’, experts say

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NEW webinar:

Key Stage 3: The Wasted Years or The Ambitious Years?

Ofsted’s KS3 The Wasted Years? of 2015 found that provision at KS3 wasn’t as ambitious as it could be:

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Excellent summary of the first meeting of the expert working party, which I’m thrilled to be a part of.

"Her mantras throughout the review have been 'evidence-led', 'evolution not revolution', and 'social justice'. In person one of her most frequently used words is 'nuance'."

🚨free COACHING webinar!

📆 27th March

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❓How to prepare for coaching using mapping

🎫 Now expanded number of tickets!

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Food for thought

A Zoom with a View #4 The Leading, Language and Literature Podcast · Episode

Episode 4 of A Zoom with a View, a running series with Chris Jordan (of the Leading, Language, and Literature podcast) is out now. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1JFm... #Edusky

The Misunderstood Art of Scaffolding carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-misund...

Amazing news! Can’t wait to read it.

Excited to be here in Abu Dhabi for the NAE Regional Conference #Edusky

Awesome residential week with 100 year 8s

7 things Sir Martyn Oliver told MPs on Ofsted reforms Ofsted chief gives Commons committee an overview of what he believes the new school inspection report cards should cover

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What I’m hearing here is that in their “Big Listen” is that they’ve not listened to teachers’ and leaders’ concerns about separating curriculum, teaching, and outcomes at all…

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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).

Ha! No worries 😀

I didn’t even know these views were a thing, but now I’m annoyed at the double standards 😂

It’s a slippery slope. Where does it end? There is plenty that Western countries have done that I a) personally disagree with b) are objectively immoral or illegal. Do the same rules apply there? Or only to non-Western countries?