Oliver Mills

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It's a not for profit tech organisation that used to supply broadband and hardware but not offers training and edtech bits. Quite popular around here and a few other places like London and Yorkshire.

And then we often do this dumb thing where, when it's clear that something wasn't worth the investment, we try to force teachers to use it anyway to justify the expense and the decision to purchase whatever the shiny thing was.

We get this part wilful delusion, part sunk-cost thing going on.

As a profession, we've wasted so much time, effort and money on bandwagons and silver bullets.

One of my few "beefs" with LGfL is how they enable the "We can't be left behind" mindset in HTs and leaders.

I've been at two separate events where the speakers have created a caricature of a cautious, skeptical teacher who gets mocked.

At the core of any good school is excellent teaching, which requires good behaviour, which needs strong SLT and sytems, but which also requires engagement, which needs a relevant curriculum, which requires subject knowledge, which needs support, but also empathy.
It's not simple.

So unusable that I don't even bother buying their kits anymore and just use Dark Rock's kits in Pinter equipment.

Pinter is a great example of this. They've gone from having exceptional customer service to being next to unusable in the space of around 12 months.

Who is the OP for this? I'm not exactly blocked by a huge number of people and of those who do block me linked to education, I can't guess who'd be writing about that.

Reading comprehension is not a skill. It’s an outcome of what you know. Strategies plateau. Knowledge compounds.
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The biggest reason white kids underperform at school is because white children disproportionately have parents and caregivers with attitudes towards school and education like this.

One of the best things about being an author must be seeing kids dress up as one of your characters for World Book Day.

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

Just completed a trawl through about 30 Ofsted reports all released since Feb 26. With one exception, every setting with low attainment get needs attention for achievement and leadership and governance and every setting with close to average or above achievement gets expected or above for both.

So currently Bluesky believes Keir Starmer is going to cause World War III as a puppet of Donald Trump, Twitter believes he’s a beta cuck who should have launched missiles ahead of the Americans, and Facebook believes that video of the puppy playing with the tiger is real and not AI.

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

A diverse mix of trending news on BBC News right now.

Next target is below 90kg by 1st May.

I’m sure he’ll resign in protest.

Thank you.

Learning to play the piano is something I've wanted to do for the last 20+ but never really got going. I can play really basic one-handed songs ATM but that's it. I'd love to be able to play the song in the vid confidently.

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YouTube video by PianoX The XX - Intro | Piano tutorial | Sheets | How to play?

Piano players:

How many hours of practice does it take to go from the absolute basics to being able to play this?

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I'm not a big fan of tequila but these taste amazing.

Have any of you had a 'lagerita' before?

400 jobs cut at Manchester United: "savings" of £7.4m.
Potential cost of the sacking of Ruben Amorim and his staff: £15.9m.

There is little concrete policy that has been made publicly available and I fear too much of the discussion about the Greens and their readiness to lead will be focused on sensationalising the drug decriminalisation plans at a shallow level and shit attempts at 'Gotchas'.