Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪

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We can also be found on LinkedIn - if you're over do come and say hello! We'd love to connect with the reading and education community over there too. #UKEd #EduBlogUK

One of our Directors of Training shares why she works at Thinking Reading 📚

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Sunday & + 3 links to this collection of links to #freeaccess #edu content👇🏻
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Today about #result #reports (fake or real) in a world of #competition & what result might be for #students & #schools?
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@asa.tsbalans.se @bjodah.bsky.social @pragmarxist.bsky.social @skolinkvisition.bsky.social @bethgg.bsky.social @diannemurphy.bsky.social @aliesbati.bsky.social

❓Why are both our organisation, and our teaching programme, called ‘Thinking Reading?’ Glad you asked!

Taylor Swift: engaged, mummy-tracked and doomed to tradwifedom? You really haven’t been listening | Gaby Hinsliff Critics say marriage will kill her creativity. Not likely for an artist who’s made billions from songs about redefining women’s limits, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

'women have been known to have interesting interior lives even over the age of 35' who knew? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... enjoyed this @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social

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I Might Be Wrong, But... This “Edtech Revolution” Might Just Be the Next Big Fail (and got me fuming) Unpack the AI-powered gaming education hype surrounding ExoDexa and its claims to revolutionize learning through fun.

I Might Be Wrong, But... This “Edtech Revolution” Might Just Be the Next Big Fail (and got me fuming) theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/08/26/i...

🔥 One of the largest suppliers of oil products in the south of Russia, the Novoshakhtinsk Refinery, continues to be closed for the 5th day in a row.

Reuters writes that oil prices are rising after Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy facilities.

A nice video from yesterday! 🤩

Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.

💙💛 Ukraine Flag Day celebrated in Europe

🇪🇺 30-meter Ukrainian flag was unfurled opposite the European Parliament.

🇵🇱 In Poland, activists painted the asphalt near the Russian embassy blue and yellow.

🇱🇻 In Latvia, the building of MFA was illuminated with blue and yellow flowers.

A showy snowy #snowyegret #egrets #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #canon

Some days 🤷🏼‍♀️

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"Effective use of resources depends on how well we know our students' needs."

Being more efficient relies on the quality and scope of our data.

Read more in our blog ‘Can We Do More With Less?’ wp.me/p4hKgx-z9 (4 min read).

#EduBlog #UKEd #EduSky

Excellent article on the problems caused by labelling versus teaching kids what they need to know.

From @paulkirschner.bsky.social

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Well, I was by the time I got to the end 😆

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I’m so pleased. It’s not simple decision to move countries.

Looks scrumptious! It sounds like Sweden is working well for you.

AJLD EMINENT RESEARCHER AWARD WINNER 2024 Professor James Chapman: The rise and demise of reading recovery in New Zealand Reading Recovery (RR) was introduced throughout New Zealand during the 1980s, for children struggling the most with learning to read after 1 year of formal schooling. In May 2024, the Minister of E...

🥳 The ‘holy grail’ of reading inventions that was birthed in NZ & exported to the world has finally been dumped. Now the way is clear for children to receive scientifically-based instruction & stop being instructional casualties. H/T @kathyrastle.bsky.social

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They look adorable!

Shall we say afternoon tea at 3pm? ☺️

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Nice to see this work getting noticed. Lots of teachers and students quietly doing amazing stuff around the country.

1. More great news from one of our partner schools. The proof is in the pudding, & here is the pudding 😁 A partner school in north Kent has now almost eliminated the problem of poor reading in their students.