Nick Dennis

Education beyond the algorithm. My workshop session for school leaders on the 21st January 2026.

Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...

A quick reminder that the date to submit proposals for our summer conference #SHP26 is Dec 1. If you have something inspiring that you want to share with the SHP family then use this form forms.office.com/e/UHkC15w52G

Early Bird Tickets now on sale for our Developing Teachers' Conference (Jan 31 online) from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... 9 workshops for secondary and 3 workshops for primary teachers & an incredible keynote from Dr Sarah Longair, whose gloved hands have touched many an object!

Incredible opportunity to get your (gloved) hands on some Viking artefacts at our next Yorkshire History Forum at St Barnabas School in York (Nov 24 5-8pm). Just ask @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social and she'll tell you how awesome they are! Tickets available here: store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

So much @1972shp.bsky.social stuff going on right now! Last call to register for SHP UNEARTHED (Nov 10 5-6pm), our groundbreaking (ha ha!) webinar on Empire and Gardening - email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to sign up.

Wonderful to spend yesterday afternoon celebrating ten years of Our Migration Story, an unrivalled online resource for teachers and students to learn about migration’s centrality to the making of modern Britain. Congrats to all who made OMS possible — felt urgent and energising

Home Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.

Excellent workshop and 10-year anniversary celebration yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for that marvellous open access teaching resource, Our Migration Story. Shout out to the team that conceptualised and orchestrated it years ago & for fostering its growth to @runnymedetrust.bsky.social

New blog: The Wrong Terrain: LLMs and Education

Or, why getting a Gramsci quote wrong shows that humans can make LLM-level mistakes too (and that is fine) and why it is always helpful to know your onions about schools before talking in moral absolutes.
www.nickdennis.com/blog/2025/10...

Looking further forward we host our Developing Teachers' Conference on January 31 2026: We will have 9 secondary workshops and 3 primary workshops featuring legends like @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social @oblaize.bsky.social @missrcarter89.bsky.social & @msquinnhistory.bsky.social. Tickets on sale v soon!

It was so much fun chatting to @carmelbones.bsky.social about the history of the Schools History Project and how it can support the #historyeducation community today and in the future. I hope you enjoy the chat that we had with Mel @histassoc.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Very excited to share the forthcoming SHP Understanding event from @1972shp.bsky.social: Unearthed (Nov 10 5-6pm). The first in a series of webinars looking at the transformative and radical power of gardening - from the Diggers to Mary Seacole to settler colonialism we've got it covered!

How does your school deal with 'organisational clutter'? executive.mit.edu/improving-or...

Or if you have some suggestions of what we should be offering in our Developing Teachers Conference #DTC26 (use this form forms.office.com/e/u1B14iYYhJ )

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I can certainly understand why you would take that position. I find myself in that frame of mind too.

Agency Is What Societies Make of It Agency isn’t just a mindset.

My response to the Forbes piece titled 'Why Agency is the New Literacy' in relation to LLM use in schools.

Essentially, we need to think more about the structures we operate in. A respectful disagreement with colleagues who I admire a great deal! nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/agency-is-...

A cover of Karl Marx's 'Grundrisse'.

A cover of the book 'Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism'.

What might Karl Marx, writing over a century ago, have to say about how we use and think about LLMs today?

With term starting shortly, I'm finishing prep for upcoming discussions with my A-level Politics class. When teaching ideologies, the question always is: how relevant are key thinkers today?

Just bought this book for my eldest! @alomshaha.bsky.social

Front cover of the book ‘The AI Con’ by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.

If you use AI in your school and have not read this book, you should. The critical view on how AI has been developed and sold will create questions about how it aligns with your school vision, notions or fairness and safeguarding practices.

The gambling industry is a licence to print money. Tax it properly – and turbocharge the fight against child poverty | Gordon Brown New thinking is urgent now. I have not seen such deep poverty since I grew up in a mining and textiles town blighted by unemployment, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

Tax seems to occupy a strange position in British political discourse at the moment, but I think it is a great opportunity for A-level Politics students to discuss ideas of wealth, the economy, current UK government spending and media discourse.

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📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025.

• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History

Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

My 14 year-old daughter, Grace, is playing in the U16 Junior Premier League next season for Boro Rangers. She requires a sponsor. Anyone interested?

Details:
- £300
- Logo on training top
- Social media recognition at start, middle, and end of season (primarily Facebook/Instagram)

Few radical ideas in education translate to reality, so the @nsota.bsky.social is surprising.

Maximum fees under two thousand pounds (it also operate a pay what you can model), individual supervision and a very different assessment model/curriculum for higher education. www.nsota.org/home

St Helen's School, Northwood, Hertfordshire Welcome to the careers page for St Helen's School. Find out about working for us and search our current vacancies.

Do you believe that values-driven leadership can transform lives?

We are seeking HR professionals with integrity, open-mindedness and a genuine desire to improve lives, not just manage processes. Director of People and Culture & HR Business Partner.
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An Unfinished Conversation: Education, Democracy, and the Vote at 16 Nick Gallop, current Head of Brighton College Bangkok and Editor of Politics Review, recently published a piece arguing against lowering the voting age to 16, citing inadequate civic education.

Why votes for 16 year-olds are not 'bad' for democracy. nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/an-unfinis...

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Some of my fave photos from #SHP25 - #historyteacher s getting excited about the power of history teaching. Such a wonderful chance to share ideas about making school history meaningful to young people! Thanks to everyone who came as delegates, presenters, exhibitors, and those who made it possible.

Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation As EdTech industries grow in reach and power it is imperative to motivate conditions for ethical challenge and contestation, always remaining attentive to the kinds of education futures that domina...

Could edtech and AI in education be imagined otherwise? In our paper in latest issue of Oxford Review of Education @arathings.bsky.social, Carolina Valladares Celis, Jessica Pykett, @kerifacer.bsky.social and I surface four alternative orientations to tech in education (1/2) doi.org/10.1080/0305...

Corinne Fowler opening #SHP25 with a superb keynote connecting empire and enslavement with rural and industrial Britain.

Wishing everyone at #SHP25 a wonderful time full of learning and friendship. @danlyndon.bsky.social @apf102.bsky.social