David Liebeschuetz

Real Inclusion Hurts Before It Heals If we want to change outcomes, we have to stop managing silence and start leading with consistency.

This is spot on
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As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful | Frances Ryan The narrative that they are a threat to women and girls has no basis in fact, but bad actors peddle it, and ministers encourage them, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Pessimistic. I have never known schools to be so short of money. It’s affecting everything

Definitely what is happening in the US and keep an eye on Reform in the Uk

Keir Starmer calls Israel’s recent actions in Gaza ‘appalling and intolerable’ PM tells MPs he is considering imposing sanctions on Israeli government members but is resisting ban on arms sales

Better late than never!!
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Have you seen Steplab. If yes what did you think of it?

A great episode. Most interesting that you never mentioned instructional coaching, as a solution to all the problems of the everyone in the hall model of CPD. I feel coaching is great in theory particularly the emphasis on rehearsal, but very difficult to put into practice what do you think?

A really well argued piece. Bravo!!

On this logic as the son of a German Jewish refugee whose family came to the UK in 1938 I am not British

A Yr 10 trip to go paint balling led to a myth going around the school that I had been a member of the SAS which a large number of students believed and it lasted for years. My department encouraged it, so that students did not even believe my denials!

What the future looks like from here. Trumpism won't last forever. But people are going to suffer, and it will take decades to recover.

A depressing but worthwhile read
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So yesterday I ran a training session for all the staff at my school on @priteshraichura.bsky.social ‘s three phases of questioning by teaching them about the importance of this painting in the history of western art while modeling Pritesh’s strategies. I had an absolute blast!

I remember CASE and I remember the challenge of implementing it. I cannot remember its theoretical basis which I am guessing has been debunked or everybody would still be teaching it although it was via CASE that I first heard of Metacognition

Over the last few years with the rise of populism and conspiracy theories teaching science has started to feel like a political act. That feeling is going to get even stronger with the return of Trump 2.0

The gist of Alex's opening to this fine episode of a typically thought-provoking and - very importantly in this week of all weeks - non-despairing discussion.

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Agreed. I am utterly reliant on Chemsheets at A level

I think performance related pay has a lot to answer for. It is obviously unfair to base pay progression on student results it seems fairer to base it on performance management targets achieved, but for that you have to set new development targets every year which leads to way too many initiatives

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Outstanding from @adamboxereducation.bsky.social I find that performance management and departmental development cycles can often drive new initiatives which are introduced because we are not allowed to leave these documents empty
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Think about this!

Completely agree with this.

People think that teaching is a horrible career and they have that perception, not from the media, but from teachers.

Teaching is a wonderful profession. Hard, yes, but genuinely a great career option more people should choose.

We are often our own worst enemy.

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My lightbulb moment was finally realizing that my approach to teaching electrolysis was insane. Students doing the electrolysis of CuCl2 could not work out that the brown sludge at the cathode was copper and the smelly gas at the anode was chlorine. I had to just tell them #edusky #chatchemistry

Reading The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers which led me to Teach Like a Champion and Why Don’t Students Like School? Those three books utterly changed my understanding of what is the most effective teaching and why is it the most effective.

Managing student attention and the art of effective questioning are broad enough to be addressed with all staff by explicit modeling followed by rehearsal. In my opinion what comes in between these two , the explicit teaching of knowledge, is better addressed in departments

For me Turn and Talks value is to give students the chance to rehearse explanations that they have heard the teacher say, but they need to articulate themselves if they are going to have any chance of remembering but they do have to be constantly monitored to avoid the pitfalls that Adam describes.

Any suggestion that could be put under the heading of restorative justice

It did. An important part was Priming, Streamlining and Cueing Attention

This years #CogSciSci was amazing but the most impactful things I have ever experienced were visiting Michaela Community School and reading Teach Like a Champion and Why Don’t Students Like School.