Bodil Isaksen

I’m obsessed with how intentional the teachers are about learning in my son’s nursery class. They’re learning rules of counting systematically. Books like this one have been seamlessly swapped into early morning reading time.

Glad to hear. Blast from the past!

@janemanzone.bsky.social May I trouble you for some advice? My summerborn child is chronologically due to go into Y1 in Sept, but hasn't done Reception (we're moving from NI where she was a preschooler). To what extent would you recommend out-of-year admission so she doesn't skip Reception?

GCSE past paper practice on @drfrostmaths.bsky.social over the past 2 months. Spot the spike yesterday before the exam! Hope it went well for everyone today.

Quite the name for an estate agent.

My 2-year-old’s first go on a pedal bike. 50% proud parent, 50% relieved my decade-old blogpost was vindicated within the household redorgreenpen.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/b...

In case you need some more headlines to depress you. Only 4 in 10 parents read to their under-5s frequently 🤯

"Children learn most effectively when instruction follows an evidence‑based cycle: grounding facts in conceptual understanding, using brief timed practice to make those facts automatic, then returning to discussion and reflection to deepen that knowledge." journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Inspectorate report card for the Met Police

CQC report card for an NHS trust

I hear many concerns from police and NHS workforces, but the stress of inspections and their report cards doesn’t really feature. Have I just missed it? Is it because a school is a much smaller unit than an entire police force or NHS trust?

I ask this with genuine curiosity rather than an agenda

Is this “searching for normal”? Is it worth reading?

Couple more days to apply for this headship at a great trust

Just discovered there is a Mo Mowlem playground in Belfast. Forget Nobel peace prizes, surely there is no better signal of universal high regard than having a playground named after you.

This is exceptional

It’s particularly frustrating that it makes the “give them a dumbphone” option redundant.

Shoutout to @mrjlauder.bsky.social who is consistently posting really thought-provoking education stuff here. Loads of great thinking coming from the Dixons MAT.

Anyone who has not visited her blog should definitly do so. A gloriors writer as well, funny, with a twist and full of good advice for colleagues.
The #Edu community stands to lose in many ways, not just a lovely person…

Last post just a day before the accident.

Gosh, this has really shocked me. So sad - thinking of her family and friends.

Some fascinating interactive graphs here. What can we learn from the top right schools here (Swanlea School, Ark St Albans, Ark Globe, George Dixon Academy) that have well above average sustained education and employment outcomes in very high Pupil Premium contexts?
www.schooldash.com/blog-2306.html

To add to the chaos, looks like emails for kids with special consideration (eg SEN) haven’t been sent, the portal the emails direct you to to accept your place won’t work til next week, and the phone lines are permanently engaged

Be thankful you’re not the Northern Ireland Education Authority comms team today, who accidentally sent emails about everyone’s primary school places a week early. 1.1k comments on their Facebook post 😬

So, can AI assess writing? Results of our big new Comparative Judgement AI trial

We've been sceptical about AI marking. Not any more!

When the facts change, we change our minds.

We think this is really big.

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/so-can-ai-...

Seems to be a negative correlation between where people are happy to see cuts and the size of the spend in the first place.

I wonder if there’s a way to force people to take this into account - e.g. picking between cost-neutral options like halving overseas aid versus a 3% NHS cut.

This is so good, particularly on the need to slow down *so that* you can speed up later. A possible lethal mutation of ‘mastery’ (especially in secondary if you forget they’ve already had 7 years of formal education when they get to you) is never getting to the speeding up bit.

🟡 🔵 This Friday is Pi Day! @DrFrostLearning.bsky.social🟣🟢

A selection of news, history and other facts about Pi you can share with your students.

How many digits of Pi do you know?
Can you approximate Pi accurately?

Find it here: buff.ly/yfzp1zX

✅ relates to an actual book
✅ easy and cheap for parents
✅ children engage with a great story

This is how to do world book day!

Well reasoned article here with research rather than platitudes behind it. Surely pen and paper will be making a comeback - at least it should if it’s *learning* that we really care about.

Students must learn to be more than mindless ‘machine-minders’ Generative AI is a tempting short-cut that can prevent those at university from gaining foundational skills

Excellent column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on generative AI and universities:

Excellent taste in name… these books are for my Charlotte 🥰 great suggestions, thank you!

I love this list, thank you! Going to order some now :)

I’ve added every (English!) one to a world of books order - can’t wait