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Blogpost: SEND Strategies: Live by them…or Death by them?

sendmatters.co.uk/2024/05/13/s...

My sense is that #inclusion is being misunderstood atm. It's not about expecting everyone to fit into a one size fits all system then adjusting when they don't. It's about creating an environment that includes everyone through making adjustments ahead of time. Start by thinking about the outliers. 🙏🏻

This a x100000😡

This thing where some people are claiming that SEND is 'over diagnosed' because of 'pushy parents' or just = 'bad behaviour'. Perhaps they could tell our SENCOs who put in endless hours completing the paperwork to help children get a much needed diagnosis? 😒🤷‍♀️

Absolutely brilliant- a great read. Definitely one to bookmark.

Joyous ownership of our pupils with SEND The responsibility for students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) lies with everyone in a school. While a culture of joyous ownership is necessary, it can be undermined by unre…

⭐️New blog: Joyous ownership of our pupils with SEND

Comments, likes and reposts very welcome, thank you

sendmatters.co.uk/2025/08/25/j...

Picture of a Steplab pen, mug and notebook. Copy of Sarah Cottingham’s ‘Ausbel’s Meaningful Learning in Action.

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🎉 Thanks to everyone who joined our Steplab Summer Reads #5 giveaway!

🥁 Congrats to @mscboat.bsky.social – winner of "Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning in Action" by Sarah Cottingham + Steplab bundle!

📚 Another giveaway is live now, with more coming Monday – don’t miss out!

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #5

Win "The Classroom Management Handbook" by Ollie Lovell + the Steplab bundle (mug, notepad, pen)!

Ollie, Steplab Australia Director, shares 10 principles & 18 routines for calm, focused classrooms.

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Our Research Lead & ex-teacher shares how meaningful learning builds deep, lasting knowledge.

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Photo featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman with grey dreads facing slight right against a white background

"Your life is already artful, just waiting for you to make it art"
Remembering Toni Morrison, US novelist
(1931 – August 2019) #WomensArt

Painting of a woman cleaning a hotel room

London-based artist Caroline Walker focuses on“invisible” women in the UK capital’s service industries #WomensArt

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Win a copy of "Developing Expert Teaching" by Peps Mccrea—plus a Steplab bundle (mug, pen & notepad)!

Peps is Steplab’s Director of Education & author of the "High Impact Teaching" series.

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🎉 Steplab Summer Reads – Book #1

Win Responsive Coaching by Josh Goodrich, plus a Steplab bundle (mug, pen & notepad)!

Josh is Steplab’s co-founder & CEO, and a former teacher, leader & coaching expert.

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Harry is Steplab’s Director of Training and a globally experienced educator. His book explores six key teaching challenges with research-backed strategies.

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🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #3 – Bonus Round!

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Adaptive teaching guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms One of the most pressing priorities in schools right now is ensuring every pupil can access the full ambition of the National Curriculum, no...

New Blog!

"Adaptive Teaching Guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms"

Practical, teacher-led tools to make inclusion part of everyday practice, not an afterthought.

Read the blog here: moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ne...

Girls in Afghanistan have lost basic human rights. A young woman who escaped the Taliban, Nadia Nadim, reached Denmark as a refugee, became a proffesional footballer, playing for PSG, Man City & represented Denmark 99 times. She speaks 11 languages & has just qualified as a doctor.... #AfghanWomen

Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash | Frances Ryan Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Fortune Gomo: Murder probe after scientist found injured in Dundee Dr Fortune Gomo, who was originally from Zimbabwe, was pronounced dead at the scene in Dundee on Saturday.

Absolutely shocking.and terrible news. Rest in peace Dr Fortune Gomo

BBC News - Murder inquiry after scientist found injured on street
www.bbc.com/news/article...

First shelf: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School (Reyes), Learning to Fall (Morris), I Love You S'more (Desombre), She Gets the Girl (Lippincott & Derrick) Second Shelf: All That's Left in the World (Brown), Caught in a Bad Fauxmance (Rose), Heartstopper Vol. 1 (Oseman), The Darkness Between Us (Schaeffer) Third Shelf: Going Bicoastal (Adler), Where the Dark Stands Still (Poranek), Never Ever Getting Back Together (Gonzales), Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute (Hibbert), Flowerheart (Bakewell) Fourth Shelf: Hell Followed With Us (White), I Wish You All the Best (Deaver), The Sunbearer Trials (Thomas), Dead End Girls (Heard), The Sacrifice (Chupeco) Fifth Shelf: Loveless (Oseman), Icarus (Ancrum), Summer Bird Blue (Bowman), Radio Silence (Oseman), The Weight of Stars (Dow), Sawkill Girls (Legrand) Bottom Shelf: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (McQuiston), Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Albertelli), Nimona (Stevenson), Forget Me Not (Derrick)

A customer told me she couldn't believe this store would put up a Pride display, because what if children see it??

Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙

The biggest change in reproductive rights in Britain in half a century has just passed the Commons.

MPs have voted 379-137 to decriminalise abortion, preventing women from being prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks.

‘Burnt out': The staff on the SEND crisis frontline SENCos will be central to plans to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But they're burning out

Quite a sensible, if sobering, piece
#SEND
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schoolsweek.co.uk/burnt-out-an...

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Belonging is not a “nice to have” Belonging is not built by chance. It is shaped by inclusive leadership, culturally responsive teaching, and relationships rooted in trust. A culture of belonging isn’t built by policy it is built by people, especially those in leadership.

Nobody, I mean NOBODY, foresaw the incredibly attacking Spurs team of last season turning into a league catastrophe, ravaged by endless injuries, and yet miraculously winning a European trophy by playing incredibly resilient, low block defensive football. BONKERS!!!! #COYS

Europa League final: Spurs 1 Man Utd 0 – Tottenham’s 17-year wait for a trophy ends in Bilbao The Athletic's writers analyse how Spurs defeated Manchester United to win the Europa League

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Tottenham’s trophy drought is finally over.

Tottenham Hotspur won the 2025 Europa League final, defeating Manchester United 1-0. Spurs will play in the Champions League next season even though they are 17th with one game remaining. nyti.ms/4k4fsI6