@commahound.bsky.social
Teacher of English/ITE/MA Education, post grad researcher, interested in how English teachers theorise what we do, and defiant kids.
English and Media Centre are interested in whether there are differences between the way poetry is taught at KS2 and KS3 & we’re helping them to build that picture.
Add your voice and help us all understand how best to support poetry in the classroom: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MapKS2Colleagues
If you seeking some #historyteacher Spring Term inspiration - or want to share a unit you have developed - do check out the new @1972shp.bsky.social #CurriculumPATHS Sharing Hub. A host of brilliant units all rooted in our community led Principles for History Teaching padlet.com/cpaths/shp-c...
29.01.2026 14:21 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
List of questions
NEW BLOG: Metaphor, Oracy, and Real Speech
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2026/01/meta...
Books
Books
Books
NEW BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/06/read...
How is poetry really taught in secondary schools today?
We’re mapping the national picture in England.
English teachers, your professional insight is essential!
5 minute survey: tinyurl.com/238cz6mu
Project supported by Christ Church's Tower Poetry Development Grant
EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Child Language Acquisition
"Really wonderful CPD - informative and pitched at an appropriate level. Lots of info and resources."
Book by: 8am on 16th January
buff.ly/9hTeZ0p
His book about porcelain ‘The White Road’ is also extraordinary.
31.12.2025 18:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ICYMI: Barbara Bleiman, Alex Ford and Dan Lyndon-Cohen explore shared thinking and concerns about current trends in education as they affect the disciplines of English and History.
Read here: buff.ly/zXCKnii
The Curriculum and Assessment Review is now out. I have thoughts… read my first set of ramblings here…
www.andallthat.co.uk/subblog/how-...
This is brilliant. Thoroughly enjoyed read in it.
12.11.2025 07:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Write a linguist's film review for Babel
🎞️ Fancy writing a linguist's film review for Babel?
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
Will share.
22.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great news! Now the real fun starts…
25.09.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photo of webpage
Just flagging this up. 29th September at 4pm. Link below @LitdriveUK
litdrive.org.uk/events
It’s absolutely vile. I’m contacting our MP.
24.07.2025 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh my word. Hoping your start of next term is October at this rate!
23.07.2025 21:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Loving this thread, although it’s costing me a fortune…
Top 5 non-fiction suggestions (eclectic!):
Pinochet in Piccadilly, Andy Beckett
People of Providence, Tony Parker
Thunderclap, Laura Cumming
I Seek a Kind Person, Julian Borger
Leaving Kabul, Christina Lamb
Just a few days left to get your ticket to the very best #historyteacher summer event! Glastonbury is done but history teacher Glastonbury is about to begin.
01.07.2025 18:52 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Looks fantastic.
28.06.2025 09:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're delighted to say that physical copies of EMC 25-26 are now in schools! For a complete roundup of everything we do at EMC, you can access this helpful resource online by clicking the following link:
englishandmedia.co.uk/media/6740/e...
Don’t miss out on #SHP25. Such a brilliant line up. Inspirational ways to move your history teaching on, support pupils with their GCSE and A Levels, make connections with history teachers across the UK and generally have a great time doing it!
03.06.2025 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Blimey. Avalanche those reviewers into submission!
28.05.2025 17:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We're so sorry to hear of the death of Aidan Chambers. Not only did he write wonderful YA novels, he also gave us one of the great books on reading with young people - Tell Me: Children Reading + Talk uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tell...
13.05.2025 06:55 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Stevenson's intent
Dickens' intent
Shakespeare's intent
Priestley's intent
NEW BLOG: Making writers sexy and appealing - Part 1 (author's intent)
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/05/maki...
#engchat #engchatuk
Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name. POPE GINGER IV.
08.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 369 🔁 38 💬 361 📌 1008
Our third meeting of the year takes place Monday at 7.30. @LitdriveUK
litdrive.org.uk/events
a picture of ian and the text 'Designing futures of linguistic justice'
am giving a talk at Goldsmith's on the 21 May on collaborating with teachers to design futures of linguistic justice in schools, it'll be fun and it's free 💜
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
Beautifully written, Alex.
25.03.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fascinating parallels between English and History in concerns about the normalising of mastery as the only valid approach in education across all subject areas. Well worth a read, whatever your subject
24.03.2025 11:47 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0This is brilliant, and feels needed to forestall ‘belonging’ rhetoric covering cracks.
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