@commahound.bsky.social
Teacher of English/ITE/MA Education, post grad researcher, interested in how English teachers theorise what we do, and defiant kids.
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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
17.03.2025 20:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today's Diverse Educators blog is by Mohamed Abdallah
To Belong Is Not Enough: Why We Must Move Towards Mattering
www.diverseeducators.co.uk/world-book-d...
#DiverseEd
NEW BLOG: Spelling and word fluency
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/03/spel...
#engchat #engchatuk
i am going to oxford on the 12 may to give a public seminar about Ofsted, race, and linguistic in/justice 💕 registration is free and open to all www.education.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-eve...
11.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Blog post Part of series: 10 years of the BERA Blog Documenting and dismantling language ideologies in education Ian Cushing, Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University 3 Mar 2025 Picture of Ian
i was so honoured to be asked to contribute to the 10 years of the BERA blog series .. here i write about longstanding and contemporary efforts to dismantle language ideologies as part of broader struggles for linguistic justice www.bera.ac.uk?p=56193
03.03.2025 17:36 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
99p on Kindle today.
Deal: Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day amzn.eu/d/6blJuPv
One month to go until the 8 year olds and me take on the Swimathon. Would really appreciate people sharing our sponsorship page #edusky #swimathon @cancerresearchuk.org @mariecurieuk.bsky.social
www.givengain.com/project/alex...
a large white hand squashes a speech bubble coming out the mouth of a young boy with brown skin
in a couple of projects i have collaborated with the artist wendy wong to visualise linguistic stigmatisation in schools and efforts to resist such stigmatisation. a core aim is for teachers to use the images as prompts for discussion in classrooms, so please use and share! a few of the images ↓
19.02.2025 10:41 — 👍 56 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 5Basically, Ofsted has just created an enormous APP grid. What could possibly go wrong?
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