Hayley
@Hay__B
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Teadrinking, bookreading, ex EnglishHoD now teacher educator, MA English, ECF Lead, ITT tutor, Instructional Coach, NPQLTD
Lichfield, England
Joined November 2008
TICKETS NOW LIVE! Join our English ECT Mentor’s Community Forum — a space for mentors to share challenges, swap ideas, and support one another in guiding new teachers through their first steps. 📅 24.11.2025 🔗
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NEW POST This time on school leadership Link below ⬇️
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📚 Are you mentoring ECTs this year? Join Hayley Bissell on Mon 20 Oct, 4–5pm for our Community Forum — a space to share ideas, tackle challenges, and get practical support. 🐝 Share this with ECT mentors you know & book here: https://t.co/Wk8ZjlrYfi
#Litdrive #TeamEnglish
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🗓️ Supporting an ECT this year? Join our next community forum on Mon 20 Oct, 4–5pm with Hayley Bissell! A space to share, reflect + connect with fellow mentors 💬 🐝 Sign up here: https://t.co/zvHfFedXzb
#Litdrive #TeamEnglish
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⚠️ POOR PROXIES FOR LEARNING! Just because students are busy, engaged, or writing lots, doesn’t mean they’re learning. Learning happens when students have to think hard! This guide explores poor proxies for learning highlighted by @ProfCoe and what to do instead. 🌱 Support my
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ECT mentors come and join me on Wednesday and share some best practice on how we are supporting our early career teachers. 👇👇
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English subject mentors of ECTs and ITTs - what challenges do you face when working with your ECTs? Which areas do they need most support in? Is it subject knowledge? Support with adapting lesson resources? Subject specific pedagogy? I’d love to hear from you for some research.
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A wonderful day welcoming our year 1 ECTs to @WinAcadTrust and introducing the @NatInstTeaching ECT programme. I’m excited to work with this fabulous group of teachers over the next two years 🌟
A warm welcome to our new Early Career Teachers (ECTs) joining Windsor Academy Trust this year! 🎓✨ Here’s to a brilliant year of training, starting with yesterdays induction session at WAT Great Wyrley. #WindsorAcademyTrust #ECTs #FutureTeachers #WATFamily
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A warm welcome to our new Early Career Teachers (ECTs) joining Windsor Academy Trust this year! 🎓✨ Here’s to a brilliant year of training, starting with yesterdays induction session at WAT Great Wyrley. #WindsorAcademyTrust #ECTs #FutureTeachers #WATFamily
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It was wonderful to welcome our new teacher trainees from Stoke, North Staffordshire and South Staffordshire for their first session of the year! A big thank you to Hayley Bissell and Scott Wells for leading a fantastic day. We're so proud that four of our trainees are former
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Applications are now OPEN for November 2025 NPQ Leadership and Specialist cohorts. Scholarship places available. ✏️ Apply now: https://t.co/iAfmxtZZgU 🔎 Find the right NPQ for you: https://t.co/L267gds9C9
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📖 Litdrive CPD 📖 Our new online CPD calendar is here! Get ready for fortnightly sessions on Saturdays, designed by English teachers for English teachers. #LitdriveUK #EnglishTeacher #CPD
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What a joy it was to meet our new cohort of trainees. I’m looking forward to working with them throughout the year and supporting them to grow as teachers ⭐️@WATTalent @NatInstTeaching
It was wonderful to welcome our new teacher trainees from Stoke, North Staffordshire and South Staffordshire for their first session of the year! A big thank you to Hayley Bissell and Scott Wells for leading a fantastic day. We're so proud that four of our trainees are former
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A brilliant report and we are very proud to offer this programme. Get in touch if you’d like to register your ECTs with @WinAcadTrust and @NatInstTeaching and our ‘outstanding’ ECF programme.
Last month our Early Career Framework (ECF) programme was assessed by @Ofstednews as ‘Outstanding’ overall, with headlines including: ✅The programme “...exemplifies the best of school-led professional development and shapes a generation of reflective, committed ECTs.” ✅A
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Excited to have a day out with the team from @WATTalent at the @Steplab_co conference. Looking forward to hearing from @PepsMccrea @SCottinghatt @JoshGoodrich @C_Hendrick @HughesHaili .
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Are you a highly skilled senior leader or an exceptional middle leader? Are you a passionate advocate for inclusion? If you are, we would love to hear from you. Click the link for more details
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New course from the one and only John McRae 🎉 John explores the fourteen poems that make up the ‘Love Poetry Through the Ages Pre-1900’ AQA anthology for A Level English Literature.
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Next month we launch our new after-school workshops for teachers. Join us for our first ever Teacher Twilight session, focusing on teaching Shakespeare for Key Stage 4. 🎟️£70 📍Stratford-upon-Avon 🗓️6 June 4pm To book ✉️ learning.boxoffice@rsc.org.uk 📸by Sara Beaumont (c) RSC
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I’ll be drawing on Rosenblatt and research from @mmgiovanelli @DrofletJess @ian_cushing and looking at extracts from @__codexterous book too.
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Having a lot of fun preparing material on reader response theory for my English ITT trainees tomorrow. Really looking forward to our discussions and reflections on how we approach texts in the classroom. @WATTalent @NatInstTeaching
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