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Things can always get worse, but they will always get better
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'The House of Lords report says the education system for 11- to 16-year-olds is too focused on academic learning and written exams, resulting in too much learning by rote and not enough opportunity for pupils to pursue creative and technical subjects.'
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Schools are in turmoil, prisons are in turmoil, the climate is out of control and Brexit is a shambles. Wonder if there’s a common denominator?
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Nice job advert in The Guardian, what the children are looking forward in a new head:
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‘Love’
The answer given to us yesterday when we asked a secondary headteacher with the best Progress 8 in the county and with his SEND children scoring the most highly in value added what his secret was.
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"How did so many come to understand that there were contracts there for the taking?"
@JolyonMaugham
(who is a star for unearthing this and so much more)
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Wonder what would happen if you put ‘blue plaques’ in your classroom detailing some of the children who learned there and what they went on to achieve?
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"There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom."
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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Wow. This is the opposite of the current education model isn’t it
What if the point is not to beat the others but to make sure everyone makes it?
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We feel this question gets right to the heart of the debate about teaching and learning in the 21st century
#ITLQuotes
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This is wonderful - How to improve the school results: not extra maths but music, loads of it
@musicmind
@debrakidd
@HYWEL_ROBERTS
@lifeisnotaline
@MartinIllingwor
@WillRyan3
@realdcameron
@bravehead
Ya boo sucks to those who think less Arts is the answer
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Our Ian Gilbert was once asked for his advice on the building of a brand new school - these are his 32 surprising suggestions. Much food for thought for all teachers and leaders at this time of potential renewal and change
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Just because you’re better at arguing doesn’t make your argument better
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Interesting - Edutwitter not split between progs and trads but between those who insist, loudly and rudely, their way is the only way and those who know there is always another way. Alternative possibilities seem to incense the former and excite the latter
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Children from low-income families who grew up near a Sure Start centre did better than their peers at GCSEs
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'Let us not define our schools, our colleagues and ourselves by national statistics and data but by the difference we make to a child’s life.' Independent Thinking on ACEs, new on the blog
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"Either we spend time meeting children’s emotional needs by filling their cup with love, or we spend time dealing with behaviours caused by their unmet needs.
Either way we spend time."
Pam Leo - Connection Parenting via
@_MissingTheMark
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Booking now open for 'front row seats' for 20 conversations with amazing educators next week about what now, what changed and what next for education Fill yer boots
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‘I don’t know the answer, Miss, but is it ok to wonder?’ - year one girl in a lesson, as told to us by a primary head yesterday. We like that.
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At 16.00 on Tuesday we’ll be doing a free pop-up webinar with the amazing Dr Andrew Curran about neuroscience, attachment theory, well-being and learning. More details tomorrow
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If you want to understand ‘unconditional positive regard’ you could start with looking at how the wonderful
@RNLI
treat the people they help.
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"The true purpose of arts education is not necessarily to create more professional [artists]. It is to create more complete human beings who are critical thinkers, who have curious minds, who can lead productive lives." (Kelly Pollock 2013)
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Involved in an amazing conversation today about the future of education with delegates from over 50 countries. No one was looking to the current English system for guidance or inspiration. Draw your own conclusions
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Ofsted urged to pause inspections after teacher death- "It cannot be right that we treat dedicated professions in this way. Something has to change. Whilst it should never take a tragedy like this to prompt action, this has to be a watershed moment.”
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'DuckDuckGo blocked this Facebook Page
We blocked Facebook from tracking you when the page loaded. If you unblock this page, Facebook will know your activity.'
Good to know the system is working
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We're very excited to welcome
@AlisonKriel
as our newest Associate. Her work on 'conscious leadership' - leading in a way that is inclusive, creative and authentic - is so very relevant for all schools today.
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Please please please listen to this if you work with children. It will help you help them through a time when nothing you do can do will help but you can still do something cf
@musicmind
@pivotalpaul
@HYWEL_ROBERTS
@realdcameron
@julierees100
@thelazyteacher
@jazampawfarr
“That was the end of my childhood”
Money saving expert
@MartinSLewis
opens up to
@tonylivesey
about the death of his mum, three days before his 12th birthday
Full interview:
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‘Without dialogue there is no communication, and without communication there can be no true education.’ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, quoted in our new book The Working Class
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Save the date - 26th November 2018. Location - Manchester. There is a very special Conference on 'Poverty, Education & Alternative Voices' based on the Amazon No.1 Best Seller 'The Working Class' being planned and hosted by
@debrakidd
&
@HYWEL_ROBERTS
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'Teachers and schools cannot fix, and must not be held responsible for, society's failure to provide equal opportunities to all of our children' Kate Pickett, co-author The Spirit Level, writing about new book, The Working Class
@itPressUK
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We’ve quoted this before and we’ll probably do it again but, in Churchill’s words, ‘When going through hell, keep going’.
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Covid: School inspections in Wales suspended until 2022
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If you will allow us a personal tweet, an engagement is a wonderful thing is it not?
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Loss - an honest and powerful new blog by Ian Gilbert to help schools know where to start when it comes to supporting children with bereavement
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If you have a student on placement and a) the head never says ‘hi’ b) you repeatedly say ‘We weren’t expecting you’, c) you get the student to take your lessons while and d) you try and get your student to do your marking till 5.00, then you’re part of the recruitment problem
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No. 4: The purpose of education is not to make everyone middle class and nine other reasons why we wrote this book
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Why 47 of us wrote the new book The Working Class, coming soon from
@itPressUK
#thereisanotherway
short video from Ian Gilbert starring Billy Fury, John Lewis and Albert Dock
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Walking into a Travelodge off the M1 with ‘All By Myself’ playing in the restaurant is really rubbing it in, don’t you think?
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‘Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn’ - Seymour Papert quoted by
@GrahamBM
in this great blog
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We feel this question gets to the heart of the debate about teaching and learning in the 21st century
#thereisalwaysanotherotherway
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So, what's the plan for building the 17 Sustainable Development Goals into your curriculum this year? And don't say a bake sale
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Excited to announce our new conference, based on our book The Working Class, entitled Poverty, Education and Alternative Voices with
@HYWEL_ROBERTS
@jazampawfarr
@debrakidd
@davewhitaker246
@musicmind
@RECLAIMproject
@itPressUK
and
#IanGilbert
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First page proofs of our new book The Working Class are in. Writers include
@PhilBeadle
@debrakidd
@realdcameron
@darynsimon
@imagineinquiry
@musicmind
@pivotalpaul
@jazampawfarr
@WillRyan3
@GuerrillaEd
@IanLoynd
@davewhitaker246
@EquitableEd
@HYWEL_ROBERTS
and more! Exciting
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We need to be creative with the Covid generation, not try and force them through the old system and see who fails. A different qualification. Prioritise skills and knowledge. Different progression routes. Catching them is different from catching up
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‘If children don’t like reading, how we teach it to them isn’t working.’
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The Power of With - great read by
@Markfinnis
Restorative practices, relationships and getting the best out of children and young people
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Play headteacher BINGO and remember, you are not alone!
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Boarding school children dominate world of work because they're not in front of screens at home, head says - The Telegraph. Yes, that’ll be it. Nothing to do with a life of privilege and connection
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Today we are 25 years old - thank you to all of you who have been part of our journey
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Been hearing about the Yr 8 girl so excited to go back to school yesterday but, having sat through a three-hour science lesson without the opportunity to reflect or reconnect, came home so sad. What unimaginative madness are we visiting on our children in the name of catch-up?
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That this
@itPressUK
book is both an Amazon bestseller and now on its second print run within weeks of publication is mind blowing. Congrats to all who contributed and to
@teamsquarepeg
. If you want to help your own ‘square pegs’, this is the book is for you!
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Here is
@KilkennyChris
's write up of his speech about education, poverty and 'hiding in plane sight'
#NRocks
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We're delighted that
@SwailesRuth
and
@HughesHaili
are our two newest Associates. Such an interesting time to be coming on board but an exciting one too
#thereisanotherway
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In the Netherlands, when a student finishes school for the last time, they hoist a flag - and their school bag - on the family flagpole to celebrate!
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'To be honest, the best schools I have been in haven’t been "outstanding". My favourite one was actually an RI school but they just had it right!' From a DM to us. So much more to a school than its Ofsted judgement
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We had a Zoom 'jam' (hark at us) yesterday with educators from various parts of the world. Four common themes came up.
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Dear Parents. Great letter from a head via LinkedIn
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Why relationships -- not money -- are the key to improving schools: Study finds social capital has 3-5 times the impact of funding
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Great to have the new ITL profile for
@SwailesRuth
on the website now! Includes some great observations on video from her
#whatnowweek
conversation - Welcome!
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‘We have agreed to pay her damages for libel’
May I draw people's attention to this small but fine piece of prose in today's Daily Mail?
A free press is a fine thing--when combined with the obligation to tell the truth, and being held to account when that obligation is violated.
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Happy birthday us! Independent Thinking is 27 years young today. Thank you to all who have played a part in that journey
#AreWeThereYet
?
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In the last few weeks, the new title from
@pauldixtweets
, the
@Markfinnis
book on Restorative Practice and now The Kindness Principle from
@davewhitaker246
. It’s as if, when it comes to behaviour, there is always another way.
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‘Primary school children who are placed in the bottom ability group in their class go on to show increased levels of hyperactivity and emotional problems throughout childhood and early adolescence’
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I just published “It was a cold, blustery, November afternoon in Barnsley.”
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We’ve got over £3000 worth of our books lined up in our great charity education book auction. Bidding will open next week. All proceeds to Children In Need
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If you think education is all about compliance, obedience, data, grades, textbooks, following rules, doing what the research tells you to, doing what you're told and learning only the best that has been thought and said, please
#unfollow
us now. We're not for you, honestly
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We’ve also had a clear out and will have a charity auction of a shedload of our books that won’t fit in the shed. More details in December
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Look what we’ve just received! 50 Thunks in a box. Such fun!
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Empathy? In Denmark they’re learning it in school
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'We are happy to be able to tell you that the files for The Working Class have been sent to the printer.' Yay!
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This is the menu for Dutch schools to choose from with their €1200 per student (just over £1000 per head) catch-up money. (Figures corrected from earlier).
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The
@ITLWorldwide
associates gathered together
@InvictusAccount
Conference
@HYWEL_ROBERTS
@debrakidd
@musicmind
and our very own
#ThatIanGilbert
#ITLEvents
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At one point, this building in Rotterdam was the tallest in Europe. At one point, taking exams was the only way of classifying children. Things change. Now’s a good time
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Read today at the funeral of our colleague Mike Brearley. Should be the compulsory National Curriculum ‘Go placidly...’
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Flakefleet Primary School gets first GOLDEN BUZZER of 2019! | Auditions ... Just wow.
@Laughology
@musicmind
@mrappealing
@GuerrillaEd
@HYWEL_ROBERTS
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'I would prefer BY FAR my children be happy, learn real skills and get Cs than being stressed, spoon-fed and get As. That’s not ‘coasting’. A blog from our very own Ian Gilbert.
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Fancy a free webinar on the creative primary curriculum with
@debrakidd
@HYWEL_ROBERTS
@EP3577
and
@GuerrillaEd
? Thought so. Bookings now open Thanks to
@CrownHousePub
for sponsoring
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