James Mannion
@RethinkingJames
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Two years ago,
@Rethinking_Kate
and I published a book about how to teach self-regulated learning
Since then, we've worked with schools all over the world to show them how
Here's the impact Learning Skills lessons had *within 3 months* at a school we worked with recently
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"How do you teach children to love literature? What you DON'T do is drill them with grammar and then test them on it. You read to them. You take them to see plays. You act them out. You get them writing. The grammar can come later when the fear has gone"
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There's a massive hole at the centre of our school system. We spend hardly any time *at all* on the question of what education is for. The vast majority of children & young people have *no idea whatsoever* why they're learning all this stuff, or what they want to do in the future
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This conversation between
@mrjamesob
and
@doctor_oxford
is incredible. Essential viewing/listening. Rachel is such a powerful voice of reason and compassion at a time when both these things are sadly thin on the ground. Thank you 🙏
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Trying to help my son make A level choices. It is SO RIDICULOUS that his choices are limited to 3 subjects. He's finding it almost impossible, he's interested in about 15 different subjects. Why on earth do we place such unnecessary limits on what young people can learn about?
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With the best of intentions, we have created a bureaucratic bully that goes around telling hardworking people they're inadequate and making them publish it on their websites.
The time has come to put this monster out to pasture.
#abolishofsted
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Currently, we have a top-down, deductive assessment system. We have a set of standards that the 'ideal student' should meet - Grade 9 in the current GCSE grading system - and then you can either meet that standard or fall short of it. This essentially means that everyone who…
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Prove me wrong: All restaurants should offer meals in small, medium or large portion size
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When did we decide that the best way to prepare young people for the big wide world is to provide them with an almost exclusive diet of subject-based learning? And why? Isn't it just obvious that it takes more than subject knowledge to develop into a healthy, functioning adult?
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First, do no harm.
@GillianKeegan
@educationgovuk
@bphillipsonMP
- all
@Ofstednews
inspections should be halted until there has been an investigation into what happened with this inspection and this appalling report, with clear steps to ensure this never happens again
In all my years. Never have I seen such insensitivity.
@Ofstednews
I would welcome a meeting to discuss this.
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A list of over 50 free online learning resources, organised by primary / secondary / subject, as far as possible.
Please a) RT, and b) let me know if I've missed anything worth sharing.
Thanks!
#homeschooling
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We are at the point where
@Ofstednews
visiting a school to do a safeguarding check is itself a safeguarding concern
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Keep going
@naomicfisher
, you're rattling all the right cages.
Michael, this is an undignified and deeply disrespectful response to a clinical psychologist raising reasonable concerns. I wonder why you would feel so defensive as to resort to mockery?
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This book was written by kids in 1967. Sample quote by a 15yo girl: "I am tired of hearing that the hope of my country lies in my generation. If you give me the same indoctrination... how can you expect me to be any different from you?" She'll be 69 now. Food for thought!!
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Here's my pitch for a
@Channel4
show:
1. Assemble a team of Ofsted inspectors
2. Blindfold them and helicopter them in to a school
3. Give them 2 days to inspect the school with no prior attainment data
4. Each episode ends with a big reveal to see whether their judgment aligns…
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Rosenshine on the limitations of Rosenshine
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Everyone in education professes to be concerned with inequality. But even if we closed the disadvantage gap to zero, one third of young people would still fail under the current mandatory examination system. We have built an inescapable inequality machine.
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Well. That's it. 10 years in the making. 3 years in the writing. It's gone to the printers.
@Rethinking_Kate
, it's been quite a journey to get to this point - and yet something tells me the journey is just beginning...
Book launch next Sun 25th, 10am. Details to follow...
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This is *absolutely fascinating* - how The Breakfast Club reveals the difference between Gen X and 'metamodern' teenagers. From 'The Future Starts Here' by John Higgs
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If you're in the latter camp - we urgently need to rethink education.
And if you're in the former camp, I really think you're mistaken.
Because right now, "educational success stories" are running the country and the planet into the ground.
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Slide and thread to accompany my
#LondonEd
presentation 'How to close the disadvantage gap' (which you can watch here - 27 min video):
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SAVE THE DATE!
The inaugural Rethinking Education conference
9-4pm, Sat 17th Sept 2022
At the gorgeous, quirky, Victorian (not the blue bit) Addey & Stanhope School
5 min walk from New Cross
(5 mins from London Bridge)
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I know so many gifted ex-teachers who do not feel that they can work in a system that does not align with their values, or that crushes them with workload. And there are a LOT of ex-teachers out there. Let's backward-design a system that teachers will want to stay in for life!
The fact that so many teachers, who always dreamed of being a teacher, are leaving teaching because the education system has become so unbearable and they are so undervalued should concern everyone.
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Crumbling schools
North-south gap widening
Escalating absenteeism
Ofsted in crisis
Deepening mental health crisis
Recruitment and retention through the floor
It doesn't have to be this way
It's time to rethink education
Sat Sept 23
London
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There was no attendance crisis at our live podcast yesterday - over 250 people turned up at short notice to listen to
@BenDavis1972
,
@naomicfisher
and
@teamsquarepeg
talking a tonne of sense about the attendance crisis, why it's happening and how to fix it. Full ep out later 🙏
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It seems to me that a lot of the education debate depends on what you consider the boundaries of education to be.
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'Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi will tell headteachers today that he will "put wellbeing at the centre of everything we do in schools alongside a drive for rigorous standards".'
But what if the drive for rigorous standards compromises wellbeing
@nadhimzahawi
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New education secretary
@nadhimzahawi
will today make a 'vow' to get to the root cause of pupils being persistently absent from school
#NAHTConf
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@CosmicSkeptic
Have you read Karen Armstrong's A History of God? There's a really interesting section where she talks about how she realised, after being a nun for decades who similarly found no evidence for God, that God is a work of the imagination. It's a fascinating insight I think
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Oracy is now 3rd in the EEF toolkit... that's a champions league place!
@OracyCambridge
@voice21oracy
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Episode 1 of Season 3 of the
@Rethinking_Ed
podcast has landed!
Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (
@sjblakemore
): The GCSE is misaligned with our understanding of adolescent brain development and mental health
See below for three choice clips 🧵
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Who fancies a game of "Good or RI"?
Take the test in this clip from my upcoming podcast with
@BenDavis1972
Wait for the twist...
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New from me: The transformative power of oracy
Alan Howe, a gentle giant of this field, described this blog as a "flagship piece of thinking", which I must admit made me feel pleased as punch ☺️
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🏃♂️ Escalating absenteeism
❤️🩹 Spiralling mental health crisis
🧑🎓 The forgotten third
It doesn't have to be this way
It's time to rethink education
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Saturday Sept 23rd
Parliament Hill School, London
Full programme:
Tickets:
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Or are we in the business of trying to shape young lives so that they become well-rounded, caring, functioning human beings and responsible guardians of planet earth?
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RETHINKING EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2022
The call for speakers is now open
🗣️ Presentations
🧰 Workshops
⭕️ Circle time sessions
⚖️ Debates
♨️ Hot takes
Apply to present/run a workshop here:
Tickets here:
Please feel 🆓 to share :)
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Why we should ALL be profoundly concerned about the
@educationgovuk
Schools Bill
A new episode of
#repod
- recorded this morning - with
@Ian1Cunningham
,
@naomicfisher
and
@teamsquarepeg
Please feel free to share far and wide...
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@debrakidd
@nadhimzahawi
In my more cynical moments, I sometimes wonder whether secretaries of state lazily recycle tedious culture war tropes because they have no actual ideas for how to improve the education system
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A sobering and incredibly concerning read
The ‘MAGA’ Civil War has Begun
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I have become increasingly concerned in recent months about the coercive nature of schooling. It's such a massive thing to think about it's kind of daunting, but in this conversation I learned a huge amount about how we might move in a more consent-based direction...
"Most adults think that children need to be civilised, that they need to be dominated"
😍 New episode of
#repod
😍
🤯 Prepare to have your mind blown 🤯
Sophie Christophy (
@schristophy
) on Consent-Based Education
Scroll ↓ for more juicy clips...
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I'm doing a 🆓 90-minute webinar this Thu 13/5, 4.15-5.45pm
Making sense of metacognition: theory and practice for the classroom
Please feel free to a) come along and b) share this tweet
Did I mention it's 🆓 ?
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Change my mind: To compare explicit instruction and inquiry learning on the basis of exam results is facile because EI is convergent - explicitly instructing students on exam content. And inquiry is divergent - taking learning in many directions which can't be measured on an exam
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My first proper blog in a really long time. Be gentle
WHY THE RETHINKING EDUCATION CONFERENCE IS HAPPENING – AND WHY YOU NEED TO GET INVOLVED…
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Your regular reminder that there is more to education than transferring information from a knowledge-rich curriculum into a young person’s long-term memory.
People might say "Literally nobody thinks that."
But there has been an awful lot of focus on it of late, n'est-ce pas?
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Hot take: in the future we will look back at uniform as a bizarre and unnecessary attempt to impose conformity and control when we should have been cultivating individuality and agency
Schools have become obsessed with school uniform obsessed I tell you - I genuinely don’t get it
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Is it overreach to suggest that it is the role of educators to develop well-rounded people? People who are not only knowledgeable, but also compassionate, articulate, responsible?
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It is self-evident that we need to move to a when-ready system of assessment. Age-based cohort testing like this is profoundly unfair and immoral
People who say "exams are the least bad form of assessment" etc have a point - but we don't have to administer them in the way we do
A notable trend in the new DfE phonics data is the clear decline in pupil outcomes by month of birth. Here, we outline the key trends:
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WHOA... The
@Rethinking_Ed
podcast has just tipped over 100,000 listens!! Turns out there's an insatiable thirst out there for 3h conversations about education reform. Who woulda knew?
To celebrate, here are some juicy clips from the 5 most popular episodes to date:
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To choose not to participate in a system that requires you to sit exams you are likely to fail is a rational decision.
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Our culture of high accountability has Y11s upping their antidepressants and good headteachers living on a knife edge. Change must come.
Will I have a job in September? The blinding reality for headteachers every summer! Watch
@VicGoddard
speak openly
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Food for thought here from Daniel Willingham: “When is it appropriate to ask students to memorise something before it has much meaning? Probably not often…” (p67, WDSLS?)
How much of the stuff we ask students to "retrieve" could be classed as truly meaningful, I wonder?
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Finally got to visit
@school21_uk
today, on one of their termly exhibition days. Just mind blowing - it's like visiting a school on another, altogether less ghastly planet
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The fact that we have a public institution that goes around calling hardworking professionals 'inadequate' and then legally requires them to publish such a humiliating label on their website is so appalling that it's difficult to believe that it ever happened - let alone that it…
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I really enjoyed this conversation with Rebecca. She suggests that
@Ofstednews
has created a linguistic 'straitjacket' of what a good education looks like, and describes how this can lead to unethical consequences such as the commodification of phonics schemes.
She also has a…
🔥🔥🔥 NEW EPISODE OF
#REPOD
🔥🔥🔥
The first in a series of interviews with headteachers and former heads talking about
@Ofstednews
First up:
@RebeccaLeek_
on straitjackets, ethics and inspectors' eyebrows
Video, audio, show notes:
Clip:
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"We've ended up with a ridiculous mixture of half academy, half maintained schools and frankly nobody can manage it properly... And It's making the system far worse for the kids with the greatest needs"
Fiona Millar (
@schooltruth
) on 30y of market reforms
New
#repod
out Sat
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A fascinating thread in which Adam suggests the argument has been won (by trads) and that there's no 'big picture' stuff happening any more. Maybe that's true of blogs, but there is no shortage of big picture thinking happening beyond the neotraditional reality tunnel. Such as:
Is edublogging dead?
Yes, and no.
Explanation 👇
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What would you like to see at an education conference that you haven’t seen previously?
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I'm really proud to announce that this conference will feature at least 12 sessions run by young people.
*Actual young people* discussing the ideas that shape their lives and their futures. Whatever next???
We'll publish the full programme soon. Watch this space!
Join us, along with this stellar line up at the
@Rethinking_Ed
conference:
Sat 17th Sept
Addey & Stanhope School
London
#education
#educate
#edutwitter
#learning
#schools
#homeschooling
#education_conference
#education_fair
#education_leadership
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Just recorded a 3h podcast with
@naomicfisher
about her *brilliant* book Changing Our Minds. I really can't recommend it enough. So many memorable lines - now I just need to plant a small forest to offset all the sticky arrow things I used up when reading it...
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Everybody needs to follow Naomi.
She does the best threads ever.
She's indefatigable.
She's also correct.
The inflexible way in which we educate children is insane.
The world will agree with her sooner or later so it might as well be now.
When a rigid school system meets highly variable children, problems arise. Our current system locates these in the children, with possible lifelong consequences. Here's how it happens. 1/
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@LabourEoin
I wish he'd followed up and asked her "what are these complex reasons people use food banks?"
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Help me out:
Teachers often develop 'innovation fatigue' whereby they become skeptical about any change initiative because they've seen so many before that didn't bring about lasting, positive change.
What other phrases describe this? I've heard some great ones but can't recall
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RETHINKING ED 2023 IS SOLD OUT!
There are a *handful* of tickets left for RETHINKING ED 2023 this Saturday
Please RT to help us get to the magic 500!
Sat 23rd September, 9.15am-4.45pm
Parliament Hill School, Camden
🔖 Programme:
🎟️Tickets:
📽️ Video trailer 👇
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"How do you equate kindness with some of the behaviour management stuff that's going on now? Do the people who run these behaviour management systems really believe they are creating better people?"
A sneak preview of my conversation with
@DerryHannam
on becoming a democratic…
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I just recorded the most fascinating podcast with
@GuyClaxton
about neotraditional myths, in advance of the release of his brilliant new book
#TheFutureOfTeaching
.
It will be published as soon as my podcast editing skills (and family life) will allow.
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Naheeda Maharasingam speaking about the importance of moral purpose in guiding her role as a headteacher in disrupting entrenched trajectories among disadvantaged young people
cc
@LouiseStoll
#reconf22
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The full line-up for RETHINKING ED 2023 - 100+ speakers, talk descriptions, bios - is now available at
Get your ticket here:
#reconf23
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Ofsted's remit has become so swollen that it can't even carry out its basic safeguarding duty - the very thing it shames schools for.
There are schools that haven't had a full inspection in ***17 years***
It needs to be seriously reigned in.
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Happier teachers and higher grades: the London school that shortened the week
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Filth
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This missing baby thing has been so horrific. It seems the couple were camping in the woods about 100 yds behind our house. The baby was found on a path I walk every day with the dog. We just went and laid some flowers at a little shrine that has appeared at the bottom of...
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I've known this for a long time, but I've never seen it expressed in quite such a mind-bending way before. Perception vs reality. The map is not the territory. We are much more the artist than we realise.
S O F A S C I N A T I N G I T H U R T S
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There are lots of very well educated people who seem to be somewhat underdeveloped in other areas.
Clever stupid people, you might say. Or clever cruel people. Or clever reckless people.
Naming no names :)
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I just record the most incredible podcast with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
I think it's going to be called 'The neurobiological case for progressive education'
Her work has helped me make sense of the entire journey I've been on with Learning to Learn and Practitioner Inquiry
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WE'RE GIVING AWAY 10 free copies of the book. Like and RT the tweet below to be in with a shout!
Excited about this one. FEAR IS THE MIND KILLER is
@RethinkingJames
and
@Rethinking_Kate
's fascinating new book. They are chatting with
@ollie_lovell
about the book on Sunday Oct 25th. Register here:
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A packed house at the rather swanky Samsung KX watching Sir Tim Brighouse introducing the London premiere of 'Above all, compassion' - an incredible film about the incredible
@XPschool
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"We need to stop talking about low ability children."
Hear hear! Such a damaging mindset and set of assumptions that sits behind this phrase
@marcrowland73
at
@InvictusAccount
@Inv_Institute
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There needs to be an official inquiry into disciplinary overreach in England's schools since 2010
All of this damaging nonsense has to stop
There needs to be clear legal guidance around what is and is not appropriate or acceptable in a school's behaviour policy
New: England’s largest academy chain seeks to quell parental and student upset over “oppressive” disciplinary policies, including now-scrapped requirement for one school’s pupils to wear behaviour cards around their necks.
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📽️ Brand new trailer for RETHINKING ED 2023 📽️
Come along and be part of the solution
One day, your children might just thank you for it
9.15am-4.45pm
Saturday September 23
Parliament Hill School, London
Full programme:
Tickets:
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A brutal account of why we urgently - if cautiously - need to rethink education
The Winners Take All. What would it be like if we were honest with parents about school? We'd say, your children have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to enrol in a 12-year competition. At the end, about a third of them will be deemed failures. (with
@_MissingTheMark
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How the EEF gets metacognition and self-regulation wrong - and why it matters
Introducing the 'frog model' of self-regulated learning
An extract from Fear is the Mind Killer - resurrected following my recent podcast interview with
@cbokhove
, thanks to a nudge from…
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Who's a good person to speak on the following topics? Please answer with numbered suggestions:
1. What makes teachers great?
2. Engaging kids with IT
3. Women working in IT
4. Mental Health in education
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It's important to listen to people like Naomi on this and the young people she mentions. The 'positive' consequences of high-control environments tend to be visible - compliance, fast transitions due to silent corridors, attainment. The negative consequences are harder to see
I’ve been talking to young people who have struggled with school attendance. Sometimes called school refusers, or phobics, or those with emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA). Here’s what I’ve learnt. 1/
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***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Check out the *incredible* line-up for the
@Rethinking_Ed
conference 2023
Parliament Hill School, London
Sat 23rd September
Tickets here:
Frances Akinde - Exploring the intersectionality between race and SEND
Jonas Andrew-Phillip…
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TO MY DELIGHT, my recent conversation with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang on 'the neurobiological case for progressive education' looks set to become the most popular episode of the podcast to date.
If you haven't heard it yet... it's a game changer.
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Over 200 listens in 2 days for my 3h(!) conversation with
@adamboxer1
. Which is really quite astonishing when you think about it.
I don't know who most of you 200 are, but I'm glad you exist 🙏
As for the rest of you... well, what are you waiting for?!!
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Proud to have played a part in this. Interested to hear what people make of our proposals
@dave_mcpartlin
@RebeccaLeek_
@FloraSCooper
@FrankWNorris
@Julespg
@al_ackof
@LordJimKnight
@BeyondOfsted
@NEUnion
@IPPR
@instituteforgov
@Samfr
@TeacherToolkit
@teacherhead
@Melissa_Benn
…
“OFSTED has become toxic within the teaching profession. It’s time for a reset.”
🧵 Today we publish our first report. It sets out a bold vision for a new accountability system for schools, which would:
✔️ Improve the quality of information provided to parents/carers
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Required reading:
"As a psychologist working in the school, prison and Pupil Referral Unit sectors, I can tell you the damage caused by schooling is profound, widespread and can have lifelong implications for our young people. Many of those I meet are extremely angry."
When YP protest & assert their rights it's fashionable to blame social media, ridicule their concerns & ignores the deeper, more complex causes of anger. The sch system is a tinderbox; toilet policing is a spark. Some musings on what these events tell us
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😍 😍 😍 😍 😍
Speakers, sessions, bios...
The full A-Z Rethinking Ed 2023 line-up is now available at
Last call for sponsors/exhibitors: get in touch by 6pm Monday 31st July at
Tickets here:
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Sarah's going to be fuming when she finds out who was behind this policy...
Apparently the school is being given to United Learning. Never heard of them. Based in Peterborough. Why is a company based in Peterborough being put in charge of a school in west London? How can they possibly have any idea what's best for our students?
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Astonishing
Some real life stuff here.
"Success isn't linear" by Yoann Bourgeois
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@TVodden
@nadhimzahawi
Indeed. What if attending school is the root cause of a lack of wellbeing, as is so often the case? For the many YP for whom this is true, "vowing to improve attendance" will itself have a detrimental impact on wellbeing.
@naomicfisher
@statesofmind_20
@teamsquarepeg
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This clip is from a heart-wrenching interview with Calvin Henry, a headteacher who went through an experience uncannily similar to that of Ruth Perry at the hands of
@Ofstednews
.
Calvin has since left the teaching profession.
Full episode out tomorrow.
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5 years ago, for some reason, I spent a week or so happily compiling a glossary of 225 learning terms
It's a good way to illustrate how complex learning is, I think
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