Introducing Connected: social media made especially for teachers. Website 💻 and app📱coming very soon!

This is fascinating and so carefully and thoughtfully produced. It's essentially a story of what can happen when this crucial message is ignored: https://t.co/uzgOUkGyrL Highly recommended for all our followers (primary especially) if you haven't heard it yet!

And the final part of the app (of course!): CONNECT We're so looking forward to meeting with all of you very soon and sharing stories, advice and support with each other. Thanks for getting involved – it won't be long now!⏰

We know that lots of teachers and leaders like ourselves would be interested in going to great online events and webinars to improve our practice. It's always just been a case of knowing how to find out about them 😕 That's why we made the DEVELOP part of our website and app💡💻

Want to be an evidence-informed practitioner or leader but not sure where to start? 😕 Not got enough time to DISCOVER the best books and articles for a subject?📚 Introducing possibly our favourite section of the app and website: the Research Hub 🥳 Coming very soon!

We think it's time to start releasing some proper screenshots of the app so you know why we're so excited...🥳 Let's kick things off today with the DISCUSS tab and all the wonderful groups you'll soon be able to join! 🗣️📱

Hey everyone, we're almost at our first 300 followers... Can you RT or tag someone you think will want to get involved in the new social media we've built and help us hit our next milestone 🎯? Thanks for any support! 🙂

Happy Monday everyone! Really hoping you all had as smooth a start to the half-term as possible. We're back today as well with the excellent news that the website💻 and app📱are ready to go live very, very soon...🥳

🥳 Half-term! 🥳 To all of our followers: have a wonderful and well-deserved break. We'll be back at the end of next week when we'll be releasing all the key info and screenshots of the website and app💻📱 It'll almost be time for the release...👀 See you soon..!👋

Also, for any of you wanting to know more about developing speaking 🗣️ and listening 👂in your lessons, we'd highly recommend checking this out (and their wonderful assessment matrix) 👌

Did you pick a little part or not really part at all? Want to develop S&L in your classroom more but not sure what exactly you're developing? Here's a great place to start (from @voice21oracy):

We've been talking to some fantastic people and looking at the research on developing speaking 🗣️ and listening👂this week. POLL: What's been your experience to date? How much of a part does actively developing these skills play in your classroom?🤔

@chrisdysonHT @primarypercival @simonkidwell @secretHT1 @Headteacherchat @teacherhead – this will hopefully be of interest to you all (if you haven't already read it!). It really is a game-changer of a book.

We can't recommend it highly enough. Want to find out more? Start by checking out this short video: https://t.co/ijaQ91Kyum And be sure to follow Connected for more excellent research as we build up to the launch of our new app and website 📱💻

Whilst equally providing a clear and concrete roadmap for how to actually enact the process of real change and transformation... (4/5)

And lays out a fantastically insightful response to the problem... (3/5)

It perfectly lays out the harsh reality faced by all leaders who genuinely want to bring about genuine and long-lasting transformations in their schools and teams... (2/5)

📣HTs, DHTs, AHTs + anyone leading anyone in a school📣 Introducing one of our favourite books on leadership that you've probably never heard of. Here's why you should be interested... (1/5)

“You wouldn’t accept it if your GP just made it up, so why is it acceptable in education?" https://t.co/uzgOUkH6hj Such an important message ⬆️ from Sir Kevan Collins and a real inspiration for us creating our Research Hub📚 RT if you’ve never seen + help spread the wisdom💡

This week's winner is...🥁 @KnightleyAshley ! @P_A_Kirschner's book was a great choice and we'll get a copy sent to you ASAP. DM us your details and thanks to everyone else for your wonderful choices. Happy weekend all :)