New work open access in @OxfordRevEd: Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy. What are the language ideologies at the foundation of 'oracy' and how is it increasingly used as part of a social justice narrative? A lengthy thread follows…

RT @GJosephRoche: China’s language policies impact over 60 languages spoken across the Tibetan Plateau. Linguistic diversity is “collapsing….

gave a keynote yesterday based on this paper and it was cool to speak to an audience of teachers who are also actively rejecting deficit ideologies about language which are increasingly packaged together with ‘oracy’, which itself is a problematic concept. ❤️.

RT @warwickmansell: New: DfE urged by subject associations to make radical changes to English GCSE, among host of other recommendations.htt….

RT @PhilipProudfoot: British police arresting an 80 year old priest for holding up a sign that says, “I support Palestine Action”. Only a h….

here today

15 amazing teachers came together over two days and explored how to reject deficit thinking and dismantle white linguistic supremacy in schools 🌟.

it’s day 2 of our summer school for teachers on linguistic justice and April Baker-Bell is here in Manchester from Michigan to lead sessions on anti-Black linguistic racism and pro-Black language pedagogy 💫

RT @rapclassroom: Looking forward to this and hearing from the keynotes. I’ll be doing a workshop entitled ‘Writing is an art-form!’.

RT @professorliwei1: #unequal Spanishes #translanguaging

me and @SnellJulia are doing a joint keynote at this UKLA/NEU conference, talking about futures of linguistic justice and designing linguistically just schools 💜.

RT @MichaelRosenYes: I live in a country that gives military support to another country which is killing thousands of civilians while prosc….

RT @SnellJulia: New research published in @LanguageandEdu2, available open access here ( and a short thread on the….

RT @npolicemonitor: 📢 Policing in Schools - Share your Experiences . Important research led by @EthnicityUK collecting experiences from you….

RT @Janroweljmu: Glad to have been part of the focus groups involved. An excellent report.

@BritishAcademy_ @LeverhulmeTrust @ManchesterMet @MCRLinguistics @ManMetUni @MMU_Research @HealthRI_MMU.

thanks to @BritishAcademy_ and @LeverhulmeTrust for funding this project, and of course, to all the teacher educators who took part in it 🌸.

today we launched our report on the future of teacher education in England. it uses speculative methodologies to reimagine what a more equitable system might look like, one where trust is placed back into the hands of expert teacher educators themselves.

RT @ian_cushing: when racially marginalised and working-class children’s language is framed as symptomatic of ‘misbehaviour’, this contribu….

RT @fufuisonme: Thinking of Chris Kaba, a Black man who was killed on sight with a single gunshot wound to his head when he had no weapon.….

RT @David_Spendlove: Whilst the ‘culture wars’ may be at least partially over - it is time to rethink and rebuild teacher education for a….