Joe Kirby
@joe__kirby
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School leader. Writer. Director of Education at Athena. I champion school leaders, teachers and school staff so we can create great schools together.
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Joined January 2013
Hornets, Slugs, Bees and Butterflies: the workload relief revolution https://t.co/T5LQKCrudN đa let-go-of list of 20 slugs đ„a not-to-do list of 18 hornets đa keep-doing list of 10 honeybees đŠa start-doing-list of 12 butterflies â join the revolution
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A critical but mostly ignored set of facts: 1) When students arenât fluent they are very unlikely to comprehend. 2) The number of dysfluent students is unknown but probably massive. https://t.co/qvx3oCBASC
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Fascinating new report from the World Bank summarising the global evidence on effective reading instruction. "A fundamental insight from reading research is that children do not learn to read naturallyâreading must be explicitly taught" https://t.co/yHDcqskM0x
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The 'luxury beliefs' of those proposing no use of internal removal rooms or suspensions etc. They are either not teachers who have to deal with disruption, verbal or physical abuse or their own children are not impacted by disruption, verbal or physical assault in schools.
Try being a teacher being repeatedly verbally or physically abused in a classroom and there is no option for the child to be placed in a room in the school for internal exclusion. This will likely mean they will roam the corridors or have to sit in the back of another classroom
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If your concern is for girls on their period needing the toilet in school, you should campaign *against* the proliferation of GP-issued toilet passes. If your concern is for students with genuine SEN need, you should campaign *against* the rise in spurious diagnoses and
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Youâre right. Sod timetabling the kids, just let them go wherever they want, whenever they want. đđ»
@adamboxer1 Children shouldnât need a toilet pass because all children should be able to go whenever they need to. I donât know when the obsession with restricting access to toilets started but it is pervasive in teaching. Your comment is disrespectful to people with medical conditions.
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Are English Schools Really Improving? Evidence from International Tests https://t.co/49Lo8uGNMt
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Overall, I'm pretty confident maths and reading scores have increased, and that this is unusual. Full post, data and charts, here: https://t.co/7Sj3QyiCxz
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How much can we trust international test data? 4 big caveats: 1) Low response rates in England 2) Covid caused chaos 3) PISA switched from paper to digital tests in this period 4) Motivation matters in international tests, but isn't controlled for @JohnPeterJerrim suggests "It
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Are English Schools Really Improving? National exams suffered grade inflation and changed significantly in the early 2010s. So I've dug into international test data to try to answer this question. Thread and new post...
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New post: Are English schools really improving? I looked at 20 years of international test data to find out. The answer: yes, substantiallyâespecially in maths. England is now top 10 for English, maths and science, across 81 countries taking PISA tests
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Finland was held up as a model education system for many years Now England's PISA scores exceed Finland's for reading and maths. Find out more about when and how things changed https://t.co/w9PtEcZuJM
Are English Schools Really Improving? National exams suffered grade inflation and changed significantly in the early 2010s. So I've dug into international test data to try to answer this question. Thread and new post...
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Great thread by @HFletcherWood on the improvement of English schools since 2010. Crazy that this is so understudied, both inside & outside England. It's very, very hard to shift a big govt system like this for the better.
Are English Schools Really Improving? National exams suffered grade inflation and changed significantly in the early 2010s. So I've dug into international test data to try to answer this question. Thread and new post...
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When did English schools improve? International test data shows sharp divergence from OECD averages in the late 2010s https://t.co/w9PtEcZuJM
Are English Schools Really Improving? National exams suffered grade inflation and changed significantly in the early 2010s. So I've dug into international test data to try to answer this question. Thread and new post...
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I've tried to pin down when exactly English schools improved. Here are the results: https://t.co/w9PtEcZuJM
Are English Schools Really Improving? National exams suffered grade inflation and changed significantly in the early 2010s. So I've dug into international test data to try to answer this question. Thread and new post...
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What can we learn from international tests about improvement in English schools over the last 20 years? In 2005, England was in the middle of the home nations - now it significantly exceeds them. https://t.co/w9PtEd02zk
Are English Schools Really Improving? National exams suffered grade inflation and changed significantly in the early 2010s. So I've dug into international test data to try to answer this question. Thread and new post...
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I'm interviewing @ProfCoe about improvements in English education over the last twenty years. What should I ask him?
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It is hugely worrying that 7-9 minutes of every 30 minutes of lesson time, as reported in national surveys, are lost to poor behaviour. Leadership, behaviour systems/policies, parental power undermining schools, kids not receiving consequences etc have a lot to answer forâŠ
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'I was kicked and spat at... It's not what you expect when you go into teaching.' Exclusive data obtained by Channel 4 News shows that Scotland has the highest rate of violent injuries to school staff in the last 10 years.
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This should serve as a warning to those who seek to undermine that the adults in a school should be in control (which is their professional duty btw) & push an anti-sanction & exclusion narrative.
'I was kicked and spat at... It's not what you expect when you go into teaching.' Exclusive data obtained by Channel 4 News shows that Scotland has the highest rate of violent injuries to school staff in the last 10 years.
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Phone bans in schools motivate kids to read. When a Kentucky district eliminated phones, students checked out 2.3x as many books from the library. At one school, twice as many students borrowed books in the first month as all of last year. Without smartphones, kids get smarter.
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