Lucy Crehan
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International education consultant and author of 'Cleverlands - The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers.'
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I gave a speech at the Policy Forum for Wales on Friday, setting out a range of recent evidence on curriculum reform, and calling for Welsh Government to reconsider the role of knowledge in the curriculum framework.
#CfW
Full video here 👇
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I'd like to introduce you all to Rory Kingston David! We had a bit of a bumpy start, but we are now home from hospital and enjoying getting to know him. Apologies to all those I haven't replied to in the past few weeks - this is why!
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Teachers from England have on average the least teaching experience of all 34 countries that took part in TALIS. We (at a system level) need to hold onto the teachers we have rather than desperately trying to recruit new ones.
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Two years ago, I wrote a book I wanted to write because 350 people assured me they'd read it. I didn't know how many more would sell, but my personal goal was to sell enough that it'd be published in paperback. It's coming out this Thursday!
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Beyond chuffed to have the Education Minister for Delhi tweeting about my book! Looking forward to hearing his reflections on implications for Indian education.
During
#lockdown
, I read a wonderful book
#CleverLands
, about top-performing education systems by
@lucy_crehan
As the name suggests,
#CleverLands
are those countries who have used education wisely to increase their collective intelligence and emerged as developed nations.
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I've just read a bitchy comment about my book by some academics in their published work, implying I've written about system improvement because it's lucrative! I want to laugh it off but in truth it stings, because they're people I know and respect.
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I’ll add my own: NQT year, and I’d written my lesson plan in 5min chunks. My feedback was that I needed to plan what was going to happen in EVERY MINUTE of the lesson.
#NOBservation
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This is what I've been working on for the past six months! (The course, not the video). Available from January at the University of Buckingham.
Lucy Crehan leads the exploration of international education systems in module 6: Comparing educational systems in different countries of our new Online MA Education. She introduces the module in this short clip:
@lucy_crehan
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Huge congratulations and respect to all the teachers who have just endured a very difficult term - you are heroes. x
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An alternative to high-stakes accountability: Combine School Accountability with School Support.
This alternative is not unknown and risky, it is practised in some of the world's highest performing systems. My takeaways from Cleverlands:
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Excellent to hear
@HarfordSean
share the fact that children don't make progress in a way that can be plotted in a straight line!
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I think the Curriculum for Wales
#CfW
has the potential to be fantastic. But having spent time in schools in other countries with similarly high-level curriculum frameworks, I also know there are some potential challenges to overcome. (1/5)
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If anyone else wants to do this (SLT or teachers), I'll Skype in to your book club and answer Qs for free in exchange for a pic of you all reading the book!
Just had our first official ‘SLT bookclub’ discussing successful education systems around the world and how we can learn from them. Thanks to
#cleverlands
by
@lucy_crehan
for the thought provoking text.
#stbartsway
#soar
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I’m so pleased to see Sweden making this move. I spent a week observing lessons in Swedish classrooms a couple of years ago, and so many students were using their devices for watching manga/‘the voice’/football etc. rather than working on what the teacher had asked them to.
“There’s clear scientific evidence that digital tools impair rather than enhance student learning,”
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I’m in D.C., about to give a keynote at the World Bank Human Development Conference, and I’m feeling a little nervous… Wish me luck!
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About to spend the week in Swedish schools, learning about their system to help me write a preface for the Swedish edition of Cleverlands 😄
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Estonia is a world leader in digital education, and they're offering their 'digital education solutions' for free to other countries. More info and links here -
#coronavirusuk
#DigitalLearning
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The reforms over the past five years in Delhi have led to significant learning gains - this BCG report explains how.
#delhieducationconference
What Makes Delhi's Education Model the best in the country?
How did Delhi Govt achieve soo much in last 5-6 yrs in the field of education ?
What is the Delhi leadership team doing different?
Below info-graphic by Boston Consulting survey answers all questions
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I’ve heard this frustration echoed in the UK too - teachers expected to plan from scratch in the name of ‘autonomy’ rather than being given high quality resources/plans to start from. It’s one of the major differences between U.K. edu and top-performers.
Hi,
Having attended my 2nd cluster day a couple of weeks ago I voiced a concern I have regarding the new JCT to one of the JCT facilitators (who by the way was lovely and very supportive). He unfortunately was...
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The new PISA results are out tomorrow. Some people don't like PISA, and will say so tomorrow.
I think it measures something important, and is useful because it gives us some clues about what makes for good education policy.
That said, it's often used badly. (1/2)
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This should be read by anyone who has anything to do with Curriculum for Wales. There’s just about time to turn this tanker around.
#CfW
"Skills vs knowledge" is one of the most significant debates in education.
Yesterday, one of the creators of a flagship skills-based curriculum admitted it's not possible to teach skills without knowledge.
Hugely important for education globally.
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It was quite the logistical challenge to attend
#rED21
yesterday (two tiny children, live in Wales, husband working). But it was SO worth it, I was buzzing all day. Thank you
@tombennett71
and
@hgaldinoshea
for creating the space for all that learning to happen.
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To mark the 5th anniversary of the publication of Cleverlands, we are (finally) releasing an audiobook edition! 🥳 Now with a new afterword. You can pre-order it here and it is out on the 17th December. Happy listening!
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This is typically misleading about the education system in Finland (typical of media reporting). Schools are required to do just one 'phenomenon-based learning' module a year - other than that, they teach regular subjects.
#Finland
's curriculum endorses phenomenon-based learning as a progressive approach to curriculum and pedagogy suitable for 21st century learners. This approach breaks down subject-based compartmentalisation of knowledge.
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So pleased to be a part of this! Literally a part - I’m designing and delivering a module on international comparisons in education. It’s an exciting line up -
@informed_edu
@miss_mcinerney
@profbeckyallen
@Doug_Lemov
@tombennett71
@ProfCoe
@EvidenceInEdu
@ProfKime
We are proposing an exciting new online MA in Teaching and Learning. Currently under construction, full launch expected Sept 2020, module 1 available January. Register your interest at
#onlineMA
#TeachingAndLearning
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Anyone’s NY resolution to listen to more audiobooks? Are you interested in learning about education in top-performing systems? If so, you might like to know that Cleverlands is now out in audio format, read by the brilliant
@EmilyBladVO
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The learning-orientation and humility of the Delhi education administration is reflected in the opening statement of their
@DelhiEduConf
closing ceremony, in which
@AnuragKunduAK
focuses on the remaining challenges and ways forward rather than their many successes.
#DelhiEduConf
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Oh my goodness I agree with Piers Morgan
Given that 275+ health/care workers & 52 transport workers have died with COVID-19, why is anyone angry with teachers who are worried about getting it?
Especially as we still don’t know how easily kids can transmit it?
I completely empathise with their very real concerns.
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Thank you so much to all the amazing teachers, headteachers, school support staff and childcare workers for soldiering on amid all the confusion - we see you.
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Sorry for the silence Twitter, I’ve been on a tiny Scottish island with no signal or electricity - it was delightful!
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@tes
I heard this from students in Sweden today. They said a large part of what makes a great teacher or lesson is when they can tell that the teacher really wants to be there, and loves their job.
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I had such a good time at the
@HeadsRoundtable
conference yesterday. Filled me with optimism about the future of the English edu system.
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The
@DelhiEduConf
begins today, and runs every day this week. Join for inspiration from Delhi’s remarkable education reform journey, panel discussions with Indian and international experts on five areas of policy, and a keynote by yours truly.
Delhi International Education Conference 2021 will bring together educators, policy makers, and administrators from across the world to have a dialogue around what makes an effective & equitable education system.
@lucy_crehan
is the KeyNote Speaker
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I often get asked about the relationship between spending on education and PISA results, so here's the latest data on PISA reading: it makes a significant difference up to a point, but then isn't an obvious explanatory factor.
#PISA2018
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Anyone else pregnant and have a partner that works in Intensive Care? Would love to chat to someone in the same position to find out what you’re doing and talk through the implications. X
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Applications are now OPEN to start the
@UoBSchoolofEd
online MA in September. The modules look brilliant - from
@EvidenceInEdu
@TeacherDevTrust
@tombennett71
@profbeckyallen
AND
@Doug_Lemov
, and I'll be teaching one too!
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This is music to my ears. Estonia, Singapore, Shanghai and others all have teacher career structures in which teachers get promotions without leaving the classroom.
.
@JustineGreening
: 'Leadership should not be the only option available to teachers who want a successful career'
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@Addysg_Cymraeg
Here's a useful graph from
@lukesibieta
showing the trends in the four UK nations. I acknowledge the improvement between 2018-2022. But I am concerned/intrigued/confused by the belief that recovery will be supported by the new curriculum. 🧵
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Teachers, if you had the time to study international comparisons in education, what would you be most interested in learning more about?
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Spot on. England's expectations for 5/6 yr old children are higher than top-performing countries, and too high for many, meaning some are left behind right from the beginning. Having realistic expectations and bringing all along would lead to higher achievement in the long run.
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I am VERY excited to be speaking at my first ResearchEd Scotland! I'll be speaking about international trends and research in national curriculum design, and the potential for inter-school collaboration to bring about curricula coherence.
GOOD NEWS!! Here’s the programme for
#rEDAberdeen
on November 19th. Tickets are still available here:
@tombennett71
@robin_macp
@kirstcolquhoun
@researchED1
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I am chuffed to be designing a module for this exciting Masters programme at
@UoBSchoolofEd
alongside a very accomplished group of of people:
@TeacherDevTrust
@profbeckyallen
@tombennett71
@Doug_Lemov
@profcoe
@ProfKime
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@Addysg_Cymraeg
@lukesibieta
The Curriculum for Wales is very similar to (and influenced by) the CfE in Scotland. While you may argue that we don't know whether the CfE is related to Scotland's PISA decline, it's clear that it has not improved pupil progress.
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A chart from the
#PISA2018
media briefing which cleverly displays quite a lot of data on trends across the world.
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Cleverlands will be released in Swedish next week! I will be in Malmo and Gothenburg, speaking about my research and learning more about the Swedish system.
Nu har Lucy Crehans bok kommit på svenska. Jag fick uppdraget att provläsa den på engelska och det var intressant. Lucy jämför skolsystemen och lärares och elevers förutsättningar i olika skol-framgångsrika länder. Jag har fått tre ex på svenska, som jag kommer låna ut.
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BIG day coming up! I'm on the Today programme, then find out about the new PISA results, then BBC World, then another TV show later...
#gulp
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It is so perverse that this kind of article is behind a paywall. I have access, but what about all the HTs and teachers who will be designing curricula based on the new framework?
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More info about the project and some of the thinking underlying it here -
Please apply to get involved in the design, and know that even if you can't commit to this, all resources produced will be available across Wales. Diolch.
@CSCJES
@sewalesEAS
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My day at
@cymru_ed
today was totally worth the 4 hour (and counting) journey home!! Brilliant speakers, superb organisation, and new friends made :-) Thank you
@garein
@MrWiseCHS
and everyone else involved.
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I'm grateful and humbled that world-leading curriculum experts like
@MarkRPriestley
,
@Counsell_C
and
@MaryMyatt
have retweeted or responded positively to my message to Welsh government.
I hope
@WG_Education
are giving it their consideration also.
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The paperback edition of Cleverlands is out today! If you have read it and would recommend it, please retweet this or tag someone you think would like it. Thanks!
(ignore the dispatch time - I've checked, it's a glitch)
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It was a privilege to be involved in
#rEDAberdeen
today. Thank you so much to
@tombennett71
@robin_macp
and
@kirstcolquhoun
for having me along! I’ve learned loads and met some incredible people.
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This man clearly does not have children. I have way less time now than pre-quarantine!
If you don’t come out of this quarantine with either:
1.) a new skill
2.) starting what you’ve been putting off like a new business
3.) more knowledge
You didn’t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline
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I am sickened to the stomach by reports of the atrocities committed by Hamas. Truly evil. And I am heartbroken for Gaza’s families under siege. The whole thing is impossibly sad and cruel. I’m also appalled by the antisemitism surfacing in the UK - none of this is justified.
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My book has sold out on Amazon! Reprint underway, but in the meantime (and beyond), you can order it here -
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Applications open!
I designed this course to support educators and policy makers to build mental frameworks for how education systems can be structured, and how we can learn from other contexts. 🌏
I'm looking for my next cohort of 8 to start in May.
👉
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In Singapore, teachers with 12 years of service can take a 2½ month sabbatical on full-pay.
#yesplease
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As do I. As a parent of two children who will go to school in Wales, I despair at this proposal to drop Biology, Chemistry, Physics and English Literature as separate GCSEs. I really hope it is reconsidered.
Teachers and scientists have serious concerns about Wales' plans to change GCSEs
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Folks. I am pleased to say you are NOT TOO LATE to buy 'Cleverlands' as a present for the educator (or other thoughtful person) in your life. Currently rated 4.9/5 stars.
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I just led the first day of the Coherent Curriculum Design programme with these knowledgeable and passionate Expressive Arts teachers from Aberdeenshire. I'll be up there in person in Feb for two days of progression-map creation!
#letsdothis
#takeacoat
Excited to be here at the Northern Alliance hub
@aberdeenuni
for day 1 of our
#curriculum
project with
@lucy_crehan
working alongside early years, primary & secondary teachers in
@Aberdeenshire
to create
#curriculummaps
for
#expressivearts
#curriculummaking
#keepcollaborating
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Apparently the magic number of reviews on Amazon, where they start promoting your book, is 50. Cleverlands has had 47 for some time now. If you've read it and liked it, please help me reach 50! Thanks :-)
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I'm so excited about this - what a great series of topics! I want to go to everything...
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In just over an hour I'll be speaking at the
#WorldEdSummit
about the importance of school collaboration at the level of the middle tier in curriculum design, drawing on research from several countries. If you're attending the summit, please join me!
@osirisedu
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Interesting data on PISA coverage here - the proportion of 15-yr-olds who sat PISA. The UK is below average at around 85%, and the China provinces is the lowest of all top-performers, at just above 80%. How would the remaining students have performed I wonder?
#PISA
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So ahead of the PISA results tomorrow, here is a lecture from my Education Policy Accelerator programme (details to follow soon) on:
"8 common mistakes when using PISA data".
(worth 15mins of your time if you're writing about it)
#PISA
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I'm putting together a course on international benchmarking in education, and many of the (albeit excellent) academics and practitioners I'm including are white men. Twitter, can you recommend me brilliant women and/or people of colour who work in this area?
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And here it is! Thank you Oliver. Needless to say (but I'll say it) there's a load more explanation/nuance/findings in the book, so do read!
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To support these schools, and others open to additional PD and resources, I'll be working with regional consortia and teachers across Wales to help design curricula processes for each AOLE, and exemplify how these might be used to design coherent school/cluster-level curricula.
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I'm very honoured to be the keynote speaker at the Delhi Education Conference next week. My talk is followed by a series of expert panels throughout the week on what India can learn from other systems in key areas of policy. Please join us!
Meet our Keynote Speaker,
@lucy_crehan
- author of Clever Lands, Economist's Book of the Year, 2016. An international education consultant, Ms. Crehan will talk about the key aspects of a high-performing & equitable public education system on Jan 11 at
#delhieducationconference
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What. A. Conference! Just catching up on my tweets after yesterday’s absolute stonker of a day at the
@Inner_Drive
#T
&Lsummit.
Stellar speakers, fantastic format, delightful delegates. Thank you so much to everyone involved, it was a privilege to be a part of it.
What. A. Morning. A lot of brain power in the room!
@JonnieNoakes
@IroKonstantinou
@SinghAmarbeerG
@lucy_crehan
.
And
@PepsMccrea
@MaryMyatt
@Doug_Lemov
to come!!
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And we're moving home, having a baby and applying for a job all at the same time... 🤪
The results are back from our latest research: 52% of the nation feel moving home is one of the most stressful life events – beating having a baby, marriage and job interviews.
View the full findings here:
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Ranking schools was not a success in Ontario -
@DeirdreKinsell2
.
@leecrawfurd
agrees that school ranking can be unfair as it penalises schools with more disadvantaged intakes.
#delhieducationconference
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This isn't some scheme knocked up in a few months, this is the result of some twenty years of hard thinking and careful creation, and now it's free 👇👇👇👇👇
ICYMI
We have opened up our entire curriculum for everyone, for free. Create your account today for immediate access to this comprehensive coverage of maths from counting to calculus.
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I was privileged to be invited to give a talk at the OECD recently - here’s a podcast we recorded while I was there.
On the latest episode of our
#TopClass
podcast,
@lucy_crehan
talks about what she learned from visiting classrooms in the world’s top-performing education systems.
🎙️ Listen to the full conversation ➡️
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This evening I will be my first ever 'appearance' on
@TTRadio2022
! I'll be on at 6.45 as part of the twilight show hosted by
@lessoncopy
. Please call/text in with any questions or to say hi!
#TTRadio
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I'll be speaking at a webinar for the Teacher Foundation tomorrow, which works with educators across India. Details below if you'd like to join us.
Last few days left to sign up for out Heads' Net webinar with Lucy Crehan, author of 'Clever Lands'. 20th Nov, 4 - 5.30pm.
#registernow
@lucy_crehan
@TTFMaya
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I have personally seen similar effects in schools in Sweden. It also presents an equity challenge. It is the schools that are already struggling, often serving disadvantaged students, that are less likely to have the capacity to design thorough curricula from scratch. (4/5)
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I'm currently reading India's new National Education Policy and am finding it rather inspiring, both in terms of the ambition contained within it, and also the optimism and lack of cynicism in the initial reactions I've read.
#NEP2020
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Here is the link to the BCG report on Delhi's educational transformation over the past five years - it's an interesting read.
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I spent the morning with an inspiring group of leaders from Wales - looking forward to following the progress of the
#NAEL
!
Touring the Cleverlands with
@lucy_crehan
& learning from each other. First
#NAEL
seminar with the 12 National Academy associate headteachers from across Wales. Big day. Big topic.
#inspiringleaders
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In light of this re-emergence of the grammar school question, I thought I'd share the afterword to the paperback of Cleverlands.
"If common sense were to be believed, democracies ought to provide better quality education than non-democratic countries.."
Grammar school expansion, a u-turn on sex ed, faith school reforms: Damian Hinds sets out his stall
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I’ll be speaking at this on Monday, along with some fantastic speakers from all over the world.
At the Global Teacher Development Forum we’ll be joined by ‘education explorer’
@Lucy_crehan
, author of ‘Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers'. Come along for insights into her as yet unpublished work!
#GTDF
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What makes me think so? Leaving content selection up to schools with no/little middle tier collaboration has been shown to lead to arbitrary selection of content in New Zealand and Scotland, which leave school curricula incoherent. (e.g. Smith, 2019; Wood & Sheehan, 2021). (3/5)
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In Spain and turned on the news... guess who is being beamed around the world discussing careers advice on TV!
@willmillard1
@LKMco
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Avoid the naughty step!! Get a copy here -
If you are a teacher and haven’t read
#CleverLands
by
@lucy_crehan
the you should be on the naughty step with a dunce’s cap on writing lines in detention.
To avoid this fate, buy a copy and read it. My friend
@gemmahay1
put me into it and I recommend it all the time. 👇🏼
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Six days to go until the paperback of 'Cleverlands' is published!
And I just received an Italian translation of several chapters in the post :-)
@marta_lovicu
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@MrBlachford
And more support for teachers in their first 5 years - I don't have stats to hand to back this up, but my sense is that many leave for reasons other than money.
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One thing that would help would be making drinking water available around London (and the rest of the UK). Crazy that you can't fill up a bottle at Waterloo Station - so many unnecessary bottles bought.
#tfl
#plasticpollution
The garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is now 3x the size of France — & it weighs as much as 500 jumbo jets.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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@ValaAfshar
MT
@Peepsqueak
@SusanaDeLeonMD
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I was so focused on my
#policypitch
at
#GESF
that I forgot to mention my book! It's good.. was one of The Economist's 'books of the year'...
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Just about to contribute to my first ever twitter chat! It's a discussion about my book - Cleverlands. Do join!
#CCTbookclub
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The million-dollar question asked by Dr Kapri - How can we design accountability mechanisms for teachers so that it improves performance but it doesn't hamper creativity?
#delhieducationconference
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Brilliant. From this former teacher’s perspective, more management like this would also go some way to solving the teacher retention problem.
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Note to Wales: this is one risk of moving more towards teacher assessment rather than external exams.
@quals_wales
@MrMcEnaney
Far too much assessment and not enough teaching. I’m expected to get each of my 4 x BGE classes through 3 pieces of assessed work in the 8 weeks of Term 1, purely so the school can start generating attainment data. It’s absolute nonsense.
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This is getting better and better..
Delighted to announce at tonight's
#AssessBetter
event that our guest editor for September's issue of Impact will be
@dylanwiliam
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As someone who does go on about Finland, I still agree with the contents of this blog! What is still relevant is to look at is Finnish structures/approaches/policies introduced in the 70s, 80s and 90s, rather than more recent reform.
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