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WillGHistory Mike Hill Christine Counsell These books are revolutionary in how we teach - can’t wait to see the next one, year 9 beckons!

In the third webinar, we watched our colleague Jimmy Colenutt teach a lesson to explore three key ideas: How can lessons be teacher-led, but still highly interactive – ensuring that *all* pupils participate loads in lessons and feel really successful?

In the fourth webinar, we asked how we can teach disciplinary knowledge (how we know & make claims about the past) more directly, too. We argue that it might be better to teach pupils v directly *about* historical interpretations rather than getting them to "do" interpretations.

This Historical Assoc webinar series was unmissable for those who want to teach historical knowledge thoroughly, meaningfully & in disciplinary ways, especially if you’re trying to challenge generic, history-insensitive pedagogies constructively. You can still sign up retrospectively.

This article by Jacqueline Magee 𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 & Kate O'Connor is superb. Really pulls together underlying issues of why knowledge-rich goes wrong when certain generic pedagogies (eg lesson structures, blanket approaches to retrieval prac) distort it. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This was an excellent free webinar. Really helpful to teachers and leaders wondering how to ensure lessons integrate rich extended text rather than bolting it on. You can still sign up to receive it. #ChangingHistoriesKS3

It was a tremendous honour to interview Christine Counsell on TBFM this week. She's been a huge influence on me, and her war against genericism has influenced the national and international picture. Tune in and share! 😍😍😍😍 open.spotify.com/episode/4UZrev…

Thanks to all this year's Chartered College of Teaching Bristol speakers for 5* top talks: Jo Castelino - Homework Mr Pink - Combatting Misogyny David Goodwin - Checking for Understanding Christine Counsell - Curriculum for Inclusion Zoe Enser 🐉 - Challenging Expertise Dan Wuori - Early Years

I loved this episode. Christine really *gets* education, and has done the hard intellectual work required to come to sophisticated and challenging opinions. Everyone should listen to what she has to say. Please share if you can 🙏

Great episode of “They behave for me” with Christine Counsell who is leading the Taskforce for the new Northern Ireland curriculum… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… Adam Boxer Amy Forrester

For decades, the educational focus was on generic pedagogy, and the sidelining of knowledge and the dignity of individual subjects. In recent years, voices like Christine's have swung the pendulum in the other direction. Tune in for how and why! Please share if you can :)

Non-Jewish citizens of Dobsina, Slovakia watch the expulsion of their Jewish neighbors #OTD 23 July 1942. The Jews of Dobsina were sent to Auschwitz. In total, about 100,000 Slovak Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

Finished it and loved it. So, so good. ‘Think of literature as a site of concentration, critique, surplus - concentration *as* critique: literature as the stillness at the eye of the storm, a kind of prayerful attention.’

New post One for the John Donne fans and English teachers Chris Curtis Douglas Wise Christine Counsell Carl Hendrick Seadragonseeker Mary H-P Matt Lynch John Donne’s miniature worlds birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/joh…

The #2 rule of teaching: all children benefit from being taught in ways that disproportionately benefit those with special needs open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

Only 2 days to go! A concert I've been excited about for months. In #ArvoPart's 90th year, Stephen Layton & Holst Singers celebrate works by this extraordinary composer whose life story has been a fascinating spiritual & musical journey, placing them in a wider Estonian context

This looks excellent - I must try and go to this. 👏👏👏

Highly recommended. Christine Counsell got me onto this and now I’m on intravenous Chekhov because of it. Lush 😍