Today, I am directing every state to prioritize educators for vaccination. We want every educator, school staff member, and child-care worker to receive at least one shot by the end of this month. It’s time to treat in-person learning like the essential service that it is.

At Chartered College of Teaching we’re working on a research project looking at teachers’ views & experiences of distance learning. Teachers can participate here my.chartered.college/research/teach… please circulate this in your networks and help us get teachers voices heard & their innovations celebrated!

Looking forward to speaking at the School 360 Big Education 🌎 online event this evening, we’ll be reimagining schools for the future and thinking about what assessment should and could look like. #futureofteaching Rethinking Assessment

As the theme for this year’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek is #nature, each day I’m posting a mini research summary on my Instagram account @phd_and_three exploring a different pathway through which nature can support mental health. Come & follow if you fancy it.

Anyone else now googling whether #JenniferAniston and #DavidSchwimmer are single in the hope they might finally get together?! LOVED #FriendsTheReunion tonight. So nice to watch something happy 😃

So fantastic hearing from teachers this evening about their experiences of distance learning, as part of our research focus groups Chartered College of Teaching. Teachers - what you have achieved this year is amazing and your resourcefulness, positivity and professionalism is inspirational 🌟

I don’t think adding more lessons to the school day is the right thing for student wellbeing or teacher wellbeing. And research suggests it’s not the right thing to improve learning either. I’ll keep saying it to anyone who will listen! schoolsweek.co.uk/three-better-i…

Any new teachers being given the “Don’t smile until Xmas” mantra & the “Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile” warnings, please ignore all of that! You can 100% get students’ respect by being kind, warm & positive. Happy, trusted students will work with you, not against.

I read an article on improving classroom air quality to reduce Covid spread. It suggested Co2 monitors, ozone disinfecting machines, UV cleaning... most are expensive & complicated. How about instead of just getting more fresh air INSIDE we try getting more children OUTSIDE?

We were delighted to host today's Rethinking Assessment forum looking at the way we can value young people's learning in a fair way and how we can move forward from the current GCSE system

The pandemic caused a boom in online lessons, but what has that taught us about effective distance learning? New research from Chartered College of Teaching offers 7 key insights on what worked, and what didn’t… tes.com/news/7-key-ins…

We spoke to teachers about their experiences of distance learning & what it’s taught them about wellbeing, workload, student autonomy & how to support students with SEND. We want to make sure these teacher insights inform the future of teaching. chartered.college/education-in-t…

Sharing a fantastic job opportunity for anyone who’d love to work in psychology and education. If you’re interested in child development, outdoor learning and want to improve the translation of research to teaching practice please take a look! protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/aaeSCElMMckk…

Basically, they laughed and partied while we died. I don’t know what else to say.

Delighted to have my article on nature and outdoor learning in the latest issue of Impact, the journal by Chartered College of Teaching. Made my day when it arrived through the letterbox today!

Check out Gemma Goldenberg's article from our latest issue of Impact, on how exposure to nature can improve brain functions in children such as memory and attention span. Available to read on our new MyCollege: buff.ly/3AWGaNb

Outdoor learning at @SandringhamE7 for research with Gemma Goldenberg at Uni of East London with support from Newham Learning

Smarter but more stressed: How the modern world is changing children - with Sam Wass and Gemma Goldenberg Come to our online course for the National Association of Head Teachers, 14th March 930-12! NAHT naht.org.uk/Smarter-but-mo…