Times weren’t better back then. You were just in your carefree youth and are missing that time now. We tend to claim that music, fashion, TV, and society peaked when you were in your teens. It’s not the world it’s you that you are melancholic about.

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The thing about expectations is that you think students can't do something, until you actually try to get them to do that thing. And then you find that they can. That's why expectations are magic, and it's why they are the first Teacher Standard. achemicalorthodoxy.co.uk/2024/03/28/our…

A 🧵 on unintended consequences of mental health interventions, and why some school and workplace schemes may be contributing to the problem they were designed to solve. 1/10

The danger with trying to make a curriculum ‘relevant’ to children is that an important purpose of education is to bring the universe to them, galaxies they’ve never encountered it imagined, not just what they already know and like. This is how you patronise kids, and keep their

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🧵1/ Thread on the #Southport anti-migrant and anti-Muslim disinformation and propaganda. In this thread I highlight key spreaders of disinformation, the chronology, and some points about some of the inauthentic activity evident. I will focus on X.

“Unconscious bias” also runs the risk of excusing people who make prejudiced decisions AND leads people to think that some unconscious bias seminar/training will have “fixed the issue”

The best way to teach children how to be critical thinkers about social media (or any new information) is for schools to: 1. Make sure they know lots of core knowledge about science, history, language, etc so that false information is easier to challenge, and they possess robust

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Students learn faster when they see what something is and what it isn’t. One of the most important aspect of curriculum planning + instructional design is effectively using examples and non-examples. 🧵⬇️

New schools guidance covers #suicideprevention for the first time. It’s a tribute to bereaved parents who have campaigned for schools to do more about the tragic figs - over 100 <18s die by suicide/year in England. But its language is cautious. “Mandatory” isn’t mentioned. 🧵