Hearing from many colleagues that they’re already being shared with Heads of Department by Exec Teams in MATs… such is life. 🙄

So still one of the biggest impacts on phonics attainment is the month a child is born. It’s almost as if most are able to learn them when the are developmentally ready

Hahahaha arrogance wrapped up as ‘a provocation’.. 🙄😂

New: No statistically significant impact found for Ruth Miskin phonics programmes on children’s reading tests and writing attainment, after £1 million trial which took 6.5 years to conclude educationuncovered.co.uk/news/160111/no… A look at today’s EEF findings.

Something I don’t think is discussed enough - how important it is for middle & senior leaders to remember what it’s like for a teacher ‘on the ground’ to teach full period days, often for 2-3 days back to back. Also, the accompanying markload, and inevitable cognitive fatigue.

Jonathan Gullis repeatedly demanded my resignation in House of Commons education debates. He even offered to clear out my office at the NEU. Now he is no longer schools minister I am very happy to return the offer and to help him clear out his office at the DfE.

I used to like Twitter for edu-debate and discussion. I try to follow a range of people for that reason. Now it is full of people, often those not in the classroom, attempting to dictate what you should be thinking and doing or accusing you of subscribing to…

Prejudices are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. Charlotte Brontë

A problem in education is teachers are the front line on mental health, family, poverty issues and so much more. The idea that teachers just 'teach' is over. The line between teaching and social work, or mental health is blurring. Yet teachers cannot solve societal issues.

Colleagues engaged in research on educational change may find the ideas in this 1995 article useful. Hopkins and I were privileged to have the guidance and inspiration of the legendary academic David Hargreaves in the project it reports. w.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Oak is a symptom of curriculum mediocrity, not the treatment | Schools Week ow.ly/KIer30sspyK

What an absolutely appalling day. Horrific. Sometimes, the job is beyond me. Head Teachering can seem impossible.

Let’s see what you think Twitter - what comes to mind? 1️⃣ What does it mean for a school to improve? 2️⃣ *How* do schools actually get better? 3️⃣ What do leaders *do* to improve schools?

From a Rand Report: "Most teachers say the majority of students suffer because of a few chronically disruptive peers—some of whom should not be in a general education setting." Yell at me for it saying it all you want. Most teachers think it.

My husband went on a boys weekend to Prague, he hid a big box of condoms in his luggage so I broke the seal and l replaced them with a note explaining the locks would be changed when he got home and I am keeping the dog.

Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?

What's the most challenging part of teaching? Often ppl say 'the other adults'! What do you say?