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Rachel Eaton MCCT IRIS Connect, PD @samlgibbs1 Dr Haili Hughes FRSA This is great Rachel Eaton MCCT bravo. Little tip, if you are making the video for others you can use the 'time linked comments' (on the right of the video) to explain your thinking / what you had noticed / describe the strategy you are using etc. this can be text or video.

For teachers being swept along by the tide: teachersreflect.online/blogs/news/a-n…

Jack Grealish seems to me like one of the best people. Here he is at the UCL Final ignoring the Spanish creep and talking to the young blind girl. There are so many examples of this kindness that makes people feel so valued.

This is a stunning thread. And in between it all is a gulf between the expressed intentions of Ofsted and the reality for far too many people they inspect.

Some activities called ‘coaching’ in schools should probably be re-named. They use the word coaching and research on coaching too loosely to justify forms of micromanagement. Some promote their own commercial brand relentlessly. For balance this might help vimeo.com/781855679/4b24…

Read this to fully understand- in her owns words what #ruthperry went through. These notes were found by her sister Julia Waters after her sister’s death. Warning this is powerful & distressing because it is so directly from Ruth Perry’s own thoughts bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Rishi Sunak, not just saying the quiet part out loud but announcing it with a megaphone, while holding a parade. 🤦 "Only Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably privileged position of having access to the UK market and the EU single market." #bbclaurak x.com/LittleGravitas…

NEW!! A metacognition Teaching and Learning Map summarising the ideas of Evidence Based Education EEF Jennifer Webb Tom Sherrington to make research accessible to busy teachers. Thanks to Maddy for the original T&L map idea. Please RT if you would like a copy.

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Watch Ben Chu tear apart Rishi Sunak's GDP growth & tax claims. "This is like saying if a football team wins on the first day of the season, they're winning the league."

Now that I'm a man of a certain age with grown-up kids, it's easy to forget a time when the future stretched out in front of me. To be transported back, for even a few hours has provided a perspective no wellbeing package can compete with: teachersreflect.online/blogs/news/pas…

Building on a recent post where I used my tools to tentatively coach my younger self, I returned to my research to share some key insights from deep reflection: teachersreflect.online/blogs/news/the…

This is how narratives are made. New research says children who ‘are not school-ready’ are twice as likely to be persistently absent. The author says “School is where children develop & flourish, academically, emotionally, socially, and physically.” 🧵1/16 tinyurl.com/762kc6an

Sir Kevan Collins has spent his career driving up standards in education. He has fought fiercely for our children, notably during the pandemic. He will play a crucial role in my department as we work to break down barriers to opportunity. I'm so pleased to have him on board.

We've had a lot of new followers recently. Welcome to all. Our job is to support headteachers - it's a challenging job and we help them to create a vocabulary of wellbeing strategies allowing them to flourish. We believe every head should have an entitlement to quality support.

Online Teaching in Alternative Provision readwithjulia.com/2025/03/14/onl…

Liberating or threatening? teachersreflect.online/blogs/news/in-…

How AI lied and gaslit me: 🤯💣🔥 Won’t lie: what happened to me this week made my jaw drop Do watch:

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