This year our T&L going back to basics due to the 18 months of disruption, with a focus on routines, habits and learning behaviours. You can’t move up without a strong foundation Our 1st term focus is a Strong Start, using Doug Lemov brilliance and bits from Harry Fletcher-Wood

Black History Month 2021. An updated calendar. A talented colleague also created a list of books, poems and popular culture that children can explore too 🖤 Link: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Today, the EEF released a systematic review which challenges the way we think about effective Professional Development (PD). A thread on my interpretation of what they found and why it's important. ↓

Just read the introduction, and the Science and RE chapters, of Huh. It is a joyful celebration of curriculum at its best, with insights and guidance about how we improve our discussions about curriculum. As a line manager I’m inspired to lead better! John Tomsett Mary Myatt

"greater appreciation should be given to the pluralistic nature of the historical discipline by ensuring that if specific claims regarding historians’ general practice are made, they are demonstrably substantiated with reference to the general practice in the field of production"

I’ve hardly been able to put this down. A much-needed exploration of the nature of history & the historical discipline in 2021: global history, ‘rewriting’ history, diversity, history of disability, vernacular history & much more. Recommended HT read! Helen Carr Suzannah Lipscomb

We will be discussing Empireland with the author Sathnam Sanghera via Zoom on Sunday 7th November at 7:30pm. Followed by our traditional Twitter book chat. Sign up opens tomorrow at 7:00pm. We hope to see you there! #HTBC SHP @TMHistoryIcons BeBold History Network Historical Assoc

“The global is a lens from which to problematise & q. historical narratives & arguments. Globality should not be assumed as an unproblematised fact. Connections have to be traced, argued for, substantiated, characterised”. Analyse nature, direction, extent/scale of connectivity.

Why is teaching so hard to master? Several reasons. But one biggie is the noisy relationship between teaching and learning. Aka the 'low-fidelity feedback loop'. ↓

Amazing new digital archive of political maps for imperial and global historians imperialglobalexeter.com/2018/11/26/ama… via Imperial & Global

*** NEW POST *** #6 This week, in history... why the hinterland is core. How do we build pupils' knowledge of 'key takeaways'? Part of the answer, I think, lies in the hinterland. curricularpasts.wordpress.com/2022/03/06/6-t… #edublogshare

If you study these 13 maps for just a couple of minutes each, you'll understand history much better. Starting with... the migrations of prehistoric humanity.

One tweet biography of every English & British monarch since Alfred the Great in 886: 1/63

What a brilliant talk yesterday from @overpractised alongside ten other fantastic speakers at Eton College & InnerDrive’s #tandlsummit Eton College CIRL