Leadership in schools is often summed up by the principle: “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” Effective leaders model the expectations they set and uphold the standards that define the school’s culture. Accepting poor practice, even in small moments, quietly

Farage crashes the fuck out as serious allegations persist. This is who he really is. Thin skinned, dismissive, weak. Lashing out at the broadcasters (who have incessantly platformed him) in a futile attempt to downplay heinous allegations of racism and antisemitism. Vile prick.

We stopped just teaching kids things and started burying knowledge inside projects and group work, then slapped the label “inquiry” on it. But you can’t expect a student to discover something they don’t yet have the words or background even to notice.

Teachers get a bad rap. People love to point to the few who should not be in the classroom. But let’s be real. Every profession has them. But the truth is the majority of teachers give more and care more about your child than anyone outside the family. They are the ones who

Kid: Sir, what do you call a plane full of bald blokes? Me: (looking somewhat dismayed as I am bald) What? Kid: Receding airlines I haven’t stopped laughing since period 5. #edutwitter

Concerning behavior and discipline in special education, there’s a phrase that quietly runs the whole show: “manifestation determination.” Translation: when a student with a disability does something dangerous or wildly disruptive, a team has to decide whether the behavior is a

Laptops in class: learning tool or attention thief?

If neither the child nor their parents value your job? If your boss doesn’t support u? Still such a valuable job?

He’s OUT.

We love to say we’re building a ‘love of reading’. The evidence suggests we’re doing no such thing. Pleasure doesn’t lead to fluent reading; fluency makes pleasure possible. Reading for pleasure should be an outcome, not a curricular aim. Trying to teach enjoyment is missing the

NEW The myth of teaching children to 'read for pleasure' open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

If there is a real concern for school leader workload & wellbeing then this will be addressed…. Until then, sadly, it is open season & so many school leaders are stifled capacity wise to do much else now than field complaints over school policy. What a waste of finite resource.

Nigel Farage believes he should not be held accountable for his 15 year-old self. Nigel Farage also believes that Shamima Begum should be held accountable for her 15 year-old self. Do as I say, not as I do. Nigel Farage = massive hypocrite.

Sam Strickland Imagine teaching your child that you have to like everyone and if you don’t, *they* (the person you don’t like) has to change. Excellent preparation for life 👍🏼

We need to be honest about the role of screens in schools. The evidence is becoming too strong to ignore. When daily screen time rises, achievement falls. The latest PISA data show a clear, consistent decline in scores as screen exposure increases. Students with no screen time in

No student should be allowed to use a laptop, tablet or phone in class. You might think you "can use them well" but you can't, sorry. You stand to lose everything for a tiny gain that will never materialise.

for me, the truest measure of an educational intervention and policy isn't "can a small group of committed ideologues get it to work with a small and non-representative cohort of students" it's "can we scale this and get it to work in any school, with normal teachers, and in

Indeed. No screens at Michaela, and we strongly encourage families not to give their children smartphones at all We have one computer room which is used to do some maths at lunch and after school, where we supervise screens. That’s it. All paper and pen.

Char Whipple I agree that poor design and unstructured use play a big part. But the challenge is that even well-planned digital tasks come with built-in cognitive costs: lower reading stamina, more split attention, and a higher pull toward distraction. Those effects appear consistently in the

Beware the vague, abstract success criteria. Be on your guard to demand a definition, something quantifiable, or it will be used to justify anything.