Three years ago today, this piece was published in Tes magazine. It’s the hardest piece I’ve ever written but I think it’s important that we talk about miscarriages. tes.com/news/why-we-ne…

We curate a repository of relevant research, information and evidence which explores race, racism and anti-racism in our education sector bameednetwork.com/resources-data… We look forward to continuing our work and partnerships towards equity for all in our education system.” 3/3

The gift I give my future self is to be brutal about holding on to paperwork, reflections, planning, and some such “just in case”. YMMV

I like this display note from MuseumofLondon for its reminder that spellings evolve (no matter how dearly we may cling to the idea of ‘correct’ usage). I make this note on usage to myself every time an apostrophe gets lost or wanders (and still secretly fix it – the struggle!).

Books! (But I don’t get to keep them all.)

Excited to be a partner for @NationalPoetryDay on 7 Oct. For this year’s theme – Choice – we created a resource on Theodora Shillito's 'The Story of Squiddly Diddly', commended in #FoyleYoungPoets 2020. Check it out on the NPD website! nationalpoetryday.co.uk/education/free… #NationalPoetryDay

For those of you interested in what edu-geeks of times past argued about, here's a selection of journal articles* from the 70s: 1/10

This looks fab.

Right now is a really hard time to keep up for so many teachers. To help out we're offering this unit... about 5 weeks of daily lesson plans, adapted slightly from our Reading Reconsidered Curric. to all teachers. They focus on 4 stories & 3 poems: teachlikeachampion.com/blog/a-hard-ti…

**Learning loss or learning decay?** A year ago our writing assessments found that Year 7s were 22 months behind expectations. Not great! But we predicted they might bounce back, & that the issue was learning decay, not learning loss. One year on & we've assessed them again.

The New Beacon Bookshop Crowfunding Campaign is now live! Please share and donate to save this incredible institution! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-new-bea…

A study of 355k UK primary school students finds reading achievement in one year predicts maths achievement the next year more strongly than the other way round suggesting "acquiring good reading skills is highly relevant for developing mathematics skills" bit.ly/3OYL2I5

Over the last 12 months I've devoured hundreds of cracking edutwitter threads. To ease you into the new term, here's 40 of the finest: ↓

Love this idea by Ashley Booth

Each year we choose a Black-led bookshop to support. This year it's Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year 2023. With an online and Brighton-based physical shop, they can offer readers a huge selection of wonderful books by Black authors: afroribooks.co.uk/pages/about-us

Best part of handing in that MA assignment? Finally closing the millions of taps I've kept open for months.

We're doing a Book Club unit in school at the moment and *this* is why.

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) Enjoy the #supermoon !

What Direct Instruction is and what it isn't.