The way we help students with stress is to help them to master that stress or see the trigger as less stressful, not by confirming that the source of their anxiety must be avoided at all costs.

I keep hearing the phrase ‘children have changed.’ I don’t think children & what children need has actually changed. What has changed are the societal parameters that children operate within & that has impacted children.

Job advertised on TES. This is at a secondary school...dsl, sendco, behaviour lead. I hope nobody applies. It's an impossible position to put someone in.

I'm afraid the future belongs to those who read widely, who can write without a machine's assistance, who haven’t allowed endless slop to kill their creativity & curiosity. Read books. Love learning. Keep your mind sharp or be left behind.

Parents giving 'duvet days' to kids for mental health: Points of View x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Great conversation this one.... Rae kept pretty calm for Rae... I was pretty serene too for a Sunday... x.com/RogersHistory/…

CATCH UP on todays Points of View... x.com/TTRadioOfficia…

"Another 50,000 teachers have walked out the door!" Catch up on this mornings Points of View with Tom Rogers, Liz Webb and Rae Whitehouse as they discussed the new trend of parents giving 'duvet days' to kids for mental health: youtube.com/watch?v=wIvw1G… #teaching #absence

> “Ability grouping feels intuitive, but decades of research shows it often widens gaps” Yes, that is literally the point. We should allow smart kids to excel instead of holding them back to the lowest common denominator They will achieve more if we let them

Apropos of nothing…

Save your money on an inquiry. I’ll start… -Mobile phones -Tablets -Social Media -Gaming -Library closures -Bookshop closures -Busy parents -Increase in financial disadvantaged -Falling attendance -overstretched curriculum Schools cannot solve some of these issues.

💯Even if it were true that slower students do better when fast learners are held back, it’s not the fast learners’ responsibility to give up their academic potential so their classmates can learn marginally faster. Teachers need to learn to teach struggling students without

MASSIVE issue for some school. Imagine 10% of parents awkward. Now with AI 20%. So easy for them. So 200 parents. Then trust insist head meets parents face to face. Cripplingly inefficient. Huge opportunity cost. Massively feeds parents’ sense of entitlement.

Seeing ppl who couldn't hack the behaviour in the average classroom for more than 5 minutes continuously picking apart the approaches of those who navigate it successfully on a daily basis, is a cross between maddening and comedic.

Parent allegations against teachers rise by a third: Points of View x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Things I have learned this week, thanks to Edutwitter logic: - All students who demonstrate disruptive behaviour have SEN. - It is the school’s fault if teenagers don’t love going to school and the school must change. - Parents never engage in poor parenting.

Teachers Must Never Discuss on X: 1. The behaviour or engagement of neurotypical students. Everything must be relevant to, or related back to, SEND.

Teachers Must Never Discuss on X: 2. Working conditions, pay, or bullying of school staff. They are not important people in education, they knew what they signed up for and the holidays make up for everything.

Teachers Must Never Discuss on X: 3. Parents who do not adequately parent their children. This simply never happens.

Parent allegations against teachers rise by a third! Catch up on this weeks Points of View discussing increasing parent allegations against school staff here: youtube.com/watch?v=4mRwYr… #teaching #teachers #complaints #parents #schools #culture #education #teachersoftiktok