When Priti Patel says "certain ethnicities are more susceptible to COVID" it has zero biological basis. Certain ethnicities are more likely to exist in social conditions from overcrowded housing to employment which expose them to COVID and thus over represented in death toll

I'm having trouble thinking of a debate topic for this mornings registration 🤔

My fave part of teaching remotely so far is students sending me their extra curricular work; poerry, art, etc, and asking for my opinion. 🤩

Financial education at home... WHAT IS TAX? My 2min video (suitable for age 13+). Feel free to share. No 1 of 4 #financialeducation films I made for @itvmlshow last year. I'll tweet the mortgage, pension and credit ones across the week. (Schools u r welcome to show these)

"Books are the means to immortality: Plato lives forever, as do Dickens[...]. Over and over again Heathcliff wanders the moor searching for his Cathy. Over and over again Ahab fights the whale. Through them all we experience other times, other places, other lives." Anna Quindlen

Trying to navigate this new teaching career as an NQT with only half the training and never having taught a remote lesson before is really kicking ass and making me doubt my capabilities.

3 cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work — and how to overcome them bit.ly/3ctOBp5

I definitely want to get into research when I am finished with teaching. Or, I could do both 🤔

“History doesn’t really care about our feelings.” Historian David Olusoga tells @jonsnowc4 why acknowledging the negative aspects of British history isn’t a threat to British culture, but is simply “history in action”.

One of my year 12 students has asked me about doing work experience in the social work sector. Can anyone point me in the right direction of what I could recommend for him, please?

I can’t wait fir all students to come back, so I can clear my calendar of every online lesson! I can’t wait to click on that cancel SERIES option. I will be clicking that option with unfathomable joy! #freedom #edutwitter

Internet addiction in adolescents correlated with difficulty regulating emotions mentaldaily.com/article/2020/0… #tech

Its been a while since I've tweeted... Hi 👋🏾 I'm currently on maternity leave after having my daughter... I miss the classroom and my students but this is the best role. My daughter is amazing 😍

I've returned to work from maternity leave and I have forgotten how to use PowerPoint

If racism is learned behaviour… Surely that means it can be unlearned, right? Wrong. That’s not quite how it works. Our biases are embedded - and it takes work to remove them.

I'm so happy to have my own classroom and tutor class this year. This is the year I really.make my mark on my school.

Teacher (new) mums: how are you doing this? Its been 2 days & I want to throw in the towel.

Deficit beliefs about minoritized students can cause students to feel disenfranchised and prevent them from experiencing equitable learning opportunities. In this blog, I explore 4 harmful myths that propagate such beliefs | TESOL Blog shar.es/afGyyS