Delighted to have contributed. Thanks @adamjames317 and @KateJones_teach ❤️

I went to visit some Alpha schools yesterday.

I spoke to students, principals, the learning scientists and the people developing their apps.

Here are my reflections…🧵

One half of education’s great double acts with @ModernCassie , @SENDMattersUK’s blogs are always worth a read!

PERFECT TV?

I remember watching this at the time and it has stayed with me ever since. An incredibly powerful example of the futility of trench warfare. The final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth was first broadcast this week back in 1989.

Arguably the most poignant end to a TV h for years and suddenly we felt what it was like to lose them.

We will remember them.
For our tomorrows, they gave their today.
#lestweforget #remembrance

Clip from @BBCArchive

Ok I hope this will be the most useful conversation you hear about Education this year.

This week’s episode of The Amol Rajan Connection (ARC) with @daisychristo of No More Marking has really struck a chord.

Anyone with kids; or who works in schools, colleges and universities; or who is interested in the very nature of learning and how the mind works; or what technology is doing to us, will enjoy this. That’s not my view alone; it’s the revealed view of the comments flooding in.

We discuss:

+ working memory vs long-term memory
+ the risk of creating a Stupidogenic Society
+ why Knowledge is Freedom
+ schools for the rich and skills for the poor
+ how to optimise vocational education
+ the implications of AI for education
+ what children should learn
+ technology and the classroom
+ Labour’s education policy

Something for your weekend perhaps.

We’d be honoured if you’d others listening to this episode.

Thanks so much for your time - and to Daisy, for a very special contribution to the ARC Universe.

Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.

youtu.be/Xcyc3LQkqjY?is…

A few days in the Lakes and then York…what beautiful places! I have no idea why we’ve never ventured there before. #HalfTerm

The real risk is that schools feel pressured to keep adding to their #inclusion offer, losing sight of the fundamentals: high expectations for behaviour, a high-quality curriculum & teaching.
Without these, you’re building on sand, wasting time, money & opportunities for pupils.

Well, this was fun! 👻

#Ghosts #GhostsMovie

This long read from Daisy is rightly getting a lot of attention. It sets out where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re now going.

It shows that, even if a policy shift is inevitable, we needn’t repeat mistakes from the past.

Anyone with policy influence must read.

A few people have asked for a pdf of our Adaptive Practice learning mat for @trust_leaf TA’s so here it is. But note - it’s our current effort, not the definitive word! headteachering.uk/wp-content/upl…

Dear @andyburnham, now do people who won't shut up at gigs

I feel so sorry for Netflix era kids. They will never know the high stakes adrenaline of running to the bathroom/fridge/bedroom in a single ad break, with the beckoning call of a sibling screaming "It's ONNNNNN" to send you hurdling over furniture to get back in time.

The wellness expert Liz Earle is ‘fitter than ever’ at 63, and she’s not alone. Alison Cork, also 63, on what’s involved, and why it’s worth it

My new book, Building Belonging in Schools, is out next month.

It’s available for pre-order now.

I’m convinced that we can really shift the experience that kids have in schools, and make them places where they love to go.

This book is my attempt to set out how.

I think this is my favourite weather. Slightly cold but sunny. #DeLaWarrPavillion #BexhillOnSea

I’m Gen X. I spent my childhood terrified of quicksand, spontaneous human combustion and the Bermuda Triangle.
Turns out I should’ve been worried about my knees.

We had our first experience of this framework this week and this is very welcome news and long overdue. Let’s hope they don’t just tinker around the edges and actually understand it is a revolution, not evolution, that is needed @LucyMPowell theguardian.com/education/2026…

It just makes me love Richard E Grant even more…🤣🤣🤣 #traitors

I’m on the fence about Ofsted. But, having gone through 4 inspections since the change in framework…there is nothing consistent about them.

5 actually… 🤦🏼‍♀️