Mother of Dragons (x2 boys) Assistant Principal (T&L), AQA Examiner, Coach. #BAMEed Aim to be #10%Braver. @CharteredColl All views my own.
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@NewhamLondon it seems this is the only way to communicate. Your chat function is unanswered, the Report it function disabled. This is the situation of our communal bins yesterday, this morning is worse after pests had a field day with it. E153JU area
Sunday reads... to sit on my sofa and read these, looking out at the brisk winter day outside. To reflect on Leadership and be inspired by the stories of women from Builders of a Nation KUBE PUBLISHING LIMITED
A cuppa, post its and a blanket. Perfect.
Aspire to be like Khadijah (RA) whose exceptional character and selflessness shaped the destiny of a Nation....
Aspire to be like Khadijah (RA) whose exceptional character and selflessness shaped the destiny of a Nation....
She was a symbol of strength, resilience, and devotion.
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Independent reading during school time (e.g., DEAR) has not had strong research support. New meta-analysis of 47 quasi-exp studies shows modest effects for reading motivation and word recognition, and no effect for comprehension. Article is open-access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Thank you @KateJones_teach really enjoyed this session yesterday - lots of strategies shared and reminders on how to maximise opportunities and reduce cognitive load!
Back to school webinar! 💻 @EvidenceInEdu
Maximising opportunities to learn with clear routines.
Practical advice & examples of how to ensure smooth starts to a lesson, clear explanations and structured transitions. Recording available for anyone that can't attend live.
📆12th September
🕐16:00
Tickets available to buy, free for GTT members - check your emails!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/maximisin…
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Inattention (but not attention) is contagious in college students, and different than distraction psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-…
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Here are 3 blogs to help you get back into the groove…
At @CST_London we have a first lesson back purely focused on perfecting routines.
Practice makes permanent:
tbeeblogs.wordpress.com/2023…
1/3
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‘Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure and Style’
“It is helpful to have examples of adaptive teaching, but also to present ‘non-examples’ of what it isn’t too.”
alexquigley.co.uk/adaptive-t…
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Adaptive Teaching:
Scaffold, Scale, Structure and Style
@MrGoodwin23 & @AlexJQuigley
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🧠 ‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ by Daniel Willingham is one of the most influential books for teachers on cognitive science. It explores how students’ minds work and how to use this knowledge to be a better teacher.
🧵THREAD! Here are some of my main takeaways…
Thanks again to @olicav for the excellent learning and memory diagram! 🙌
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📢 This poster, a collaboration with the wonderful @HughesHaili provides valuable guidance for mentors on improving novice teachers’ instructional skills. Dr. Haili Hughes explains, “Mentoring encompasses various aspects, one of which is to facilitate improvements in teaching.”
📢 Mentors and coaches, hit REPOST and grab a FREE copy of Haili’s work: jamieleeclark.com/graphics
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To tackle the teacher recruitment & retention crisis, incentivise the best teachers to work in the most disadvantaged schools via changes across the system, including enhancing financial incentives & increasing flexibility.
Find out more here suttontrust.com/our-research… #ITVDebate
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Join me Tues 18 June for a free webinar. I'll be illustrating different purposes & styles of story, how course coherence secures their balance & interplay, how story & disciplinary critical thinking serve one another... and how we've achieved all this with #ChangingHistoriesKS3.
Join us on Tuesday 18th June at 6.00pm (BST) for a free webinar with @Counsell_C. Register here: ow.ly/UiNG50S8AiA. If you can't make it on the day, register for a place and we'll send you a recording of the webinar.
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It's been suggested that schools should focus their efforts to improve attendance on pupils who miss between 5% and 15% of sessions.
Around a third of pupils fall into this group. In our latest post, we look at their characteristics and absence profile.
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2…
It was great today to co-lead a session with the amazing 'real G' @AkeimMundellBEM on 'Building your Professional Network' for educators on our Trusts Ethinic Minority Leaders Network - @UnitedLearning
linkedin.com/posts/rena-begu…
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Is your checking at least partly Universal and Immediate? How do you actually know how everyone is getting on in the moment? Maybe you don’t…
Responsive Teaching: The challenge and necessity of checking in on every student. teacherhead.com/2024/04/29/r…
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Accusing someone of ‘playing the race card’ is itself racist, judge rules
thetimes.co.uk/article/efcf1… (£)