If you care about education in Wales listen to this.

'To think critically or be creative in any domain you need to draw on connected webs of knowledge built up over the course of the curriculum...starting in primary and building on that in secondary rather than repeating it' Lucy Crehan arguing for a shift in Curriculum for Wales.

Dazza Adam Robbins (on 🧵) Ian White Ben Karlin Peter Tse Carl Hendrick Emma Turner FCCT Doug Lemov Kat Howard Linda Louise Jasmine Lane 🦡 David Thomas Kate Pretsell Christine Counsell Sarah Cottinghatt Zach Groshell NILAM PATEL Mr Leyshon Mike Hill Brad Busch Jennifer Webb Jon Gilbert Josh Goodrich Sam Gibbs Jennifer Barker Christopher Such Sam Strickland James Handscombe Robert Pondiscio Jon Hutchinson Haili Hughes Tom Sherrington 39/ @suchmo83 throwing some wisdom our way around early reading

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Dazza Adam Robbins (on 🧵) Ian White Ben Karlin Peter Tse Carl Hendrick Emma Turner FCCT Doug Lemov Kat Howard Linda Louise Jasmine Lane 🦡 David Thomas Kate Pretsell 17/ @counsell_c with an important cautionary tale

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New study from Norway: Banning smartphones in schools significantly decreases the proportion of girls presenting with mental health issues and bullying drops dramatically. Benefits most strongly felt by disadvantaged girls.

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Yeah this is really flipping good. You can still sign up here: history.org.uk/secondary/cate…

I'm going to be running this session on historical scholarship again this year for HodderHistory
Loved running it last year.
Please do join me for the following highlights...👇👇👇(1/6)

So much to enjoy in this terrific interview with David Thomas about maths and oracy. I was struck by both similarities & deep contrasts between maths & history. Each needs reasoning as process and product, but oh the contrast in how shared meaning is made! #OracyCommission

dretjobs.co.uk/vacancies/vaca…. Want to join our fantastic team Briar Hill Primary School? #EYFS #Teacher #newjob please DM our #Headteacher Janey V Cooksley for more information #talkforwriting centre

Good to meet with History Leads from The Mead Educational Trust - Miss Henson, Humanities @ Kibworth Mead Academy, Abi Hudson & Miss M this afternoon to share “What’s the Wisdom On… Causation” from Historical Assoc, chaired by Christine Counsell. Fortunate to have opportunities to engage in such worthwhile discussion.

If you can't get away to Birmingham for our fantastic line up of History lectures, CPD workshops and historic visits then why not join us virtually? A virtual ticket will give you access to content for weeks after the event as well. Helen Snelson Richard history.org.uk/aboutus/news/4…

Blocked time out today for revisiting lots of the stuff I’ve read over the last few months.

Struck once again by two things.

1) That this is my job!
2) That we as a history community are so lucky to have such a wealth of shared resources and expertise 👏🏻

Historical Assoc

The Ofsted report on RE contains a number of recommendations. Many teachers of RE will want to share these with school leaders

History peop and all SLT in charge of assessment or line-managing history, this Historical Assoc CPD is unmissable. Jonathan Grande leads secondary history in Ark Schools & Ventures and works with a remarkable team of hist teachers. For strong egs of assessment of knowledge-rich, sign up for this.

Fab from Josh Vallance. Generic pedagogy weighs so heavily on a subject that it can't breathe. This is double damage: (i) it kills the subject; (ii) the backlash: an ineluctable drift back to dry, skill-based assessment for, as I argue in bit.ly/3OWtwpE, the FOURTH time

NEW POST: Mounting the defence for a knowledge-rich curriculum.

I haven't written about curriculum in years, but I think we're at a critical juncture. Those of us who believe in KR have a vested interest in supporting schools that are struggling.

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This will be immense. Assessment in history is tricky and fascinating, and Jonathan Grande does such thoughtful and original work on this. He’s hands down the leading expert on assessment in history in my view. Don’t miss this!