Let's explore boderline personality disorder (BPD) this #BPDAwarenessMonth 🧵 1/10

I wonder what was happening in education policy in 2013 to start the decline in children's happiness in school?

Hi Jenny M 💙🇺🇦 yes fads concern me too & edu trends are an area of research - that’s why I wrote this book as a researcher & teacher routledge.com/Educational-Tr…

More evidence of need for reform in schools? #disability theguardian.com/australia-news…
Recognising the impact of a student’s disability when considering behaviour was a recommendation in the 2023 disability royal commission report

Ok, geologists who Follow me - what's going on here, with this big dark block of rock sat on its own surrounded by all this flaky, lighter rock? Curiosity Rover Sol 4164 original images credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Additional processing: S Atkinson

Do you know someone who suffers from the Semmelweis reflex?
'Semmelweis effect' is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms.

Poor Of had a miserable life, unfortunately.

Imagine this for edu-discussions in Australia. Might really show off the new clothes of some self-appointed emperors.
education.indiana.edu/news/2024/jan-…

'... a disaster most of which can be prevented'

Former Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, says primary school children excluded because of their special educational need have been failed. Tom Bennett advisor to the Department for Education disagrees.

🧵Physically hurt by a child today. My voice has gone, not from shouting (because I RARELY actually shout!) but from constantly reminding young people about behaviour. I have never known things to be this bad in my whole career. Even my empathy is being pushed. Something is 1/?

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PERSISTENT ABSENCE

I’ve been scratching my head trying to figure out where this magical 440,000 figure came from which the DfE are quoting as the reduction in persistent absence…

…because that’s NOT what the official data shows!!

Read on to find out more…

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Have been interested in staff turnover by school for a long time, though the data has been hard to come across. So this is v interesting.
theguardian.com/education/2024…
Daniel Kebede also of course right to criticise DfE's 'obsession with forcing schools into trusts'.

I'm a middle aged GP and I'm so cranky about the state of youth mental health supports. Adolescent health is currently about 50% of my job.

The services are dwindling. I have to BEG to get the highest risk young people seen by any public mental health service. 🧵1/3

New research from our members Chance UK reveals the long-term impact that exclusions or suspensions at primary school can have on children and young people.

Find out more and read the report ⬇️
chanceuk.com/exclusions/

Proponents of detention / suspension argue that it's not fair for badly behaved students to interfere w/ the learning of the well behaved students in class. Not so fast! This study suggests ALL students suffer academically from exclusionary discipline
buff.ly/49v3Fgb

Obligatory Matt Berry booming out Total Eclipse of the Heart with Rich Fulcher acting like Rich Fulcher for the solar eclipse

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Your donations will help us to fund operations and create resources to support our members. gofundme.com/f/help-school-…

'Most schools have implemented reading programmes with significant amounts of evidence behind them. But, despite this, reading abilities have not changed much in the UK for decades.'
A fascinating and important article.

theconversation.com/schools-are-us…

Beautiful morning in Melbourne- the dots are hot air balloons rising over the city

You folks over there at the Times aren’t very bright eh?

Or do they pay you to write stories to divert attention away from reality?

Don’t any of you have the stones to report the truth?

h/t Dr Denise Dewald, MD 🗽