😢 Such a short sighted decision! Another example of the work of TAs being undervalued by those at the top 🤬Jon Biddle Jon Richards Hannah Harris - TA Digest

Ralph Pantozzi These things cost approximately the same:
Reduce class size from 30 to 20
Sabbaticals for teachers every 3 years
Increase teacher salaries by 50%
Give teachers 35% non-contact time

Looking forward to an enlightening day at ResearchED Cambridge today #rEDCam24

Coming late to this but … wow: #TheAssembly - how spoken language defines us; the pauses we sometimes all need; the sheer dignity rooted in shared human communication.
So, yes, wow.
I’m now looking forward even more to chairing the Oracy Education Commission oracyeducationcommission.co.uk

Phrases I hear a lot in schools and always challenge:

1. Quality assurance

First, aesthetically this term grates on me. It gives me managerial vibes - people wandering round in grey suits with clipboards.

Second, my basic position is that you should assume that your teachers…

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Over the last few weeks, 1,052 primary schools have taken part in our Year 6 writing moderation task. In total, 11,368 teachers from these schools judged the writing of 47,307 year 6 pupils. The overall reliability of the judging was 0.89, which shows a high level of consistency.

Ahead of our Cambridge Festival event on the #teacher recruitment & retention crisis, we asked these fantastic students University of Cambridge Primary School about what they think makes a great teacher and what they would to to help.

Come and have your say on 20 March! Tickets: bit.ly/teacher-crisis

Have just seen that this is being published in a few weeks, from CLPE and Farrah Serroukh (illustrations by Ken Wilson-Max). I think it'll be one of the most important educational texts of 2024. #ReflectingRealities

Ofsted have released their English subject report. Some brief thoughts on my first impressions...

gov.uk/government/pub…

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Access to the Portal is completely FREE for anyone who has ever trained in Sounds-Write! sounds-write.co.uk/the-sounds-wri…

Woohoo 🥳 now to read it before the children University of Cambridge Primary School get their mitts on it..! Thank you for this new adventure ⁦⁦Struan Murray⁩

Finally forced self to write about something worrying me a lot: ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’. I've placed it within a longer-term view on something else going wrong: assessment. So, 2 cats among the pigeons 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛. In Historical Assoc TH 193. Short thread 🧵1/6
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Oh what a banquet indeed! A marvellous celebration including all of our wonderful children today as we concluded a memorable week of Shakespeare learning in style
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Great post explaining why reading progression docs do not work.

I would go even further - progression docs don't work in other subjects either.

I first wrote about this in 2013 when I thought the removal of levels would get rid of this approach! (🧵)

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What lucky children to have poet Matt Goodfellow visit our school today. Thank you Matt Goodfellow for such an inspiring visit - we have been blown away by your words and we’re so grateful you could visit us; we’ll continue to use #poetry to explore and share our authentic voice.

Exciting news! THE SECRET OF THE MOONSHARD’s pub date has been brought forward, meaning it comes out Feb 29th, on leap day! A moon cycle being 29 days, I'm hoping this is good luck, though Scottish tradition says being born on a leap day will bring 'a year of untold suffering...'

What a fantastic time spent at this remarkable school. Rob Drane delighted in Shakespearean performances, debates of the highest level and an abundance of purposeful writing pedagogy delivered by committed professionals. Thank you so much for hosting Elmhurst Primary School #inspired

One of the most important things educators need to know about learning is that human memory is not like a tape recorder or a computer. It has what Bjork and Bjork call “important peculiarities”, four of which are really important to know when planning teaching ⬇️🧵

Short thread on one of the most critical concepts in planning for learning:

Reverse design (aka backwards planning)

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