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Teaching and Learning Lead.
English teacher. North East England.
MAT SP Literacy.
Associate Consultant: National Literacy Trust. Anti-racist ally. Linguistic justice.
Blogs about English teaching & Literacy.
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- "It’s great for us, and not necessarily equitable for the sector as a whole." @jabedahmed.bsky.social reveals the investment returns of the 20 biggest MATs in 2024-25. www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/how-much-money-do-mats-make-from-investments
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- Genuine question - what's the next step for the curriculum rewrite? Is it left to two white men to redraft the entire English curric? Or is there an intermediate stage involving all the brilliant, diverse people who work in English education?
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- The lack of diversity is unacceptable. It's the first thing that jumped out at me when I saw the list of drafters. How out of touch are the DFE?
- Good to see a thoughtful TL eduthread. Based on my experience, I'd agree that the longer you teach the same AL course, the more able you are to predict & therefore preempt common errors/misconceptions. And then more unique issues arise for each student which are better dealt with one-one.
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- I don't think booklets enable responsive teaching and learning. I never teach the same lesson twice in exactly the same way because all classes respond differently, which is one joy of (English) teaching. There are many other issues too, such as teacher agency.
- Yes! And a school might even be tempted to include a bit of language study in their English curriculum before that (possibly) happens.
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- Calling all English teachers. Do these two things. 1. Go to www.nate.org.uk. 2. Tap to share and add to home screen. You can now explore some of the best long-form writing about English teaching, optimised for seamless reading on your phone. #NATE
- Speechless really. My y13 class has been reading and discussing many of her brilliant blog posts just this week. We love her ideas and how they challenge us to think deeply about the link between language, gender and inequality. She's an inspiration to us all.
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- Synthetic phonics 'ineffective' for teaching children with persistent reading difficulties. New blog, outlining an important research paper from experts in Primary Reading (also relevant to secondary imo). www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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- Excellent🧵 Next week, I'm jointly delivering a session on DLD and Oracy with our SENCO & MAT Speech & Language Therapy team. We're a secondary school. @voice21oracy.bsky.social also has good resources on supporting students with DLD, which reference some of the brill orgs mentioned here.
- A few years ago, we changed our y7 baseline reading screener to one which could also identify slow-processing-speed in students with strong verbal reasoning. The new screener is more expensive but it's so important to identify needs as early as possible in the secondary school journey.
- This is outrageous. What on earth are they thinking? Thank goodness the article quotes Lee Elliott Major, an expert in social mobility. TH should be more self reflexive & ask better questions abt why it may be harder for some sts to flourish. Would I advise a student to apply to TH atm? No.
- It's shocking that Trinity Hall are considering targeting student recruitment from "elite private schools." The University of Cambridge is a world-class institution, but access is overwhelmingly unequal 🧵 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- New: DfE-funded CPD teacher training programme to support struggling readers in secondary. If you are SLT and/or Reading Lead looking to improve reading outcomes, you may want to book onto a Spring term roadshow to find out more & get access to the online CPD platform. fft.org.uk/literacy/unl...
- I think AQA has done a really good job with the new GCSE poetry anthology Worlds and Lives. Having grown up in W Yorks, I esp liked Seni Senevirante's A Wider View, imagining her great-great-grandad's life in working class Leeds, 'combing flax beneath / conicals of light in Marshall's Temple Mill'
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- The dog was delighted with our snowy walk and was channelling her inner husky - well, sort of!
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- Small pleasures perhaps but I had the thrill of holding some wonderful old books today (my friends are antiquarian booksellers). First editions of Rossetti's the Goblin Market, illustrated by her brother Dante Rossetti (1862), and Dickens' Oliver Twist (1838). #booksky
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- Megan is a vastly experienced teacher, leader and trainer - I look forward to reading her insights & learning more.
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- Good🧵 from @damsoned.bsky.social whose insight & experience is always revealing. How Primary expertise has been overlooked by powerful edu institutions to the detriment of the sector.
- 'Nothing is impossible, it seems, when you get together and make it happen.' Upbeat article featuring some amazing students from my school. Shows the importance of grassroots activism. Turning anger into community pride in North Shields. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- I've just uncovered my copy of Harold Rosen's Language and Class. It's a gorgeous pamphlet which I bought secondhand but, more importantly, it's a brilliant critique of deficit thinking about spoken language.
- Another fantastic blog & thought piece about the place of critical language awareness in schools, drawing on a strong evidence base. There's also an explainer 🧵.
- I’ve written a long blog here that comes out of various things that I’ve worked on with other people this term. It’s about accents... again! Sorry, not sorry. englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/pride-a...
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- Fantastic blog, showcasing the possibilities that exist for linguistically informed work within Key Stage 4 English. I'm excited to explore this poem with students for the first time next term. It's from the newish AQA poetry anthology, Worlds and Lives.
- I've done a blog on some work we've been doing with year 11s in the Black Country about the poem 'Homing' and the dialect of the area. englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/teachin...
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- Reposted by did:plc:cl5ra6vfxzagsstqsyqev5twDo join us on Tuesday for this free seminar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-to-r... it’ll be useful! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social @raesnape.bsky.social @primarychamp.bsky.social @benniekara.bsky.social please share! All welcome!
- It's good to see the outreach team from Cambridge Uni doing some great work in the North East. I was lucky enough to help out at their Interview Conference today, along with other teachers who were providing practice interviews. Such a privilege to support Eng Lit students on their journey.
