Stuart Rowntree
Primary leader, teacher, writer. Focused on curriculum, cognitive science, SEND & sustainable improvement for children & staff - grounded in evidence, shaped by relationships.
Dad and husband. Autistic. Built with limitations; engineered by experience.
- Reposted by Stuart RowntreeWhenever there is organisational misbehaviour, there is someone who excused it. It’s banter. Or they grew up in a different era. Or people are just too sensitive. Or they really didn’t mean it like that. Or that’s just how they are and you should just ignore it. 1/
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- Reposted by Stuart RowntreeDecades of under investment have weakened our schools - and that weakens the whole country. We need real funding & care for education now. Here's my conversation with the General Secretary of the National Education Union @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social 👇🏼 youtu.be/MD-wBnLxOsM?...
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- Extreme wealth concentration is a design flaw, sustained by red tape written by those who benefit from it. When policy exists mainly to protect elites from correction, that’s not democracy under strain – it’s institutional decay.
- I want to spend more time here – sharing ideas, testing thoughts & allowing for genuine discourse. I miss the collegiate exchange that sharpens thinking rather than dilutes it. It takes a little more effort, but it’s worth it. It's purposeful & more prescient than wading through noise elsewhere.
- Reposted by Stuart RowntreeFeedback can make lessons look slick or it can make learning more durable. It can’t do both at once. When feedback is immediate, performance improves but understanding often doesn’t. When we delay, reduce & summarise students are forced to think, judge & remember. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
- I do find myself considering the wider implications for staffing and funding. In reality, many of the challenges in education are shaped less by intent or ambition than by the practical limits of resource. Capacity, training and long-term sustainability are all mediated by availability of funding.
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- It makes me sad that we live in such a post-truth idiocracy that we now need to regularly clarify these things...
- 1 "Free speech" was never about protecting synthesised child abuse images or deepfake revenge pornography. That conflation is deliberate. It lets tech oligarchs monetise depravity while cosplaying as civil libertarians. Calling this out isn't censorship - it's refusing the lie.
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- Imagine using the phrase "ridden with progressive messaging"
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- 1} In 2008, teacher pay sat ~2–3× above minimum wage. If that gap had been maintained, M1 would now be ~£43k and UPS3 ~£69k. Instead, the whole pay spine averages ~£15k below that benchmark. This is arithmetic, not rhetoric.
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- Für ein Team mit Torflaute war das ja mal richtig geil. Sauber, SCF! 👍🇩🇪
- Need to get back on here and start connecting with people again. I've missed it. How is everyone?
- Reposted by Stuart RowntreeAn early Christmas present for those of us in the #KidLitUK community who've been waiting YEARS for the other shoe to finally drop. Harper Collins knew all about it. They paid off staff to keep their mouths shut. Shame on them, shame on him, and good riddance.
- Focus on consistent retrieval, vocab-rich talk and adaptive scaffolding. Build via coaching, shared planning, diagnostic teaching. Success = what pupils recall over time.
