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.
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- Whenever 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/
- When people feel that they won’t be supported if they challenge misbehaviour, when there is a belief that complaints won’t be taken seriously and nothing will be done, that’s more than a problem with individuals; that’s a problem with organisational culture.
- The friendship here depicts something that our culture usually finds very difficult to imagine: an image of straight masculinity that is actually lovely.
- Decades 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?...
- Schools can’t provide what children need without proper funding. Our indicative ballot is a chance to show the government we will not stop until we #SaveEducation. Enough is enough. Get ballot ready here 👉 NEUActivate.com
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- So true. Also, many of the Americans doing literally nothing about Epstein’s American ‘associates’ are precisely the ones lying about Europe & particularly the UK being overrun with child-rapists. It’s insane.
- This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
- 📣 Calling leaders from state primary schools: can you help us better understand the impact of offsite PPA on teacher retention?
- 1️⃣ Are you a leader in a state primary school? 2️⃣ Does your school usually expect teachers to stay onsite during their PPA time? We're recruiting for an exciting trial exploring the impact of offsite PPA. Register your interest: office.pulse.ly/dt6hj2xmgu @theeef.bsky.social
- The 50 wealthiest families in the UK own more than 34 million people combined. That level of inequality is totally unsustainable. A wealth tax isn’t radical - it’s inevitable. And the Green Party will keep making the case.
- Boris Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff here, worried that secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ might finally be held to account. Because of course she bloody is.
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- I agree.
- Feedback 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...
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- What a bleak vision for education. 'High quality one-to-one tutoring works but we don't want to pay for it'. If the Government wants to close the access gap for tutoring, they can solve this at the stroke of a pen. But they've chosen not to. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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- It's good to hear that the English government is investing in SEND training for teachers, but it matters enormously *what* they're being taught, and *who by*... and have they considered ensuring that kids learn about this stuff, too? Here's one of my talks about this stuff: youtu.be/kDVBkGEmvFw?...
- The most ambitious SEND training package in our country’s history. Every child in every nursery, school & college across England will be taught by staff who can support a range of needs. Labour is building schools where every child can achieve & thrive. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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- Schools are busy places. But much of that activity doesn’t translate into better learning. Between marking, data drops & meetings, it’s easy to lose sight of the work that actually makes the biggest difference to pupils. Too often, we confuse activity with impact. /1
- On Mon 12 Jan 4-5pm I'll be doing a live webinar, Fewer Things in Greater Depth. I’ll explore how the 80/20 rule and the Eisenhower Matrix can help us refocus time and attention on what really matters. /2
- We’ll look at how to identify the small number of actions that create the greatest impact—and how to stop urgent but low-value tasks crowding out important work. 👉 Join the live webinar here: films.myattandco.com/programs/web...
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- The hard part is that where Twitter provided a concentration of diverse education voices in a single space: the Xodus has seen the diversity diluted across multiplatforms to the detriment of fluent discourse.
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- Tbh it's a bit frustrating seeing edutwitter complaining that they 'can't make bluesky work' so they have to stay on twitter (apparently despite the CSAM). You have to actually try to make this place work for you, not post 3 times and only follow 100 people.
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- People need to remember that going to school is a kid's life. There's all this discourse on we're doing what's good for them (many years in the future) and neglect of the fact that kids spend much of lives in school. School is life, not an optimisation centre.
