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Atlanta Plowden
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Lead Practitioner + English Teacher in London
Made it to Prizren, Kosovo. Happy Easter holidays!!
April 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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So good to see this kind of blog! In 2015, when EMC set up an unfunded research project, 'It's Good to Talk', there was a lot of negativity about talk, despite the fact that any teachers who saw the findings & classroom filming were v enthusiastic. I'm delighted that the climate has now changed. 1
New post:

Walking the talk:

Why has there been a tendency to privilege writing over speaking & listening?

While oracy has recently gone further up the agenda, it’s odd that high quality talk in classrooms has often been regarded as an optional extra...

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Walking the talk
Well hello there, and welcome to update #091!
open.substack.com
September 16, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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⭐New post⭐
Should management impose precise activities on teachers?

Probably not. Here's why according to enactive cogsci.

#EduSky #UKEd #Cogscisci

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Schools are not optimisation centres but developmental systems
I want to share a distinction I perceive. It’s the one in the title, but to see what I mean, I need to shed light on how I’m using the term optimisation. Often, people seem to discuss schools as if th...
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August 24, 2024 at 5:40 AM