@bobbymurray232.bsky.social
Educator, School leader, my views are most definitely my own 🤔
Interesting addition to one of the gnarly problems of our schools today.
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The psychology of belonging
Why belonging in schools depends on entry into the conceptual world of academic language, not merely on connection or recognition
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December 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Interesting addition to one of the gnarly problems of our schools today.
daviddidau.substack.com/p/the-psycho...
daviddidau.substack.com/p/the-psycho...
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This year we have built on using homework as retrieval by taking questions that the specific class struggled with in the homework and adapting them for the next do now. Hopefully this goes some way to addressing the issues raised here by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social
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Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time.
Please do share if you can 🙏🙏
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Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time.
Please do share if you can 🙏🙏
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-long-t...
The Long-Term Memory Problem: Why Teaching and Learning Policies Fail
Schools are very good at writing policies about in-the-moment teaching. They are much worse at strategising for long-term memory and learning.
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This year we have built on using homework as retrieval by taking questions that the specific class struggled with in the homework and adapting them for the next do now. Hopefully this goes some way to addressing the issues raised here by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social
What a great summary of the challenges and rewards of the role from @strickomaster.bsky.social
Great read! samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com
Great read! samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com
Sam Strickland's Leadership Blog
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December 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What a great summary of the challenges and rewards of the role from @strickomaster.bsky.social
Great read! samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com
Great read! samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com
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Scaffolding is essential for novices, but for experts, it can become cognitive clutter.
Discover how the Expertise Reversal Effect informs adaptive teaching strategies: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/expertise-reversal-effect-scaffolding/
Discover how the Expertise Reversal Effect informs adaptive teaching strategies: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/expertise-reversal-effect-scaffolding/
June 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Scaffolding is essential for novices, but for experts, it can become cognitive clutter.
Discover how the Expertise Reversal Effect informs adaptive teaching strategies: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/expertise-reversal-effect-scaffolding/
Discover how the Expertise Reversal Effect informs adaptive teaching strategies: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/expertise-reversal-effect-scaffolding/
Beautifully articulates something that has always bothered me with “consistency” the one size fits all fallacy. The nice thing about coherence as articulated here is that it avoids education doublespeak such as “tight but loose” mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/c...
Coherence, not consistency | Developing shared teaching approaches
We use the High Impact Teaching Strategies. We use the Great Teaching Toolkit. We use the Walkthrus. We use Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction. These authors and many more have parsed the…
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November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Beautifully articulates something that has always bothered me with “consistency” the one size fits all fallacy. The nice thing about coherence as articulated here is that it avoids education doublespeak such as “tight but loose” mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/c...
I’d like to say I’m surprised but given the outcome we were left with being so unpalatable to the majority inside the sector, they absolutely need to cling to the mantra we are giving the people what they want! It’s pure Orwellian double speak!
EXCLUSIVE: Ofsted has again refused to release data showing how many people supported or opposed its report card inspection plans – saying the 'vast majority' of the 6,500 responses were not actually categorised by 'sentiment'
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Ofsted slammed over secret consultation analysis method
Experts warn of 'risk' decision-makers at inspectorate were not 'provided with the relevant information'
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November 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I’d like to say I’m surprised but given the outcome we were left with being so unpalatable to the majority inside the sector, they absolutely need to cling to the mantra we are giving the people what they want! It’s pure Orwellian double speak!
Our “crisis” in SEND is a direct symptom of poor funding and hasn’t simply been exacerbated by poor funding. Had per pupil funding kept up with inflation and the expected £6k spend per child likewise would we have this many students needing EHCPs?
www.specialneedsjungle.com/19-5-pupils-...
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19.5% pupils with SEND, but don’t believe the hype: Most are still educated in mainstream schools - Special Needs Jungle
NEW POST: 19.5% pupils with SEND in England in 2025, but don’t believe the hype: Most are still educated in mainstream schools.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our “crisis” in SEND is a direct symptom of poor funding and hasn’t simply been exacerbated by poor funding. Had per pupil funding kept up with inflation and the expected £6k spend per child likewise would we have this many students needing EHCPs?
www.specialneedsjungle.com/19-5-pupils-...
www.specialneedsjungle.com/19-5-pupils-...
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Why a generation of kids are learning to read everything except books. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/in-defence...
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Lol to the way old things get new names in education and then some people act as though they just invented them. 'Turn and talk' or what we used to call pair work or talk partners before the idea that group work was a bad thing got rammed down our throats. 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Lol to the way old things get new names in education and then some people act as though they just invented them. 'Turn and talk' or what we used to call pair work or talk partners before the idea that group work was a bad thing got rammed down our throats. 🙄
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Known unknowns: Exploring In-Service Teachers' Metacognitive Sensitivity and Efficiency: https://osf.io/49ynr
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Known unknowns: Exploring In-Service Teachers' Metacognitive Sensitivity and Efficiency: https://osf.io/49ynr
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This is brilliant from @lizrobinson.bsky.social - we need pluralism, diversity and autonomy across the schools system. And leaders who have the courage to be different, whatever that might look like.
'For too long, the fear of an adverse inspection judgement has been allowed to trump genuine pedagogical conviction': @lizrobinson.bsky.social on why the Francis review should empower schools to build their own curricula
Why the Francis review cannot become your curriculum template
The curriculum and assessment review should give schools permission to create an offer that truly delivers all a child needs, argues Liz Robinson
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October 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This is brilliant from @lizrobinson.bsky.social - we need pluralism, diversity and autonomy across the schools system. And leaders who have the courage to be different, whatever that might look like.
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🚨 LIBERAL OVERREACH
When applying our values backfires:
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When applying our values backfires:
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October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🚨 LIBERAL OVERREACH
When applying our values backfires:
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When applying our values backfires:
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Joel Mokyr won the Nobel prize today
Here is what I think he can teach us about improving schools:
samsims.education/2022/06/08/e...
Here is what I think he can teach us about improving schools:
samsims.education/2022/06/08/e...
Evidence, expertise, and the self-improving school system
(9 minute read) Rob Coe used his 2013 inaugural lecture at Durham to survey the evidence on long-run change in the performance of the English school system. He concluded that standards had not impr…
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October 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Joel Mokyr won the Nobel prize today
Here is what I think he can teach us about improving schools:
samsims.education/2022/06/08/e...
Here is what I think he can teach us about improving schools:
samsims.education/2022/06/08/e...
I’d love to see this level of statistical understanding among the population at large, or even teachers in general. The important point for teachers to realise is that test scores are indicative, not descriptive or prescriptive surely?
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Why Schools Don’t Report Uncertainty in Test Scores
Why “probably” is (probably) precise enough
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October 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’d love to see this level of statistical understanding among the population at large, or even teachers in general. The important point for teachers to realise is that test scores are indicative, not descriptive or prescriptive surely?
100assessment.substack.com/p/why-school...
100assessment.substack.com/p/why-school...
I think this has nicely summarised my fear of an education landscape dominated by MATs with packaged formulae which work…overall the bottom line may be up but does the lack of “messiness” provide a more vanilla diet that never captures or inspires to the same heights? And if so for how many?
Whether it is sport, using AI, or school improvement, this challenge to ‘Stop over-optimising everything’ really made me think.
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Stop Over-Optimizing Everything - The Growth Equation
Since the glory days of Babe Ruth, with only a few dips here or there, home runs have been king in baseball. But over the past decade or so, an interesting phenomenon has occurred. Home runs are still...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I think this has nicely summarised my fear of an education landscape dominated by MATs with packaged formulae which work…overall the bottom line may be up but does the lack of “messiness” provide a more vanilla diet that never captures or inspires to the same heights? And if so for how many?
What a fantastic and much needed dose of positivity from @strickomaster.bsky.social. It resonates because it is true!
There are lots of issues within education but I think it is important not to lose sight of hope…
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Hope
”We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King Jnr Hope is not some sort of flimsy sentiment. It is not naïve. It is not fluffy. It is certainly not the re…
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October 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What a fantastic and much needed dose of positivity from @strickomaster.bsky.social. It resonates because it is true!
When NHS services that are designed to support CYP in school, with early help, (however limited they may be) require parental support and an acceptance of recording on a CYP’s NHS record this presents yet another barrier to uptake of preventative early help.
Public attitudes to mental health are sliding backwards.
New research from the @kingsioppn.bsky.social, commissioned by @mind.org.uk shows stigma towards mental illness has worsened for the first time in over a decade -returning to 2009 levels.
🔗 Read the full report: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...
New research from the @kingsioppn.bsky.social, commissioned by @mind.org.uk shows stigma towards mental illness has worsened for the first time in over a decade -returning to 2009 levels.
🔗 Read the full report: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...
Public attitudes to mental health are going backwards, warns Mind | King's College London
Public attitudes towards mental health and people with mental health problems are getting worse, according to new research.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
When NHS services that are designed to support CYP in school, with early help, (however limited they may be) require parental support and an acceptance of recording on a CYP’s NHS record this presents yet another barrier to uptake of preventative early help.
It is so important for schools to be part of the solution for parents. How to do so in those areas with high suspicion of authority and institutions is the gnarly issue!
A new scoping review from King's College London and
@kingsmaudsley.bsky.social has found that parents are "overwhelmed" by the amount of conflicting parenting information they see online.
#IoPPNNews
#CYP #Families #ParentingSupport
@kingsmaudsley.bsky.social has found that parents are "overwhelmed" by the amount of conflicting parenting information they see online.
#IoPPNNews
#CYP #Families #ParentingSupport
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
It is so important for schools to be part of the solution for parents. How to do so in those areas with high suspicion of authority and institutions is the gnarly issue!
Couldn’t agree more!
I know that it can be really hard in education atm and I've definitely had a hectic week but then there are those moments when the people we work with make a real difference to children's lives and I'm still in love with the job. ♥️
October 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Couldn’t agree more!
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These are your words of the week
indigenous
visionary
triskaidekaphobia
remigrate
pococurante
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indigenous
visionary
triskaidekaphobia
remigrate
pococurante
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The Words of the Week - Oct. 17
Dictionary lookups from baseball, R&B, and Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
These are your words of the week
indigenous
visionary
triskaidekaphobia
remigrate
pococurante
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
indigenous
visionary
triskaidekaphobia
remigrate
pococurante
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Excellent work here from @geographicalassoc.bsky.social drawing together the lessons from the Ofsted subject reports into geography. A lot here for teachers and leaders to take away and reflect on.
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Standards in school geography, 1991–2023 - Geographical Association
The new GA Research Report considers findings from a series of Ofsted reports on standards in school geography going back to the 1990s...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Excellent work here from @geographicalassoc.bsky.social drawing together the lessons from the Ofsted subject reports into geography. A lot here for teachers and leaders to take away and reflect on.
geography.org.uk/standards-in...
geography.org.uk/standards-in...
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Quite the spectacle to see media outlets who've cheered on austerity saying 'oh god, SEND spending is out of control'. Well, if you gut councils, fail to provide local special school spaces, collapse SureStart and leave public/collective transport to rot, that's what happens. Cuts are expensive
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Quite the spectacle to see media outlets who've cheered on austerity saying 'oh god, SEND spending is out of control'. Well, if you gut councils, fail to provide local special school spaces, collapse SureStart and leave public/collective transport to rot, that's what happens. Cuts are expensive
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I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well…
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well…
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
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So if the Y8 reading test shows a teacher - who probably already knows - that the child is working below the “expected standard” (whatever they decide this is) for reading. Exactly what resources and expertise will the overstretched secondary school have to address this?
October 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
So if the Y8 reading test shows a teacher - who probably already knows - that the child is working below the “expected standard” (whatever they decide this is) for reading. Exactly what resources and expertise will the overstretched secondary school have to address this?