Chris Read
@chrisjread.bsky.social
Schools, teacher education, and governance.
Chair of Vantage Academy Trust. Manager at Teach First. Governor of a primary. Dad.
Was MAT Head of CPD, Manager at Ambition Institute. Secondary English teacher.
Chair of Vantage Academy Trust. Manager at Teach First. Governor of a primary. Dad.
Was MAT Head of CPD, Manager at Ambition Institute. Secondary English teacher.
Step 1. Pause work briefly to make cup of tea
Step 2. Put nice hot cup of tea down down for a sec and do some more work. Completely forget tea exists.
Step 3. Re-discover cold cup of tea ~1 hour later.
Step 2. Put nice hot cup of tea down down for a sec and do some more work. Completely forget tea exists.
Step 3. Re-discover cold cup of tea ~1 hour later.
September 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Step 1. Pause work briefly to make cup of tea
Step 2. Put nice hot cup of tea down down for a sec and do some more work. Completely forget tea exists.
Step 3. Re-discover cold cup of tea ~1 hour later.
Step 2. Put nice hot cup of tea down down for a sec and do some more work. Completely forget tea exists.
Step 3. Re-discover cold cup of tea ~1 hour later.
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For Autumn Term 2025, FULLY FUNDED #NPQs will be available to teachers/leaders from settings in the top 50% with the highest proportion pupil premium
📌Check eligibility bit.ly/4p2aluY
📌Register your interest bit.ly/4l9Ouzw
📌Details of our #NPQ offer tsh.bright-futures.co.uk/national-pro...
📌Check eligibility bit.ly/4p2aluY
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📌Details of our #NPQ offer tsh.bright-futures.co.uk/national-pro...
September 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
For Autumn Term 2025, FULLY FUNDED #NPQs will be available to teachers/leaders from settings in the top 50% with the highest proportion pupil premium
📌Check eligibility bit.ly/4p2aluY
📌Register your interest bit.ly/4l9Ouzw
📌Details of our #NPQ offer tsh.bright-futures.co.uk/national-pro...
📌Check eligibility bit.ly/4p2aluY
📌Register your interest bit.ly/4l9Ouzw
📌Details of our #NPQ offer tsh.bright-futures.co.uk/national-pro...
Can confidently place "landing with bad cross winds and having to do a go-around" in my list of things I do not enjoy.
August 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Can confidently place "landing with bad cross winds and having to do a go-around" in my list of things I do not enjoy.
My 9-year-old made up a story about a spy, who comes across as quite a suave and adventurous character. She also made up a name for it, which she swears she's never heard before and has made up. The spy is called Clive Anderson 🤣
July 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My 9-year-old made up a story about a spy, who comes across as quite a suave and adventurous character. She also made up a name for it, which she swears she's never heard before and has made up. The spy is called Clive Anderson 🤣
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A recent article claimed that the Science of Learning and Direct Instruction is "neoliberal ‘dogma’ that is working to de-skill the teaching profession". This is my response to that ⬇️ carlhendrick.substack.com/p/defending-...
June 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A recent article claimed that the Science of Learning and Direct Instruction is "neoliberal ‘dogma’ that is working to de-skill the teaching profession". This is my response to that ⬇️ carlhendrick.substack.com/p/defending-...
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🔥 ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE!!!
February 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
🔥 ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE!!!
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“Peanuts make me swell up like a beach ball”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”
February 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
“Peanuts make me swell up like a beach ball”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”
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Two very useful blogs from David Thomas on SEND policy.
Part 1: The SEND Crisis
Why children are getting worse care, more slowly at greater cost
open.substack.com/pub/thingsda...
Part 1: The SEND Crisis
Why children are getting worse care, more slowly at greater cost
open.substack.com/pub/thingsda...
The SEND crisis
Why children are getting worse care, more slowly, at greater cost
open.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Two very useful blogs from David Thomas on SEND policy.
Part 1: The SEND Crisis
Why children are getting worse care, more slowly at greater cost
open.substack.com/pub/thingsda...
Part 1: The SEND Crisis
Why children are getting worse care, more slowly at greater cost
open.substack.com/pub/thingsda...
There are a few versions online of Janis Joplin singing Piece of My Heart, but this version in this key has to be one of the best vocal performances of anyone, ever:
youtu.be/SCngPse1iiI?...
youtu.be/SCngPse1iiI?...
February 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
There are a few versions online of Janis Joplin singing Piece of My Heart, but this version in this key has to be one of the best vocal performances of anyone, ever:
youtu.be/SCngPse1iiI?...
youtu.be/SCngPse1iiI?...
You know that feeling when you've finally done the big shop and schlepped it home, but then realised you've got to put it all away? Getting a big furniture delivery arrive after several days (yay!) and then realising you've got to assemble it all (boo!) is an even purer form of that.
February 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
You know that feeling when you've finally done the big shop and schlepped it home, but then realised you've got to put it all away? Getting a big furniture delivery arrive after several days (yay!) and then realising you've got to assemble it all (boo!) is an even purer form of that.
Posts on BlueSky are Tweets, in the same way that 'hoover' is a verb now divorced from the brand Hoover. You don't dyson the living room (unless you're an absolute weapon), you hoover it, even if you're using a Dyson.
February 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Posts on BlueSky are Tweets, in the same way that 'hoover' is a verb now divorced from the brand Hoover. You don't dyson the living room (unless you're an absolute weapon), you hoover it, even if you're using a Dyson.
I demand a knighthood for Pascal Struijk
February 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I demand a knighthood for Pascal Struijk
Very wise thread. High outcomes, learning loads, but making space for lots of fun, laughter and joy. That's a school.
🧵An important part of the primary experience is having a lovely time- adults ringfencing the unique state of childhood and ensuring that primary is a glorious place to be little. Playful and joyful are not the antonyms of high standards and aspiration.
February 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Very wise thread. High outcomes, learning loads, but making space for lots of fun, laughter and joy. That's a school.
A good way of really coming face-to-face with the impact of the post-2015 curriculum is realising your 10-year-old year 5 child is more immediately and naturally fluent with grammar terminology than you, a 37-year-old former English teacher.
February 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A good way of really coming face-to-face with the impact of the post-2015 curriculum is realising your 10-year-old year 5 child is more immediately and naturally fluent with grammar terminology than you, a 37-year-old former English teacher.
Lots of 'read more books' resolutions on here, and I'd like to get back to always having a book on the go, rather than defaulting to scrolling.
Another one for me is listen to more albums. That was the default mode of listening for me before MP3 players and Spotify playlists.
Another one for me is listen to more albums. That was the default mode of listening for me before MP3 players and Spotify playlists.
January 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Lots of 'read more books' resolutions on here, and I'd like to get back to always having a book on the go, rather than defaulting to scrolling.
Another one for me is listen to more albums. That was the default mode of listening for me before MP3 players and Spotify playlists.
Another one for me is listen to more albums. That was the default mode of listening for me before MP3 players and Spotify playlists.
Watching series 2 of Wolf Hall (binged series 1 last week). Two thoughts
- It's good!
- I like the capes the men all swan around in. Bring them back.
- It's good!
- I like the capes the men all swan around in. Bring them back.
December 31, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Watching series 2 of Wolf Hall (binged series 1 last week). Two thoughts
- It's good!
- I like the capes the men all swan around in. Bring them back.
- It's good!
- I like the capes the men all swan around in. Bring them back.
Misconceptions about Rosenshine 80% principle that I see quite often:
1) we need to get hung up on the exact '80%' ratio. We don't. It's a metaphor really for 'most but not all kids'
2) that it's about teaching well enough that most kids grasp content. It's not really. It's about curriculum (1/2..)
1) we need to get hung up on the exact '80%' ratio. We don't. It's a metaphor really for 'most but not all kids'
2) that it's about teaching well enough that most kids grasp content. It's not really. It's about curriculum (1/2..)
December 31, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Misconceptions about Rosenshine 80% principle that I see quite often:
1) we need to get hung up on the exact '80%' ratio. We don't. It's a metaphor really for 'most but not all kids'
2) that it's about teaching well enough that most kids grasp content. It's not really. It's about curriculum (1/2..)
1) we need to get hung up on the exact '80%' ratio. We don't. It's a metaphor really for 'most but not all kids'
2) that it's about teaching well enough that most kids grasp content. It's not really. It's about curriculum (1/2..)
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Smartphones and apps specifically engineered to weaponise our hunger for micro-hits of dopamine are SO antithetical to what childhood should be.
There's already a contrian "smartphones can be good for kids, actually" movement I've seen on BlueSky. Hmm.
Smartphones and apps specifically engineered to weaponise our hunger for micro-hits of dopamine are SO antithetical to what childhood should be.
There's already a contrian "smartphones can be good for kids, actually" movement I've seen on BlueSky. Hmm.
Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones review – makes you long to lock your own device in a box
This three-week experiment to study the horrifying effects of the grim content that children can access 24/7 has predictable results – which are nonetheless horrifying
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:48 AM
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Smartphones and apps specifically engineered to weaponise our hunger for micro-hits of dopamine are SO antithetical to what childhood should be.
There's already a contrian "smartphones can be good for kids, actually" movement I've seen on BlueSky. Hmm.
Smartphones and apps specifically engineered to weaponise our hunger for micro-hits of dopamine are SO antithetical to what childhood should be.
There's already a contrian "smartphones can be good for kids, actually" movement I've seen on BlueSky. Hmm.
If you're a mentor, support mentors, or are interested in teacher development in any way you should be following hugheshaili.bsky.social
Haven't done a thread on recent mentoring research for a while now, so here you go. Here is a round up of some interesting peer reviewed papers from 2024🧵👇
December 11, 2024 at 5:44 PM
If you're a mentor, support mentors, or are interested in teacher development in any way you should be following hugheshaili.bsky.social
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Today is the day!!
Join us at 8pm here on Bluesky for our very first community conversation about the scenario below ⬇️
Please share, spread the word, bring a brew and let’s #GetReal
Join us at 8pm here on Bluesky for our very first community conversation about the scenario below ⬇️
Please share, spread the word, bring a brew and let’s #GetReal
Our first scenario is LIVE 👀 Check it out on our substack, have a think and join us for the community conversation on Bluesky on Monday at 8pm. No right answers- just curiosity, sharing thinking and getting real!
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November 25, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Today is the day!!
Join us at 8pm here on Bluesky for our very first community conversation about the scenario below ⬇️
Please share, spread the word, bring a brew and let’s #GetReal
Join us at 8pm here on Bluesky for our very first community conversation about the scenario below ⬇️
Please share, spread the word, bring a brew and let’s #GetReal
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📢A self-indulgent marketing thread…
I’ve been running online CPD since the pandemic. It emerged from nowhere, but saved me from the isolation and overwhelming fear which came with having a newborn baby during an international crisis and not being able to see my mum.
1/ 👇🧵
I’ve been running online CPD since the pandemic. It emerged from nowhere, but saved me from the isolation and overwhelming fear which came with having a newborn baby during an international crisis and not being able to see my mum.
1/ 👇🧵
November 23, 2024 at 9:31 PM
📢A self-indulgent marketing thread…
I’ve been running online CPD since the pandemic. It emerged from nowhere, but saved me from the isolation and overwhelming fear which came with having a newborn baby during an international crisis and not being able to see my mum.
1/ 👇🧵
I’ve been running online CPD since the pandemic. It emerged from nowhere, but saved me from the isolation and overwhelming fear which came with having a newborn baby during an international crisis and not being able to see my mum.
1/ 👇🧵
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If anyone is looking for teachers and school leaders to be part of any panels on curriculum, teaching and assessment, I am available.
We need current teachers and leaders to be the majority on these panels.
We need current teachers and leaders to be the majority on these panels.
November 23, 2024 at 7:03 PM
If anyone is looking for teachers and school leaders to be part of any panels on curriculum, teaching and assessment, I am available.
We need current teachers and leaders to be the majority on these panels.
We need current teachers and leaders to be the majority on these panels.
If you want to irreperably bamboozle your Spotify algorithm, let your tween daughters choose the music on long car journeys.
November 20, 2024 at 8:18 AM
If you want to irreperably bamboozle your Spotify algorithm, let your tween daughters choose the music on long car journeys.
A tour de force from Carl here.
The new Ofsted proposals being discussed at the moment are concerning, particularly the separation of curriculum and instruction. Here are some thoughts 🧵⬇️
November 20, 2024 at 5:50 AM
A tour de force from Carl here.
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The government accepts the need for it to take ‘a fundamental look’ at the SEND system, the DfE’s most senior official has told MPs
SEND: Six key findings from DfE’s MPs session
DfE is to take ‘a fundamental look’ at the SEND system and it is working with the Treasury on a solution for council deficits
www.tes.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
The government accepts the need for it to take ‘a fundamental look’ at the SEND system, the DfE’s most senior official has told MPs