Claire Stoneman
@clairestoneman.bsky.social
Principal, Lift Schools▫️English teacher▫️organiser rED Brum & rED Leics▫️Visiting Prof, Aston University▫️books▫️art▫️views own▫️Substack here: https://substack.com/@birminghamteacher
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A lovely read, thought of specific people for every blessing here ❤️
Thanks @clairestoneman.bsky.social
Thanks @clairestoneman.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A lovely read, thought of specific people for every blessing here ❤️
Thanks @clairestoneman.bsky.social
Thanks @clairestoneman.bsky.social
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I’ve got one of these: “The child who, after difficulty and struggle and poor behaviour, gets back on track.” He is a blessing. In fact I was telling my husband and friend about him just today, how he always helps me with the books and is a model student in class 🙏🏼
#UKEd
#Transformations
#Blessings
#UKEd
#Transformations
#Blessings
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I’ve got one of these: “The child who, after difficulty and struggle and poor behaviour, gets back on track.” He is a blessing. In fact I was telling my husband and friend about him just today, how he always helps me with the books and is a model student in class 🙏🏼
#UKEd
#Transformations
#Blessings
#UKEd
#Transformations
#Blessings
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Yes -- "all which we behold / Is full of blessings", as Wordsworth writes in "Tintern Abbey". Cultivating them is a matter of practice; seeing them is a matter of perspective.
Great post -- thank you
Great post -- thank you
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Yes -- "all which we behold / Is full of blessings", as Wordsworth writes in "Tintern Abbey". Cultivating them is a matter of practice; seeing them is a matter of perspective.
Great post -- thank you
Great post -- thank you
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“Schools are brimming with blessings”
Yes to this! Deliberately making the effort to notice them, no matter how small, is where we find the joy 🥰
Yes to this! Deliberately making the effort to notice them, no matter how small, is where we find the joy 🥰
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Schools are brimming with blessings”
Yes to this! Deliberately making the effort to notice them, no matter how small, is where we find the joy 🥰
Yes to this! Deliberately making the effort to notice them, no matter how small, is where we find the joy 🥰
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Those were both pretty heavy long reads so I finish with some light relief. @clairestoneman.bsky.social recalls some of the more nonsensical things she was encouraged to do at the outset of her teaching career!
open.substack.com/pub/birmingh...
open.substack.com/pub/birmingh...
Ten things from my teaching in the 2000s
TRIGGER WARNING: If you don’t want to be reminded of VAK, wordsearches, puppet shows, sugar paper covered walls, or anything else of the whizz, bang, pop of teaching in the 2000s, stop reading now and...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Those were both pretty heavy long reads so I finish with some light relief. @clairestoneman.bsky.social recalls some of the more nonsensical things she was encouraged to do at the outset of her teaching career!
open.substack.com/pub/birmingh...
open.substack.com/pub/birmingh...
I had lots of fun at #rEDCam25 on Saturday. What was super lovely (and unexpected!) was some delegates tell me how much they like my writing because I tackle thorny edu issues very respectfully, and support teacher voices. It meant a lot. Thank you 🙏
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I had lots of fun at #rEDCam25 on Saturday. What was super lovely (and unexpected!) was some delegates tell me how much they like my writing because I tackle thorny edu issues very respectfully, and support teacher voices. It meant a lot. Thank you 🙏
THIS SATURDAY 🙌 Excited to debut a talk on the problem of luxury beliefs in education. Come along if you’d like to hear me get pretty cross about their potential impact on our kids #rEDCam25
Tix here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched...
Tix here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched...
researchED Cambridge 2025
Get ready for researchED Cambridge, a mind-blowing in-person event where educators, researchers, and enthusiasts come together to explore.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
THIS SATURDAY 🙌 Excited to debut a talk on the problem of luxury beliefs in education. Come along if you’d like to hear me get pretty cross about their potential impact on our kids #rEDCam25
Tix here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched...
Tix here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched...
Hey Bluesky! 👋
Here’s a re-hash of an old post as I prepare for #rEDCam25 on Saturday. There’s glitter, pipe cleaners and sugar paper aplenty :)
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Here’s a re-hash of an old post as I prepare for #rEDCam25 on Saturday. There’s glitter, pipe cleaners and sugar paper aplenty :)
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Ten things from my teaching in the 2000s
TRIGGER WARNING: If you don’t want to be reminded of VAK, wordsearches, puppet shows, sugar paper covered walls, or anything else of the whizz, bang, pop of teaching in the 2000s, stop reading now and...
substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hey Bluesky! 👋
Here’s a re-hash of an old post as I prepare for #rEDCam25 on Saturday. There’s glitter, pipe cleaners and sugar paper aplenty :)
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Here’s a re-hash of an old post as I prepare for #rEDCam25 on Saturday. There’s glitter, pipe cleaners and sugar paper aplenty :)
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This is a most excellent thread 😂
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is a most excellent thread 😂
😂
Charles Dickens wrote some of the best paragraphs ever written, and these occur randomly across thousands of pages of impenetrable boring guff.
October 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
😂
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NEW POST
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
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This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
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On attention, pre-Reformation graffiti, and the patronising of the working class
Ely Cathedral really just showing off
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October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW POST
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Love this by @clairestoneman.bsky.social
It doesn’t feel like we are making progress.
Success in the arts isn’t always equitable or a career path open to all.
Some gate keepers of arts appreciation and culture seem to have a condescending view of what certain people can bring to the table.
It doesn’t feel like we are making progress.
Success in the arts isn’t always equitable or a career path open to all.
Some gate keepers of arts appreciation and culture seem to have a condescending view of what certain people can bring to the table.
NEW POST
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
On attention, pre-Reformation graffiti, and the patronising of the working class
Ely Cathedral really just showing off
substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Love this by @clairestoneman.bsky.social
It doesn’t feel like we are making progress.
Success in the arts isn’t always equitable or a career path open to all.
Some gate keepers of arts appreciation and culture seem to have a condescending view of what certain people can bring to the table.
It doesn’t feel like we are making progress.
Success in the arts isn’t always equitable or a career path open to all.
Some gate keepers of arts appreciation and culture seem to have a condescending view of what certain people can bring to the table.
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This excellent read speaks to me.
NEW POST
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
On attention, pre-Reformation graffiti, and the patronising of the working class
Ely Cathedral really just showing off
substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This excellent read speaks to me.
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Excellent as always from Claire. This time, amongst other amazing things, nailing it on how art can patronise when it makes assumptions 👌
NEW POST
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
On attention, pre-Reformation graffiti, and the patronising of the working class
Ely Cathedral really just showing off
substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Excellent as always from Claire. This time, amongst other amazing things, nailing it on how art can patronise when it makes assumptions 👌
NEW POST
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
On attention, pre-Reformation graffiti, and the patronising of the working class
Ely Cathedral really just showing off
substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW POST
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This is pretty niche but I enjoyed writing it :) It’s on three things I’m really interested in:
1. Attention
2. Pre-Reformation graffiti
3. How the annoying it is that the working class continue to be patronised
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
New post on school leadership
Turning down the noise: How to pay attention as a school leader (and how not to beat yourself up when you can’t)
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Turning down the noise: How to pay attention as a school leader (and how not to beat yourself up when you can’t)
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Turning down the noise
How to pay attention as a school leader (and how not to beat yourself up when you can't)
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September 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
New post on school leadership
Turning down the noise: How to pay attention as a school leader (and how not to beat yourself up when you can’t)
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Turning down the noise: How to pay attention as a school leader (and how not to beat yourself up when you can’t)
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September 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
As we edge towards a new academic year, is leading behaviour in schools an intellectual challenge? Yes, I think it is.
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Is leading behaviour in schools an intellectual challenge?
I think there’s an easy answer to this question if perhaps you’ve never led behaviour in a school and if you read too much into what people write and post on social media.
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August 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
As we edge towards a new academic year, is leading behaviour in schools an intellectual challenge? Yes, I think it is.
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This is sums it up nicely, and the last two paragraphs capture the essence of why teaching is such a remarkable career.
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is sums it up nicely, and the last two paragraphs capture the essence of why teaching is such a remarkable career.
August 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Very entertaining writing, especially the bit about LinkedIn and the long extended metaphor of a school as a body! 🫶🍎🎓
August 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Very entertaining writing, especially the bit about LinkedIn and the long extended metaphor of a school as a body! 🫶🍎🎓
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