Dr Debra Kidd
@debrakidd.bsky.social
Teacher, doctor, author, Leader of Learning and Teaching at the British School of Brussels.
Books: Curriculum of Hope, Teaching Notes from the Frontline, Uncharted Territories and Becoming Mobius. A Pedagogy of Power currently gestating!
Books: Curriculum of Hope, Teaching Notes from the Frontline, Uncharted Territories and Becoming Mobius. A Pedagogy of Power currently gestating!
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Pressure to achieve at school at age 15 is linked to depressive symptoms and risk of self-harm, and the association appears to persist into adulthood, finds study led by Prof Gemma Lewis, UCL Psychiatry.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/fe...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/fe...
Academic pressure linked to increased risk of depression risk in teens
Pressure to achieve at school at age 15 is linked to depressive symptoms and risk of self-harm, and the association appears to persist into adulthood, finds a study led by UCL researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Pressure to achieve at school at age 15 is linked to depressive symptoms and risk of self-harm, and the association appears to persist into adulthood, finds study led by Prof Gemma Lewis, UCL Psychiatry.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/fe...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/fe...
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If Pam Bondi was a waitress.
February 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
If Pam Bondi was a waitress.
Lovely to interview Guy Claxton last week as he helps us to look beyond the outdated 'working memory/longterm memory' warehouse metaphor of learning. It's a model that has stripped joy from learning, ignoring motivation, emotion and body and we can do better. educationappg.org.uk/wp-content/u...
educationappg.org.uk
February 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Lovely to interview Guy Claxton last week as he helps us to look beyond the outdated 'working memory/longterm memory' warehouse metaphor of learning. It's a model that has stripped joy from learning, ignoring motivation, emotion and body and we can do better. educationappg.org.uk/wp-content/u...
This is why we slowed down our phonics learning and built in a school wide reading for pleasure programme (thank you @teresacremin.bsky.social and team). CLPE has helped us to shift away from atomised grammar and we have 'every place is a reading place' nooks and crannies all over. Our kids ❤️ books.
From the full report:
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
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"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
February 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
This is why we slowed down our phonics learning and built in a school wide reading for pleasure programme (thank you @teresacremin.bsky.social and team). CLPE has helped us to shift away from atomised grammar and we have 'every place is a reading place' nooks and crannies all over. Our kids ❤️ books.
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One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
Imagine if JK Rowling threw the energy and resources she spends on harassing trans people in the name of 'protecting women and children' at rich men trafficking children for sex.
February 1, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Imagine if JK Rowling threw the energy and resources she spends on harassing trans people in the name of 'protecting women and children' at rich men trafficking children for sex.
Perhaps it’s a social media ban on the over 60s we should be considering 😬 Or maybe we could have politicians who actually take on the tech companies who actively direct groups of people to radicalising content online and fail to moderate.
January 31, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Perhaps it’s a social media ban on the over 60s we should be considering 😬 Or maybe we could have politicians who actually take on the tech companies who actively direct groups of people to radicalising content online and fail to moderate.
Very proud that middle child's work is soon to be exhibited at Home in Manchester. homemcr.org/whats-on/gab...
Gabriel Kidd: I found the giant and he was dead — Immerse yourself in a work inspired by local folktale, landscape, erosion, and medieval notions of time.
Through sculpture, drawing, sound, and writing, Kidd’s work utilises queer tactics of parody, fluidity and vitality, to explore mythology, ecology and history. In Gabriel Kidd’s first institutional so...
homemcr.org
January 30, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Very proud that middle child's work is soon to be exhibited at Home in Manchester. homemcr.org/whats-on/gab...
Just saw an old bloke on the telly wondering around in his tweed, rambling on about loving collecting war memorabilia and staring longingly into the sunset and I thought it must be a daytime TV funeral ad. But no, it was a @reformuk.bsky.social party political broadcast. 😂😂
January 29, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Just saw an old bloke on the telly wondering around in his tweed, rambling on about loving collecting war memorabilia and staring longingly into the sunset and I thought it must be a daytime TV funeral ad. But no, it was a @reformuk.bsky.social party political broadcast. 😂😂
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Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.
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That NEC decision on Burnham was predictable, but also: cowardly, insecure, factional, long-term counter-strategic and symptomatic of administrative malaise.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
That NEC decision on Burnham was predictable, but also: cowardly, insecure, factional, long-term counter-strategic and symptomatic of administrative malaise.
We're looking for a great teacher of French at our brilliant school. Even better if you can also teach either German or Dutch. Details here! www.britishschool.be/jobs/teacher...
Teacher of French or French and German or French and Dutch - British School of Brussels | International School in Belgium
For September 2026 The British School of Brussels (BSB) is a leading not-for-profit, inclusive international school with 1,350 students from...
www.britishschool.be
January 21, 2026 at 6:27 PM
We're looking for a great teacher of French at our brilliant school. Even better if you can also teach either German or Dutch. Details here! www.britishschool.be/jobs/teacher...
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Cherwell District Council has become the first of Oxfordshire’s principal councils to leave X (formerly Twitter). Council leader Chris Brant said “Elon Musk's platform no longer meets the standards we expect for public engagement.”
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Cherwell District Council has become the first of Oxfordshire’s principal councils to leave X (formerly Twitter). Council leader Chris Brant said “Elon Musk's platform no longer meets the standards we expect for public engagement.”
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The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.
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hello new people, & welcome to the place where you don't feel actively complicit in the End Of Days. & to all those suddenly starting to use accounts they set up ages ago, promise it's got busier since you were last here...
January 11, 2026 at 1:47 PM
hello new people, & welcome to the place where you don't feel actively complicit in the End Of Days. & to all those suddenly starting to use accounts they set up ages ago, promise it's got busier since you were last here...
This is going to be a lovely day - I've just booked my train! Come and join us at BrewEd/WomenEd www.wxwakefield.co.uk/Whats-On/Det...
BREWeD x WOMENed | Wakefield Exchange
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January 10, 2026 at 12:25 PM
This is going to be a lovely day - I've just booked my train! Come and join us at BrewEd/WomenEd www.wxwakefield.co.uk/Whats-On/Det...
Many more people need to do this.
The New Year is a good time for making changes, and we’ve decided the time is right to use BlueSky and LinkedIn as our main social media platforms, and to no longer post on X.
Do give us a follow and please do share this post.
Do give us a follow and please do share this post.
January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Many more people need to do this.
Last snowy, snuggly day before we head back to work tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing the children and staff and hoping this is it now and we won't be having the 'will we/won't we' snow day dilemmas this week
January 4, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Last snowy, snuggly day before we head back to work tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing the children and staff and hoping this is it now and we won't be having the 'will we/won't we' snow day dilemmas this week
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“Circumventing” the law by… being open to anyone?
Remarkable! It’s just like the time I circumvented the Civil Aviation Act by travelling to France on a boat…
Remarkable! It’s just like the time I circumvented the Civil Aviation Act by travelling to France on a boat…
January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
“Circumventing” the law by… being open to anyone?
Remarkable! It’s just like the time I circumvented the Civil Aviation Act by travelling to France on a boat…
Remarkable! It’s just like the time I circumvented the Civil Aviation Act by travelling to France on a boat…
It's making me angry now. If you're working with young people and still have a presence on X, you are literally propping up a platform that will create photos of naked children for perverts on request.
but don't worry, i'm sure the PrOtEcT tHe GirLs crew will be all over this
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 11:56 AM
It's making me angry now. If you're working with young people and still have a presence on X, you are literally propping up a platform that will create photos of naked children for perverts on request.
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Happy New Year's Eve everyone. If you are a teacher (or indeed anyone) still posting on X, I have a suggested New Year's Resolution for you. Stop!
If you agree, please REPOST here and on X if you maintain an account there.
open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
If you agree, please REPOST here and on X if you maintain an account there.
open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
A New Year's Resolution for Teachers: Quit X
The best time to do so was when Musk started poisoning it; the second-best time is now
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Happy New Year's Eve everyone. If you are a teacher (or indeed anyone) still posting on X, I have a suggested New Year's Resolution for you. Stop!
If you agree, please REPOST here and on X if you maintain an account there.
open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
If you agree, please REPOST here and on X if you maintain an account there.
open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
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Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
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‘Blanket’ ban of trans people from gender-appropriate facilities likely unlawful.
Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round.
Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.
Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round.
Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘Blanket’ ban of trans people from gender-appropriate facilities likely unlawful.
Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round.
Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.
Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round.
Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.
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Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide
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I've had lots of requests to rerun my adaptive teaching webinar, so I'm hosting another one on 20th January. See the link below for details. Lots of practical advice on strategies for an inclusive classroom. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching - Webinar with Sue Cowley
Sue Cowley shares ideas about adaptive teaching and gives a range of practical strategies for creating an inclusive classroom
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December 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I've had lots of requests to rerun my adaptive teaching webinar, so I'm hosting another one on 20th January. See the link below for details. Lots of practical advice on strategies for an inclusive classroom. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...