Karen Beeby 🏴
@karbee10.bsky.social
Adviser for LLC (English) at CSC.
Personal views expressed.
Personal views expressed.
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Rob Coe et al at the Sutton Trust (2014) identified ‘poor proxies’ for learning; indicators that may lead observers to assume learning is taking place, but in actuality may not be related to learning. The idea of poor proxies can also be applied to feedback. evidencebased.education/resource/poo...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Rob Coe et al at the Sutton Trust (2014) identified ‘poor proxies’ for learning; indicators that may lead observers to assume learning is taking place, but in actuality may not be related to learning. The idea of poor proxies can also be applied to feedback. evidencebased.education/resource/poo...
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🚨 Giveaway! 🎉 5 copies of my new book Questioning for Teaching & Learning. 💡 To enter repost this post! 🗓 Winners announced Monday 5th January 2026 at 6 pm UK time. Happy new year all. Here's to a healthy & happy 2026!
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
🚨 Giveaway! 🎉 5 copies of my new book Questioning for Teaching & Learning. 💡 To enter repost this post! 🗓 Winners announced Monday 5th January 2026 at 6 pm UK time. Happy new year all. Here's to a healthy & happy 2026!
BBC News - Why do we stop singing when we reach secondary school?
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Why do we stop singing when we reach secondary school?
New data suggests singing is much more common in primary and private schools than in state secondaries.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
BBC News - Why do we stop singing when we reach secondary school?
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The Mab - a modern take on the Mabinogion with a foreword by Michael Sheen, has been given a new lease of life after being rescued from destruction
Modern take on The Mabinogion rescued from destruction
A modern take on the Mabinogion with 11 stories of enchanting prose, and with endorsement and a foreword by Michael Sheen, has been given a new lease of life. More than 1500 copies of hit children’s…
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December 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Mab - a modern take on the Mabinogion with a foreword by Michael Sheen, has been given a new lease of life after being rescued from destruction
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BBC News - Evan Davis: Why so many people break 20mph speed limits - BBC News
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Evan Davis: Why so many people break 20mph speed limits
After receiving a speeding ticket, Evan Davis explores why so many people have broken 20mph limits across the country.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
BBC News - Evan Davis: Why so many people break 20mph speed limits - BBC News
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Interesting exploration of 'I do/we do/you do' and 'guided - independent practice' from Tom Sherrington. If things feel too linear and straight-forward, they probably need more thinking! All the details matter.
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Exploring confusion around modelling: “I do, we do, you do” vs “Guided and Independent Practice”
In the last couple of days I’ve seen a couple of resources posted online that made me question my understanding of the idea of ‘I do, we do, you do’ and how this fits with ideas o…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Interesting exploration of 'I do/we do/you do' and 'guided - independent practice' from Tom Sherrington. If things feel too linear and straight-forward, they probably need more thinking! All the details matter.
teacherhead.com/2025/11/21/e...
teacherhead.com/2025/11/21/e...
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#Poem for #RemembranceDay #RemembranceSunday
#poems #LibrarySky #EduSky #BookSky #poetry #TeacherSky #poetrylovers #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #teachers #literacy @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #kidlit @troikabooks.bsky.social @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social
#poems #LibrarySky #EduSky #BookSky #poetry #TeacherSky #poetrylovers #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #teachers #literacy @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #kidlit @troikabooks.bsky.social @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Excellent to see this article in Tes by Alex Quigley on the ‘Five-a-day’ approach to teaching pupils with #SEND, a framework for inclusive practice that should give hope to a profession working incredibly hard to deliver lessons inclusively.
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Inclusion ‘by design’: why it matters and how to do it
With the new Ofsted framework taking a broad view of inclusion, it’s even more important to make teaching inclusive ‘by design’ and not by accident, suggests Alex Quigley
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October 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Excellent to see this article in Tes by Alex Quigley on the ‘Five-a-day’ approach to teaching pupils with #SEND, a framework for inclusive practice that should give hope to a profession working incredibly hard to deliver lessons inclusively.
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Ukrainian refugees who have settled in Caerphilly have been hurt by a petition that suggests they should not have been allowed to seek refuge in Wales, according to a prominent member of their community ✍️Martin Shipton
Ukrainian refugees hurt by petition to close down scheme that helped them
Martin Shipton Ukrainian refugees who have settled in Caerphilly have been hurt by a petition that suggests they should not have been allowed to seek refuge in Wales, according to a prominent member o...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ukrainian refugees who have settled in Caerphilly have been hurt by a petition that suggests they should not have been allowed to seek refuge in Wales, according to a prominent member of their community ✍️Martin Shipton
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💡'The struggle with writing stamina'
Are we addressing issues commonly related to writing stamina?
- Limited handwriting fluency
- Running dry of ideas
- Errors increase in pupils extended writing.
- Motivation is low to keep going with a writing task
alexquigley.co.uk/the-struggle...
Are we addressing issues commonly related to writing stamina?
- Limited handwriting fluency
- Running dry of ideas
- Errors increase in pupils extended writing.
- Motivation is low to keep going with a writing task
alexquigley.co.uk/the-struggle...
The Struggle with 'Writing Stamina'
After some grim national writing results last year, and lots of conversations with school leaders about their post-Covid teaching and learning priorities, writing is high on many schools’ priority lis...
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September 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
💡'The struggle with writing stamina'
Are we addressing issues commonly related to writing stamina?
- Limited handwriting fluency
- Running dry of ideas
- Errors increase in pupils extended writing.
- Motivation is low to keep going with a writing task
alexquigley.co.uk/the-struggle...
Are we addressing issues commonly related to writing stamina?
- Limited handwriting fluency
- Running dry of ideas
- Errors increase in pupils extended writing.
- Motivation is low to keep going with a writing task
alexquigley.co.uk/the-struggle...
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On Monday 20th October, I'm running an online session with the brilliant @joshuaseigal.bsky.social all about raising the profile of poetry in the primary classroom. It will start at 3:45pm and end at 5:00pm. More information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-dont-lik...
September 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
On Monday 20th October, I'm running an online session with the brilliant @joshuaseigal.bsky.social all about raising the profile of poetry in the primary classroom. It will start at 3:45pm and end at 5:00pm. More information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-dont-lik...
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‘I want all children in Wales to experience the pleasure of reading, the superpower of writing, to find their own voices as creative change-makers & advocates for a fairer, more sustainable future.’ Nicola Davies, new Children's Laureate Wales 👏 #KidlitUK
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September 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
‘I want all children in Wales to experience the pleasure of reading, the superpower of writing, to find their own voices as creative change-makers & advocates for a fairer, more sustainable future.’ Nicola Davies, new Children's Laureate Wales 👏 #KidlitUK
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Exciting to see the @tourofbritain.bsky.social pass the end of my street earlier. #Cycling #TourOfBritain #GeraintThomas
September 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Exciting to see the @tourofbritain.bsky.social pass the end of my street earlier. #Cycling #TourOfBritain #GeraintThomas
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Obesogenic societies make it easy to be overweight.
Are we living in a stupidogenic society - one that makes it easy to be stupid?
And if so, what can schools do about it?
Latest on our Substack
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Are we living in a stupidogenic society - one that makes it easy to be stupid?
And if so, what can schools do about it?
Latest on our Substack
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Are we living in a stupidogenic society?
The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise
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August 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Obesogenic societies make it easy to be overweight.
Are we living in a stupidogenic society - one that makes it easy to be stupid?
And if so, what can schools do about it?
Latest on our Substack
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-we-liv...
Are we living in a stupidogenic society - one that makes it easy to be stupid?
And if so, what can schools do about it?
Latest on our Substack
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-we-liv...
Yes! Learning as the vehicle, personal development as the goal. It's highly likely that this kind of model for qualifications would also help to narrow the disadvantage gap and be far more useful than the existing Welsh Bac. #EduSky #Teachers #Curriculum #Education #CurriculumForWales #GCSEs
August 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Yes! Learning as the vehicle, personal development as the goal. It's highly likely that this kind of model for qualifications would also help to narrow the disadvantage gap and be far more useful than the existing Welsh Bac. #EduSky #Teachers #Curriculum #Education #CurriculumForWales #GCSEs
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Is there a better example than Duolingo of how you can have performance without learning, and how performance can actually impede learning?
July 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Is there a better example than Duolingo of how you can have performance without learning, and how performance can actually impede learning?
These stories are horrendous but we can't pretend this isn't happening.
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July 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
These stories are horrendous but we can't pretend this isn't happening.
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Celebrating aspects of the DfE’s Writing Framework: We can finally move on from the book-based approach to writing
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Celebrating aspects of the DfE’s Writing Framework: We can finally move on from the book-based approach to writing
download this article On the 8th of July 2025, the Department for Education published its non-statutory guidance document: The Writing Framework. The mission of The Writing For Pleasure Centr…
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July 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Celebrating aspects of the DfE’s Writing Framework: We can finally move on from the book-based approach to writing
writing4pleasure.com/2025/07/10/c...
writing4pleasure.com/2025/07/10/c...
"Calling someone a ‘Karen’ is ‘borderline racist, sexist and ageist’, tribunal says." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Calling someone a ‘Karen’ is ‘borderline racist, sexist and ageist’, tribunal says
Employment judge George Alliott says term, typically targeted at middle-aged white women, is pejorative
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June 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Calling someone a ‘Karen’ is ‘borderline racist, sexist and ageist’, tribunal says." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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👋 NEW POST 👋
From critique to action: Seven practical ideas to improve education
What would you add to this list? What would you change?
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From critique to action: Seven practical ideas to improve education
What would you add to this list? What would you change?
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June 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
👋 NEW POST 👋
From critique to action: Seven practical ideas to improve education
What would you add to this list? What would you change?
drjamesmannion.substack.com/p/from-criti...
From critique to action: Seven practical ideas to improve education
What would you add to this list? What would you change?
drjamesmannion.substack.com/p/from-criti...
