Mike Hill
@michaeldoron.bsky.social
Head of History at Ark Soane Academy
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Mike Hill
@michaeldoron.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions?
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
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Woohoo, just got booked onto this!
See you there if you're coming too, fellow #historyteachers (you absolutely should)
See you there if you're coming too, fellow #historyteachers (you absolutely should)
🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Woohoo, just got booked onto this!
See you there if you're coming too, fellow #historyteachers (you absolutely should)
See you there if you're coming too, fellow #historyteachers (you absolutely should)
🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
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Really proud to share that my wonderful school - Ark Soane - has spotlighted by @inclusioninpractice.org.uk
This is a testament to the incredible job that my incredible colleagues do every single day!
Check out the report below to read more about our approach 👇
This is a testament to the incredible job that my incredible colleagues do every single day!
Check out the report below to read more about our approach 👇
July 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Really proud to share that my wonderful school - Ark Soane - has spotlighted by @inclusioninpractice.org.uk
This is a testament to the incredible job that my incredible colleagues do every single day!
Check out the report below to read more about our approach 👇
This is a testament to the incredible job that my incredible colleagues do every single day!
Check out the report below to read more about our approach 👇
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This is what always gets me. It's such a mind-numbing view of education. Some kind of godawful generic training for an identikit job that doesn't even exist.
June 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is what always gets me. It's such a mind-numbing view of education. Some kind of godawful generic training for an identikit job that doesn't even exist.
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It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
‘We need our children to leave school ready for life in t...
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the wor...
bit.ly
June 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
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The absolute last thing schools need right now - while dealing with an extremely tight funding settlement and rising poverty - is a radical overhaul of the exam system.
White working class boys to be focus of education policy “reset” as tensions grow over curriculum and assessment reform - my latest piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Too many exams, too many pupils let down: Whitehall plans reset of GCSEs | The Observer
Strategy to help failing white working-class boys will be included in plans to rethink policy on exams and training. But how far will leaders be prepared to go?
observer.co.uk
June 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The absolute last thing schools need right now - while dealing with an extremely tight funding settlement and rising poverty - is a radical overhaul of the exam system.
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Great writing from @greeborunner.bsky.social on the difficulties faced by school leaders and why people might just need to give them a break
open.substack.com/pub/greeboru...
open.substack.com/pub/greeboru...
Spinning Plates
Understanding leadership
open.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Great writing from @greeborunner.bsky.social on the difficulties faced by school leaders and why people might just need to give them a break
open.substack.com/pub/greeboru...
open.substack.com/pub/greeboru...
Really excited about presenting this series for @histassoc.bsky.social – starting this Wednesday, 4 June, 4pm.
In the first webinar, @jacobolivey.bsky.social and I will explain why we think children don't need to 'do history' to learn history.
Recordings will be available. Link below! 🔗👇
In the first webinar, @jacobolivey.bsky.social and I will explain why we think children don't need to 'do history' to learn history.
Recordings will be available. Link below! 🔗👇
May 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Really excited about presenting this series for @histassoc.bsky.social – starting this Wednesday, 4 June, 4pm.
In the first webinar, @jacobolivey.bsky.social and I will explain why we think children don't need to 'do history' to learn history.
Recordings will be available. Link below! 🔗👇
In the first webinar, @jacobolivey.bsky.social and I will explain why we think children don't need to 'do history' to learn history.
Recordings will be available. Link below! 🔗👇
Reposted by Mike Hill
We’ve gone to press for #ChangingHistoriesKS3 Expanding Worlds! It’ll be hitting our warehouse on 13 June so do get your orders in! In my 10+ years of history publishing, I honestly think this is one of the best books we’ve produced. Spell-binding narrative, stunning visuals and super accessible.
May 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We’ve gone to press for #ChangingHistoriesKS3 Expanding Worlds! It’ll be hitting our warehouse on 13 June so do get your orders in! In my 10+ years of history publishing, I honestly think this is one of the best books we’ve produced. Spell-binding narrative, stunning visuals and super accessible.
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1. Very proud to present our research with Katie Amery at the Historical Association Conference in our home city. It’s been an inspiring two days of lectures, presentations, and rich conversations—and the sun came out to show the port of Liverpool at its finest. #hafconf25
May 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
1. Very proud to present our research with Katie Amery at the Historical Association Conference in our home city. It’s been an inspiring two days of lectures, presentations, and rich conversations—and the sun came out to show the port of Liverpool at its finest. #hafconf25
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Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions?
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
April 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions?
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
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Thinking about your teaching of the History A-level? I will be running a series of webinars with @histassoc.bsky.social between the 12th June and the 3rd July! Details are included in the link below, but feel free to ask me any questions about the course.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
www.history.org.uk
April 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thinking about your teaching of the History A-level? I will be running a series of webinars with @histassoc.bsky.social between the 12th June and the 3rd July! Details are included in the link below, but feel free to ask me any questions about the course.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions?
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
April 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions?
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
@jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars.
Link below! 👇
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These books are just stunning. Every page is beautifully laid out and illustrated
Gorgeous text, gorgeous pages. We're on the home stretch with the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 Expanding Worlds c.1600-c1870 proofs, so here's an Easter treat of a few pages. Every spread in this book is a thing of beauty. I can't wait for you all to see it.
April 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
These books are just stunning. Every page is beautifully laid out and illustrated
Reposted by Mike Hill
Gorgeous text, gorgeous pages. We're on the home stretch with the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 Expanding Worlds c.1600-c1870 proofs, so here's an Easter treat of a few pages. Every spread in this book is a thing of beauty. I can't wait for you all to see it.
April 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Gorgeous text, gorgeous pages. We're on the home stretch with the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 Expanding Worlds c.1600-c1870 proofs, so here's an Easter treat of a few pages. Every spread in this book is a thing of beauty. I can't wait for you all to see it.
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The government are suggesting schools should show Adolescence (and I disagree with this for more reasons than just this), but voted against a national ban on smartphones in schools.
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
April 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The government are suggesting schools should show Adolescence (and I disagree with this for more reasons than just this), but voted against a national ban on smartphones in schools.
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
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If you’re an ambitious Science, History, or Languages teacher and want to take the next step in your career by becoming a ML in one of the most exciting school improvement journeys around, then get in touch.
🚨 Exciting Opportunities 🚨
We're recruiting to our ML team at Trinity Brixton. If you're an aspiring/current HoD in History, Languages, or Science then get in touch. Last year Trinity was the 5th most improved school in London. Come and be part of something special.
We're recruiting to our ML team at Trinity Brixton. If you're an aspiring/current HoD in History, Languages, or Science then get in touch. Last year Trinity was the 5th most improved school in London. Come and be part of something special.
March 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
If you’re an ambitious Science, History, or Languages teacher and want to take the next step in your career by becoming a ML in one of the most exciting school improvement journeys around, then get in touch.
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So, when we drop into each other's slip stream, when we narrate the links explicitly to our pupils and when we boost each other up by retrieving and building on knowledge that we know our pupils know, this is our accidental approach to cross-curricular!
March 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So, when we drop into each other's slip stream, when we narrate the links explicitly to our pupils and when we boost each other up by retrieving and building on knowledge that we know our pupils know, this is our accidental approach to cross-curricular!
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Yesterday, I spent a wonderful afternoon presenting with my even more wonderful colleague @michaeldoron.bsky.social at #REdBrum where we discussed our accidental approach to cross-curricular work at Ark Soane Academy.
March 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Yesterday, I spent a wonderful afternoon presenting with my even more wonderful colleague @michaeldoron.bsky.social at #REdBrum where we discussed our accidental approach to cross-curricular work at Ark Soane Academy.
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This arrived today - bought with the generous voucher I received for speaking at #Soane25. Hearing Eamon Duffy speak about his research was such a pleasure. And how about this for a bit of lush, yet deft, worldbuilding?
February 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This arrived today - bought with the generous voucher I received for speaking at #Soane25. Hearing Eamon Duffy speak about his research was such a pleasure. And how about this for a bit of lush, yet deft, worldbuilding?
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Late to the party but #Soane25 really had me thinking about world building the Reformation with my Y12s. Today we took a virtual walk through a pre-Reformation church. On Friday they will revisit the route again to see how it changes before getting into the nitty gritty of Injections and Acts.
February 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Late to the party but #Soane25 really had me thinking about world building the Reformation with my Y12s. Today we took a virtual walk through a pre-Reformation church. On Friday they will revisit the route again to see how it changes before getting into the nitty gritty of Injections and Acts.
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We are entering a critical 5th year. Our first year of GCSEs for our founding cohort. We are hiring across all depts as we look to scale up and expand our work. Check us out!
arksoane.org/jobs/vacancies
arksoane.org/jobs/vacancies
Explore our vacancies
We look forward to receiving your application; if you have any questions, please do get in contact with us and we'll be happy to help.
arksoane.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We are entering a critical 5th year. Our first year of GCSEs for our founding cohort. We are hiring across all depts as we look to scale up and expand our work. Check us out!
arksoane.org/jobs/vacancies
arksoane.org/jobs/vacancies
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Having visited #Soane25 this weekend you can tell this is an amazing school with an exceptional staff.
The excitement around teaching and learning is all around.
Wonderful.
👏
The excitement around teaching and learning is all around.
Wonderful.
👏
3 and a half years ago, a small group of 11 teachers set up
Ark Soane Academy.
We are now recruiting for our FIFTH year as a school.
Where has the time gone?! 🧵
Ark Soane Academy.
We are now recruiting for our FIFTH year as a school.
Where has the time gone?! 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Having visited #Soane25 this weekend you can tell this is an amazing school with an exceptional staff.
The excitement around teaching and learning is all around.
Wonderful.
👏
The excitement around teaching and learning is all around.
Wonderful.
👏
Reposted by Mike Hill
Our subject teams are deep curricular thinkers. Every day, I get the chance to work with people who LOVE their subjects. Big shout out to @michaeldoron.bsky.social's fabulous history dept for hosting a fantastic conference last weekend.
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Well #Soane25 did not disappoint!
Huge thanks to @michaeldoron.bsky.social @jacobolivey.bsky.social and the team at Ark Soane for a wonderful day.
Huge thanks to @michaeldoron.bsky.social @jacobolivey.bsky.social and the team at Ark Soane for a wonderful day.
February 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Our subject teams are deep curricular thinkers. Every day, I get the chance to work with people who LOVE their subjects. Big shout out to @michaeldoron.bsky.social's fabulous history dept for hosting a fantastic conference last weekend.
bsky.app/profile/edur...
bsky.app/profile/edur...
Reposted by Mike Hill
3 and a half years ago, a small group of 11 teachers set up
Ark Soane Academy.
We are now recruiting for our FIFTH year as a school.
Where has the time gone?! 🧵
Ark Soane Academy.
We are now recruiting for our FIFTH year as a school.
Where has the time gone?! 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
3 and a half years ago, a small group of 11 teachers set up
Ark Soane Academy.
We are now recruiting for our FIFTH year as a school.
Where has the time gone?! 🧵
Ark Soane Academy.
We are now recruiting for our FIFTH year as a school.
Where has the time gone?! 🧵