Nick Dennis
@nickdennis.bsky.social
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Curriculum, Authority and the Stories We Tell Again. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
Curriculum, Authority and the Stories We Tell Again
I found this TES piece on the open letter about the composition of the National Curriculum drafting groups interesting.
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February 17, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Curriculum, Authority and the Stories We Tell Again. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
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2) March 30 11-13.30 in person workshop at Park View School Tottenham - HOW TO BUILD YOUR ROBOT HISTORIAN with Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO who will lead a scalable development workshop to explore how we can make AI work for us in the History classroom ...
February 16, 2026 at 7:58 AM
2) March 30 11-13.30 in person workshop at Park View School Tottenham - HOW TO BUILD YOUR ROBOT HISTORIAN with Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO who will lead a scalable development workshop to explore how we can make AI work for us in the History classroom ...
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@1972shp.bsky.social's new webinar in our UNEARTHED series is a must for all teachers of the History of Medicine. Bring your students along to hear @teachmedwomen.bsky.social's Dr Natasha Hodgson discussing Medieval women, medicine & gardening ...
February 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
@1972shp.bsky.social's new webinar in our UNEARTHED series is a must for all teachers of the History of Medicine. Bring your students along to hear @teachmedwomen.bsky.social's Dr Natasha Hodgson discussing Medieval women, medicine & gardening ...
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Last round of workshop tasters for #DTC26. Today is for our primary colleagues, who have a real treat in store with @msquinnhistory.bsky.social's session on using Artefacts to teach Historical skills in the primary classroom. Tickets still available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
Developing Teachers Conference 2026 | Leeds Trinity University Online Store
Developing Teachers Conference 2026 January 31st 2026 standard ticket  £50 Trainee/ECT/Primary  £40 Any questions please contact us her
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January 26, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Last round of workshop tasters for #DTC26. Today is for our primary colleagues, who have a real treat in store with @msquinnhistory.bsky.social's session on using Artefacts to teach Historical skills in the primary classroom. Tickets still available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
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The final schedule for the SHP Developing Teachers' Conference is now live! www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/devteach/ and we are excited to welcome you all on Jan 31. Tickets still available for one more week from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata.... Plus the final chance to enter our draw ...
January 21, 2026 at 7:35 PM
The final schedule for the SHP Developing Teachers' Conference is now live! www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/devteach/ and we are excited to welcome you all on Jan 31. Tickets still available for one more week from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata.... Plus the final chance to enter our draw ...
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@missrcarter89.bsky.social will draw on her extensive experience to help your students staying engaged and motivated in your lessons, especially as the exam season gets closer. Becky will have plenty of practical strategies to support.
January 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
@missrcarter89.bsky.social will draw on her extensive experience to help your students staying engaged and motivated in your lessons, especially as the exam season gets closer. Becky will have plenty of practical strategies to support.
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You just need to buy a ticket for the conference from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and to inspire you here's another look at some of our secondary workshops: Firstly ECTs Josef Bland & Sam Day will help you to navigate the demands of maintaining your disciplinary focus. And ...
January 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
You just need to buy a ticket for the conference from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and to inspire you here's another look at some of our secondary workshops: Firstly ECTs Josef Bland & Sam Day will help you to navigate the demands of maintaining your disciplinary focus. And ...
New post. Human flourishing and environmental limits when thinking about AI in education. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
Human flourishing and environmental limits when thinking about AI in education.
As schools consider and deploy AI, much of the strategic discussion quite rightly focuses on pedagogy, professionalism and impact on pupils in lessons.
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January 11, 2026 at 12:22 PM
New post. Human flourishing and environmental limits when thinking about AI in education. open.substack.com/pub/nickdenn...
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Check out this banging schedule for the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference on January 31st! So much #historyteacher goodness. Tickets available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and you can win a copy of #DTC25 keynote speaker, Shalina Patel's book The History Lessons
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Check out this banging schedule for the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference on January 31st! So much #historyteacher goodness. Tickets available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and you can win a copy of #DTC25 keynote speaker, Shalina Patel's book The History Lessons
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Also not to be missed our some of our other workshops for the conference: @lambhearttea.bsky.social will be helping secondary history teachers to scaffold for success!
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Also not to be missed our some of our other workshops for the conference: @lambhearttea.bsky.social will be helping secondary history teachers to scaffold for success!
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Our keynote speaker for #DTC26 is Dr Sarah Longair, from Lincoln Uni, who specialises in bringing material culture from the British Empire into the history classroom. Sarah has recently collaborated with SHP Yorkshire Regional Adviser @sashasmith.bsky.social on a range of brilliant resources.
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Our keynote speaker for #DTC26 is Dr Sarah Longair, from Lincoln Uni, who specialises in bringing material culture from the British Empire into the history classroom. Sarah has recently collaborated with SHP Yorkshire Regional Adviser @sashasmith.bsky.social on a range of brilliant resources.
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Happy New Year! And what a better way 2 start 2026 than a competition 2 win copies of #DTC25 keynote speaker Shalina Patel's The History Lessons (www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/the...) 2 enter the draw you just need 2 buy a ticket for this years' conference from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
The History Lessons – Icon Books
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January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Happy New Year! And what a better way 2 start 2026 than a competition 2 win copies of #DTC25 keynote speaker Shalina Patel's The History Lessons (www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/the...) 2 enter the draw you just need 2 buy a ticket for this years' conference from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
Looking forward to reading this.
January 1, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Looking forward to reading this.
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And the first of our primary workshops comes from another outstanding practitioner @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social who's going to be modelling historical thinking.
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
And the first of our primary workshops comes from another outstanding practitioner @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social who's going to be modelling historical thinking.
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Here's the first in a series of posts looking in detail at the workshops for the Schools History Project's Developing Teachers' Conference, Sat Jan 31st '26. Kicking us off is the SHP legend, Dale Banham, who'll be helping you to motivate your secondary history students #DTC26
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here's the first in a series of posts looking in detail at the workshops for the Schools History Project's Developing Teachers' Conference, Sat Jan 31st '26. Kicking us off is the SHP legend, Dale Banham, who'll be helping you to motivate your secondary history students #DTC26
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The Schools History Project is absolutely thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity to work with one of the leading experts in the world in the field of History, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington ...
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The Schools History Project is absolutely thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity to work with one of the leading experts in the world in the field of History, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington ...
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Have you got 49 seconds to spare? Check out our latest promo video for @1972shp.bsky.social's Developing Teachers' Conference, 31/01/26. Early Bird Tickets available from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... #skystorians #historyeducation #edusky
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DTC26 promo
YouTube video by Schools History Project
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December 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Have you got 49 seconds to spare? Check out our latest promo video for @1972shp.bsky.social's Developing Teachers' Conference, 31/01/26. Early Bird Tickets available from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... #skystorians #historyeducation #edusky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4s6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4s6...
Education beyond the algorithm. My workshop session for school leaders on the 21st January 2026.
Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...
Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Education beyond the algorithm. My workshop session for school leaders on the 21st January 2026.
Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...
Keynotes from Geoff Barton and Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator at Ofqual. Registration details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsln-event...
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A quick reminder that the date to submit proposals for our summer conference #SHP26 is Dec 1. If you have something inspiring that you want to share with the SHP family then use this form forms.office.com/e/UHkC15w52G
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A quick reminder that the date to submit proposals for our summer conference #SHP26 is Dec 1. If you have something inspiring that you want to share with the SHP family then use this form forms.office.com/e/UHkC15w52G
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Early Bird Tickets now on sale for our Developing Teachers' Conference (Jan 31 online) from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... 9 workshops for secondary and 3 workshops for primary teachers & an incredible keynote from Dr Sarah Longair, whose gloved hands have touched many an object!
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Early Bird Tickets now on sale for our Developing Teachers' Conference (Jan 31 online) from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... 9 workshops for secondary and 3 workshops for primary teachers & an incredible keynote from Dr Sarah Longair, whose gloved hands have touched many an object!
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Incredible opportunity to get your (gloved) hands on some Viking artefacts at our next Yorkshire History Forum at St Barnabas School in York (Nov 24 5-8pm). Just ask @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social and she'll tell you how awesome they are! Tickets available here: store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Incredible opportunity to get your (gloved) hands on some Viking artefacts at our next Yorkshire History Forum at St Barnabas School in York (Nov 24 5-8pm). Just ask @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social and she'll tell you how awesome they are! Tickets available here: store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
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So much @1972shp.bsky.social stuff going on right now! Last call to register for SHP UNEARTHED (Nov 10 5-6pm), our groundbreaking (ha ha!) webinar on Empire and Gardening - email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to sign up.
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
So much @1972shp.bsky.social stuff going on right now! Last call to register for SHP UNEARTHED (Nov 10 5-6pm), our groundbreaking (ha ha!) webinar on Empire and Gardening - email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to sign up.
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Wonderful to spend yesterday afternoon celebrating ten years of Our Migration Story, an unrivalled online resource for teachers and students to learn about migration’s centrality to the making of modern Britain. Congrats to all who made OMS possible — felt urgent and energising
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Wonderful to spend yesterday afternoon celebrating ten years of Our Migration Story, an unrivalled online resource for teachers and students to learn about migration’s centrality to the making of modern Britain. Congrats to all who made OMS possible — felt urgent and energising
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Excellent workshop and 10-year anniversary celebration yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for that marvellous open access teaching resource, Our Migration Story. Shout out to the team that conceptualised and orchestrated it years ago & for fostering its growth to @runnymedetrust.bsky.social
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Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Excellent workshop and 10-year anniversary celebration yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for that marvellous open access teaching resource, Our Migration Story. Shout out to the team that conceptualised and orchestrated it years ago & for fostering its growth to @runnymedetrust.bsky.social
New blog: The Wrong Terrain: LLMs and Education
Or, why getting a Gramsci quote wrong shows that humans can make LLM-level mistakes too (and that is fine) and why it is always helpful to know your onions about schools before talking in moral absolutes.
www.nickdennis.com/blog/2025/10...
Or, why getting a Gramsci quote wrong shows that humans can make LLM-level mistakes too (and that is fine) and why it is always helpful to know your onions about schools before talking in moral absolutes.
www.nickdennis.com/blog/2025/10...
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
New blog: The Wrong Terrain: LLMs and Education
Or, why getting a Gramsci quote wrong shows that humans can make LLM-level mistakes too (and that is fine) and why it is always helpful to know your onions about schools before talking in moral absolutes.
www.nickdennis.com/blog/2025/10...
Or, why getting a Gramsci quote wrong shows that humans can make LLM-level mistakes too (and that is fine) and why it is always helpful to know your onions about schools before talking in moral absolutes.
www.nickdennis.com/blog/2025/10...