Orla Jackson
@onishiacais.bsky.social
Mother, teacher, reader, school leader, PhD student; trying to remain disgustingly cheerful & positive. All views, musings,& ramblings are my own.
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New on the #BELMASBlog: Orla Jackson reflects on leadership, learning, and liminality following two profound professional encounters with Andy Hargreaves and Graham Powell.
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August 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
New on the #BELMASBlog: Orla Jackson reflects on leadership, learning, and liminality following two profound professional encounters with Andy Hargreaves and Graham Powell.
Read it here. tinyurl.com/26fn3jv8
@onishiacais.bsky.social
Read it here. tinyurl.com/26fn3jv8
@onishiacais.bsky.social
This is so powerful, please read it.
"Despite the horror, we students of Gaza still hold our pens like weapons of truth. We write, we learn, we dream. Our schools may be reduced to rubble, but our will is stronger than any bomb."
"Despite the horror, we students of Gaza still hold our pens like weapons of truth. We write, we learn, we dream. Our schools may be reduced to rubble, but our will is stronger than any bomb."
What it’s like to be in the graduating class of 2025 in Gaza | Nadera Mushtha
What it’s like to be in the graduating class of 2025 in Gaza | Nadera Mushtha
While students around the world dream of classrooms, students in Gaza dream of survival
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
This is so powerful, please read it.
"Despite the horror, we students of Gaza still hold our pens like weapons of truth. We write, we learn, we dream. Our schools may be reduced to rubble, but our will is stronger than any bomb."
"Despite the horror, we students of Gaza still hold our pens like weapons of truth. We write, we learn, we dream. Our schools may be reduced to rubble, but our will is stronger than any bomb."
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The ECR panel also commended:
Dr Alan Sheehan for his paper on “The Assessment Machine-A Foucauldian Analysis of Pupils’ Perspectives of the Assessment Process” supervised by Prof Kathy Hall @UCC… and
The ECR panel also commended:
Dr Alan Sheehan for his paper on “The Assessment Machine-A Foucauldian Analysis of Pupils’ Perspectives of the Assessment Process” supervised by Prof Kathy Hall @UCC… and
April 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The ECR panel also commended:
Dr Alan Sheehan for his paper on “The Assessment Machine-A Foucauldian Analysis of Pupils’ Perspectives of the Assessment Process” supervised by Prof Kathy Hall @UCC… and
The ECR panel also commended:
Dr Alan Sheehan for his paper on “The Assessment Machine-A Foucauldian Analysis of Pupils’ Perspectives of the Assessment Process” supervised by Prof Kathy Hall @UCC… and
This Tedtalk is at once terrifying and inspiring.
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youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This Tedtalk is at once terrifying and inspiring.
youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
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Coming up next mth. 31 quotes in 31 Days from my new book, Making of an Educator. @crownhousepub.bsky.social @vivienneporritt.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @agavrielatos.bsky.social @belmasoffice.bsky.social Preface by @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Coming up next mth. 31 quotes in 31 Days from my new book, Making of an Educator. @crownhousepub.bsky.social @vivienneporritt.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @agavrielatos.bsky.social @belmasoffice.bsky.social Preface by @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The FBI arrested a Wisconsin county judge accused of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement in escalation of Trump's fight with the judiciary.
FBI director says a judge accused of helping someone evade immigration agents has been arrested
FBI Director Kash Patel says a Wisconsin county judge accused of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement has been arrested.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: The FBI arrested a Wisconsin county judge accused of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement in escalation of Trump's fight with the judiciary.
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The cover story for Trump's attack on universities is antisemitism but it's a ruse.
🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚
🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚
🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
www.harvard.edu
April 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The cover story for Trump's attack on universities is antisemitism but it's a ruse.
🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚
🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚
🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
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Check out this recently published paper by Dr Ciara O'Donnell on teachers' careers following secondment!
doi.org/10.1080/0332...
doi.org/10.1080/0332...
Teachers’ careers following a secondment to a teacher education support service: post-secondment experiences when coming ‘home’ or going to ‘pastures new’
This article draws from a study investigating the professional learning and experience acquired by teachers seconded to an Irish continuing professional development support service. The study also ...
doi.org
April 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Check out this recently published paper by Dr Ciara O'Donnell on teachers' careers following secondment!
doi.org/10.1080/0332...
doi.org/10.1080/0332...
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Why do teachers love becoming teacher educators?
"We're on the cutting edge of policy & research, have deep professional conversations daily, and learn more from schools than they do from us." - fascinating insights from Dr. Ciara O'Donnell
"We're on the cutting edge of policy & research, have deep professional conversations daily, and learn more from schools than they do from us." - fascinating insights from Dr. Ciara O'Donnell
February 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Why do teachers love becoming teacher educators?
"We're on the cutting edge of policy & research, have deep professional conversations daily, and learn more from schools than they do from us." - fascinating insights from Dr. Ciara O'Donnell
"We're on the cutting edge of policy & research, have deep professional conversations daily, and learn more from schools than they do from us." - fascinating insights from Dr. Ciara O'Donnell
The era of populism we are in is disturbing. Taking literary canons from library shelves and warning Irish students that their activism will affect their chance of obtaining a J1 visa. I spent more time at the gates of Leinster Hoise than I did in lectures in TCD. ❤️ every minute of it!
April 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The era of populism we are in is disturbing. Taking literary canons from library shelves and warning Irish students that their activism will affect their chance of obtaining a J1 visa. I spent more time at the gates of Leinster Hoise than I did in lectures in TCD. ❤️ every minute of it!
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What's it mean to become an educator, to be formed generationally during a transition to populism? Here's what shaped me during the onset of Thatcherism & what it means for teaching, freedom of speech, & ed research today. @stevemunby.bsky.social @alisonpeacock.bsky.social @agavrielatos.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What's it mean to become an educator, to be formed generationally during a transition to populism? Here's what shaped me during the onset of Thatcherism & what it means for teaching, freedom of speech, & ed research today. @stevemunby.bsky.social @alisonpeacock.bsky.social @agavrielatos.bsky.social
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How can we respond to authoritarian populism in education? @dianeravitch.bsky.social & I led a discussion with 8 govts for the ARC Ed Collaboratory this month. @eduinternational.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @olliebray.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🏴 🏴 🇮🇪 🇺🇾 🇮🇸
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How can we respond to authoritarian populism in education? @dianeravitch.bsky.social & I led a discussion with 8 govts for the ARC Ed Collaboratory this month. @eduinternational.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @olliebray.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🏴 🏴 🇮🇪 🇺🇾 🇮🇸
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Watching today’s events unfold in the White House.
a woman covering her ears with her hand and the words " please make it stop " below her
ALT: a woman covering her ears with her hand and the words " please make it stop " below her
media.tenor.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Watching today’s events unfold in the White House.
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“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.” www.politico.eu/article/volo...
‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support, as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.
www.politico.eu
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.” www.politico.eu/article/volo...
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What do Kelly Clarkson, The Commitments, Pink Floyd & networks all have in common? They all have a dark side. Read more in my open access editorial for @alm30.bsky.social journal Slam. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @danetteparsley.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social
The dark side of networks: and the implications for school leadership
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What do Kelly Clarkson, The Commitments, Pink Floyd & networks all have in common? They all have a dark side. Read more in my open access editorial for @alm30.bsky.social journal Slam. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @danetteparsley.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social
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Online learning "drains teaching of its emotional pull". I've just been teaching 100s of Australian educators in person - we think, wonder, doubt, challenge, laugh, cry, sing, & face our biases as a community. This is what we have lost. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
When I was an undergraduate, student life was on campus. A lot is being lost in the shift to online learning | Judith Brett
A talking head on a screen is not the same as a flesh and blood person standing in front of you
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Online learning "drains teaching of its emotional pull". I've just been teaching 100s of Australian educators in person - we think, wonder, doubt, challenge, laugh, cry, sing, & face our biases as a community. This is what we have lost. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
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Happy new term. We're lucky to have our lives and our jobs.
January 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Happy new term. We're lucky to have our lives and our jobs.
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Worth a read now that Science teachers in Ireland are planning for new specifications
#edchatie #cogscisci #lcreform
#edchatie #cogscisci #lcreform
It’s here! Our new open access book on curriculum written by Tim Surma, @paulkirschner.bsky.social, @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, @timsurma.bsky.social, Nuno Crato, Elizabeth Rata, John Hattie, Claudio Van Hees, Michiel Wils, Jasper Nijlunsing and me. Download it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking
This OA book proposes a way forward to effectively teach knowledge and complex cognitive skills in school and achieve equitable opportunities.
link.springer.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Worth a read now that Science teachers in Ireland are planning for new specifications
#edchatie #cogscisci #lcreform
#edchatie #cogscisci #lcreform
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Incredible photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walks towards an Israeli tank.
December 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Incredible photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walks towards an Israeli tank.
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Piece I wrote for RTE Brainstorm about #Headford #Lace
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
#heritage #storytelling #history
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
#heritage #storytelling #history
How Headford lace is having a moment in the spotlight again
The Co Galway town was a big player in Irish lacemaking and a new community initiative is reviving that craft for the future
www.rte.ie
November 12, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Piece I wrote for RTE Brainstorm about #Headford #Lace
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
#heritage #storytelling #history
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
#heritage #storytelling #history
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For everyone in Irish education: a proposal to revive #edchatie Monday evening discussions on Bluesky. Every two weeks in term-time.
First session details on the graphic.
More:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/edchati...
Please repost within Ireland as much as poss & spread the word elsewhere.
First session details on the graphic.
More:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/edchati...
Please repost within Ireland as much as poss & spread the word elsewhere.
November 22, 2024 at 3:41 PM
For everyone in Irish education: a proposal to revive #edchatie Monday evening discussions on Bluesky. Every two weeks in term-time.
First session details on the graphic.
More:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/edchati...
Please repost within Ireland as much as poss & spread the word elsewhere.
First session details on the graphic.
More:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/edchati...
Please repost within Ireland as much as poss & spread the word elsewhere.