Richard Harvey-Swanston
@rharveyswanston.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in education, university of brighton; primary mathematics, ex-teacher & leader; MaST, MA; PhD student.
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Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...
Building confidence during your PhD
Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If yo…
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October 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...
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I'm running a webinar on adaptive teaching on 5th November. Loads of practical advice about inclusive approaches to teaching. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! #EduSky
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The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching - Webinar with Sue Cowley
Sue Cowley shares ideas about adaptive teaching and offers a range of practical strategies for creating an inclusive classroom
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October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm running a webinar on adaptive teaching on 5th November. Loads of practical advice about inclusive approaches to teaching. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! #EduSky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...
Searching for 'what works' is understandable, but there are no silver bullets out there and very little in education is reducible to treatments and procedures as it is in health. Education is an open, complex system, and it's purpose and nature is contested./1
Its time for education to have its own version of NICE.
The National Institute for Educational Excellence (NIEE).
Our current system suffers from inconsistency, weak evidence bases, and a lack of professional infrastructure. Here's why this matters /🧵
The National Institute for Educational Excellence (NIEE).
Our current system suffers from inconsistency, weak evidence bases, and a lack of professional infrastructure. Here's why this matters /🧵
June 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Searching for 'what works' is understandable, but there are no silver bullets out there and very little in education is reducible to treatments and procedures as it is in health. Education is an open, complex system, and it's purpose and nature is contested./1
Now published online as well as in print: my.chartered.college/impact_artic... @collegeofteaching.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Now published online as well as in print: my.chartered.college/impact_artic... @collegeofteaching.bsky.social
I'm not one to normally do this but really pleased to see our article published today in the CCT journal. The product of our beliefs and experience in teacher professional development and we hope of value and interest to readers.
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I'm not one to normally do this but really pleased to see our article published today in the CCT journal. The product of our beliefs and experience in teacher professional development and we hope of value and interest to readers.
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
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Primary educators 👋🏻
I am interviewing teachers for a research project aimed at understanding how teachers learn from each other in the workplace. But my sample is currently very secondary heavy
Could you (please!) spare me an hour of your time this week or next? It will be interesting, I promise!
I am interviewing teachers for a research project aimed at understanding how teachers learn from each other in the workplace. But my sample is currently very secondary heavy
Could you (please!) spare me an hour of your time this week or next? It will be interesting, I promise!
April 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Primary educators 👋🏻
I am interviewing teachers for a research project aimed at understanding how teachers learn from each other in the workplace. But my sample is currently very secondary heavy
Could you (please!) spare me an hour of your time this week or next? It will be interesting, I promise!
I am interviewing teachers for a research project aimed at understanding how teachers learn from each other in the workplace. But my sample is currently very secondary heavy
Could you (please!) spare me an hour of your time this week or next? It will be interesting, I promise!
The interim report of the curriculum review is out. Some recognition of need to better balance breadth and depth (not specific to mathematics tho - see screenshot from p. 21). Absolutely no sign of budging on the MTC in Y4 disappointingly.
March 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The interim report of the curriculum review is out. Some recognition of need to better balance breadth and depth (not specific to mathematics tho - see screenshot from p. 21). Absolutely no sign of budging on the MTC in Y4 disappointingly.
Last one from the last few months. Following one of Ameet Hindocha's analysis in his wonderful 'twelve twelves' book. I'm copying his example here and love how the positive/negative colourings draw the eye to different features.
March 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Last one from the last few months. Following one of Ameet Hindocha's analysis in his wonderful 'twelve twelves' book. I'm copying his example here and love how the positive/negative colourings draw the eye to different features.
Two different colours variations on Samira mian's pattern from April 24. Both now hanging in the office.
March 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Two different colours variations on Samira mian's pattern from April 24. Both now hanging in the office.
This one took forever! Green and gold 2-layer pattern: 8&12 pointed stars inside a larger 8-pointed star and cross tiling. Taken from Ameet Hindocha's 'twelve twelves'.
March 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This one took forever! Green and gold 2-layer pattern: 8&12 pointed stars inside a larger 8-pointed star and cross tiling. Taken from Ameet Hindocha's 'twelve twelves'.
Three variations of Samira mian's 4-fold tiles from the Alcazar of Seville
March 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Three variations of Samira mian's 4-fold tiles from the Alcazar of Seville
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We are delighted to have published our Interim Report for the Maths Horizons Project today: www.mathshorizons.uk/interim-report
This report reflects on some of what we have learned so far through an extensive range of contributors. We would love to hear your thoughts on the findings!
This report reflects on some of what we have learned so far through an extensive range of contributors. We would love to hear your thoughts on the findings!
February 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We are delighted to have published our Interim Report for the Maths Horizons Project today: www.mathshorizons.uk/interim-report
This report reflects on some of what we have learned so far through an extensive range of contributors. We would love to hear your thoughts on the findings!
This report reflects on some of what we have learned so far through an extensive range of contributors. We would love to hear your thoughts on the findings!
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**HERE is our new
Early Childhood Maths Home page: we hope things are easier to find & you enjoy furkelling! earlymaths.org
Early Childhood Maths Home page: we hope things are easier to find & you enjoy furkelling! earlymaths.org
ECMG
Early Childhood Maths Group
earlymaths.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
**HERE is our new
Early Childhood Maths Home page: we hope things are easier to find & you enjoy furkelling! earlymaths.org
Early Childhood Maths Home page: we hope things are easier to find & you enjoy furkelling! earlymaths.org
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#CallForParticipants
If you work with people who have experienced #DomesticAbuse and/or #MordenSlavery, I'd love to hear from you: b.tomsett1@uni.brighton.ac.uk
Please share with your networks to help this reach the right people.
#PhD #Research
If you work with people who have experienced #DomesticAbuse and/or #MordenSlavery, I'd love to hear from you: b.tomsett1@uni.brighton.ac.uk
Please share with your networks to help this reach the right people.
#PhD #Research
January 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
#CallForParticipants
If you work with people who have experienced #DomesticAbuse and/or #MordenSlavery, I'd love to hear from you: b.tomsett1@uni.brighton.ac.uk
Please share with your networks to help this reach the right people.
#PhD #Research
If you work with people who have experienced #DomesticAbuse and/or #MordenSlavery, I'd love to hear from you: b.tomsett1@uni.brighton.ac.uk
Please share with your networks to help this reach the right people.
#PhD #Research
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Lovely people of BlueSky- I am editing a book on the use of the arts (including tech/anything creative) in maths education. If you would like to propose a chapter (could be about art,drama, coding, clothing design, musical theatre, poetry…whatever you like) then you can email me at lr444@cam.ac.uk 📧
January 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Lovely people of BlueSky- I am editing a book on the use of the arts (including tech/anything creative) in maths education. If you would like to propose a chapter (could be about art,drama, coding, clothing design, musical theatre, poetry…whatever you like) then you can email me at lr444@cam.ac.uk 📧
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Help needed ! Final push for this to finish off the weekend - English State School Exec. Leaders and Chairs of Governors please spare me 10 mins of your time to complete this anonymous survey! Help me get to my target for participants 🙏
Help needed - I've almost reached 50% of my target for participants. Please help by completing a short survey for my doctoral research. Focus 'The relationship between Chair and exec leader in English state school system' #UKEd #UKEdGovs #Governance
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January 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Help needed ! Final push for this to finish off the weekend - English State School Exec. Leaders and Chairs of Governors please spare me 10 mins of your time to complete this anonymous survey! Help me get to my target for participants 🙏
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I'm going to do some coverage on here of the assisted dying debate. If you're not interested please mute this thread now. It'll probably go on a while.
November 29, 2024 at 8:53 AM
I'm going to do some coverage on here of the assisted dying debate. If you're not interested please mute this thread now. It'll probably go on a while.
Difficult not to imbue this with meaning 😂
Ed Balls
November 18, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Difficult not to imbue this with meaning 😂
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Instead of seeing the brain as a computer into which information can flow and be stored...
...what if we saw the brain as a mediating organ between perception and action? (Perception depends on knowledge).
How would teaching change?
#EruditePedagogy
...what if we saw the brain as a mediating organ between perception and action? (Perception depends on knowledge).
How would teaching change?
#EruditePedagogy
November 14, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Instead of seeing the brain as a computer into which information can flow and be stored...
...what if we saw the brain as a mediating organ between perception and action? (Perception depends on knowledge).
How would teaching change?
#EruditePedagogy
...what if we saw the brain as a mediating organ between perception and action? (Perception depends on knowledge).
How would teaching change?
#EruditePedagogy
We're nearly all here! Has anyone set up a maths ed group yet?
November 16, 2024 at 9:13 AM
We're nearly all here! Has anyone set up a maths ed group yet?
Well worth a read for those interested in maths, research and Ofsted www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Policy-based evidence: the schools inspectorate in England, research and school mathematics policy
Increasingly, debates about school mathematics curriculum and pedagogy refer to evidence. The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), the inspection service in England, published a series of re...
www.tandfonline.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Well worth a read for those interested in maths, research and Ofsted www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Well this seems a bit better, doesn't it.
November 13, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Well this seems a bit better, doesn't it.
Check out our first article with Uni of Brighton academies trust on designing an evidence-informed trust-wide professional development programme in Impact today my.chartered.college/impact_artic...
Designing a trust-wide professional development programme : My College
RICHARD HARVEY-SWANSTON, SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, UK KERRI BURNS, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ADVISOR, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON ACADEMIES TRUST, UK TIFF COLE, FACULTY LEAD COACH, UNIVERSITY OF BR...
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September 24, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Check out our first article with Uni of Brighton academies trust on designing an evidence-informed trust-wide professional development programme in Impact today my.chartered.college/impact_artic...
Delighted that education and teacher training are no. 2 in the UK in the guardian university rankings.
September 10, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Delighted that education and teacher training are no. 2 in the UK in the guardian university rankings.