Terra Glowach
@terraglowach.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead in Initial Teacher Education. Canadian-Bristolian with 20 years classroom teaching experience. Social and environmental justice, critical literacy, teacher-activism.
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Terra Glowach
@terraglowach.bsky.social
· Mar 22
A systematic review of systems leadership in education: taking a social justice lens
Early conceptual work on systems leadership in education emphasized social justice concerns, often through reference to the ‘moral purpose’ of those in positional authority. However, over time, we ...
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My first solo authored paper!
How can we use systems leadership to address systemic social injustices, e.g. racism, in schools?
A systematic review of international literature offers several concrete steps forward...
#edusky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How can we use systems leadership to address systemic social injustices, e.g. racism, in schools?
A systematic review of international literature offers several concrete steps forward...
#edusky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The best piece I have read on the topic of AI use and writing pedagogy.
Just brilliant!
Just brilliant!
October 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The best piece I have read on the topic of AI use and writing pedagogy.
Just brilliant!
Just brilliant!
Critical thinking skills and more judicious use of the text is prioritised IF you are privately educated.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Cambridge to make all IGCSE English literature exams open book
Students already had the possibility of consulting drama texts in the exam but, in future, all Cambridge IGCSE literature in English papers will be open book, including prose
www.tes.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Critical thinking skills and more judicious use of the text is prioritised IF you are privately educated.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
‘Youth clubs, Warren points out “can protect against divide-and-rule, offering deep, long-lasting and protective relationships and training in togetherness”’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
‘Youth clubs, Warren points out “can protect against divide-and-rule, offering deep, long-lasting and protective relationships and training in togetherness”’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Found this rare and out of season deadly fibrecap yesterday and very glad I did a spore print to ID it! Could be mistaken for a tasty field mushroom…
#fungi #mushrooms
#fungi #mushrooms
October 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Found this rare and out of season deadly fibrecap yesterday and very glad I did a spore print to ID it! Could be mistaken for a tasty field mushroom…
#fungi #mushrooms
#fungi #mushrooms
As extended metaphors for the manosphere go, this one looks 10/10.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Joe Wicks: Licensed to Kill review – TV so vile you’ll never touch a protein bar again
The lockdown star pulls a Jamie Oliver and gets political, creating a ‘killer’ snack bar that’s as harmful as possible ... to show up how hellish some of those on the market are. It’s frightening vie...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
As extended metaphors for the manosphere go, this one looks 10/10.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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🎃😱🕷️👻🐺🥀🦇🧟👿☠️ Halloween-themed children's & teen books by Oliver Jeffers, Julia Donaldson, Harriet Muncaster, John Kane, Rainbow Rowell, R.L Stine, Padraig Kenny, Lisa Richardson, Rob Biddulph & more. 👻👹👽👺🍭🤡😨🧛🎃
#kidlit 🐈⬛
🎃😱🕷️👻🐺🥀🦇🧟👿☠️ Halloween-themed children's & teen books by Oliver Jeffers, Julia Donaldson, Harriet Muncaster, John Kane, Rainbow Rowell, R.L Stine, Padraig Kenny, Lisa Richardson, Rob Biddulph & more. 👻👹👽👺🍭🤡😨🧛🎃
#kidlit 🐈⬛
Halloween books for children and teens
Children's, young adult and teen books about Halloween, trick or treating, ghosts, unexplained events, and dark spooky nights.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/hallo...
🎃😱🕷️👻🐺🥀🦇🧟👿☠️ Halloween-themed children's & teen books by Oliver Jeffers, Julia Donaldson, Harriet Muncaster, John Kane, Rainbow Rowell, R.L Stine, Padraig Kenny, Lisa Richardson, Rob Biddulph & more. 👻👹👽👺🍭🤡😨🧛🎃
#kidlit 🐈⬛
🎃😱🕷️👻🐺🥀🦇🧟👿☠️ Halloween-themed children's & teen books by Oliver Jeffers, Julia Donaldson, Harriet Muncaster, John Kane, Rainbow Rowell, R.L Stine, Padraig Kenny, Lisa Richardson, Rob Biddulph & more. 👻👹👽👺🍭🤡😨🧛🎃
#kidlit 🐈⬛
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A second booklet of modern fiction extracts for students to explore www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/literar... 📚
October 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
A second booklet of modern fiction extracts for students to explore www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/literar... 📚
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Nice examples & modelling of how to engage students with Eng Lang P1 Qu 4 from @thecockerill.bsky.social
Analysing film openings of King's IT is also a good way to discuss structural techniques, then compare back to the text.
Analysing film openings of King's IT is also a good way to discuss structural techniques, then compare back to the text.
AQA’s GCSE English Language P1 Q4 has been retooled to help candidates respond. It offers some great opportunities for students to productively engage with the idea of thinking and writing analytically, as NATE director @thecockerill.bsky.social
rediscovers: nate.org.uk/2025/10/03/a... #NATE
rediscovers: nate.org.uk/2025/10/03/a... #NATE
Two very creepy but highly effective extracts for teaching AQA's GCSE English Language, Paper 1, Question 4 - National Association for the Teaching of English
This question, retooled to help students engage and respond, offers some really great opportunities for students to productively engage with the idea of thinking and writing analytically Teaching AQA’...
nate.org.uk
October 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Nice examples & modelling of how to engage students with Eng Lang P1 Qu 4 from @thecockerill.bsky.social
Analysing film openings of King's IT is also a good way to discuss structural techniques, then compare back to the text.
Analysing film openings of King's IT is also a good way to discuss structural techniques, then compare back to the text.
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A fabulous listen to poet Jackie Kay ❤️🙌🏼
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This Cultural Life - Jackie Kay - BBC Sounds
Poet, writer and former Makar Jackie Kay reveals her formative creative influences.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A fabulous listen to poet Jackie Kay ❤️🙌🏼
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Aka @teamlabouruk.bsky.social once again undermining basic measures to help the most vulnerable and pandering to an ignorant and hateful movement.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Weston Town Council scraps sanctuary plans for asylum seekers
More than 100 people protested outside a town council meeting on Monday night.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Aka @teamlabouruk.bsky.social once again undermining basic measures to help the most vulnerable and pandering to an ignorant and hateful movement.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally.
Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
Via @us.theconversation.com
Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
Via @us.theconversation.com
Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.
theconversation.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally.
Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
Via @us.theconversation.com
Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
Via @us.theconversation.com
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So this is pretty awesome! Super funny and really delves into the tricky masculinity stuff that teenage boys have to navigate at school. Required reading for boys and teachers I reckon.
September 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
So this is pretty awesome! Super funny and really delves into the tricky masculinity stuff that teenage boys have to navigate at school. Required reading for boys and teachers I reckon.
My colleague brought his kids into work yesterday, and as one glanced at our bookshelves, he asked, ‘What’s Teach Like A Grandpa?’
Not far off, kid! 😆
Not far off, kid! 😆
September 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
My colleague brought his kids into work yesterday, and as one glanced at our bookshelves, he asked, ‘What’s Teach Like A Grandpa?’
Not far off, kid! 😆
Not far off, kid! 😆
Sloes are ready early this year. Whisky (with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves), vodka and gin. Christmas should be merry 😆
August 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Sloes are ready early this year. Whisky (with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves), vodka and gin. Christmas should be merry 😆
In the Guardian today: “Nearly a quarter of GCSE maths and English entries are resits. This is an all-time high,” said Duffy. “Less than a fifth of resitting students achieved the grade 4 they need to break out of the resit cycle.”
This policy is not removing barriers, it’s reinforcing them.
This policy is not removing barriers, it’s reinforcing them.
August 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In the Guardian today: “Nearly a quarter of GCSE maths and English entries are resits. This is an all-time high,” said Duffy. “Less than a fifth of resitting students achieved the grade 4 they need to break out of the resit cycle.”
This policy is not removing barriers, it’s reinforcing them.
This policy is not removing barriers, it’s reinforcing them.
Jeremy Cormorant guarding our gear while we swim at the Jubilee sea water pool in Penzance 🥰
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Jeremy Cormorant guarding our gear while we swim at the Jubilee sea water pool in Penzance 🥰
How train companies ensure cycling in the UK is impossible for commuters: @crosscountryuk.bsky.social refused a small crowd of cyclists from boarding my train today and unnecessarily removed the bike of a man travelling to work, delaying the service, and wasting the time of police. 1/3
August 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
How train companies ensure cycling in the UK is impossible for commuters: @crosscountryuk.bsky.social refused a small crowd of cyclists from boarding my train today and unnecessarily removed the bike of a man travelling to work, delaying the service, and wasting the time of police. 1/3
News flash: AI does NOT reduce workload. I’m now having to check every reference in student essays for fictionalised papers and chapters. And there are A LOT. One was even supposedly written by ME! 🤣
July 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
News flash: AI does NOT reduce workload. I’m now having to check every reference in student essays for fictionalised papers and chapters. And there are A LOT. One was even supposedly written by ME! 🤣
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boycott Moor Beer and don't play at their venues 🇵🇸
An object lesson in how not to engage whilst displaying company branding.
Bravo @drinkmoorbeer.bsky.social
Bravo @drinkmoorbeer.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
boycott Moor Beer and don't play at their venues 🇵🇸
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I apologise for being quiet on here. Been running and raising money for this charity close to my heart.
Hoping to get to 100k next week.
If you can spare a pound, I’d be grateful.
socialsync.app/fundraiser/c...
Hoping to get to 100k next week.
If you can spare a pound, I’d be grateful.
socialsync.app/fundraiser/c...
June 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I apologise for being quiet on here. Been running and raising money for this charity close to my heart.
Hoping to get to 100k next week.
If you can spare a pound, I’d be grateful.
socialsync.app/fundraiser/c...
Hoping to get to 100k next week.
If you can spare a pound, I’d be grateful.
socialsync.app/fundraiser/c...
Reposted by Terra Glowach
AQA GCSE English Lang P1 and 2 changes announced today - first examined June 2026.
Here’s a specimen paper: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ and a set of PPT slides Q by Q with models and scaffolds to reflect these changes. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
Here’s a specimen paper: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ and a set of PPT slides Q by Q with models and scaffolds to reflect these changes. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
January 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
AQA GCSE English Lang P1 and 2 changes announced today - first examined June 2026.
Here’s a specimen paper: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ and a set of PPT slides Q by Q with models and scaffolds to reflect these changes. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
Here’s a specimen paper: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ and a set of PPT slides Q by Q with models and scaffolds to reflect these changes. Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...
UN: “The real theft of aid since the beginning of the war has been carried out by criminal gangs, under the watch of Israeli forces…”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Netanyahu defends arming Palestinian clans accused of ties with jihadist groups
PM says it ‘saves lives of Israeli soldiers’, after accusations government is giving weapons to ‘criminals and felons’
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
UN: “The real theft of aid since the beginning of the war has been carried out by criminal gangs, under the watch of Israeli forces…”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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