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The most annoying phrase in teaching has got to be:

‘They behave for ME!’

Don’t use it.

If someone says it to you, here’s how to respond:

open.spotify.com/episode/6zP4...
'Well, they behave in my lesson!' - How to Respond
The (Un)official Teacher's Manual · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hmmmm!!!
February 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Kids thrive on calm, not chaos. Schools where teachers have no authority cause anxiety, not schools where rules are clear and enforced. For children, nothing is more unsettling than feeling like no one’s in charge.
January 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Act of 1944 that brought us tripartite schooling. Vital background to understading many of our current debates. For example: the Norwood report, that predated and informed the Act, specifically believed that children had three types of mind:…. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
January 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Let children's ambitions, their families, and the economics of society be the factors that determine their destiny, not schools, not ministers, and certainly not an IQ test when a child hasn't even reached the end of the first chapter of their lives. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
January 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Would genuinely be interested to see impact on results and so life chances
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘I love the four-day week’: south London school part of a quiet revolution
Independent school Liberty Woodland is one of a small number in England experimenting with the timetable
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
December 18, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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English teachers struggling to exemplify irony, I got your backs
November 27, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Hello Bluesky teacher colleagues. Has anyone got experience of using SOLO taxonomy in their teaching/planning? How useful/effective is it? Thank you.
November 24, 2024 at 9:25 PM
So good to see many educationalists coming into Blue sky.
November 21, 2024 at 8:26 PM