Ed Durbin
@edurbin.bsky.social
History Teacher and Curriculum Leader / Lead Practitioner T and L / Textbooks / Bristol / over educated childminder
Look what’s arrived @colinmccormick.bsky.social @katieamery.bsky.social
Looking forward to getting stuck in
Looking forward to getting stuck in
May 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Look what’s arrived @colinmccormick.bsky.social @katieamery.bsky.social
Looking forward to getting stuck in
Looking forward to getting stuck in
This is a pretty accurate reflection of the sort of 18 year old I was!
May 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is a pretty accurate reflection of the sort of 18 year old I was!
Yes that sounds about right. Known backstabber too.
I honestly can't get over the Holbein miniature of Wriothesley.
I honestly can't get over the Holbein miniature of Wriothesley.
February 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yes that sounds about right. Known backstabber too.
I honestly can't get over the Holbein miniature of Wriothesley.
I honestly can't get over the Holbein miniature of Wriothesley.
And then Stephen Gardiner is the nerd that hangs out with the jocks but will never really fit in. So everyone hates him.
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
And then Stephen Gardiner is the nerd that hangs out with the jocks but will never really fit in. So everyone hates him.
There's just no way that the Earl of Surrey didn't steal Anthony Denny's lunch money at school.
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
There's just no way that the Earl of Surrey didn't steal Anthony Denny's lunch money at school.
The ur-nerd, William Paget
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The ur-nerd, William Paget
Planning some A-Level lessons on court faction in the 1540s and, I know I know this isn't actually right, but it's hard not to conceptualise it as the jocks (the conservatives) vs. the nerds (reformers)
The ur-jock, Nicholas Carew:
The ur-jock, Nicholas Carew:
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Planning some A-Level lessons on court faction in the 1540s and, I know I know this isn't actually right, but it's hard not to conceptualise it as the jocks (the conservatives) vs. the nerds (reformers)
The ur-jock, Nicholas Carew:
The ur-jock, Nicholas Carew:
February 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
New siege engine assaulting Chepstow Castle this morning
February 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New siege engine assaulting Chepstow Castle this morning
Almost finished this and cannot recommend it enough.
Orme manages to turn what could be a dry survey into a treasure trove of detail and life.
As a non-Medievalist, I wish I'd read it at the start of my career before teaching Medieval religion and the Reformation very badly.
Orme manages to turn what could be a dry survey into a treasure trove of detail and life.
As a non-Medievalist, I wish I'd read it at the start of my career before teaching Medieval religion and the Reformation very badly.
January 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Almost finished this and cannot recommend it enough.
Orme manages to turn what could be a dry survey into a treasure trove of detail and life.
As a non-Medievalist, I wish I'd read it at the start of my career before teaching Medieval religion and the Reformation very badly.
Orme manages to turn what could be a dry survey into a treasure trove of detail and life.
As a non-Medievalist, I wish I'd read it at the start of my career before teaching Medieval religion and the Reformation very badly.
I think this is the best funniest thing I've ever read on a brass plaque in a church.
Behind the altar at St Marys in Yate, a memorial to a 17th century minister:
"Here lieth he who while he lived served at (but now being dead lyeth under) the table."
It's good stuff.
Behind the altar at St Marys in Yate, a memorial to a 17th century minister:
"Here lieth he who while he lived served at (but now being dead lyeth under) the table."
It's good stuff.
January 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I think this is the best funniest thing I've ever read on a brass plaque in a church.
Behind the altar at St Marys in Yate, a memorial to a 17th century minister:
"Here lieth he who while he lived served at (but now being dead lyeth under) the table."
It's good stuff.
Behind the altar at St Marys in Yate, a memorial to a 17th century minister:
"Here lieth he who while he lived served at (but now being dead lyeth under) the table."
It's good stuff.
Can't believe it's taken me this long in my career to take advantage of the school trip to church.
Super easy: walked there, vicar was delighted to help, finished in a double lesson.
Super easy: walked there, vicar was delighted to help, finished in a double lesson.
January 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Can't believe it's taken me this long in my career to take advantage of the school trip to church.
Super easy: walked there, vicar was delighted to help, finished in a double lesson.
Super easy: walked there, vicar was delighted to help, finished in a double lesson.
I don’t think Femi or Matt are on here for me to @ them but I have so enjoyed their podcast over the last few months. It so useful to here people wrestling with the same challenges as you in good faith and with honesty.
Hard recommend for anyone leading teaching and learning!
Hard recommend for anyone leading teaching and learning!
January 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I don’t think Femi or Matt are on here for me to @ them but I have so enjoyed their podcast over the last few months. It so useful to here people wrestling with the same challenges as you in good faith and with honesty.
Hard recommend for anyone leading teaching and learning!
Hard recommend for anyone leading teaching and learning!
As well as presenting an enquiry focussed on the popular memory of Rosa Parks, I tried to make the case for a more general reorientation towards the study of popular memory - as opposed to purely academic interpretations - in schools, drawing heavily on the work of Raphael Samuel and others.
January 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
As well as presenting an enquiry focussed on the popular memory of Rosa Parks, I tried to make the case for a more general reorientation towards the study of popular memory - as opposed to purely academic interpretations - in schools, drawing heavily on the work of Raphael Samuel and others.
I'm delighted to have an article in the latest edition of @histassoc.bsky.social's Teaching History journal based on the work of @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and the popular memory of Rosa Parks.
January 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I'm delighted to have an article in the latest edition of @histassoc.bsky.social's Teaching History journal based on the work of @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and the popular memory of Rosa Parks.
Emerging Christmas tradition in our house:
I invest a lot of time and emotional energy in making a Christmas cake so boozy that only I will eat it.
I invest a lot of time and emotional energy in making a Christmas cake so boozy that only I will eat it.
December 24, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Emerging Christmas tradition in our house:
I invest a lot of time and emotional energy in making a Christmas cake so boozy that only I will eat it.
I invest a lot of time and emotional energy in making a Christmas cake so boozy that only I will eat it.
But the good news is that studying excellent final performance at GCSE can be a guide to effective teaching… …if you focus on the layers of knowledge that underpin successful performance.
These were my practical suggestions:
These were my practical suggestions:
December 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
But the good news is that studying excellent final performance at GCSE can be a guide to effective teaching… …if you focus on the layers of knowledge that underpin successful performance.
These were my practical suggestions:
These were my practical suggestions:
The phrase is taken from Christine’s foundational blog on senior leadership of the curriculum:
thedignityofthethingblog.wordpress.com/author/chris...
Looking at excellent final performance, Christine writes, can deceive us into focusing our teaching on surface features. So I sometimes see at GCSE:
thedignityofthethingblog.wordpress.com/author/chris...
Looking at excellent final performance, Christine writes, can deceive us into focusing our teaching on surface features. So I sometimes see at GCSE:
December 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
The phrase is taken from Christine’s foundational blog on senior leadership of the curriculum:
thedignityofthethingblog.wordpress.com/author/chris...
Looking at excellent final performance, Christine writes, can deceive us into focusing our teaching on surface features. So I sometimes see at GCSE:
thedignityofthethingblog.wordpress.com/author/chris...
Looking at excellent final performance, Christine writes, can deceive us into focusing our teaching on surface features. So I sometimes see at GCSE:
Obviously improving GCSE outcomes is a complex task and subject-level interventions are subordinate to bigger questions around e.g. culture, behaviour or attendance.
But misguided line management of subjects can make things worse.
So I borrowed a theme from @counsellc.bsky.social as my title:
But misguided line management of subjects can make things worse.
So I borrowed a theme from @counsellc.bsky.social as my title:
December 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Obviously improving GCSE outcomes is a complex task and subject-level interventions are subordinate to bigger questions around e.g. culture, behaviour or attendance.
But misguided line management of subjects can make things worse.
So I borrowed a theme from @counsellc.bsky.social as my title:
But misguided line management of subjects can make things worse.
So I borrowed a theme from @counsellc.bsky.social as my title:
In an attempt to Keep Hope Alive during the last week, I'm going to post some highlights from this term.
HIGHLIGHT #4 Being set a dream assignment by @joeambrose.bsky.social: tell a room of senior leaders what they should know about raising standards in GCSE History…
HIGHLIGHT #4 Being set a dream assignment by @joeambrose.bsky.social: tell a room of senior leaders what they should know about raising standards in GCSE History…
December 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
In an attempt to Keep Hope Alive during the last week, I'm going to post some highlights from this term.
HIGHLIGHT #4 Being set a dream assignment by @joeambrose.bsky.social: tell a room of senior leaders what they should know about raising standards in GCSE History…
HIGHLIGHT #4 Being set a dream assignment by @joeambrose.bsky.social: tell a room of senior leaders what they should know about raising standards in GCSE History…
I found Wright’s concluding remakes about the essence of learning being the experience of learning itself very persuasive:
December 18, 2024 at 4:17 PM
I found Wright’s concluding remakes about the essence of learning being the experience of learning itself very persuasive:
In an attempt to Keep Hope Alive during the last week, I'm going to post some highlights from this term.
HIGHLIGHT #3 Reading @sammywright.bsky.social’s fantastic book Exam Nation after recommends from @tomallenhistory.bsky.social and @solgamsu.bsky.social amongst others
HIGHLIGHT #3 Reading @sammywright.bsky.social’s fantastic book Exam Nation after recommends from @tomallenhistory.bsky.social and @solgamsu.bsky.social amongst others
December 18, 2024 at 4:17 PM
In an attempt to Keep Hope Alive during the last week, I'm going to post some highlights from this term.
HIGHLIGHT #3 Reading @sammywright.bsky.social’s fantastic book Exam Nation after recommends from @tomallenhistory.bsky.social and @solgamsu.bsky.social amongst others
HIGHLIGHT #3 Reading @sammywright.bsky.social’s fantastic book Exam Nation after recommends from @tomallenhistory.bsky.social and @solgamsu.bsky.social amongst others