Lara Ronalds
lararonalds.bsky.social
Lara Ronalds
@lararonalds.bsky.social
Educator: Inquiry, IB, play-based pedagogies
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A powerful analysis of the issues in today’s educational horizon.
Education needs contrarians
Why we need to stop agreeing with common practice and policy
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July 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Maybe the biggest problem of the modern education debate is the epistemology that somehow, through reading research articles, someone can access the "truth" of reality.

Truth is the creation of liars. #UKEd #EduSky #EduBlogUK

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Evidence-based educational movements are actually games
Around 2012ish, a new movement rode into the UK (school) educational scene. It came with the banner of "evidence-based", to counter the previous movement. I'm not writing to contend whether the movem...
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June 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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We have some amazing new videos from Washington DC area teachers that we will be releasing in August. Here is a preview. See how 4 year olds can be supported in giving peer feedback. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notified with the full videos are released: www.youtube.com/thepowerofma...
July 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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“The effectiveness of a strategy like direct instruction, for example, depends not just on the method itself but on the teacher’s pedagogical intent, student needs, school culture and broader societal values.”
The dialectic of educational enlightenment: Questioning ‘what works’
In today’s educational climate, the phrase ‘what works’ has become something of a mantra. It refers to the use of rigorous, often quantitative, research methods – particularly ran…
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May 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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This will probably end up being a case study of a country learning the wrong lessons / identifying the factors, which made an education system successful. (It's a very balanced system, tech is not the important factor)
May 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Thinking about a ‘Learning community as a living system’ (John Cho) is a reminder that education needs to keep connections and relationships at the forefront of developing and improving programmes to the needs of those within the learning community.
May 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Excellent conversations and discussions with the panel at the Toddle IB Leaders Meet Up. We need to celebrate teacher autonomy, teacher champions and identifying pedagogy as a constantly innovative space.
May 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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A genetic mutation sparked traits like creativity, storytelling, and memory over 500,000 years ago, allowing knowledge sharing before writing. Oral cultures used songlines and rituals to store vast information, but reliance on digital tools has weakened our memory. www.lynnekelly.com.au?page_id=6116
The Knowledge Gene
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April 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM