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Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Feeling sympathy for the magpie parents teaching their kids to fly in my back garden. They are modelling beautifully - repeating a short flap from said kids to a low section of our fence - but kids are studiously ignoring, continuing to waddle about and peck in our rockery. We've all been there!
May 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Feeling sympathy for the magpie parents teaching their kids to fly in my back garden. They are modelling beautifully - repeating a short flap from said kids to a low section of our fence - but kids are studiously ignoring, continuing to waddle about and peck in our rockery. We've all been there!
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It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
‘We need our children to leave school ready for life in t...
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the wor...
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June 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
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Mental-health lessons not only don't work, in some cases they're making things worse.
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May 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Mental-health lessons not only don't work, in some cases they're making things worse.
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🚨Just dropped!🚨
Likely Topic Papers for AQA & OCR GCSE Paper 2 & 3 now live on @drfrostmaths.bsky.social - joining our already-released Edexcel papers!
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May 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🚨Just dropped!🚨
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NEW BLOG: Educational Amnesia: Why England Is Sleepwalking into a Scottish Mistake
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Emaths - Educational Amnesia: Why England Is Sleepwalking into a Scottish Mistake
Resources and support for improving mathematics education in schools and colleges
www.emaths.co.uk
May 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
NEW BLOG: Educational Amnesia: Why England Is Sleepwalking into a Scottish Mistake
www.emaths.co.uk/blog/general...
www.emaths.co.uk/blog/general...
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April 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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🚨 More @drfrostlearning.bsky.social Building Blocks! 🚨
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April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🔥 New GCSE Maths revision resources just dropped on @drfrostlearning.bsky.social !
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Get your students tackling the most common exam topics with our Common Topics Papers – perfect for revision, homework, or intervention.
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🟣 AQA: buff.ly/qDVonu7
April 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🔥 New GCSE Maths revision resources just dropped on @drfrostlearning.bsky.social !
Get your students tackling the most common exam topics with our Common Topics Papers – perfect for revision, homework, or intervention.
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🟣 AQA: buff.ly/qDVonu7
Get your students tackling the most common exam topics with our Common Topics Papers – perfect for revision, homework, or intervention.
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🟣 AQA: buff.ly/qDVonu7
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🚨 New Resource Alert @drfrostlearning.bsky.social ! 🚨
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We've just released our Building Block worksheets — scaffolded practice designed to strengthen key skills for GCSE grades 4/5, gradually building towards interleaved problem solving.
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April 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨 New Resource Alert @drfrostlearning.bsky.social ! 🚨
We've just released our Building Block worksheets — scaffolded practice designed to strengthen key skills for GCSE grades 4/5, gradually building towards interleaved problem solving.
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We've just released our Building Block worksheets — scaffolded practice designed to strengthen key skills for GCSE grades 4/5, gradually building towards interleaved problem solving.
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I've been on exclusion panels as a governor. It's utterly horrendous. You just don't do that unless you feel you have to protect others in the school.
March 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I've been on exclusion panels as a governor. It's utterly horrendous. You just don't do that unless you feel you have to protect others in the school.
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There's is so much guff written about exclusion. A lot of people are desperate to prove schools at fault when they nearly all use permanent exclusion as a very last resort.
Not browsing Twitter has really cut down on the amount of truly terrible 'research' I am exposed to. Just went on there to post a colleague's piece and saw this:
Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence
Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within year
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
There's is so much guff written about exclusion. A lot of people are desperate to prove schools at fault when they nearly all use permanent exclusion as a very last resort.
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Enjoyed employing the old 'Eye of Sauron' technique on a lesson walkabout this afternoon, scanning the room with an icy stare and then fixing it on individuals who caught my attention for the wrong reasons long enough to make them uncomfortable. Strongly recommend.
a black and white image of a tower with a glowing eye
ALT: a black and white image of a tower with a glowing eye
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February 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Enjoyed employing the old 'Eye of Sauron' technique on a lesson walkabout this afternoon, scanning the room with an icy stare and then fixing it on individuals who caught my attention for the wrong reasons long enough to make them uncomfortable. Strongly recommend.
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We need to take stories more seriously!
Because stories are enjoyable, we have a tendency to underestimate their power.
Great stories are important for their own sake.
However, great stories can also do some heavy lifting for us.
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Because stories are enjoyable, we have a tendency to underestimate their power.
Great stories are important for their own sake.
However, great stories can also do some heavy lifting for us.
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February 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
We need to take stories more seriously!
Because stories are enjoyable, we have a tendency to underestimate their power.
Great stories are important for their own sake.
However, great stories can also do some heavy lifting for us.
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Because stories are enjoyable, we have a tendency to underestimate their power.
Great stories are important for their own sake.
However, great stories can also do some heavy lifting for us.
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The three pedagogy/T&L things that generally schools need to focus on are
1. Behaviour
2. Attention
3. A long term memory strategy
For most schools, nothing else is as important.
1. Behaviour
2. Attention
3. A long term memory strategy
For most schools, nothing else is as important.
February 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The three pedagogy/T&L things that generally schools need to focus on are
1. Behaviour
2. Attention
3. A long term memory strategy
For most schools, nothing else is as important.
1. Behaviour
2. Attention
3. A long term memory strategy
For most schools, nothing else is as important.
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In a school where the behaviour culture is strong and behaviour leadership is everywhere, a good teacher can be an excellent teacher. In a school where it's absent, a good teacher will have to fight just to remain good, and it will probably burn them out in the process.
February 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In a school where the behaviour culture is strong and behaviour leadership is everywhere, a good teacher can be an excellent teacher. In a school where it's absent, a good teacher will have to fight just to remain good, and it will probably burn them out in the process.
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We're gonna need a Bigger Listen.
February 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We're gonna need a Bigger Listen.
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Perhaps don’t make bold claims about becoming an AI powerhouse if you’re going to cut funding for mathematics education a few days later.
What, precisely, do you think AI is?!
What, precisely, do you think AI is?!
January 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Perhaps don’t make bold claims about becoming an AI powerhouse if you’re going to cut funding for mathematics education a few days later.
What, precisely, do you think AI is?!
What, precisely, do you think AI is?!
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It was my turn at work to do Thought For The Day and normally I think of my own but today I just read out every word of this banger of a blog from Tom Starkey
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Quiet
Hayden is kicking off again. With a clockwork regularity he’s decided he’s not going to do his work and instead is shouting across the room to a boy he likes to shout at when he doesn&#…
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January 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It was my turn at work to do Thought For The Day and normally I think of my own but today I just read out every word of this banger of a blog from Tom Starkey
stackofmarking.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/q...
stackofmarking.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/q...
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This is really interesting. A nuanced view of the exclusions issue, a way forward in a debate that is often presented as a binary, when it isn’t.
Excited to be publishing a major piece of teacher, parent and student opinion research on the ever-challenging subject of exclusions.
Thanks to the support of @mission44, we were able to carry out what was, I think, the ever biggest exercise of its kind on this subject. 1/10
Thanks to the support of @mission44, we were able to carry out what was, I think, the ever biggest exercise of its kind on this subject. 1/10
November 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM
This is really interesting. A nuanced view of the exclusions issue, a way forward in a debate that is often presented as a binary, when it isn’t.
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We do this through compassionate consistency. Kids need a framework of boundaries to hang that self-regulation and discipline from. Expecting one to magically develop without any perceivable rules and consequences is a mistake!
Teaching young people self-regulation & self-discipline is a gift that will help them succeed at almost every endeavor of their lives.
November 19, 2024 at 11:17 AM
We do this through compassionate consistency. Kids need a framework of boundaries to hang that self-regulation and discipline from. Expecting one to magically develop without any perceivable rules and consequences is a mistake!