Saffron Lee
mssl.bsky.social
Saffron Lee
@mssl.bsky.social
Deputy Head of 11-19 school. Quality of Education, T&L, CPD. Interested in education, equality, the arts, reading, nature.
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I am speaking at #LitdriveCPD25! To book tickets for you and your English departments, click www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1016588552...
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LitdriveCPD25: National Conference
LitdriveCPD25 Conference, hosted by Aston University, Birmingham
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November 1, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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The vision, guidance & challenge you’ll receive from Rebecca Cramer is reason enough to apply alone.

You’ll get to work every day with someone who has an unstoppable drive to give every single child a brilliant life. Someone who believes that you can have a lot of fun doing that.
October 22, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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📢The Building Belonging Project 📢

So happy to share a big project that I’ve been working on for the last few years with my LSX teammates.

The building belonging project features insights from world experts, as well as classroom resources.

And we’re just getting started!

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Building Belonging in Schools
YouTube video by Jonathan Hutchinson
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September 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,200,534!
September 18, 2024 at 8:32 PM
What an interesting article. I'll be sharing with the maths team tomorrow.
People mistake diversity in the curriculum to be just about relevance. It’s more than that. It’s allowing each child to feel their heritage's cultural contribution to the body of knowledge taught in school. This article is brilliant for Maths teachers: www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
The flow of knowledge from India to Europe on everything from maths to astronomy has gone unacknowledged by historians
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September 1, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Love this. Such an important first step in establishing relationships yet so easy to neglect if you only see your class once every 2 weeks (in the worry of 'getting through the curriculum'). Definitely worth the investment.
August 24, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Excellent blog on reading a complex text (using a geography example) to exemplify a helpful disciplinary literacy approach by @jdurran.bsky.social

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Disciplinary literacy: reading a challenging text in the classroom
This post unpacks a typical approach to reading a challenging text, in this case in a geography lesson. It also describes a number of practices associated with strong ‘adaptive teaching’. Reading chal...
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August 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM