Mouhssin Ismail
@Mouhssin_Ismail
OBE. Former City Lawyer. Chief Standards Officer (CSO) @COLA_Trust Former Reg Dir/Exec Principal @StarAcademies & Founding Principal @ncs6th Own views!
R4P falls under the umbrella of luxury beliefs. It's staggering how many people promote it, especially when, in some schools, a significant number of children are reading below their chronological age. But of course, we can’t let data or evidence get in the way of our deeply held…
The government is right to promote reading for pleasure, but surely its priority should be helping the quarter of pupils who are falling behind with their reading, argues @FFTEdu founder Mike Fischer tes.com/magazine/analy…
‘There’s never been a generation of young people so colonised at such a young age by mental health propaganda.’ Searching for Normal: @stimimi
Why not just hand your children over to the state permanently?
✍️ 'The arrival of the summer holidays fills me with so much panic that I’ve chosen to pretend it’s not happening.' While children look forward to the summer holidays, for parents it’s tough to cope with such a long break 👇 telegraph.co.uk/family/parenti…
They ask how something as simple as the shoes students wear, and how they wear them, can reflect a school’s culture and the expectations of its leaders. These details matter. They communicate what we value, what we expect, and how committed we are to maintaining high standards.…
Far from the story of progress we are being sold, mental health science tells a story of stagnation and, if anything, worsening outcomes happening in parallel with increasing volumes of mental health provision and psychiatric drug prescribing.
As others have said, the point of automation was to take away the drudgery from our lives so we would be free to be more human. Instead, it threatens to take away the activities that make us human. Worse, we’re doing so willingly.
When ChatGPT and friends launched, my main worry was around accuracy and hallucinations. Now, my main worry is about the way AI will utterly demolish our intellectual capacity to think, learn, persevere and create. It is anathema to the great enterprise that is education. >
Allow educational leaders the space to do their jobs without relentless interference from those more invested in public posturing than in meaningful progress, as though expressions of concern equate to a deeper care for children than anyone else could possibly possess. Notably,…
Local Labour MP driving kids out of the school with her progressive rhetoric. More political interference in an educational world they do not understand, pushing an agenda that lowers standards and destroys the lives of disadvantaged kids. Keep fighting Rhys for the kids! 3/5
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More power to @rhyspiersAFGS -turning around Ark Alexandra school - soon to be high-performing academically with well-balanced kind kids. You want success for disadvantaged kids? Need to do the hard work! Instead of the local Labour MP supporting, she is attacking him 1/5
‘Re-thinking assessment.’ rethinkingassessment.com
I'm going to say this once and that's it. You cannot have a 'portfolio' approach to English in the age of AI. They're talking about controlled assessments. Shifting everything back on to the teacher. Again.
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For decades we sat back and let the psych/pharma alliance pathologise every species of emotional discontent. This helped fuel a public health crisis of rising harms & social confusion…. We’re now scrambling to row the ideology back. What a mess….. thetimes.com/uk/education/a…
The Schools Bill, as it currently stands, is deeply flawed. If left unamended, it threatens to undo many of the hard-won gains delivered by the academies programme. The previous government missed a crucial opportunity to be bold and complete the reform by academising all schools.
My interview with @Daily_Express express.co.uk/news/politics/…
"We have to move away from thinking about traditional subjects to thinking what careers are out there in the modern world and what contemporary qualifications are available that will give pupils the transferable skills they need for the jobs of the future."…
It’s inspiring to see the outstanding work @RhysSpiersAGFS is leading at @Alexandra_Ark Transforming a school in challenging circumstances demands exceptional resilience, vision, and determination. Having someone with a proven track record, who played a pivotal role in turning…
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We create rather than discover a psychiatric disorder by the way we choose to talk about and classify what patients bring to us.
While the mental health machine sells diagnoses like designer labels, Professor Timimi’s shouting: 'You’re being sold snake oil in silk robes.’ Worth a listen.
ADHD doesn't exist. Not in the way we are led to believe: open.spotify.com/episode/5Tf3bd…