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Electrical/Electronic engineering grad. Head of Maths #FCCT Quod dicit aliud est. Play up Pompey (ST) The Beautiful South stand. Challenging the narrative 😉
You're so vain You probably think this tweet is about you
💜💜💜 We need to remember this- Teachers thrive on autonomy
Interesting this Better diet, better technique, better lifestyle for athletes, or perhaps a more efficient grassroots selection and competition stage culminating in the filtering in of a very different final profile of competitors? All of the above but perhaps mainly selection?
The difference between the men's 100m freestyle final 88 years apart 😮 Los Angeles 1932 & Tokyo 2020
UK welfare spending is 10.6% of GDP. Right wing press never mentions that it is well below the OECD average. UK has some of the least generous welfare across OECD. No questions asked about corporate welfare, uncosted tax reliefs to corporations/rich. gov.uk/government/pub…
Every kid should read Chaucer, Shakespeare etc, while reading for pleasure is a luxury belief. A paradox that shows the way we think about passing on culture is paper thin, and so lopsided as to be absurd (this is not a dig at MI, he's good at expressing what many think).
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…
Sold out during the second tier but only 1500 tickets on sale. Safe to assume 100+ points should secure any away game this coming season? #Pompey
Oxford (A): sold out. ❌ Incredible support, #Pompey fans! 💙
I’m sat in a barber shop getting my boys hair cut and I’m the only dude here with bare tattoo free arms. I feel left out. 😂
"£104bn of water industry investment will come from bill payers, environment secretary concedes." And there we finally have it, there is no "£104 billion of private sector investment". Question is how long has the SoS known this and why has he kept repeating that myth? Well…
TODAY'S LESSON ON GETTING CAUGHT OUT AND AN APOLOGY TO @krishgm Govt claimed yesterday that the £100 billion cost to nationalise the water industry is accurate and that the figures did not come from water companies. Really? Let's see shall we. On the 23rd July 2024 Baroness…
Joe Rogan: "Most people right now are working paycheck to paycheck. They’re barely getting by. Any catastrophe would eliminate all savings. Universal Basic Income would make it so you no longer have to worry about food and shelter."
Thinking of all the harm that's been done to classroom music lessons by some of these...
Thought for the day. For all the ‘improvement’ pressed upon teachers, retrieval, rosenshine, I do/we do, starters, do now’s, TLAC, scripted/standardised lessons… It’s not delivered any significant improvement. I say this after decades watching from within the classroom.
An issue with views on behaviour is where some people choose to conflate authoritative (which is a teacher’s role) with being authoritarian (which is not desirable).
Deep. Before we go hating on a figurehead/visible personality maybe consider the ‘distillation’ process that produces or supports such a person to succeed? In short, look beyond, behind, beneath the problem that fills your vision. There lies the soil within which it grew. 🤔
"Trump is not an aberration in this system. He is it's distilled expression" - Noam Chomsky
Thought for the day. For all the ‘improvement’ pressed upon teachers, retrieval, rosenshine, I do/we do, starters, do now’s, TLAC, scripted/standardised lessons… It’s not delivered any significant improvement. I say this after decades watching from within the classroom.
A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27: “It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young. At 26, I thought I had time… To fall in love. Start a family. Grow old. But cancer doesn’t care about plans.…
Replacing textbooks with Chromebooks was a mistake
I’m now 99% convinced that if you’re a teacher who uses and delivers scripted lessons - you’ll have been replaced by AI within the decade.
For those who believe that autism is over diagnosed this will be a bit of a challenge - huge numbers of women and girls currently undiagnosed
By studying the brains of autistic girls, we now know the condition presents differently in them than in boys, suggesting that huge numbers of women have gone undiagnosed newscientist.com/article/mg2663…
The issue isn’t the length of the summer holiday, which is one of the shortest in the world. The issue is a lack of investment in clubs, activities, camps & things for kids to do. Schools aren’t a babysitting service & our core purpose risks being severely undermined.