Mubina Husain

I’m honoured to be featured in WomenEd’s next book in print, my first ever published piece ‘Hawa or Eve’. Thank you for all the 💜 that got me here @WomenEd @WomenEdLondon @LizAMFree @ViviennePorritt @WomenEdNI lots more to come. Waiting for the right contact 🎁

Sure Start was a huge success. Children who lived close to one did 3 grades better at GCSE. With 40% of the attainment gap developing before school, focus on the early years is right. £2bn annually was invested in Sure Start at it's peak - that's the level of spending we need.

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New post, on the professional discipline of saying "No". Inspired by some recent conversations with @SCottinghatt researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/23/the…

In other words, the risk is not simply “screen time,” but unfiltered access to an environment designed to shape behaviour and thinking in ways even adults struggle to resist. Allowing this access before a child has built the inner defences of self‑regulation and critical…

Why children need safeguards, even when playing ‘approved’ games like Roblox.

Do your kids play Roblox? You should read this explainer, about how the monetization strategies of multi-player games have changed, incentivizing companies to put kids into harmful situations in 8 ways. New at AfterBabel.com afterbabel.com/p/its-not-just…

Achieving gateway qualifications such as 4/5+ in English and Maths GCSE are disproportionately important if you are from a low income family.

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Catching kids doing the right thing with @misterjjosephs Get in The Green strategy @DeptfordGreen. What a way to celebrate being a good student this year. Golden tickets, fairground rides and games for all. You grew this from vision to today @misterjjosephs - bravo 🙌🏽

On curriculum planning/lesson design, some concepts take longer than a period to teach. Lesson design is better when we plan for a sequence of ideas i.e. one ppt for the topic (not per lesson). We move on when students are secure, not when 50mins are up.

In Gaza, 1 kilo of flour costs $30. Babies wear plastic bags for diapers. No formula. No income. After 20 months under genocidal siege, food is scarce, unaffordable & people are starving to death. Here’s a list of verified fundraisers, pls help if you can: gazadirect.com

I love that @daisychristo critically engages with thinking about AI as we are grappling to make sense of it. This blog is brilliant on the value of writing beyond passing the baton (another marathon pun 🤣).

Whenever I see arguments for a particular approach to teaching, I ask myself whether instrumental music teachers would take it seriously. Not necessarily a deal-breaker, but useful to ask if it wouldn't work in, say, playing the violin, why would it work in mathematics?

G’morning! Another stellar blog from David, whose leadership insights are like having a great coaching conversation on school improvement. Today’s blog got me thinking; how do we know what causes impact, and how not to get lost in the quagmire of correlation.

There’s something about a gentle tide and the salt air that feels very healing. Greenwich.

Ooh never seen this one before

DfE data today shows school suspensions have risen to almost a million, what is your solution to this problem? Cue a few days of: more support, more money, earlier intervention, more innovative curriculums, better teaching, less punitive behaviour policies, more nurture, being…

This is completely bonkers on Teach First. Feels like Government commercial teams are making the decisions, and there is a risk an excellent provider disappears. Genuinely don't understand the ideology behind this: observer.co.uk/news/politics/…

A brilliant blog on the testing effect. @joel120193 makes a brilliant point ‘more time is spent collecting data than actually using it’.I think Sci/Maths can be guilty of this,and it’s worth considering whether we are privileging student progress. inquestion.co.uk/2025/05/18/the…

We often discuss explicit instruction as a method, but rarely as a matter of equity. Its purpose is to provide all students, regardless of background, with the kind of knowledge that can genuinely change their lives. 🧵⬇️