Tom Starkey

Taking down some of that fake wicker plastic garden furniture. Thought I'd give it a stomp to loosen it up a bit. Foot went straight through scraping up my leg. I've now got my baseball bat and it's about to get blue borough over here.

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.

We don't need another hero

Right. Off to live in the countryside tomorrow. Any tips?

There are back-seat, education-adjacent idelogues on here who will go out of their way to destroy a teacher's life if a teacher so much as brushes up against their pride. Anon away, teachers.

I’m seeing people saying teachers should not be anonymous so they can be ‘held to account’ for their comments. Ironic how I’ve seen a well known account who was rude to me and then blocked me, pushing that same agenda. Teachers have a right to protect themselves.

Shadow the food and drink, that is your only mission, oh and get many freebies. 🤣

Arrive on a skateboard. Eat crisps loudly during the keynote. Lead some community singing during the breaks.

All day at a conference tomorrow. Been a while so can't remember how I'm supposed to act.

Maybe they could have some advanced skills?

Eeee...this takes me back.

Is it weird that I LOVE presenting in a lecture theatre? The larger the better? Why? Because when I went uni - I had never even seen a lecture theatre before, I didn’t ever imagine that one day I’d be behind the lectern giving the speeches.

Teachers love to tell other teachers to not reinvent the wheel, but sometimes the 'wheel' looks like this