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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦

@ecarda1.bsky.social

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Enthusiastic about educating but suspicious about schooling. Interested and experienced in school and system governance. Career spent investigating how mathematics teaching can best effect mathematics learning.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 16h

But let's not forget NCETM is funded by govt. It's a govt agency
There's an important place for an independent subscription member-funded maths subject association
Controlled by members not govt: putting the interests & needs of learners first
@atmmathematics.bsky.social
@mathematicala.bsky.social

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 17h

which, by their nature are unlikely to address the wide spectrum of individual needs

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 17h

Agreed. Exploring causes of behaviours that inhibit learning and social & emotional development should go beyond & behind categorisation and labelling.
Many labels are associated with generic & expensive off-the-shelf remedial packages

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 1d

A one-time HMCI said in a presentation that Ofsted not really needed for all schools. If school was oversubscribed it must be good.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 1d

1988 ERA gave parental choice & LMS emulating market choice. Oversubscribed schls became de facto selective. Less pop & undersubscribed forced to take all applicants.
So pop schls became exclusive making them more pop in some applicants eyes.
Suspect Ofsted grades reflect this polarity.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 2d

Money makes the world go around...

There was the day when members of independent subject associations would create, test and share ideas and resources with each other, not to make a buck, but to make life better for learners in the classroom.
Those days have gone.
Monetisation is now the motive.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 7d

Reminds me of the reflective prayer my Michel Quoist
Some time in the 1950s I think.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 7d

Time back NCC designed a curriculum checking in with subject associations. It was about selecting what was beneficial to learning the subject. After which SEAC designed instruments to assess a sample of the intended curriculum. A separation of powers to ensure curriculum not reduced the testable.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 12

Big listen merits a report on loudest heard.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 8

The alleviation of poverty is a driver of growth not a consequence.
The current economic model needs turning inside out.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 7

🙂

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 6

Because they are not part of the cancel culture.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 6

I agree

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 6

Quote from conference:
"[You’re] not allowed to question what’s going on…You’re just told to think a certain way.”

Is Reform suggesting that compliance and control is killing off curiosity and questioning?

A curriculum based on questioning rather than being told is quite radical. Tell us more...

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 2

atm.org.uk/write/MediaU...

I've found the second recent article which draws on the work of the first.

I hope you find them of some interest.

atm.org.uk

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 2

cdn.prod.website-files.com/5c4ee672c49e...

Here's a link to the original written in 1990 & shared in 1991. A bit dated! But I kept a diary when I was an adviser & used this to reflect my observations and constructions back to those schools I had the privelege of serving.
The later version tomorrow.

cdn.prod.website-files.com

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 2

I started my training as a teacher 60 years ago this month. Piaget featured prominently in our "psychology of education" strand.
Looking at some of my writing of 1990, more recently republished, shows how much Piaget's theory continues to influence my thinking.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 1

I think some of the behaviour publicised in the media over the summer holiday period shows breaking rules of conduct is applauded and actively encouraged by some of those with influence and power.
It must present real challenges to schools now that they have reopened.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 29

A bit spoilt for choice on which Orwell quote to use here, but this came to me first..

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 27

An assessment system that cannot give information about what a learner knows and can do is unfit for purpose.
We are in a world of schooling which purports to measure and define performance rather than a world of education which seeks to recognise and describe achievement.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm being asked to verify my age before I can access my bluesky account. Is this normal or is it a scam?

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 25

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ironic that St George and the flag is shared with Palestine.

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Sarah Watkins @minilebowski.bsky.social · Aug 19

Brilliant! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’

Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detained

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yes!
In 1823 Joseph Jacotot wrote in Enseignement Universel that "to teach is to cause to learn".
The simplicity of his statement belies the profundity of its meaning.
Pedagogy is the teacher's response to all that we know about the complexities and idiosyncrasies of learning.