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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 15h

Just cause you might need it more Oddsock in his camp headband today.

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 1h

Incredible this is some of the first experimental evidence on this.... about time.

Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social · 20d

All teacher training ultimately aims to support transfer of learning to new and varied classroom situations.

In this (recently published) paper we provide some of the first experimental evidence on how teacher educators can help achieve this goal:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decomposition and recomposition: effects on early-career teachers’ enactment and adaptive transfer of behaviour management practices

Breaking down sequences of teaching into constituent practices is thought to make learning to teach more manageable. However, it also divorces teaching practices from context, which risks leaving t...

www.tandfonline.com

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 13h

Comic and audiobooks are totally as valid as any book.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 14h

Event here : www.linkedin.com/posts/britis...

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📌 Thank you to everyone who secured Early Bird tickets for BESA’s Winter Insight Day - these are sold out! Standard tickets are now available to join BESA members this October for a day of expert ana...

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 14h

Next week, you can catch me down in Westminster talking at BESA at the winter insights day ⬇️
On those SEND reforms no doubt too.

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 14h

No, it's cool and I agree it's a hard task pull of the balance there tbh.

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, Oddsock is a dog of style!

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 15h

Just cause you might need it more Oddsock in his camp headband today.

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 15h

No. Absolutely, no, this will not work at all. UK has way different views on this than US.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Teacher’s Manual @unofficialoa.bsky.social · 3d

Fact:

If you even show one iota of resemblance to another teacher at your school, kids automatically assume you’re related.

#edusky

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 16h

In fact DM me your school, I'll have a look find out 🤣🤣

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 16h

Find out someone will be running it. Get the board. Thats who you want to talk to. 👍

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 16h

But if you're nervous about that... do the same thing, find the most successful free USA schools. See what they are doing. Same thing. Normally, have policies up or even email them ask. Most schools share!

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 16h

And there is nothing wrong with highlighting the most successful free schools in the UK ... we educate kids here that way too 🤣

Either way, every school pays attention when you ask for a meeting with a head & and governors. No matter where it is!
That's always the way forward. 👍

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 16h

Either way, they both generally have the same vibe, so plenty to get. The process tends to be the same.

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Kat Cauchi 🌻🎃🐈🍰 @kcauchi.bsky.social · 20h

So excited that 'The Tech Career Coach for Teens' launches today! This brilliant book by @msbclarke.bsky.social, Rebecca Franks and Dr Tracy Gardner is full of inspiring stories, career advice and tips. I'm honoured to have my story included. Learn more: buff.ly/NZjp8rG @techbooks4kids.bsky.social

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 19h

Also Nottingham SEND plan is outstanding tbh. You'd gain alot from just highlighting that...

They should take notice of other successful free schools. We normally do learn from each other. 👍 Let me know how it goes x

www.nottinghamfreeschool.co.uk/page.php?d=s...

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 19h

2. Ask for meeting with Head and send the information governors too. That's one everyone takes seriously. Ask to speak to both about direction. Take everything I sent and any Nottingham policies you find that you feel work. Put in one doc, and ask for progression plan for it all.

Start there!

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 19h

Ok so 1. you do know what your saying and good schools listen. So first up what does success look like in free schools. ( Nottingham has a outstanding reputation there go see what they are doing)
Home | Nottingham Free School share.google/zI1tf0LWnKiY...

Home | Nottingham Free School

share.google

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 19h

Yep they also go down that route often too...It's an adjustment. They need to be the teacher in the building, guiding them but also have a hand on the wheel and directing. Free still needs leadership.

I'd have a chat if you feel like that. They don't seem have settled yet....common thou.

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 19h

Yep, UK free schools plenty of years of that. They often face that. The wording helps...

You want to have progression for you, kid, and not strict rules, but you want good outcomes, and the role of a teacher is also one of challenge and helping them thrive.

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 19h

Also deeply confused to why disability disappears at this magical school but hey 🤣

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 20h

And having led in free schools, yep they can be different but you still want to understand the progression plan. I'd ask about it. 👍

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 20h

If you was ADHD there, that would be hard going, I suspect, but it depends on if they can direct bout of hyperfocus. Personally and I've seen alot of schools... you need foundations to do self directing from...that requires well... direct teaching. So I'd focus on the foundations.

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 20h

Well, many expert teachers, psychologists, speech and language therapists, advocates, academics, and more pitched in for that one so we could just send it to schools. But has alot of links as a parent too.

And no freedom doesn't teach. 🤣
I think I call that attitude out right at the start tbh.

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 20h

Jesus wept. What are you doing over there....

Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 20h

A 15-year-old Autistic boy went to take a bathroom break while helping his mother sell fruit in Houston, TX. Frighteningly, he never returned and was missing for almost a week.

Finally, the family discovered that ICE had secretly snatched the child and taken him to a detention center.

ICE Secretly ‘Kidnaps’ Autistic Houston Boy During Bathroom Break: ‘Proof That ICE Isn’t Going After Criminals’

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