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Hannah Pinkham @hannahpinkham.bsky.social · 2h

Very much a fan of a week bookended by 2 x "snuggle up parties"

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 2h

If anyone is looking for ideas of half term activities - look no further…
🍎🎓 #8YearsOld

A calendar of activities written by an 8 year old, including:
Drawing
Jimnastics
Snuggle up party
Toy tea party
Chatting in room
Among other activities.

The Friday afternoon back up activity is “save the environment”

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 4d

Not boring & I learned a lot!

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve been teaching English for 15 years now, but subject CPD never feels boring or irrelevant. I think we all came away with things we’d like to do better.
All #Harris Academies closed for the day to make this possible, so it’s no small thing! 🍎🎓

Whiteboard with transactional writing eg.

Wall of teacher shout outs and thank you cards at Harris Academy Falconwood

Guiding principles of inclusive teaching

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 5d

Friday was another great English CPD day from the Harris Federation, planned & executed by the brilliant English consultants with some guest speakers/presenters including @trythisteaching.bsky.social, Holly Macguire, @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social &
@neilbowen3.bsky.social who I didn’t get to speak to🍎🎓

A whiteboard with a Margaret Atwood quote “a word after a word after a word is power”

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SecEd @seced.bsky.social · 6d

SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky

Your complete 21-page guide to success as an early career teacher - SecEd

Teaching is tough, yet incredibly rewarding. If you are to survive and thrive as an early career teacher and set yourself up for a long and happy career then you must build healthy habits from day…

buff.ly

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 6d

Guiding principles of inclusive teaching (via recent @steplab.bsky.social report)
1. Clarity & explicit structure for all.
2. Make lessons accessible by default.
3. Effective teacher assessment - what are the actual barriers for the student(s) in front of you?
4. Adapt Minimally & appropriately
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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 6d

I always appreciate it when CPD delivers model delivery based on good pedagogy.

Amjad says his audience should do these 3 things in lessons with strategies:

Try
Refine
Ditch

-and promises he will suggest what teachers can do ‘instead of’ xyz.

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 6d

At a federation conference INSET day; hearing keynote from @trythisteaching.bsky.social via Zoom - wish you were here in person!
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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 11d

What are your concerns?

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 11d

(We’ve also gone totally phone / device free in the school day, which might explain the new need/enthusiasm for reading the time the old fashioned way)

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 11d

Turns out one of the girls actually wears an analog watch. She never knew how to read it until now and now she proudly tells me she can!

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 11d

I’m going on record to call that a radical, pro-democracy action. Any educative act that supplants device-driven attention/reliance with an individual’s skills is democratizing and anti-technocratic. Boss moves, babe. Boss moves.

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 13d

Hi Bluesky, reach out to your Jewish colleagues today please. 🙏🏼
#UKEd #UKTeaching

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 15d

I started re watching Orphan Black on Netflix- that show is so darn good! Any other fans out there?
👁️ 👁️

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 15d

This is a shocking bit of civil rights history I had never heard of before.
Closing the pools…

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15d

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Public pools used to be everywhere in America. Then racism shut them down.

In her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” Heather McGhee looks at how racism drained not only public pools, but also public support for universal he...

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Jed @jedediyah.com · 17d

In #MathsToday we introduced spreadsheets. Students who have never written a spreadsheet formula are always shocked to discover how powerful basic spreadsheets are...

"Are you kidding me that's like actually low key sick"

williams-bhs.github.io/spreadsheets/

Spreadsheet Formula Practice

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 16d

📌 to read list

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 17d

I taught two year 11s how to read an analog clock today! ⏰ 🍎🎓

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 17d

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 17d

open.spotify.com/episode/3Nzb...

Interesting provocation on QLA here from Becky Allen: QLA is a bad way of telling what children know, especially individual children
#Assessment #UKEd
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What do teachers actually need to know about assessment? With Becky Allen

open.spotify.com

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 17d

open.spotify.com/episode/3Nzb...

Interesting provocation on QLA here from Becky Allen: QLA is a bad way of telling what children know, especially individual children
#Assessment #UKEd
🍎🎓

What do teachers actually need to know about assessment? With Becky Allen

open.spotify.com

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