Catriona
@drcatrionao.bsky.social
Scottish Educator - working in HE. Teacher Education, Programme Lead MA Ed Leadership, research interests in professional learning for educators, leadership, new teachers experiences, PLCs, reflective practice. #MIEE, IPDA, Trustee Scran Academy
This 👇🏼is a real treat if geology bumping up against philosophy is your thing. Amazing. Available UK only
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Free Thinking - Rocks - BBC Sounds
How can earth sciences like geology transform our understanding of history and society?
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November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This 👇🏼is a real treat if geology bumping up against philosophy is your thing. Amazing. Available UK only
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Happy conferencing @belmasoffice.bsky.social - wishing you all a very successful event. Sorry I can't join you- I'll be fighting the midgies and drizzle in Glencoe raiding funds for melanoma research: www.justgiving.com/page/shiona-...
Team Shomelanoma Great Glencoe Trekathon for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
Help Shiona Ramage raise money to support The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
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July 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Happy conferencing @belmasoffice.bsky.social - wishing you all a very successful event. Sorry I can't join you- I'll be fighting the midgies and drizzle in Glencoe raiding funds for melanoma research: www.justgiving.com/page/shiona-...
one of my favourite nights of the year: Scraduation🎊🌟🎉 our Scran Academy chair, John Houghton leads off our AGM just before we celebrate the outstanding achievements of the Scran Graduates for this year. What amazing work from the whole team.
June 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
one of my favourite nights of the year: Scraduation🎊🌟🎉 our Scran Academy chair, John Houghton leads off our AGM just before we celebrate the outstanding achievements of the Scran Graduates for this year. What amazing work from the whole team.
Calling activist teachers in Scotland: @educ-everything.bsky.social is seeking teacher participants for his PhD study- which looks fascinating, BTW! Plz share @nuthmani.bsky.social @wosdec.bsky.social @eisunion.bsky.social #ActivistTeachers #Scotland #EduResearch forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
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June 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Calling activist teachers in Scotland: @educ-everything.bsky.social is seeking teacher participants for his PhD study- which looks fascinating, BTW! Plz share @nuthmani.bsky.social @wosdec.bsky.social @eisunion.bsky.social #ActivistTeachers #Scotland #EduResearch forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Lovely summary and pics, @sheenascilt.bsky.social - thank you!
An excellent day of sharing and collaborating at the @ipda-prof-learn.bsky.social Scotland symposium- huge thanks to @drcatrionao.bsky.social et al for organising!
Great to connect & share with prof learning pals at @ipda-prof-learn.bsky.social Scotland Symposium on the glorious @qmuniversity.bsky.social campus today. Especially appreciated the thought-provoking responses to the ❓posed by @sheenascilt.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Lovely summary and pics, @sheenascilt.bsky.social - thank you!
Excellent day. Successful Viva for my PhD student + new publication released:
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‘I didn’t think I would ever recover from failing’: Tutoring to reduce the poverty-related student attainment gap - Alan Bainbridge, Catriona Oates, Catriona Rennie, Lisa Vettese-Cruden, 2025
This article adds to the developing contemporary research base on the provision of one-to-one, or small group tutoring, to overcome the academic attainment gap ...
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April 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Excellent day. Successful Viva for my PhD student + new publication released:
doi.org/10.1177/2752...
doi.org/10.1177/2752...
Great afternoon at the launch of @centcs.bsky.social with local, national and international colleagues united in purpose of transformational change in schools. Good to see friends from social-media network days gone by! @annadbeck.bsky.social @drlaurenboath.bsky.social @charlainesi.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Great afternoon at the launch of @centcs.bsky.social with local, national and international colleagues united in purpose of transformational change in schools. Good to see friends from social-media network days gone by! @annadbeck.bsky.social @drlaurenboath.bsky.social @charlainesi.bsky.social
Hi to all the #MIEETeamScotland meeting up today. Sorry I missed you Sarah, Ros, @ajobpickard.bsky.social and the gang. Since it's bluesky, this seems appropriate.Greetings from the Dolomites!
February 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hi to all the #MIEETeamScotland meeting up today. Sorry I missed you Sarah, Ros, @ajobpickard.bsky.social and the gang. Since it's bluesky, this seems appropriate.Greetings from the Dolomites!
Third- save the date for an IPDA symposium in Scotland @Queen Margaret University. 10th May. More details to follow 👍🏼 @ipda-prof-learn.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Third- save the date for an IPDA symposium in Scotland @Queen Margaret University. 10th May. More details to follow 👍🏼 @ipda-prof-learn.bsky.social
Second - shameful self-promotion🤭 this was published today: Oates, C., & Mynott, J. P. (2025). More-than-human centred reflection: Addressing the fiction of reflective practice in teacher education. Research in Education, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0034... #reflectivepractice #teachereducation
More-than-human centred reflection: Addressing the fiction of reflective practice in teacher education - Catriona Oates, John Paul Mynott, 2025
This paper seeks to extend the debate around the contested concept of the ‘reflective practitioner.’ This concept has influenced practice-based learning across ...
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January 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Second - shameful self-promotion🤭 this was published today: Oates, C., & Mynott, J. P. (2025). More-than-human centred reflection: Addressing the fiction of reflective practice in teacher education. Research in Education, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0034... #reflectivepractice #teachereducation
A few updates incoming.....
First up: calling all teachers! Join us in IPDA Scotland for a lively in-conversation even with the authors on the recently published Teacher Workload report: ipda.org.uk/category/eve... #Teachers #Workload #ProfesssionalLearning #Retention
First up: calling all teachers! Join us in IPDA Scotland for a lively in-conversation even with the authors on the recently published Teacher Workload report: ipda.org.uk/category/eve... #Teachers #Workload #ProfesssionalLearning #Retention
5 February 2025: IPDA Scotland webinar on Teacher Workload Report
Date: 5 February 2025Time: 4:00-5.15pmRegister: Register your place with Zoom
IPDA Scotland warmly invites you to join us 'in conversation with the authors' of the recently published Teacher Worklo...
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January 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A few updates incoming.....
First up: calling all teachers! Join us in IPDA Scotland for a lively in-conversation even with the authors on the recently published Teacher Workload report: ipda.org.uk/category/eve... #Teachers #Workload #ProfesssionalLearning #Retention
First up: calling all teachers! Join us in IPDA Scotland for a lively in-conversation even with the authors on the recently published Teacher Workload report: ipda.org.uk/category/eve... #Teachers #Workload #ProfesssionalLearning #Retention
Returning from Oman for validation exercise. What a fantastic couple of days in so many ways. Not least the reminder of the upsides of academia: we belong to a vast international community. You can find new connections, colleagues, collaborative partnerships everywhere!
January 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Returning from Oman for validation exercise. What a fantastic couple of days in so many ways. Not least the reminder of the upsides of academia: we belong to a vast international community. You can find new connections, colleagues, collaborative partnerships everywhere!
Join us in IPDA Scotland 'in conversation with the authors' for our forthcoming webinar on the recently published Teacher Workload report: ipda.org.uk/5-february-2...
5 February 2025: IPDA Scotland webinar on Teacher Workload Report
Date: 5 February 2025Time: 4:00-5.15pmRegister: Register your place with Zoom
IPDA Scotland warmly invites you to join us 'in conversation with the authors' of the recently published Teacher Worklo...
ipda.org.uk
January 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Join us in IPDA Scotland 'in conversation with the authors' for our forthcoming webinar on the recently published Teacher Workload report: ipda.org.uk/5-february-2...
Happy New Year friends on Blue sky! If you're looking for some challenging thinking around the notion of 'degrowth' and Education for Sustainability, for the new year, try this: noredstudies.org/index.php/ns...
Education, Longing, and the Art of Keeping Life Going
This article offers a critical appraisal of the term degrowth by questioning some of its basic epistemological and ontological assumptions. Rather provocatively, we suggest that both education and deg...
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January 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Happy New Year friends on Blue sky! If you're looking for some challenging thinking around the notion of 'degrowth' and Education for Sustainability, for the new year, try this: noredstudies.org/index.php/ns...
Weekends are for breathing! Calm skies above the Allan Water today. Kingfisher flashed by. Robins, heron, ducks, geese, magpies and a border terrier 🤗
December 14, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Weekends are for breathing! Calm skies above the Allan Water today. Kingfisher flashed by. Robins, heron, ducks, geese, magpies and a border terrier 🤗
#TutorsOnTour are we still doing this?! Off to Newhaven for a couple of Y4 visits. Frosty start and first tutor visit on the tram for me!
December 11, 2024 at 8:30 AM
#TutorsOnTour are we still doing this?! Off to Newhaven for a couple of Y4 visits. Frosty start and first tutor visit on the tram for me!
@ruthsmckay.bsky.social so you're now on Orkney?! Lucky, lucky you. Hope things are great. Slightly jealous I have to say!
December 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM
@ruthsmckay.bsky.social so you're now on Orkney?! Lucky, lucky you. Hope things are great. Slightly jealous I have to say!
@makingcentsofit.bsky.social hi there - please add me to your #MIEE pack. Thanks;
November 24, 2024 at 10:22 PM
@makingcentsofit.bsky.social hi there - please add me to your #MIEE pack. Thanks;
Babies arguing in French has to be my favourite thing on the internet today😆
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November 22, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Babies arguing in French has to be my favourite thing on the internet today😆
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Good day today. One paper accepted with minor revisions and excellent feedback comments from reviewers 1&2🤗 and another paper submitted. Happy me.
November 22, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Good day today. One paper accepted with minor revisions and excellent feedback comments from reviewers 1&2🤗 and another paper submitted. Happy me.
I LOVE being part of the #DialogicTeaching group with colleagues from Health and S-L Therapy at QMU. Great discussions drawing on research& focussing on how we can enhance our #HE practices to develop participation, oracy, communication& student voice. Today we used #WeNeedToTalk for our stimulus
November 20, 2024 at 12:04 PM
I LOVE being part of the #DialogicTeaching group with colleagues from Health and S-L Therapy at QMU. Great discussions drawing on research& focussing on how we can enhance our #HE practices to develop participation, oracy, communication& student voice. Today we used #WeNeedToTalk for our stimulus
This is interesting with @neilselwyn.bsky.social and Dan Krutha- AI criticality, technoscepticsm, and digital resistance in schools. Do young people have rights to resist technology in schools? www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Raising a generation of techno-skeptical students - Education Technology Society
Dan Krutka (University of North Texas) is on a mission to support students, teachers and parents to think critically and make informed decisions about the digital tech in their lives.Dan talks about t...
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November 19, 2024 at 9:30 PM
This is interesting with @neilselwyn.bsky.social and Dan Krutha- AI criticality, technoscepticsm, and digital resistance in schools. Do young people have rights to resist technology in schools? www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Eamon has generously shared the keynote he delivered at our annual #IPDA2024 conference - be inspired👇🏽
“Sometimes in life you have to do things that you do not want to. Many times that’s what the hell life is; 1 vile, effing task after another.”
Al Swearengen _ Deadwood.
But sometimes you get to do things you really want to
And it feels like that’s all there is
One beautiful thing after another
Al Swearengen _ Deadwood.
But sometimes you get to do things you really want to
And it feels like that’s all there is
One beautiful thing after another
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Eamon has generously shared the keynote he delivered at our annual #IPDA2024 conference - be inspired👇🏽
Reposted by Catriona
I am deeply grateful to have spent such a rewarding time thinking and talking with members of the International Professional Development Association at their annual conference and to give a keynote talk at the the invitation of the wonderful @drcatrionao.bsky.social 🙏🏽
November 18, 2024 at 8:38 PM
I am deeply grateful to have spent such a rewarding time thinking and talking with members of the International Professional Development Association at their annual conference and to give a keynote talk at the the invitation of the wonderful @drcatrionao.bsky.social 🙏🏽