Matt Koster-Marcon
@mattkostermarcon.bsky.social
Former teacher. Founding CEO at Learning Ladders Education.
I help schools improve student progress with better assessment data and parental involvement systems.
Also Vice Chair of BESA | SHS Trustee | Chair of Governors.
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #EduIS
I help schools improve student progress with better assessment data and parental involvement systems.
Also Vice Chair of BESA | SHS Trustee | Chair of Governors.
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #EduIS
This week I'm recording a podcast with Jenny Anderson, author of The Disengaged Teen.
✅ Why so many students are quietly switching off
✅ What the research really says about mental health and motivation
✅ How schools can reconnect with a generation that’s demanding something different.
Link 👇
✅ Why so many students are quietly switching off
✅ What the research really says about mental health and motivation
✅ How schools can reconnect with a generation that’s demanding something different.
Link 👇
June 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This week I'm recording a podcast with Jenny Anderson, author of The Disengaged Teen.
✅ Why so many students are quietly switching off
✅ What the research really says about mental health and motivation
✅ How schools can reconnect with a generation that’s demanding something different.
Link 👇
✅ Why so many students are quietly switching off
✅ What the research really says about mental health and motivation
✅ How schools can reconnect with a generation that’s demanding something different.
Link 👇
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In the #UAE and don't want to spend days preparing data for inspections?
You'll love our new Pre-Inspection Dashboard and Report!
Everything you need to present to KHDA/ADEC created in one click.
Email your account manager, or to sign up for 25/26 book a demo via the website.
#CollabUAE #EduSky
You'll love our new Pre-Inspection Dashboard and Report!
Everything you need to present to KHDA/ADEC created in one click.
Email your account manager, or to sign up for 25/26 book a demo via the website.
#CollabUAE #EduSky
April 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In the #UAE and don't want to spend days preparing data for inspections?
You'll love our new Pre-Inspection Dashboard and Report!
Everything you need to present to KHDA/ADEC created in one click.
Email your account manager, or to sign up for 25/26 book a demo via the website.
#CollabUAE #EduSky
You'll love our new Pre-Inspection Dashboard and Report!
Everything you need to present to KHDA/ADEC created in one click.
Email your account manager, or to sign up for 25/26 book a demo via the website.
#CollabUAE #EduSky
Reposted by Matt Koster-Marcon
Teacher Tapp wants to learn more about the experiences of teachers taking parental leave - but we need your insight!
You're the experts.
What questions should we be asking? Let us know what we should delve into! 👇✨
You're the experts.
What questions should we be asking? Let us know what we should delve into! 👇✨
March 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Teacher Tapp wants to learn more about the experiences of teachers taking parental leave - but we need your insight!
You're the experts.
What questions should we be asking? Let us know what we should delve into! 👇✨
You're the experts.
What questions should we be asking? Let us know what we should delve into! 👇✨
Reposted by Matt Koster-Marcon
Sharing the realities of #AiInEdu this week on 🎯 #TopTips
📚 "AI Knows Everything"
Why? AI sounds confident but is only as good as its training data.
Reality: It hallucinates and fabricates information, especially in niche subjects. Always verify sources!
#EdTech #AiInEdu #AiMythBusting
📚 "AI Knows Everything"
Why? AI sounds confident but is only as good as its training data.
Reality: It hallucinates and fabricates information, especially in niche subjects. Always verify sources!
#EdTech #AiInEdu #AiMythBusting
March 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Sharing the realities of #AiInEdu this week on 🎯 #TopTips
📚 "AI Knows Everything"
Why? AI sounds confident but is only as good as its training data.
Reality: It hallucinates and fabricates information, especially in niche subjects. Always verify sources!
#EdTech #AiInEdu #AiMythBusting
📚 "AI Knows Everything"
Why? AI sounds confident but is only as good as its training data.
Reality: It hallucinates and fabricates information, especially in niche subjects. Always verify sources!
#EdTech #AiInEdu #AiMythBusting
Reposted by Matt Koster-Marcon
Who knew ?🤷♂️
Primary pupils in areas where most schools are run by the local authority are 10 times more likely to receive an education, health and care plan than those in the most academised areas, @edupolicyinst.bsky.social research shows.
Read the full story ⬇️
Read the full story ⬇️
‘Markedly’ fewer EHCPs in highly academised areas
Under-recognition of SEND is also more likely for girls with emotional disorders and persistent absentees, research finds
www.tes.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Who knew ?🤷♂️
Reposted by Matt Koster-Marcon
Very chuffed to be awarded this at the BETT Show last week, our third award for Assessment and Progress Monitoring.
Find out how we can help your school get on top of your data and local inspection requirements (International) - just google 'Learning Ladders' and book a free demo.
Find out how we can help your school get on top of your data and local inspection requirements (International) - just google 'Learning Ladders' and book a free demo.
January 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Very chuffed to be awarded this at the BETT Show last week, our third award for Assessment and Progress Monitoring.
Find out how we can help your school get on top of your data and local inspection requirements (International) - just google 'Learning Ladders' and book a free demo.
Find out how we can help your school get on top of your data and local inspection requirements (International) - just google 'Learning Ladders' and book a free demo.
Reposted by Matt Koster-Marcon
Don't forget to repost interesting things as you scroll through your TL. You won't see it in your notifications but the OP will! It's up to us to make #bluesky active.
January 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Don't forget to repost interesting things as you scroll through your TL. You won't see it in your notifications but the OP will! It's up to us to make #bluesky active.
Reposted by Matt Koster-Marcon
Very chuffed to pick up this #BETTAward last night - testament to all the great work done by the team at Learning Ladders 🥳
#edusky #BETTshow2025
#edusky #BETTshow2025
January 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Very chuffed to pick up this #BETTAward last night - testament to all the great work done by the team at Learning Ladders 🥳
#edusky #BETTshow2025
#edusky #BETTshow2025
Exclusive: Academy trust which has generated income of more than £12m from phonics product starts “investigation into its tax status”
www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173356/...
Wandle Learning Trust reveals it should have been registered for VAT, in latest accounts.
www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173356/...
Wandle Learning Trust reveals it should have been registered for VAT, in latest accounts.
January 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Very chuffed to pick up this #BETTAward last night - testament to all the great work done by the team at Learning Ladders 🥳
#edusky #BETTshow2025
#edusky #BETTshow2025
January 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Very chuffed to pick up this #BETTAward last night - testament to all the great work done by the team at Learning Ladders 🥳
#edusky #BETTshow2025
#edusky #BETTshow2025
See you all in Dubai!
November 10, 2024 at 9:23 AM
See you all in Dubai!
Honoured to be re-elected to the Executive Council by members of BESA, the trade body for all UK Suppliers to the education industry.
Thanks very much ☺️
Thanks very much ☺️
November 7, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Honoured to be re-elected to the Executive Council by members of BESA, the trade body for all UK Suppliers to the education industry.
Thanks very much ☺️
Thanks very much ☺️
Yep we go most Saturday mornings for an hour or so and always bump into kids' friends, they all share book tips.
Very luck to have a fab, vibrant local library.
Very luck to have a fab, vibrant local library.
"The library is somewhere where you can go with your kids, and the kids can see other kids.
"That human contact is so important."
Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on why libraries are not only important places to gain literacy skills, but key social spaces too: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"That human contact is so important."
Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on why libraries are not only important places to gain literacy skills, but key social spaces too: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Libraries important for human contact, Children's Laureate says
Libraries are spaces
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Yep we go most Saturday mornings for an hour or so and always bump into kids' friends, they all share book tips.
Very luck to have a fab, vibrant local library.
Very luck to have a fab, vibrant local library.
Good to see this getting the coverage it needs.
Top story in today's Guardian.
Top story in today's Guardian.
August 27, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Good to see this getting the coverage it needs.
Top story in today's Guardian.
Top story in today's Guardian.
Dance music, overpriced drinks, entry wristbands, toilets that you don't dare use, fear of losing those you love.
Who needs a weekender in Ibiza.
When there's soft play 🤪
#BankHoliday #edusky
Who needs a weekender in Ibiza.
When there's soft play 🤪
#BankHoliday #edusky
August 24, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Dance music, overpriced drinks, entry wristbands, toilets that you don't dare use, fear of losing those you love.
Who needs a weekender in Ibiza.
When there's soft play 🤪
#BankHoliday #edusky
Who needs a weekender in Ibiza.
When there's soft play 🤪
#BankHoliday #edusky
Has #PinkShirtThursday #EducatorsInPink made it to #edusky (showing support for cancer research and those affected by cancer)?
Hope so, or this will be a very odd post!
Hope so, or this will be a very odd post!
August 22, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Has #PinkShirtThursday #EducatorsInPink made it to #edusky (showing support for cancer research and those affected by cancer)?
Hope so, or this will be a very odd post!
Hope so, or this will be a very odd post!
Reposted by Matt Koster-Marcon
Oh this is beautiful.
Worth the time.
Worth the time.
BLOG: Whakapapa! Or reflecting on your moment in the sun.
Another repeat, but a couple of you fine people might have previously missed it. #Edusky #Education #Leadership
southgloshead.wordpress.com/2023/07/01/w...
Another repeat, but a couple of you fine people might have previously missed it. #Edusky #Education #Leadership
southgloshead.wordpress.com/2023/07/01/w...
Whakapapa: reflections on our moment in the sunlight.
Blackhorse County Primary School Opening Day 1958. “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there..." and almost always worse... I have been guilty of a great many lazy thoughts over...
southgloshead.wordpress.com
August 20, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Oh this is beautiful.
Worth the time.
Worth the time.