@bobbymurray232.bsky.social
Educator, School leader, my views are most definitely my own 🤔
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Lol to the way old things get new names in education and then some people act as though they just invented them. 'Turn and talk' or what we used to call pair work or talk partners before the idea that group work was a bad thing got rammed down our throats. 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Lol to the way old things get new names in education and then some people act as though they just invented them. 'Turn and talk' or what we used to call pair work or talk partners before the idea that group work was a bad thing got rammed down our throats. 🙄
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Known unknowns: Exploring In-Service Teachers' Metacognitive Sensitivity and Efficiency: https://osf.io/49ynr
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Known unknowns: Exploring In-Service Teachers' Metacognitive Sensitivity and Efficiency: https://osf.io/49ynr
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This is brilliant from @lizrobinson.bsky.social - we need pluralism, diversity and autonomy across the schools system. And leaders who have the courage to be different, whatever that might look like.
'For too long, the fear of an adverse inspection judgement has been allowed to trump genuine pedagogical conviction': @lizrobinson.bsky.social on why the Francis review should empower schools to build their own curricula
Why the Francis review cannot become your curriculum template
The curriculum and assessment review should give schools permission to create an offer that truly delivers all a child needs, argues Liz Robinson
www.tes.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This is brilliant from @lizrobinson.bsky.social - we need pluralism, diversity and autonomy across the schools system. And leaders who have the courage to be different, whatever that might look like.
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🚨 LIBERAL OVERREACH
When applying our values backfires:
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When applying our values backfires:
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October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🚨 LIBERAL OVERREACH
When applying our values backfires:
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When applying our values backfires:
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Joel Mokyr won the Nobel prize today
Here is what I think he can teach us about improving schools:
samsims.education/2022/06/08/e...
Here is what I think he can teach us about improving schools:
samsims.education/2022/06/08/e...
Evidence, expertise, and the self-improving school system
(9 minute read) Rob Coe used his 2013 inaugural lecture at Durham to survey the evidence on long-run change in the performance of the English school system. He concluded that standards had not impr…
samsims.education
October 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Joel Mokyr won the Nobel prize today
Here is what I think he can teach us about improving schools:
samsims.education/2022/06/08/e...
Here is what I think he can teach us about improving schools:
samsims.education/2022/06/08/e...
I’d love to see this level of statistical understanding among the population at large, or even teachers in general. The important point for teachers to realise is that test scores are indicative, not descriptive or prescriptive surely?
100assessment.substack.com/p/why-school...
100assessment.substack.com/p/why-school...
Why Schools Don’t Report Uncertainty in Test Scores
Why “probably” is (probably) precise enough
100assessment.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’d love to see this level of statistical understanding among the population at large, or even teachers in general. The important point for teachers to realise is that test scores are indicative, not descriptive or prescriptive surely?
100assessment.substack.com/p/why-school...
100assessment.substack.com/p/why-school...
I think this has nicely summarised my fear of an education landscape dominated by MATs with packaged formulae which work…overall the bottom line may be up but does the lack of “messiness” provide a more vanilla diet that never captures or inspires to the same heights? And if so for how many?
Whether it is sport, using AI, or school improvement, this challenge to ‘Stop over-optimising everything’ really made me think.
thegrowtheq.com/stop-over-op...
thegrowtheq.com/stop-over-op...
Stop Over-Optimizing Everything - The Growth Equation
Since the glory days of Babe Ruth, with only a few dips here or there, home runs have been king in baseball. But over the past decade or so, an interesting phenomenon has occurred. Home runs are still...
thegrowtheq.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I think this has nicely summarised my fear of an education landscape dominated by MATs with packaged formulae which work…overall the bottom line may be up but does the lack of “messiness” provide a more vanilla diet that never captures or inspires to the same heights? And if so for how many?
What a fantastic and much needed dose of positivity from @strickomaster.bsky.social. It resonates because it is true!
There are lots of issues within education but I think it is important not to lose sight of hope…
samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/h...
samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/h...
Hope
”We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King Jnr Hope is not some sort of flimsy sentiment. It is not naïve. It is not fluffy. It is certainly not the re…
samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What a fantastic and much needed dose of positivity from @strickomaster.bsky.social. It resonates because it is true!
When NHS services that are designed to support CYP in school, with early help, (however limited they may be) require parental support and an acceptance of recording on a CYP’s NHS record this presents yet another barrier to uptake of preventative early help.
Public attitudes to mental health are sliding backwards.
New research from the @kingsioppn.bsky.social, commissioned by @mind.org.uk shows stigma towards mental illness has worsened for the first time in over a decade -returning to 2009 levels.
🔗 Read the full report: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...
New research from the @kingsioppn.bsky.social, commissioned by @mind.org.uk shows stigma towards mental illness has worsened for the first time in over a decade -returning to 2009 levels.
🔗 Read the full report: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...
Public attitudes to mental health are going backwards, warns Mind | King's College London
Public attitudes towards mental health and people with mental health problems are getting worse, according to new research.
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
When NHS services that are designed to support CYP in school, with early help, (however limited they may be) require parental support and an acceptance of recording on a CYP’s NHS record this presents yet another barrier to uptake of preventative early help.
It is so important for schools to be part of the solution for parents. How to do so in those areas with high suspicion of authority and institutions is the gnarly issue!
A new scoping review from King's College London and
@kingsmaudsley.bsky.social has found that parents are "overwhelmed" by the amount of conflicting parenting information they see online.
#IoPPNNews
#CYP #Families #ParentingSupport
@kingsmaudsley.bsky.social has found that parents are "overwhelmed" by the amount of conflicting parenting information they see online.
#IoPPNNews
#CYP #Families #ParentingSupport
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
It is so important for schools to be part of the solution for parents. How to do so in those areas with high suspicion of authority and institutions is the gnarly issue!
Couldn’t agree more!
I know that it can be really hard in education atm and I've definitely had a hectic week but then there are those moments when the people we work with make a real difference to children's lives and I'm still in love with the job. ♥️
October 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Couldn’t agree more!
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These are your words of the week
indigenous
visionary
triskaidekaphobia
remigrate
pococurante
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
indigenous
visionary
triskaidekaphobia
remigrate
pococurante
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
The Words of the Week - Oct. 17
Dictionary lookups from baseball, R&B, and Indigenous Peoples’ Day
www.merriam-webster.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
These are your words of the week
indigenous
visionary
triskaidekaphobia
remigrate
pococurante
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
indigenous
visionary
triskaidekaphobia
remigrate
pococurante
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
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Excellent work here from @geographicalassoc.bsky.social drawing together the lessons from the Ofsted subject reports into geography. A lot here for teachers and leaders to take away and reflect on.
geography.org.uk/standards-in...
geography.org.uk/standards-in...
Standards in school geography, 1991–2023 - Geographical Association
The new GA Research Report considers findings from a series of Ofsted reports on standards in school geography going back to the 1990s...
geography.org.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Excellent work here from @geographicalassoc.bsky.social drawing together the lessons from the Ofsted subject reports into geography. A lot here for teachers and leaders to take away and reflect on.
geography.org.uk/standards-in...
geography.org.uk/standards-in...
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Quite the spectacle to see media outlets who've cheered on austerity saying 'oh god, SEND spending is out of control'. Well, if you gut councils, fail to provide local special school spaces, collapse SureStart and leave public/collective transport to rot, that's what happens. Cuts are expensive
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Quite the spectacle to see media outlets who've cheered on austerity saying 'oh god, SEND spending is out of control'. Well, if you gut councils, fail to provide local special school spaces, collapse SureStart and leave public/collective transport to rot, that's what happens. Cuts are expensive
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I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well…
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well…
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”
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So if the Y8 reading test shows a teacher - who probably already knows - that the child is working below the “expected standard” (whatever they decide this is) for reading. Exactly what resources and expertise will the overstretched secondary school have to address this?
October 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
So if the Y8 reading test shows a teacher - who probably already knows - that the child is working below the “expected standard” (whatever they decide this is) for reading. Exactly what resources and expertise will the overstretched secondary school have to address this?
A great summary of why deliberate and joined up thinking of the curriculum is needed within every subject. The demands of the KS4 specifications would just be too much if you hadn’t already sequenced KS3 to lay the foundations and bridge the KS2 to 4 gap.
Ben Bishop and I wrote a Teaching Geography article on a similar theme: this is why we argue that a strategic approach to disciplinary literacy that makes the most of KS3 can be so valuable!
drpreece.home.blog/2022/10/02/g...
drpreece.home.blog/2022/10/02/g...
Geographical Literacy – a reflection
Literacy is the ability to communicate in all forms for all purposes. If we are literate, we have the reading, writing and oracy skills and knowledge needed for success in life. As Geographers, th…
drpreece.home.blog
October 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
A great summary of why deliberate and joined up thinking of the curriculum is needed within every subject. The demands of the KS4 specifications would just be too much if you hadn’t already sequenced KS3 to lay the foundations and bridge the KS2 to 4 gap.
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This has been one of those reports that makes you feel worse and worse as you uncover the layers of a system that just isn't working. Change is desperately needed so that all children can thrive in education without having to rely on parents spending money they may not even have to get support.
🚨 NEW: Children from low-income homes are more likely to have special educational needs and are also less likely to get the support they need, we have found.
Our new research reveals massive socio-economic inequalities in accessing support from a SEND system in crisis 🧵⤵️
Our new research reveals massive socio-economic inequalities in accessing support from a SEND system in crisis 🧵⤵️
October 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This has been one of those reports that makes you feel worse and worse as you uncover the layers of a system that just isn't working. Change is desperately needed so that all children can thrive in education without having to rely on parents spending money they may not even have to get support.
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All the Heads I know are on their knees, seeing children presenting with more complex needs than ever before, extreme behaviour and limited funding.
The majority of this is in EYFS and Year 1. So instead of announcing something to help this, we'll raise a target to add pressure.
The majority of this is in EYFS and Year 1. So instead of announcing something to help this, we'll raise a target to add pressure.
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
All the Heads I know are on their knees, seeing children presenting with more complex needs than ever before, extreme behaviour and limited funding.
The majority of this is in EYFS and Year 1. So instead of announcing something to help this, we'll raise a target to add pressure.
The majority of this is in EYFS and Year 1. So instead of announcing something to help this, we'll raise a target to add pressure.
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Plans are not more important than pupils
Recently I’ve heard colleagues say that they feel that they have to get through the content, particularly with bought in plans.
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Recently I’ve heard colleagues say that they feel that they have to get through the content, particularly with bought in plans.
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October 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Plans are not more important than pupils
Recently I’ve heard colleagues say that they feel that they have to get through the content, particularly with bought in plans.
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Recently I’ve heard colleagues say that they feel that they have to get through the content, particularly with bought in plans.
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🚨 NEW POST 🚨
‘Scaffolding and PEAL paragraphs’
“What should teachers do? Do paragraph plans, PEAL, and similar scaffolds have a place? Should we get rid and do things differently?”
alexquigley.co.uk/scaffolding-...
‘Scaffolding and PEAL paragraphs’
“What should teachers do? Do paragraph plans, PEAL, and similar scaffolds have a place? Should we get rid and do things differently?”
alexquigley.co.uk/scaffolding-...
Scaffolding and PEAL paragraphs
"Scaffolds are not intended to be permanent. If everyone has a scaffold all of the time, it's not a scaffold, it's just your lesson plan."
'The Scaffolding Effect', by Rachel Ball and Alex Fairlamb
...
alexquigley.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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‘Scaffolding and PEAL paragraphs’
“What should teachers do? Do paragraph plans, PEAL, and similar scaffolds have a place? Should we get rid and do things differently?”
alexquigley.co.uk/scaffolding-...
‘Scaffolding and PEAL paragraphs’
“What should teachers do? Do paragraph plans, PEAL, and similar scaffolds have a place? Should we get rid and do things differently?”
alexquigley.co.uk/scaffolding-...
What a thoughtful addition. Yes we want inclusive schools but the mechanisms and strategies we currently deploy seem too ineffective and often come from “educationally adjacent” professionals with little evidence or insight for the work and expectations they create.
October 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
What a thoughtful addition. Yes we want inclusive schools but the mechanisms and strategies we currently deploy seem too ineffective and often come from “educationally adjacent” professionals with little evidence or insight for the work and expectations they create.
I couldn’t help but think of OFSTED when I read this….harsh but having watched one of their webinars, which felt more like a Clockwork Orange piece of brainwashing, I am less convinced than ever 😩
To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
October 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I couldn’t help but think of OFSTED when I read this….harsh but having watched one of their webinars, which felt more like a Clockwork Orange piece of brainwashing, I am less convinced than ever 😩
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Welcome to our second post on authentic school culture...can't believe it's been almost a year since the first one! Thanks to
@teachertapp.bsky.social
for making the original post the blog of the day.
theeducakers.substack.com/p/authentic-...
@teachertapp.bsky.social
for making the original post the blog of the day.
theeducakers.substack.com/p/authentic-...
Authentic School Culture: A Second Slice
Sweating the Small Stuff: Where Excellence Lives
theeducakers.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Welcome to our second post on authentic school culture...can't believe it's been almost a year since the first one! Thanks to
@teachertapp.bsky.social
for making the original post the blog of the day.
theeducakers.substack.com/p/authentic-...
@teachertapp.bsky.social
for making the original post the blog of the day.
theeducakers.substack.com/p/authentic-...