Colleen McLaughlin

Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability: insights from a cross-cultural teacher education programme tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Time to take break from Twitter. Time to take my head out of the sand

What happened to the common school inclusive of all children?

School exclusions rise by fifth in England in past year, study finds theguardian.com/education/arti…

Yoga time.. 😊 twitter.com/buitengebieden…

Conservatives left UK wide open to far-right violence, says former adviser theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Bye bye Bibby 👋

National Audit Office: Local authorities spending as much as half their budgets on homelessness, 145,800 children in temporary accommodation, 112,660 households in temporary accommodation in England. @Conservatives @michaelgove Michael Gove's legacy.

The return of the grown ups and ordinary language- gone the dept of levelling up. What a relief!

Meanwhile…

The Hartlepool headteacher trying to find beds for 10,000 sleep-deprived pupils #Echobox=1719725348" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/education/arti…

Yesterday, I visited the cemetery to see my daughter who passed away as a baby. As I was leaving, I noticed a man, He was talking to himself, carrying a sleeping bag, and it was evident that he was unwell and had nowhere else to go. The day was hot, and I watched him take a drink from the cemetery tap in the rear view mirror Driving home, I couldn’t get him out of my mind. Halfway there, I turned the car around and went to a food shop to get him some fish and chips along with two drinks. When I returned to the cemetery, he was still there. I gave him the food, and he asked me if I was his Aunt Stella. I tried to ask how he was doing, but he was often off-topic, clearly struggling with his health. Yet, he was polite and gentle Not gonna lie, I did cry How did we get here? How did we return to a time reminiscent of the Victorian era, where vulnerable people are left like this, In all the political posturing and noise, where is the care and support for the most vulnerable? As I left him, I realized I never asked his name. I wondered how long it had been since someone called him by his name, a basic form of recognition, acknowledging his humanity 📹the sleeping bag on a bench in the rear view mirror

Panda life.. 😅

As we vote in the UK General Election next Thursday I suggest that we should look for education policies based on the UNESCO principle, 'Every learner matters and matters equally'. The history of this global thinking can be read at: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0…

Wordle - The New York Times nytimes.com/games/wordle/i…

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Ok she's still angry. 😂😂

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Place2Be launches new bursary scheme to remove financial barriers for prospective child counsellors place2be.org.uk/about-us/news-…