Rebecca Bailey

@bones_carmel @TracyBorman @AQA I loved listening to her speak at the recent Hampton court study day with our 6th formers! X

Very excited to incorporate the #scholarship of @TracyBorman into my forthcoming Spanish Armada webinars fascinating 🧐 …Mary Queen of Scots, Philip II, Parma, planning, Piracy 🏴‍☠️ 🔥 preparations, PR, propaganda, Protestantism, let’s make the 2027 @AQA #GCSEHistory easy peasy 💪🏽

Leadership | Women and the Practice of Leadership saysmiss.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/wom…

@SaysMiss @MrsBallAP This is an excellent article x

🌟 New blogpost: 8 Tips for SENDCOs to Drive Teaching and Learning for Pupils with SEND Comments and reposts appreciated sendmatters.co.uk/2026/04/12/8-t…

“We have made a fetish of the more visible things that can be seen in lessons” says @C_Hendrick YEP 👏 #rEDBrum

We’re inviting all RE teachers to take part in a short survey. Complete the survey for teachers by 27 Feb will get up to 5 free resources from NATRE as a thank you!👇 🔗 RE Hubs teacher survey bit.ly/3XjAj0i 🔗 RE Hubs stakeholder survey bit.ly/497qCJG

Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...

👉Don't forget, if you are a state-school teacher, we are offering travel bursaries to ensure that all teachers across the country have the opportunity to attend. Simply follow the link here to apply: forms.office.com/pages/response… #classics #cpd

@Samstricko181 Here it is teachreal.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/sho…

The activity fallacy: an obsession with instructional novelty has produced a strange inversion of priorities. Teachers are sent on courses to acquire new “strategies,” to diversify their repertoire of techniques. Meanwhile, the curriculum they are teaching may be completely incoherent, the sequence arbitrary, the assessment disconnected from both. This is what @Counsell_C calls an “intransitive pedagogy”; a pedagogy without an object.

Meant the world this ❤️

Accurate. 💯

@XpatEducator Yes please!

🎁 Just published: Free Christmas Gift! ⚗️ DistillED Playbook → 30 page, printable A4 booklet → 6 high-impact teaching strategies → Strategy checklists → QR codes to planning resources → Built from the most-read DistillED posts this year. If you want a copy, comment below and I’ll DM you the PDF. ⏰ Free until Boxing Day.

🚨 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 We're so excited that Steve Mastin will return for another keynote conversation at #Soane26. He will speak with Prof Sir Richard J. Evans about his newest book, 'Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich.' Get tickets now. Link below! 👇

@C_Hendrick Here's a slice of text from #OpeningWorlds Year 6 Spring 1 history. Words in bold are taught this lesson. Every other word you see which is tricky has been taught thoroughly in Years 3, 4 or 5. We write texts in order to deliberately meet those words again, again and again.

🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨 Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25. Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today. Presenters & link below 👇

@LauraLolder From a parent of a year 11, thank you!

🚨 NEW LANG P1 PACK - FREE 8 AQA Papers modified for the new specification - but formatted the same as how the papers will look. Here > #new-language-paper-1-booklet-2026" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">laurawebbcpd.com/resources/#new… Hope it's useful.

Outstanding talk by Michael Fordham, principal at @ThetfordAcaduk on role of curriculum in school improvement. Beware trying to take assurance from subject leaders using generic criteria, instead of listening to distinctive structures, rhythms & roles of subjects. #TransformEd