Sarah Morgan

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Sarah Morgan

Sarah Morgan

@MeasuredEd

Helping teachers stay in the job without losing themselves. Burnout, boundaries & better systems. Author of Teaching Without Burnout and mum of two.

Katılım Ekim 2022
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@LisaBritton It’s a good reminder that slogans feel harmless until you imagine them landing on the other child. If a message wouldn’t sit comfortably when the words are flipped, it’s probably worth a second thought. Our future isn’t a competition — it’s shared.
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Tom Bennett OBE
Tom Bennett OBE@tombennett71·
If more people outside of education could see what can happen inside schools, there would be a much bigger constituency for change. Part of the problem is that people outside the sector find it hard to grasp how challenging it is to manage a room with 25 children when some of them don’t care to do as they are asked.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@FixingEducation Life has consequences. When schools water them down, we give young people a false picture of the world they’re heading into. It’s exhausting for teachers—but it also lets down the students who are trying to do the right thing.
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Fixing Education
Fixing Education@FixingEducation·
Schools are now structured so that the overwhelming number of student misbehaviors essentially have ZERO consequences. This is horrible for teachers…but it’s even worse for the students who want to learn!
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@educator4ever36 Exactly. Being the most exhausted person in the building isn’t something to aspire to. The best gravestone in the cemetery isn’t a goal or an achievement.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@Homeschool_LLC I don’t know about winning. Opting out isn’t a victory - it’s often a last resort. If public schools are struggling, that’s something to fix, not celebrate.
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Homeschool Life LLC | Jonathan Prescott
Homeschool Life LLC | Jonathan Prescott@Homeschool_LLC·
10 years ago: “Homeschooling?! I don’t think I could ever do that.” 2026: “Public school?! I could never put my kids in that environment.” We are winning.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@FixingEducation Sadly true. When a profession feels unsustainable, people don’t just leave—they stop knocking on the door in the first place.
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Fixing Education
Fixing Education@FixingEducation·
School districts are currently concerned with ‘The Great Resignation’. While this is an issue, it’s not the bottom. Next, they’ll be dealing with ‘The Never Applying in the First Place’.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@Starbored3 @adamboxer1 Which raises the real question: who is the feedback actually for—Ofsted, Estyn, the school, or the pupil? An evidence culture is slowly killing teacher autonomy and the natural rhythm of learning.
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Starbored
Starbored@Starbored3·
@MeasuredEd @adamboxer1 Dt - most feedback is verbal, yet if the student's booklet has no comment in it the student has had no feedback. Ofsted don't care what feedback is so long as it matches a school's policy. Schools tie themselves in knots with feedback to 'look good' and have power over teachers.
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Adam Boxer
Adam Boxer@adamboxer1·
New post: Are book looks a waste of time? For some, they are a meaningless scourge. For others, they are a vital accountability lever that provides insight into the lived curriculum. Read on for more, and please share if you can! Link in reply
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@MrARobbins Teaching goes in circles - initiatives get rebranded and resold. Same ideas, different labels.
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Adam Robbins
Adam Robbins@MrARobbins·
I feel like I'm slowly becoming one of those 'we've done this for years' types. Lots of new blogs on substack etc.. covering things I thought were already settled with plenty of blogs and books already. I guess people don't search for old stuff and writing helps processing 🤷
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@Homeschool_LLC So it’s not a fool’s errand at all. I’ve supported - and seen - many (thousands) mixed-ability learners go on to successful careers. This feels less like a genuine point and more like bait to drive engagement.
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Homeschool Life LLC | Jonathan Prescott
Homeschool Life LLC | Jonathan Prescott@Homeschool_LLC·
Sending your kid to public school “to be a light” is a fool’s errand. Children are neither trained nor equipped to mentally and emotionally “fight the system” and at the same time, take instruction from it. Your children are not cannon fodder for the culture war.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@H_Thompson96 @adamboxer1 If the data shows pupils are making exceptional progress, does it really matter if the books don’t look pretty?
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Harrison Thompson
Harrison Thompson@H_Thompson96·
I remember teachers before a book scrutiny glueing in worksheets, underlining titles and ticking every page in the book. I remember one policy in a school was students needed to have two pages of work a lesson in their books. Teachers would then do more copying and glueing.
Adam Boxer@adamboxer1

New post: Are book looks a waste of time? For some, they are a meaningless scourge. For others, they are a vital accountability lever that provides insight into the lived curriculum. Read on for more, and please share if you can! Link in reply

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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@UnofficialOA Very amusing - and very true. You also forgot the constant demand for water. Honestly, how did we ever survive back in the day? People don’t realise any of this until they’re standing in front of a class of 32.
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Teacher's Manual
Teacher's Manual@UnofficialOA·
*see quotation marks. (An ECT).
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Teacher's Manual
Teacher's Manual@UnofficialOA·
“Every time I start talking I am interrupted, turn by turn, by at least 8 pupils. I can’t even give an explanation. When they’re finally silent for 30s, 3 pupils will raise their hand to ask to go the toilet or an inane off topic Q. Repeat for an hour. I’m quitting.”
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Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@Homeschool_LLC I’ve taught for 22+ years, lead SEND, work with external agencies, and hold an MA in Ed Psych. This is about child development—which is why turning kids into culture-war shock absorbers isn’t resilience, it’s adult projection.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
This isn’t a SEND issue, it’s a leadership one. When boundaries aren’t enforced, students learn exactly where the line isn’t. It undermines staff, erodes trust, and teaches kids that systems are optional if you push hard enough. How is that preparing anyone for real life?
Wendy@teachthemx3

I have a student in my behavior class who calls his assistant principal his “bro” because he knows the AP won’t assign real discipline consequences. One day, this student verbally assaulted a paraprofessional, then laughed and said, “What are you gonna do? [AP’s name] won’t do anything to me.” He is right. SPED students get 10 days out of placement (suspension, ISS, DAEP) before an MDR. In an MDR, if the behavior is linked to their disability, the student cannot receive consequences. This student is labeled “emotionally disturbed.” Even though verbal assault violates the Code of Conduct, it is linked to his disability, so no consequences are assigned. The student knows this and uses it as a free pass to do as he pleases.

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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@TolentinoTeach Unpopular add-on: “chunked” lessons are an arbitrary rule. If you don’t know the learner, you can’t dictate pacing. Bell-to-bell often creates distracted busyness—deep focus, then movement, works better.
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Brian Tolentino M.Ed
Brian Tolentino M.Ed@TolentinoTeach·
Unpopular opinion: Bell-to-bell instruction often creates “distracted busyness.” Sure, students look on task, and it seems like learning is happening. But there’s a better way—let students go all in on one focused task, give it their best effort, no distractions. Then play a game. Or take a walk. Focused effort followed by movement is the best method for deep, focused work.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@SoLInTheWild @MFLEvans Another truth: many “high-engagement” lessons are performative—designed for observers, not learners. They look impressive but aren’t sustainable. Simple, explicit lessons look dull from the back of the room, yet they’re often the ones students learn most from.
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SoL in the Wild
SoL in the Wild@SoLInTheWild·
One of the biggest drivers in my shift toward explicit instruction has been simplifying everything. I used to try to gamify, activify, and engagify every lesson—bells, whistles, and all. It wasn’t sustainable, and it wasn’t especially effective. I taught under the impression that I had to “make it fun.” One of the best lessons I taught all year happened today, and here’s what it required: a visualizer, a blank outline map of the Caribbean, and all the critical content I know to explicitly teach my students with. That’s it. Add in lots of questions, choral response, turn-and-talk, concrete examples, active observation, and show calls, and you have everything you need for an effective and engaging lesson. In previous years, I would have turned this simple Caribbean geography lesson into a high-energy, activity-based experience: stations, a gallery walk, or some kind of puzzle or game. There would be movement, noise, and “engagement,” but most of the new information would be lost in the shuffle. Working memory would be so overloaded that very little would actually stick. Now I know teaching explicitly and simply is the most effective way to make learning happen.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@StevenBartlett That plateau isn’t death, it’s a pause. You don’t have to jump off the cliff — you can build a path down using everything you already know. Expertise isn’t wasted when you begin again. It’s the handrail.
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Steven Bartlett
Steven Bartlett@StevenBartlett·
People get stuck in their 30s because they feel too qualified to start over and too bored to stay put. 10 year of expertise becomes a golden cage. The distance between expert and beginner feels like falling off a cliff. So you stay on the plateau, slowly dying of comfort.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan@MeasuredEd·
@TolentinoTeach Classroom management matters, of course—but it isn’t the foundation. Relationships, curriculum design, leadership, SEND support, and school culture all shape behaviour. Reducing teaching to “control the room” ignores how complex learning actually is.
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Brian Tolentino M.Ed
Brian Tolentino M.Ed@TolentinoTeach·
Classroom management is the foundation of teaching K-12. No curriculum or teaching method will work if the teacher can’t manage the class.
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Mr P MBE
Mr P MBE@ICT_MrP·
On Loose Women today they were talking about teachers having a bit more flexibility despite the holidays. We’re living in a world where more and more jobs are hybrid, flexible and built around real life. Teaching is one of the few professions that hasn’t moved with the times.
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