Natasha Porter OBE

@grahamchatterl2 Putting aside that preventing reoffending is not the sole purpose of our CJ system, and nor should it be, taking a binary “custody bad, community good” approach is not how we best prevent reoffending at the individual level.

@NPorter_ Absolutely and I'd be amazed if this hasn't happened initially, but custodial sentences are much less successful at preventing reoffending I wish there was a middle ground but it seems to be short term vs long term I want to do everything possible to prevent reoffending

The clamour to lock up children is getting out of hand. I'm not defending what they did and any additional needs are not an excuse, but they are a contributing explanation. The impulse control and emotional regulation of these boys is likely that of 9/10 year olds...

Providing individual written feedback to students in a class of 25 is time-consuming. Some teachers are invested in this process but I'm not aware of evidence to support this over less intensive approaches. Am I up to date on this, @dylanwiliam?

@JoshuaNewton @Dyson They are super nice

WOW!! First time seeing @Dyson strawberries in the supermarket. Fully nerding out and losing my mind

@sofiageyer Absolutely not the take away from this evidence briefing which finds that these interventions simply don’t work regardless of how they are implemented! There are good next steps towards finding other solutions in the source paper though: steplab.co/news/common-se…

Porque ninguna de las estrategias que se mencionan acá abajo... Fueron diseñadas para ser usadas como una "técnica única". Deberían ser parte de un diseño individual y plan de tratamiento adecuado a cada alumno, con alguien que pueda ir midiendo avances.

@VeerleLauranda Steplab published today steplab.co/news/common-se…

@NPorter_ What’s the source of this document please?

See a number of these being used in prison education too. Good to have such a clearly laid out document to myth bust around some of these!

Grateful to all the Met police officers working to keep London peaceful and safe today

@wdbp @adamboxer1 We definitely had study leave for year 11 in the mid to late 2000s…

@NPorter_ @adamboxer1 No you didn't because study leave hasn't existed for over fifteen years.

Is study leave fair? When I worked in middle class schools, Year 11 and 13 were gone from more or less the first week after Easter. By this point in the year, I probably would have had over 20 hours of "gain time" already. I could have spent that time developing our curriculum, observing others, reading, arriving a bit later, leaving a bit earlier. Having a more relaxed time in lunch and break. Now, I work in a school where we don't do that. Year 11 are in till the last exam. Year 13 are in till the last exam. The pace doesn't change, in fact it accelerates in this critical pre-exam period. And then, when they're gone, it'll be end of years for everyone else, and I won't have that nice relaxing time to catch up on all the jobs I never had time to do. This, surely, is a systemic inequality. Schools with "study leave" already have a lot of perks, and get to offer their staff something that schools serving a poorer demographic don't. That doesn't seem fair to me.

@ellarachelrose @Ezra_Cohen_ @UKLabour Sorry to read this Ella. What an impressive legacy of service to your community you are leaving behind though.

I’m proud of my record of service and delivery and what we’ve achieved over the past four years both in Whetstone and in Barnet. Whilst I’ve not been re-elected, I know my residents are truly well served by @Ezra_Cohen_, an exceptional @UKLabour Councillor.

@teacherhead Eek! Excited to hear your thoughts - really hope you enjoy! Don’t forget to use the QR codes for the videos too… 🎥🎥🎥

Whoop @NPorter_ .. look what I got …

@Spa_town National pupil database is government held, individual pupil level data from the school census since 2006. Lots of prison childhood data, especially historically, is only self reported and often from a very small number of prisoners. NPD is much more reliable.

@NPorter_ What’s NPD in this context? I found the .gov.uk page for the study but that didn’t clarify.

Only 9% of people in prison have 5+ GCSEs and only 2% have passed 2+ A levels. About 2/3 of adults in prison are functionally illiterate. Academic attainment is one of the most powerful protective factors.

Perhaps next we could be really angry at those schools where kids are failing to get 5 good GCSEs and it is just being accepted as inevitable because of the challenges they face?

@SBuckEnglish @researchEDGsy Thanks Sarah!

@NPorter_ @researchEDGsy So glad you came along. I saw you present in London. We can learn so much from your work.

Delighted to be presenting at the inaugural @researchEDGsy. I’ll be sharing what lessons schools can learn about engaging some of the hardest to reach children from the best professional practice in our prisons from our book Leading Prison Landings.

@teacherhead @researchEDGsy @ValentinaDevid @toetsrevolutie Great session! Was thinking about how it applies to team training too…

Thanks to everyone who came to my session at @researchEDGsy . For more info on Formative Action follow @ValentinaDevid @toetsrevolutie and get the book : amazon.co.uk/Formative-acti…

@RemIsBuzzin @daisychristo @researchEDGsy But also if there almost no chance of getting caught, and the end grade is likely to be much higher, there’s a clear incentive

@RemIsBuzzin @daisychristo @researchEDGsy Indeed. Daisy described this as being like driving a car instead of running a marathon route to get to the finish line quicker, or using a forklift to lift weights at the gym for you…

Some people will be graduating university with humanities degrees this summer who have never written an essay themselves. AI has made cheating the best option for a median level university student, says @daisychristo in her keynote at @researchEDGsy