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New Blog Post📝 For years I have had my PowerPoint and at the start of my career it was my crutch I found it difficult to deviate from. Now, I have changed my planning and found less of a need to stress over a PowerPoint. Link Below 👇

@teacherhead @josephkinnaird I’m buying

Congratulations @josephkinnaird This is superb!! 🔥🔥👏👏👏

@SwailesRuth Awesome!

Day 1 of this with the English hub today. I’ll be running it next year with several English hubs and some Local Authorities and MATS, check out your local one if you’re interested.

We've built plenty of knowledge-building programs for teachers (LETRS, most famously). Turns out knowledge alone doesn't make an expert. Expertise requires deliberate practice, and much of the profession finds deliberate practice condescending. For me, that's a culture problem.

Take a look at these end-of-the-year resources to finish strong! tolentinoteaching.kit.com/posts/fun-end-…

Two teachers can teach the same curriculum with the same activities—and get completely different results. Because in the end, it’s the teacher who brings the curriculum to life. There’s no way around that.

Don’t forget to note down the changes to bin collection next week due to the early May Bank Holiday. Stay up-to-date on bin collections and service changes on: orlo.uk/pbi9X

Brought to you by NATRE and RE Hubs, this FREE CPD is a fantastic opportunity for you as a RE Local Group Leader to explore how to deliver engaging and impactful meetings that support high-quality RE in schools. 📅 19 May 6.30pm to 8.00pm 🔗 bit.ly/4sKem8Y

It’s not only maths. Students aiming for 9 in English need (and deserve) to be taught differently from students aiming for a 4, who also deserve targeted strategies. No teacher can consistently deliver what a class of students on grades 1-9 need every lesson. We all know this.

The genius of great teaching lies in its simplicity. The tragedy of modern education is how complex we’ve made it. To be truly great, a teacher must resist the noise of fads, trends, and buzzwords—and return to the art of simplifying everything.

Andrew Huberman just shared a wild, science-backed trick to fall asleep when your mind is racing (and it takes 30 seconds): Close your eyes → Slowly move them side to side → Make slow counter-clockwise & clockwise circles → Look up, down → Try a gentle “cross-eyed” gaze toward the bridge of your nose → Exhale long and slow. Why it works: These eye movements signal your vestibular system & cerebellum to shut down proprioception (awareness of body position). You literally forget where your body is, racing thoughts quiet, and sleep onset accelerates. He says many people fall asleep faster this way — it’s not woo, it’s neuroscience (vestibular-ocular reflex + proprioceptive shutdown). Clip from this 5:54 masterclass — Huberman on why “just relax” never works, but this eye-movement sequence often does. Tried it yet? Did your brain finally shut off, or still racing? Drop your result below 👇 (and how many seconds it took)

@EnserMark I loved this Mark- thank you- complete agree. I'd love to see more SLT members saying yes to attending GCSE geography fieldwork. Why? 1. To support their geography teachers on the toughest days and 2. To stress test their school culture- just as you describe.

My students who are poor writers are also poor thinkers. Many are smart, but their ideas are sporadic, unfocused, and weak. This is why students MUST learn how to write clear and focused arguments. Writing trains the mind to think clearly and rationally.

Everybody knows that everybody is cheating. Universities have so many people with the words "strategy" and "AI" in their titles yet on this issue, they can't seem to think through what is going to happen beyond the end of next week.

A Chinese student who got into college showed off all the practice materials she had done in school...

Leadership can feel like constant decision-making. If you’ve got one decision stuck in your head this weekend, use Ask Charlie to get to a clear next step in 10 minutes. Try this prompt: • “Help me decide what to do next.” • Add 2–3 bullets of context • “Give me 3 options + your recommended next step.” Start here: headteacher-chat.link/ask-charlie

@SwailesRuth @FrankWNorris Ofsted is one thing but leaders in schools turn it up on teachers and this is where most of the trauma begins

@FrankWNorris Some people are so traumatised that they can't even speak about it without crying. That's even when they've met the "expected standard".

I have had similar calls. It is what drives me in trying to achieve reform in Ofsted's work.

My oldest dearest friend died today at 60 after 18 months fighting off cancer. He has a beautiful family. My heart goes out to them. We met aged 12… bonded over music and shared experience of bereavement .. his mum, my dad. We were in bands.. at school, in Manchester and recently regrouped in our 60s to make some epic tunes. Jules’ star burned brightly…an extraordinary man with a beautiful soul. We’re all devastated.. Jules.. i love you so much., we’ll miss you. You were magnificent. Xxx. on.soundcloud.com/gt31cCwDPmUpx5…

this is exactly why you don’t sit on your bed with your outside clothes on