Emily Rankin, Ed.S., FCCT

Fascinating keynote from ex-Marketing Director at Netflix @danirayner on fuelling fandom in our schools: - Design a moment worth remembering. - Turn students into storytellers. - Build something people can belong to. @ubiqeducation #UbiqX

Excellent session at @ubiqeducation’s #UbiqX on ditching the traditional Open Day in favour of personalised experiences. Thanks @EmileeAlexson for outlining how we can focus on atmosphere, joy and interaction in our schools. ubiqeducation.com/ubiq-x-live?ut…

Our fantastic librarian Ms Mowatt is running a December non-fiction Advent calendar where we can be the first to borrow a brand-new library book 📚⛄️ I was delighted to be drawn today; I got “The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching” by @Sue_Cowley !

This handy graphic on Education Change Management from @NZPPTA has proven valuable once again, this time while we planned a new student phone policy. Find the full change management guide here: ppta.org.nz/about-ppta/pub…

What a joy to be published in @edutopia, this time on how to help our students submit their best work! Aim to: - Model excellence - Make it authentic - Scaffold to avoid procrastination - Maintain high expectations edutopia.org/article/how-en…

I feel a bit like Sisyphus with learning French, but I’ll keep trying! Thanks @jillberry102 for sharing 🎤

It was a joy watching our cross-country runners this morning in Waterloo, BE. Love being part of our St. John's International School community! Go Lions!🦁

What is the effect of giving children smartphones before the age of 13? It's bad. Strongly associated with poorer mental health and wellbeing. BUT the evidence is largely correlational. What does this mean? 🧵⬇️

@SoLInTheWild How kind of you to share your incredible work! Cheers!

Unit 0: Learning How to Learn is done! I’m sharing the booklet with a few disclaimers. The booklet includes the following sections: ✔️Part 1: Memory ✔️Part 2: Retrieval Practice ✔️Part 3: Learning Myths ✔️Part 4: Metacognition ✔️Part 5: How Our Brains Learn ✔️Exam Revision Guide

@Headteacherchat Don’t stress if new systems and platforms feel overwhelming; you’ll learn to use them in due time and will have lots of kind people around the help you until you do

#edutwitter, if you could give a teacher starting in a new school in September one piece of advice. What would it be?

Maslow for educators in summertime!

Summer break has found us in Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Here, cousins are taking a dip in Flathead Lake, MT - bliss!

This is a huge amount of data showing very strong correlational links between early smartphone exposure and poor mental health and wellbeing. It’s getting harder to ignore the urgency of serious preemptive action to be taken to protect children from a danger that we buy for them as a present.

Loved the reminder that routines build confidence, mini whiteboards need clear expectations, and error analysis drives reasoning. The “we do” phase is where the magic happens. And vocab in maths deserves the same care as in English. Fab, @learnwithmrlee!

5 AI Pitfalls / Move the Furniture / Math Hints Help / Fast-Tracking Potential / Teach with Game Design / Math Perceptions / Ledecky Grad Speech / Dan Pink’s Top Books / How to Block Porn / 7/3/2025 drdouggreen.com/2025/musk-on-e… @edutopia @TeachRankin

@engteacherabro2 Wowza! How do you guide colleagues to use them? Hope you’re well!

Assessment folders set up for all departments with key assessment docs and information, ready for Heads of Dept to steer. Big job. Ticked off...now for English planning...

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Experts say 'the characteristics of good pedagogy for children with SEND aren’t all that different from good pedagogy, full stop'. So why isn’t everyone already doing it? We investigate the key issues that could be holding inclusive practice back ⬇️ tes.com/magazine/teach…

A parent sent me news about how schools in Estonia are progressively using #AI. This, combined with my team's continued work on AI Policy at St. John's International School and my own teaching experience, sparked this @edutopia article; feedback welcome! edutopia.org/article/avoidi…

@united my flight is significantly delayed which means I won’t catch connecting flights, but I’ve been on hold with customer service (on the phone and on computer chat) for ages - help!!!!