Maria Kasandrinou

I had a great time presenting @researchED1 and thoroughly enjoyed the thought provoking sessions by Patrick McHugh on how research can support middle leaders and @daisychristo on what AI can & can do. #ResearchEd25

🎉 BOOK GIVEAWAY 🎉 To celebrate the successful publication of ‘Literacy Essentials for every Teacher’ I’m giving away 3 copies on my social media platforms (LinkedIn, X & Facebook). Simply Like and/or comment in the thread to be enter. I’ll be drawing winners l Sun 18th May

🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 I have 2 copies of ‘Teacher Hacks: English’ to give away! Give this a retweet and @HughesHaili and I will pick 2 winners at random on Friday. @HLearningPD

NEW RESOURCE: A final set of revision slides for Language Paper 1. Hopefully useful for the exam this week! Uses an adjusted paper by the brilliant @DoWise. Help yourselves - use/chuck/change as you see fit! dropbox.com/scl/fo/3shqtkw…

The IPDA Conference is a welcoming event with a sense of community often missed at larger events. The variety and international element make it great to offer a new perspective. Tickets on sale with a 15% earlybird discount. We'd love to see you there! ipda.org.uk/ipda-internati…

dropbox.com/scl/fo/y9jo9wf… Christmas Carol: characters other than Scrooge pwprpts html files quotations explored, self marking  #TeamEnglish  revision materials or classroom ( v2 versions have been randomised answers in the multiple choice hinge and end questions )

dropbox.com/scl/fo/9ritg51… Macbeth leadership essay / revision stuff - based on extract question  shared by @LauraLolder - (either for 2025 or for this year)- thanks as rever for all you share,  Laura . #TeamEnglish

dropbox.com/scl/fo/ay62jld… 2 sets of things for collapse : ACC and Macbeth - used as LANG texts for AQA paper1 . Word doc for kids , html for teacher . #TeamEnglish might just turn the html to powerpts at some stage

A one-pager with bits that I want students to remember for the GCSE English Literature exams. It’s obviously stuff that needs to be expanded upon, but it should hopefully be useful as the basis for a final lesson or two before it all begins douglaswise.co.uk/blog/literatur… 🖊️

Thank you again to whomever had shared the amazing one-pagers last year. I've replicated the style once more to create similar ones on inference and conventions and welcome any feedback. drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fold…

Another one-pager aimed at KS3, created in the same style as previously used, focusing on writers perspectives, attitudes and ideas. Feedback very much invited, and thank you in advance. drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fold…

Paper 2, Q4 - Conveying writers perspectives. drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fold…

The third post of the #LeadershipHandbook is now available 1️⃣ The first post takes a look at a critical condition for improvement and how we can get more of it: trust. mrnickhart.substack.com/p/leadership-h… 1/4

It's the Easter holidays (2026), and I have two copies of Primary Reading Simplified to give away! For your chance to win, simply retweet this tweet *or* reply below with the name of a children's book that you love. (Or you can do both to double your chance of winning!)

Tomorrow. amazon.co.uk/Ready-Teach-In… @MiriamHussain_ @HughesHaili @teachals @HLearningPD

@Mathew_Lynch44 Thank you for sharing Matt. No doubt, I will enjoy using this - as always!😁

NEW: for AQA Lang P1 June 2026 onwards ✅ Rebecca Complete specimen paper and PPT slide deck with scaffolds, indicative content, student activities and model answers, like so 👇 Help yourself #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/6amw3el…

Some teachers started their careers in the middle of a pandemic. I’m still wondering: How are they now? What shaped their confidence and progression? How much burnout played a role? What helped them stay? We need to understand their experience, not just measure outcome.

Language Paper 2 revision resource Old vs new: from the telephone to the smartphone Sources credited but edited. Couldn't be bothered to faff around with line numbers. Explores changing attitudes to technology—perfect for Q2, Q3 & Q4 Includes 4 Q5 options—choose the one that works best for your class. Happy to share. Here you go 👇dropbox.com/scl/fo/abnsnap… #EnglishTeacher #TeamEnglish #GCSELanguage #Paper2 #LangRevision

I’ve added another essay plan focusing on Fred and the theme of family (Stave 3).Love Fred's resilience in never giving up on his old codger of an uncle. Builds nicely towards the redemption extract in Stave 5. Clearly in revision-resource hyperfocus… happy to share!👇 dropbox.com/scl/fo/juhj7c9… #GCSEEnglish #TeamEnglish #GCSELiterature #EnglishTeacher #ACC