Leon Weatherstone

Looking for the very old NAPLAN guides to embedding literacy and numeracy in each KLA. Any ideas where I might find them?

@MiaKumar8152 @burwoodghs They look stunning!

Congratulations to Visual Arts teachers @burwoodghs for coordinating year8 and year10 ceramics students to produce a mural to adorn external walls of the outside toilet block. Bravo!

@mkitteringham It's looking fantastic

The details and colours are starting to appear. Look at the depth achieved through layering & clever shading. Love it!!

@robmctaggart @pipcleaves @ICTLaurens Steve provides outstanding vision, support and leadership for all of us in DoE to support student learning.

@enzuber @aliceleung Government funded non-government schools! I think that sums up the absurdity!!

@aliceleung I get the same every time I study MySchool data to compare public and independent private schools. We need to stop calling them "private" schools : they are "government funded schools for families who pay up to $20-$40K per child for all the extras". 1/2

Hmmmm ... two schools with similar enrolments but one school has three times more non teaching staff and almost 1.2 times more teaching staff than the other.

@mkitteringham Love it

Slowly but surely it’s coming together...

@NSWSPC @smitchellmlc @craigp66 @nswppa @TeachersFed @daskkiphil @revans1413 @PreslandChris @gaw101 @LilaMularczyk @Lofts1964 @mscott @dizdarm Ironic? ... surely

Thanks @smitchellmlc for trusting teachers and allowing them to focus on learning! Why students need NAPLAN more than ever dailytelegraph.com.au/education/scho… @craigp66 @nswppa @TeachersFed @daskkiphil @revans1413 @PreslandChris @gaw101 @LilaMularczyk @Lofts1964 @mscott @dizdarm

@weatherstone_ Delman having an awesome season #inhisprime

I've been playing around with some of the ABL stats and data from the 2019 season and thought I'd pull together some interesting graphs about Delmon Young's incredible hitting season. medium.com/statabl/the-de… Thoughts and comments are very much appreciated.

@chriscawsey @Lofts1964 @johnqgoh @insightSBS Impressive appearance as always Chris. A fine and intelligent advocate for public education, students and plain common sense

@Lofts1964 @johnqgoh @insightSBS Thanks Denise. And how powerful, painfully honest and brave were the students? Such strong values in each family, no matter what the obstacles.

@mkitteringham I'm happy to zoom Murray, unfortunately I'm busy up to about 2pm

Thinking of putting a Zoom meeting together re solutions that we could share. A problem shared is a problem halved. Any high school interested in sharing solutions? I’m looking at a framework that can adjust through the phases as the ultimate. Send email via DM if keen. Thursday?

@MiaKumar8152 @burwoodghs Very impressive!

The senior executive team @burwoodghs were thrilled to see the 90th Anniversary mural developed by the Visual Arts faculty, installed at the student entry. What a magnificent way to commemorate 90 years of fabulous public education.

@JaneCaro @MagdaSzubanski I suspect severe disappointments coming when their time comes ... in so many ways.

@MagdaSzubanski So glad I don’t believe in any gods, especially if this is what their followers believe live looks like! So sorry you cop this shit Magda.

Wow! This is God’s love?? Wow. Thanks for letting me know.

@Lofts1964 Didn't realise you were a fellow Visual Arts teacher!

@NicholasFerroni Grade 3 (8 years old)

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT: If you come across this tweet, reply with the grade you were in when you had your first male teacher (excluding Phys ED).

Come on everyone - get on board - this campaign will make a big difference for our kids. @NSWSPC @nswppa @UTSEngage @NSWSEPLA @daskkiphil @revans1413 @NSWPandCFed @craigp66 @NSWEducation

@DrGaryJones @dylanwiliam While I think there is a lot of value when considering effect sizes, I've seen many of the so called lower effect strategies bring enormous growth in learning for some students who respond well to those approaches

NEW The Big Education Debate - effect sizes, meta-analysis and are we just putting lipstick on a pig garyrjones.com/blog #educationfestival @dylanwiliam

@TheAnneLister Kramer vs Kramer

social experiment: if you come across this tweet please comment the first Meryl Streep movie that comes to mind. WITHOUT looking at the replies.

@maysamali Very impressive May, you are a credit to yourself, your organisation and indeed to Public Education. The work you are doing is phenomenal.

15 years after graduating high school, it is surreal to be back in Sydney to present a joint keynote at the NSW SPC Conference with my mentor. I saw at least six of my former teachers, who are now Principals at various high schools across NSW. So grateful for the opportunity!

@GillianTPP Wonderful presentation today

Such a juicy and important conversation on self compassion in leadership. What do you need to give yourself permission for?

@gregwhitby @smh Not frightened by NAPLAN, just agog at its pointlessness. Teachers are now far more astute than to rely on it even for diagnostic purposes now, just when it might deliver information earlier than 3 months after. Teachers diagnose learning every lesson in real time.

'People are frightened of NAPLAN': Australia's testing dilemma smh.com.au/education/peop… via @smh Don’t blame the instrument, it’s the archaic curriculum construct it claims to measure that needs attention