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Feeling really privileged to have been a part of the @WeAreInBetaPod subject research team. Thank you to @FrancesLing for her help, guidance and support. weareinbeta.community/posts/language…
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Pierre
@pierrebolis
Trust Subject Lead for MFL in Surrey/Hampshire. Teacher of French and Spanish. All views my own. Like / Retweet not always endorsement.
Surrey, UK Sumali Şubat 2020
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A pioneer of autism research is asking us to rethink the diagnosis, only viewing as autistic those diagnosed in early childhood with severe intellectual/language impairments. She says those diagnosed as adults may be suffering from something else...👇
tes.com/magazine/teach…
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Seven principles for an effective Pupil Premium strategy.
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Direct Instruction isn't always flashy, but it reliably moves students forward in a way that you can see, measure, and trust.
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Pupil premium mistakes to avoid – Former headteacher @coy_lucy15 highlights the practical, evidence-informed strategies that have the biggest impact on disadvantaged pupils… teachwire.net/news/pupil-pre…
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"All learning requires effort-the effort of attention and repeated distributed practice to forge and fix new neural networks."
- E.D. Hirsch
Deep learning requires repeated and directed hard work. The priority should NOT be to make learning effortless and fun. Those are good things teachers can do IN ADDITION to direct and monitored instruction.
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The way we help students with stress is to help them to master that stress or see the trigger as less stressful, not by confirming that the source of their anxiety must be avoided at all costs.
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Handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
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10 years separate the classic "Pen Is Mightier" paper (2014) and the latest meta-analysis (2024).
A decade later, the conclusion hasn't changed:
Handwriting remains superior.
Adam Grant@AdamMGrant
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
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In this episode of the Where Parents Talk podcast, host Lianne Castelino speaks to child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi about the rising trend of mental health diagnoses among children and teens @Parents_Talk whereparentstalk.com/perspectives-c…
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Schools Are Accommodating Student Anxiety — and Making It Worse tc.columbia.edu/articles/2025/…
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🚨 NEW POST 🚨
‘Dyslexia: Issues with definitions & diagnoses’
“The nature of a definition can fundamentally change how we respond to a special educational need. Dyslexia has been prone to changing definitions, shifting symptoms & different diagnoses.”
alexquigley.co.uk/dyslexia-issue…
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🎉🎉Competition Time🎉🎉
To celebrate the publication of the first books in the fantastic “How to lead it” primary subject series, I’m giving away a copy of ALL FOUR to lucky one winner.
Just repost and like this tweet to enter.
I’ll draw a random winner on Friday 7th Nov.
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'Overprotective Childhood Experiences' (OCEs) are a real issue in how we sometimes approach supporting children with SEND, if it leads to too-low expectations of conduct or output. Ironically, this can lead to a genuinely adverse environment for them *and* their peers.
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt
Here's a term we really need: "Overprotective Childhood Experiences", or OCEs -- a counterpart to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Raising kids on "Easy Mode" stunts their learning and development. From Niklas Serning: unherd.com/2025/10/easy-m… @LetGrowOrg
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This post is five years old. I’ve retired now, but I stand by every word.
Ruth Robinson@RuthKRobinson
A thread about Isolation and Booths... We have almost 900 students at our school. We serve the two most deprived wards in our town. Over 50% of the school population are eligible for Pupil Premium. Our cohorts are predominantly white British.
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England’s broken system for meeting special educational needs - The Economist apple.news/AAdyW0Cx-Sr-ef…
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I am blogging again!!!
Like many others, I've moved over to Substack for a bit of a refresh. First entry is on school improvement - where to start, and what things matter.
Link is in the first reply, I'm weirdly a bit nervous about it it's been so long 😭😭
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