Stuart Lock
8.2K posts
@StuartLock @WSM_AFCOfficial CEO of learning organisations digging out rivals football clubs on X like a 12 year old. Good work.🫠
English
Unfortunately we are unable to bring you Seagulls Radio for our fixture with Ebbsfleet United as our request to broadcast this match has been rejected.
There will be coverage from BBC Radio Kent.
Seagulls Radio will return for our match with Worthing on Tuesday.
English
Stuart Lock 已转推
Eid Mubarak to all our families, staff and communities celebrating today 🌙✨
May this special time bring peace, happiness and togetherness to you and your loved ones. Thank you for the richness, diversity and warmth you bring to our schools every day.
#EidMubarak
English
English
@Rory_Gribbell @adamboxer1 Achievement - however, is also on a bell curve. We know that not every child can get a 4 because the system doesn’t allow that. A certain percentage will always get a 3 etc due to the system. How is that fair to judge a school like that?
English
Spot on from Adam.
<Applies hard hat to head>
And it was a point Martyn made in his speech to ASCL last week: the report card recognises the progress being made by schools, without masking where more is needed.
Adam Boxer@adamboxer1
I've seen a few of these now, where achievement is ranked lower than...all the things that cause achievement (behaviour, curriculum, etc) I understand how that happens but a lot of teachers and leaders will look at it and say "nah doesn't make sense"
English
I’d argue that the ‘when done well’ thing is a bit of a distraction.
Most things can be done well when there’s a great culture and few things will be effective if there’s isn’t.
I’d be interested to hear if Adam thinks T&T tends to be poorly implemented in schools/classrooms with very strong culture
English
Is there any educational strategy that works "when done badly"?
I suspect not. But if that's the case, why do people keep saying "when done well..." to defend strategies that aren't working?
Adam Boxer@adamboxer1
There are a few phrases in education that I really have a problem with. One is "when done well..." This relativistic and unfalsifiable claim is applied to all sorts of pedagogical interventions, but it hampers criticality and growth. Link in reply, please share if you can!
English
@DavidDidau @adamboxer1 How do we know when it is good?
Awful?
Brilliant?
English
@StuartLock @adamboxer1 Adequate for what?
How do we know a habit is/isn’t adequate?
English
@iCodAgain @adamboxer1 Thing is, MWBs do work though, when done well.
English
@iCodAgain @adamboxer1 This was exactly what happened in so many schools in the early 00s with MWBs when they were first a thing (and I suspect does in hundreds of schools now when they are introduced but not 'done well').
English
@StuartLock This isnt my experience, teachers who are in good habits with verbal response questioning get into good habits with Mwbs pretty rapidly, and it massively amps their participation and formative assessment
English
@adamboxer1 Compared to the habits which they have practised and refined over many years - which you're implicitly changing and potentially making worse *unless* you do it considered and well.
Like the economic theory of second best, a bit.
English
@StuartLock Yeah, but compared to what? A teacher who is doing an average job with MWBs would have bad effect = x, but if they were doing verbal response questioning instead it would be 2x
English
@Trivium21c @adamboxer1 I am not sure I follow.
I think “when done well” is very vague and not useful. But I think one should probably be able to attach specifics of how things are more or less likely to “work”.
“When done well” seems to me to be shorthand.
English
@StuartLock @adamboxer1 What does ‘when done well’ actually mean? In the case of growth mindset for eg, ‘when done well’ became ‘specifically’ like something so unlikely to happen in a school scenario that the suspicion has to be that the whole thing was a sham.
English
@adamboxer1 I guess I must often see or hear of it not done well.
English
@adamboxer1 So the point is that it has to be done well. But if we can't say that, then everything is bad.
English
@adamboxer1 My point is that I think everything is done badly (not just in education - Michael Barber's book on government talks about this) when it is introduced unless it is done so as a priority and with a lot of thought - and often even then.
English
@adamboxer1 Was waiting for my son to go to sleep!
Also HOY was my favourite job.
English
@StuartLock tell me you got no sunday night plans without telling me
English
Sunday night discussion: someone has a position to start as a pastoral lead next year. What advice do you have for them about how to prepare?
Our answers in the pod, put yours in the reply and tune in!
Adam Boxer@adamboxer1
NEW EPISODE Why does Adam hate merit points? How does Amy think people should prepare for pastoral leadership? Does Imposter Syndrome exist, or are people making it up? All this and more, please share if you can!! open.spotify.com/episode/5Qzsa0…
English
@adamboxer1 I mean in the same school. Unless you’ve got a great head, you’ll all be running schools and within schools and can probably stop duplicating efforts.
English