Students who have the same teacher for a second year: - Do better in tests. - Attend slightly better/truancies reduce. - Have fewer behaviour incidents. Even students who weren’t in the class the previous year feel the benefits.

As an experienced faculty of English teachers, we are concerned with the exclusionary nature of the current Eng Lang GCSE. We have drafted an open letter& would gratefully receive more names b4 we approach mainstream publications. Team English English & Media Ctr Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷

Since 2014, we've had seven Education Secretaries (Gove, Morgan, Greening, Hinds, Williamson, Zahawi and now Donelan). If a school had been through seven headteachers in that time, alarm bells would be ringing. Very, very loudly.

Dear parents, you will have seen that the government has awarded teachers a pay rise. Unfortunately, what they haven't told you is this. The government aren't paying for it, your children are.

This. This is what it’s all about 🥲 #HerGameToo

So so proud of my first A-level cohort post covid! They have done unbelievable! 🤩🤩

Receiving messages from my A level students today has been fantastic 🤩🤩 #proud

when someone cancels a meeting and sends an email instead

Only took 8 years to get to a sensible place on differentiation. So glad that Ofsted has smashed through the nonsense around differentiation.

Alex scott a women who has just come out and now is in a country where she she can be killed or imprisoned for being part of the community is wearing the one love armband, brave and powerful stuff from her

Teachers and social workers suffer most from ‘lost decade’ for pay growth in UK | Education | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/2022…

68 books read this year 🌟

Being a teacher is like having 30 phones ringing, all at the same time. Unless you've done it, you'll never really understand how difficult it can be.

I'm a Deputy Head in a school. I am on site by 7am every day. I have kids of my own. They have been home from school for more than an hour when I get back. So I know its safe to ignore the "9-3:30" rhetoric being used to discredit teachers.

Teacher workload: F/T teacher on 22/25 lessons teaching. If I have a pre planned, centralised, fully resourced SOL and I spend 10 mins giving each lesson a cursory read through - not even adapting - that’s all my PPA plus 0.6 of another session used.

Tragic. Something has to change. independent.co.uk/news/uk/ofsted…

I am lucky to have a copy of Sentence Models for Creative Writing by Chris Youles to give away. Simply RT this post to be in with a chance of winning. We shall choose a winner on 19th May. If you cannot wait until then, you can purchase a copy here: amzn.to/42xH7bY

It feels like there’s a tiny (don’t jinx it…) bit of breathing space happening without Year 11/13… If you or your dept. are creating new Shakespeare SOW, I’d love to give away another free copy of #HowToGetA9inShakespeare. Just RT & ♥️ #giveaway #comp #CPD #teamenglish

It’s GRAMMAR FUN MONDAY! #MondayGrammar To celebrate the publication of #EssentialGrammar, we will pick someone to receive a free copy. All you have to do is 👍 and RT and we’ll pick winners at random. Marcello Giovanelli Here’s a short 🧵 on grammar examples using variation…

'The Struggle with 'Writing Stamina'' ''Writing stamina’ could account for an array of problematic causes. If we do not decipher the underlying causes, then we risk not finding solutions for pupils’ struggles." theconfidentteacher.com/2023/06/the-st…