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The assumption that every voter who wasn't part of the 34% who actually voted Labour didn't want Labour to win is utterly moronic.
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In the first of a two-part blog, Essex Evidence Advocate, Jo Cochrane, reflects on the pedagogy and practice of reading for pleasure. researchschool.org.uk/essex/…
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There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.
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Almost crashed the car when I heard this (wait for the song).
Still deciding whether the music scheduler should be sacked or given a pay rise…
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Gillian Keegan summing up how school leaders feel about the DFE most of the time.
Had a shocker here.
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Wow! 40,000 teacher left teaching last year! That’s a huge 9% of all teachers. And 90% of those were pre-retirement. This is astonishing, a crisis.
What is Gillian Keegan doing about it?
#DoYourJobGill
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The teacher retention problem?
Experienced teachers should be an asset.
But somewhere along the way, the semantics changed. Experienced teachers instead became commonly referred to as "UPS" teachers.
The focus shifted from the value of experience to the cost of experience.
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Where were you all when I had to pledge service to the monarch each week in a pair of terrible culottes in a portakabin with a woman called Brown Owl
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Stop The Tories .Vote stopthetories.vote/
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You wouldn’t get this method past an ethics panel. The risk to children is too high and the data gathered would be likely to have serious limitations (see my blog on threat anxiety and working memory).
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
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THE CALL
Imagine having a really important interview that you’ve prepared years for and you badly want to ace. You’ve worked as hard as you could and have committed your life to it.
Imagine every night going to bed, wondering if it’ll be the next day. But it doesn’t come that next day, the next month or even the next year. The pressure builds and you start to jump when the phone goes between 10am-12pm every day, ready to drop everything for the interview to start.
Imagine knowing that when it finally does come that there’s a good chunk of luck involved and it’ll depend on who interviews you on that day and what they happen to focus on and see.
Imagine praying for one of the good interviewers but you end up with one of the bad ones, who doesn’t listen and has their own agenda but there’s nothing you can do about it.
Imagine it leaves you in pieces and everyone know it’s not fair, but, so be it, and all that will now come your way.
Imagine knowing that that you can’t tell anyone the outcome of the interview, and you have to carry that around, on your own, for what feels like forever.
Imagine what that does to a person.
Imagine a better way.