Aspiring Renaissance dude, special interests include education, politics, history, heavy metal, and geeky pursuits. Oh, and rugby

West Midlands, England
Joined June 2015
Thread here on a piece of work I've been involved with for the last 2ish years, focusing on understanding the teaching of writing, what challenges are involved, and what everyone in school can do to overcome those challenges
1/5 New Blog from Bart Crisp and me on reflections/questions from EEF Development Project on using RTI to support writing - working with 12 great teams from the W Mids. Here are 3 extracts lnkd.in/eXfRuGkT
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If you are working in a school or group of schools and are interested to look into your approach to writing, please do get in touch - we are running a programme which uses the principles and approaches laid out in Philippa's thread from November
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5/5 We’d love your thoughts/comments. Writing is under researched/supported. A school we’re working with was asked by an OFSTED inspector trialling the new framework what their approach to writing was. So they asked OFSTED what's known re what it should/ could be. A) Not enough…
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4/5 Participants worried re lack of writing support in Y7. So we are revisiting RTI to support transition via CPDL for writing in Y6&& in partnership with LAs/MATS. It worked B4… A new CPDL programme for writing | Centre for the Use of Research & Evidence in Education (CUREE)
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3/5 Vulnerable pupils can learn to love writing AND make great progress in & through it very quickly through CCA based selection from practical menu of interventions; all pupils can benefit through using strategic monitoring tools.
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2/5 Obstacles impeding vulnerable Y5/6 pupils' writing progress were more complex/dynamic than for reading. BUT teams (teachers, leaders, LSAs) using RTI together built a 3D, actionable picture via scaffolded case analysis; interventions menu successfully expanded possibilities
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#rEd25 massive appreciation to Helene, Tom and everyone who helped make yesterday's conference such a success. What a lot of positive energy!
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Bart Crisp retweeted
Technology is the only thing that has ever eliminated poverty.
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While everyone's talking about Taylor Swift or god-knows-what, the government's National Wealth Fund has deployed financial guarantees to secure £1bn private lending to improve energy efficiency in social housing businessgreen.com/news/43706…
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The Tories are lost because every part of their ideology has failed. Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵 bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Weird that a body that is supposed to represent workers is spending its political energy on rich pensioners.
Unite's Sharon Graham at Labour conference leading chants of 'save the winter fuel' ahead a vote on the issue this morning. 📹@ianvogler
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BIG NEWS! The Practitioner Research Programme from the Education and Training Foundation, at SUNCETT, University of Sunderland is back for 24/25! Information and application form here: et-foundation.co.uk Be quick, deadline approaches.
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Bart Crisp retweeted
No pensioner has 'paid into the system all their life' for the winter fuel allowance. It's only existed since 1997.
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Bart Crisp retweeted
When I say "due to unforeseen circumstances", this is what I mean
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This is indeed a problem. Put blunty, most pensioners I know have been righteously enthused by the prospect of benefits claimants being squeezed until the pips squeak and are often the first to mock such ideas as universal free school meals. Universality for me, but not for thee.
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I see you. I have watched you. For a thousand years, I have watched you. Who among you still fears death? Who will not face emptiness?
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#RIP dad 💔
James Earl Jones, the prolific film, TV and theater actor whose resonant, unmistakable baritone was most widely known as the voice of “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, died Monday. He was 93. bit.ly/3TkCdw4
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When Labour introduced Winter Fuel Payment in 1997, pensioners were more likely to be in poverty than working age people. Since then pensioner incomes have risen faster than those in work & the situation has reversed. The gap is projected to widen further still.
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See slides from session with @crispy_bart & @ShonoghP at #rED24 on using formative evidence to end Mocksteds at link above.
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On my way home from my first ever @researchED1 event #rED24. Really glad to have been able to talk #accountability and #CPDL with @PhilippaCcuree and @crispy_bart. Exploring the possibilities of making evaluation part of staff training rather than part of accountability.
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