Raising awareness of the impact of technology in schools -including monitoring, surveillance, automation, AI, mental health, SEND & the datafication of children
United Kingdom
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Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
I wonder what @tombennett71 makes of this: DfE intervening over, it seems, concerns that the Athena trust's exclusion and suspension numbers have been too high, asking it to share how it is working to reduce them, and warning about "weak" board oversight of these numbers.
New: Troubled Athena academy trust handed DfE Notice to Improve over its exclusion and suspension policies
educationuncovered.co.uk/newβ¦
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Well this is awkward. We know the most vocal, rigid, control-advocating Trads love to use an RCT (or lack of) as "proof" of their position. 35 RCTs "across 18 countries... suggest that giving students greater agency, can improve both academic performance and wellbeing".
"... 35 randomised controlled trials across 18 countries... suggest that giving students greater agency, can improve both academic performance and wellbeing." Very interesting article. Thank you @BarbaraBleiman for signposting.
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Looks really interesting research. Am also wondering, as a parent who has to use this app, if @tes researches impacts on families and staff at all.
π’ Some really interesting research at University of Sussex @SussexUniPress into behaviour tracking apps
Please share & take part ππΌ
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Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Safeguarding isnβt campaigning against discipline. Itβs what ensures that βdisciplineβ doesnβt become a justification for practices that harm children. History gives us rather good reasons not to leave institutions to police that boundary entirely by themselves. @JimGamble_INEQE
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Very hypothetically (I don't know anyone like this) what if you're, let's say, a bloke who writes rude, dismissive tweets about people and when they reply, you block them? What kind of behaviour management is best in that situation?
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
New: βUnauthorised Absenceβ film to feature BAFTA award-winning actors, in kickstart to debate over parental fines educationuncovered.co.uk/newβ¦
Powerful, disturbing clip from the drama has been released: youtube.com/watch?v=jTq_0g2Eβ¦
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Apparently the engines have started, so letβs have a look at the βmythsβ. Spoiler: several only become myths after someone adds words like βallβ, βnaturallyβ, βmustβ or βby themselvesβ. Funny that.
𧡠Tom Bennett dixit: the annual ResearchED βSeven Myths of Behaviourβ edition.
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Internal exclusion may be pragmatic. It may be necessary. It may even prevent external exclusion. What it is not is inclusion. Calling it so is an exercise in educational doublespeak, where apparently the solution to an awkward reality is simply to redefine the words.
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
A school based on fear is not a school that will produce well rounded adults of the future.
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Dear teaching profession.
Parents donβt βform a cabalβ. They become deeply concerned and communicate their worries. When a school refuses to listen they organise and present a united voice.
A sort of democracy if you like.
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Katie Allen-Gyves started teaching at a secondary school in Gorton last September. By December, she had died.
The inquest concluded last week, and the verdict was a "tragic accidental death", but Katie's colleagues have told The Mill that the public hasn't heard the full story.
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Positive relationships with pupils lays the groundwork for learning.
A nurturing environment where they feel safe,valued. & understood.
When we lead with compassion & empathy,children thrive.
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
There is a big difference between correcting a pupils behaviour to guiding a pupils & reacting in a way that makes a pupil feel ashamed or humiliated.
Many forget that pupils/children are still learning to be human & their brains are still developing & will get things wrong.
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
FOI
Dear
For each Secondary school in this LA for the last 12 years
Please can I have numbers of pupils removed from each school for EHE
Please can I have numbers of PEX pupils per school
Please can I have number of days lost to FTE/Suspensions per school
20 days response
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
The Academy system is a disgrace as someone who has witnessed it frontline they arrive take over get rid of staff that will talk. Then create lists of pupils to get off roll with weekly meetings to discuss progress and to create paper trails of last minute fake support1/2
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
metro.co.uk/2026/04/20/dont-β¦
This is actually a good piece of the English school system at the moment and challenges what it has been pushed for the last 14 years, and more since 2010 Gove era onwards. #Education #Behaviour #SEND
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
This was an interesting recent piece: nation.cymru/opinion/why-areβ¦
Class Charts parent & student view retweeted
Is anyone studying the impact on school and family life of apps such as @tes 's Class Charts? Is the TES?