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Totally. To add to the fist point - be trustworthy: trustworthiness is made up of two things: 1. Honesty. This is more than just not lying. It’s doing what you say you’ll do. 2. Expertise. You have to know what you’re talking about. If you don’t, why should anyone trust you?
Tom Bennett OBE
@tombennett7111h
Good relationships are the outcome of a successful school culture, not its cause. If you want relationships built on trust, first: 1. Be trustworthy 2. Create predictable systems of behavioural expectation 3. Imbed these as routines 4. Uphold, monitor, challenge and support 5. Relationships flow from these mutual, authentic expectations. Relationships in a school are not based on affection. Nor is that the purpose. The purpose is the flourishing of all
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David Didau
@DavidDidauOct 17
Oracy floats on a sea of knowledge The UK government wants oracy assessed “from primary to GCSE and beyond”. My take on why you can only speak well about what you know: daviddidau.substack.com/p/or…
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Helen Reynolds MBE@helenreyOct 17
Super useful... good to read about the many dimensions to this debate. It seems it's the assessment that is the particular issue here.
David Didau
@DavidDidauOct 17
Oracy floats on a sea of knowledge The UK government wants oracy assessed “from primary to GCSE and beyond”. My take on why you can only speak well about what you know: daviddidau.substack.com/p/or…
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscioOct 17
"All this has to sit inside a curriculum that’s rich in knowledge, rather than as a separate strand with its own assessment and its own claim on curriculum time....Otherwise we risk treating oracy as a generic skill that can be developed independently of what children know. That didn’t work with reading and writing and I can’t see any reason to think it’ll work any better with speaking and listening." Excellent, thoughtful piece by @DavidDidau is worth your time. daviddidau.substack.com/p/or…
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Dylan Wiliam@dylanwiliamOct 17
Great post, and a neat twist on James Britton's quote
David Didau
@DavidDidauOct 17
Oracy floats on a sea of knowledge The UK government wants oracy assessed “from primary to GCSE and beyond”. My take on why you can only speak well about what you know: daviddidau.substack.com/p/or…
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Imagine thinking children are born with magical secret fairy gifts that we can discover, rather than being capable of becoming good at things through careful instruction.
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It’s hardly brand new though, is it? My prediction is that it will be hackneyed, superficial & will drive down standards. Really hope I’m wrong.
Department for Education
@educationgovukOct 15
We’re hardwiring oracy into the revised National Curriculum, so speaking, listening, and communicating will light up every classroom. Read @LucyMPowell's speech in full: gov.uk/government/speeches/e…
Oracy to be given equal status to reading and writing - as a brand new strand of the English curriculum. A photograph shows a teenage boy and girl wearing school uniform speaking to a class of pupils.

ALT Oracy to be given equal status to reading and writing - as a brand new strand of the English curriculum. A photograph shows a teenage boy and girl wearing school uniform speaking to a class of pupils.

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Here’s my working daviddidau.substack.com/p/or…
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Customarily thoughtful exploration of oracy from the loquacious, sardonic, iconic @DavidDidau
David Didau
@DavidDidauOct 17
Oracy floats on a sea of knowledge The UK government wants oracy assessed “from primary to GCSE and beyond”. My take on why you can only speak well about what you know: daviddidau.substack.com/p/or…
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Oracy floats on a sea of knowledge The UK government wants oracy assessed “from primary to GCSE and beyond”. My take on why you can only speak well about what you know: daviddidau.substack.com/p/or…
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Oracy is the only skill students are NOT deficient in.
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Update on our Double Marker mock GCSE project. We have mock sessions running for English Lang and Lit in January, Easter and the summer term. They're available for both Year 10 & Year 11. Read more here and book a call to find out more! help.nomoremarking.com/en/ar…
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Stephen Chiger@SteveChigerOct 14
I’m excited to share this post on my upcoming book—on the Uncommon Sense blog! If you’re a fan of whole novel instruction, the science of reading, or responsive instruction that isn’t 1,000 passages of “inference” practice, I hope you’ll check it (the post or the book ☺️) out!
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How is @DavidDidau not at the heart of the DfE?
David Didau
@DavidDidauOct 10
How do you know if your school is any good? Not by its results. Not by its gap, either. New essay on what PISA reveals about disadvantage, why a narrower gap can mean something’s gone wrong and why we need to discount the outcomes of the most advantaged students. daviddidau.substack.com/p/ho…
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@DavidDidauOct 10
How do you know if your school is any good? Not by its results. Not by its gap, either. New essay on what PISA reveals about disadvantage, why a narrower gap can mean something’s gone wrong and why we need to discount the outcomes of the most advantaged students. daviddidau.substack.com/p/ho…
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How do you know if your school is any good? Not by its results. Not by its gap, either. New essay on what PISA reveals about disadvantage, why a narrower gap can mean something’s gone wrong and why we need to discount the outcomes of the most advantaged students. daviddidau.substack.com/p/ho…
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Fascinating to see people’s formative album choices when restricted to just nine. Here are mine
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscioOct 3
“While the evidence on school sanctions might be scanty, there’s a bunch of studies which explore the effect of seeing rules consistently enforced has on everybody else.”
David Didau
@DavidDidauOct 3
Everyone knows detentions obviously don’t work. Just look at all those kids who keep getting them, right? But that’s like judging speed cameras by only studying drivers who keep getting caught. What if the main effect of sanctions is on everyone else? daviddidau.substack.com/p/th…
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Glad to see the Dark Lord weighing in on the detentions debate. Always good to get the view of unreconstructed evil.
Sauron@Fishpark321Oct 3
Replying to @DavidDidau
In both cases, the powers that be have a duty to ensure reoffending and escalating offenses are minimal. 'No child left behind' in education means there always has to be more thought beyond detention, suspension, exclusion.
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@DavidDidauOct 3
Everyone knows detentions obviously don’t work. Just look at all those kids who keep getting them, right? But that’s like judging speed cameras by only studying drivers who keep getting caught. What if the main effect of sanctions is on everyone else? daviddidau.substack.com/p/th…
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