School Improvement Team for Westcountry Schools Trust. Executive Director of History. SWIFT History lead.
Joined September 2017
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Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Hi all,
If you haven’t yet seen it, you must go and look at 9Z’s life size recreation of Tutankhamun’s tomb. It’s amazing! The mummy’s eyes seem to follow you around the room. We wanted to thank the PGCE history trainee personally, but he seems to have disappeared.
Thanks x
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Six years ago, the book that Symbiosis was published!
I’m still incredibly proud of the book, sharing its key principles when working with schools and it is always wonderful to hear how school and trust leaders have made use of it, six years on.
amazon.co.uk/Symbiosis-Curri…
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
**NEW BLOG**
Curriculum and leadership | Who Owns Quality in Subject? saysmiss.wordpress.com/2026/…
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
NEW POST: Curriculum Design and Assessment: Why we Keep Getting it Wrong. 👇
Link:🔗 sarahdonarski.substack.com/p…
This one's been in writing for a few weeks and thanks to @C_Hendrick @Mr_Crome @MaryMyatt @nickpointer_ @SaysMiss who helped iron my thoughts.
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
I’ll say it again.
Inspecting schools in the last week of term is like observing a lesson when the kids are putting their coats on.
There’s really nothing to benefit for either party.
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
I wrote this 'day in the life' piece to bridge the gap between introverts and extroverts in leadership. Read and subscribe for free on Substack: shorturl.at/NmIdB
If you are an introvert in a loud role, what is your version of the chicken coop? 👇
#QuietLeadership
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
New post
Curriculum matters now more than ever
substack.com/@birminghamteac…
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Thrilled that today we’ve published the @Education_NI curriculum consultation. It has been an absolute joy working with local teachers and curriculum experts over the last six months to get to this point. Led incredibly by our taskforce chair @Counsell_C 🎉
#TransformED
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
NEW BLOG: Retrieval Is Not a Starter Activity
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🤖 Made with AI
ALT Illustrated blog banner for an education article titled Retrieval Is Not a Starter Activity. A teacher leads a discussion with pupils while a mathematical problem involving trigonometry is displayed on a whiteboard. The scene emphasises the use of prior knowledge to solve new problems, with visual references to retrieval, method selection, connection-making and application. The design conveys the idea that retrieval is most powerful when embedded naturally within the story of learning rather than used as a disconnected classroom routine.
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Leadership | Women and the Practice of Leadership saysmiss.wordpress.com/2026/…
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
🌟 New blogpost: 8 Tips for SENDCOs to Drive Teaching and Learning for Pupils with SEND
Comments and reposts appreciated
sendmatters.co.uk/2026/04/12…
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
“We have made a fetish of the more visible things that can be seen in lessons” says @C_Hendrick YEP 👏 #rEDBrum
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
We’re inviting all RE teachers to take part in a short survey. Complete the survey for teachers by 27 Feb will get up to 5 free resources from NATRE as a thank you!👇
🔗 RE Hubs teacher survey bit.ly/3XjAj0i
🔗 RE Hubs stakeholder survey bit.ly/497qCJG
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
👉Don't forget, if you are a state-school teacher, we are offering travel bursaries to ensure that all teachers across the country have the opportunity to attend. Simply follow the link here to apply:
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#classics #cpd
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Here it is
teachreal.wordpress.com/2026…
Rebecca Bailey retweeted
The activity fallacy: an obsession with instructional novelty has produced a strange inversion of priorities. Teachers are sent on courses to acquire new “strategies,” to diversify their repertoire of techniques.
Meanwhile, the curriculum they are teaching may be completely incoherent, the sequence arbitrary, the assessment disconnected from both. This is what @Counsell_C calls an “intransitive pedagogy”; a pedagogy without an object.
