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Learning innovation, Infant school VCoG, Adobe Ed Leader, #WeAreNotWaiting, stand-up paddler, photo team @Greenbelt, music is my radar. @iusher@mastodon.social

Bognor Regis, UK
Joined March 2007
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If - for some reason - you ever have to work with me face-to-face in any context, then please read this, it might help us both. Ta! bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42316493
Just to clarify things, I'm on my sofa watching #SuperBowl2024, not warming up to do the half-time show.
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(for a while in 2007, there were more than a few hundred Bieber fans who wouldn't have believed this 🤷‍♂️)
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Just the most amazing nonsense being talked about 20mph speed limits: it’s not fuel efficient, you’ll be looking at the speedo, it’s distracting. Good grief. Like American gun nuts demanding the right to kill people.
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Still makes me laugh
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"I would like to dedicate this award to Spain's women's national team" "They deserve to be celebrated and listened to" UEFA Women's Coach of the Year, Sarina Wiegman with a beautiful message 👏 #UEFAawards
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Earps subtly telling the England team to kindly get upfield after the penalty is Sunday lunchtime content you are here for #Lionesses #ENGESP
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I, Usher retweeted
The WHO has now upgraded EG.5 from a variant “under monitoring” to one of “interest,” meaning it believes it could pose an “increased risk to global public health.” trib.al/rJLWJRX
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Tell me you know nothing about school governance without telling me you know nothing about school governance (etc) 🤨
It still doesn’t explain why they’re needed? Schools are accountable to so many people & academy bosses too, so why this bunch of old retired dudes & people doing their bit for ‘charity’ or whatever it is? They’re so pointless. Happy to be corrected but in 20 yrs, not understood!
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MoS maintains its usual standards of fact-finding rigour.
Mail on Sunday report mistakenly imagines that Damson Idris [surname: Idris, born in Peckham, parents from Nigeria] must be the brother of Idris Elba [surname Elba, born in Hackney, parents from Sierra Leone & Ghana]
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Helicopter-dwelling, isn’t-sure-how-to-put-fuel-in-a-car eejit klaxon.
Talking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher’s old Rover. Earlier I spoke to @Telegraph about how important cars are for families to live their lives. It’s something anti-motorist Labour just don’t seem to get. And it’s why I’m reviewing anti-car schemes across the country.
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Gah, miss this place.
Last night's sunset over Derry - MAGICAL 📷😍 @Derryvisitor @dcsdcouncil
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Shocking. Also: completely unsurprising. Also: the labelling of expertise, insight & knowledge as an "influencer" (with quotes) - because they are listened to & trusted? Presumably in contrast to the established rosy view of influencers within the DfE: schoolsweek.co.uk/back-to-sc…
This may be about to become a much bigger story than I anticipated when I submitted my SAR, turns out it’s happened to a lot of people! Many people are afraid to speak out because they’re worried about their work and there is an imbalance of power at play here. Of course as a
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Timing not great! Teachers on their knees as end of term approaches. No teacher should feel guilty for not reading this. It's a helpful doc but doesn't contain anything revolutionary. Enjoy the rest of term with your pupils - this can wait! Read when energy levels allow.
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Apropos of not very much, I think we should remember that you can create very, very convincing pictures with generative AI, and that we should be careful about making assumptions on the veracity of images until we know for sure if they're real.
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A big part of the problem with the DfE is that they see everything in performative not developmental terms. Sustained shared thinking isn't about meeting a 'standard' it's about developing your thoughts, ideas and feelings.
Replying to @NickGibbUK
We have drawn on the evidence for ‘sustained shared thinking’ and 5-year-olds are now expected to meet more demanding standards:
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Are me moving away from the “success is a laminated and never-changing worksheet” mantra?
Is there any more hotly contested debate in education than the arguments over curriculum content? And thank goodness it is contested - because curricula thinking needs to evolve over time.
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Really tired of certain MPs bashing the BBC for not acting on the allegations, when they themselves actively lobbied for the MP who abused me not to be named, suspended, or investigated, and took steps to protect him.
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