Notes on self preservation, privilege and masculine power in ‘An Inspector Calls’. Will share all of these in my Dropbox over half term.

If you’re looking for an edu-book bargain, ‘Teacher Hacks: English’ is only 99p on Kindle right now… do grab yourself a copy! @HughesHaili @m_chiles @HLearningPD amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0GZZGP…

I'm still thinking about @Counsell_C’s ResearchEd East Anglia keynote, looking at how we can foster excitement for discovery amongst students through the stories we teach. Next year, we're going to read 'Where The Heart Should Be' by @SarahCrossan. Christine's session really reminded me of @MaryMyatt’s mantra of a 'text as the beating heart of the lesson'. Before we read anything, this introduction is what I'm going to use to lead students into the story. I’ve imitated the style from ‘Expanding Worlds’. I’ve placed too much emphasis on annotation and analysis recently - time to get students curious about stories in my classroom again! @ATTInstitute

Happy 4th birthday to ‘Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol’. @teachals and I are still incredibly proud of this book. It reached 29 in the ‘All Books’ chart on Amazon which completely blows my mind and the incredible @MaryMyatt, someone we both look up to so very much, wrote our foreword. It’s been so wonderful to see how staff are using this book in their departments and the conversations we’ve had with English teachers about how they’re now approaching Dickens’ text. Thank you to everyone who has read it and continues to support it. Subject knowledge is extremely important and something we all deserve to pay attention to as teachers. The aim of this book was to create a resource that teachers could return to time and again to enhance their practice. We hope we’ve achieved what we set out to do!

Wonderful reunion with my old PGCE cohort at @ATTInstitute’s ResearchEd East Anglia today! @carnaby_mr @teachals @Shabnamagram 🤩