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Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

A real honour to write the introduction to The Poetry World of John Agard from @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social I shared John’s poetry with many of the classes I taught over the years. The book is a beautiful collection of greatest hits, edited by @charliehacking.bsky.social

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

There was no time for speeches but for me, this work and the awards and recognition for it would not have been possible without the work of two incredible women in particular. Margaret Meek Spencer and Myra Barrs, who led the way on the power of texts and the connections between reading and writing.

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

About last night… Hugely grateful to The UKLA panels for this recognition of The Balancing Act & the Double Helix of Reading and Writing by Dominic Wyse and I. Being a member of the UKLA is hugely professionally nourishing and to be recognised by them in particular means so much.

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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

"That’s what I want. For a child to hold their breath for a second. To feel something stir." The day after the winner of #CLiPPA2025 is announced, @charliehacking.bsky.social interviews 2020 winner, Zaro Weil about her new book, I HEAR THE TREES #Poetry #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/the-...

An spread by Junli Song from Zaro Weil's new poetry collection for children I HEAR THE TREES. It contains the text of the poem and the image shows a young girl lying in grass as leaves fall down around her.

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Following the recent headlines from HarperCollins UK and now from the National Literacy Trust, here’s an article I wrote for Books for Keeps about the decline in Reading for Pleasure, the issues involved and what might be done about it: booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/read...

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Reading for Pleasure – Why the decline and what could we do about it? – Books For Keeps

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 26/05/2025

Target-rich environment, this speech. 1/n

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

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Lynda Graham @lyndajgraham.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Looking forward to hearing the inimitable Dominic Wyse on Saturday June 28th 2.30pm at @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference in Liverpool! Not too late to buy a ticket! #thisismyukla

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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“The blame doesn’t sit at the door of parents… It’s at the heart of the society that has been created with its ever-widening inequality gap.” The brilliant @charliehacking.bsky.social responds to the reading for pleasure decline in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/read...

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Reading for Pleasure – Why the decline and what could we do about it? – Books For Keeps

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Long thread alert🧵 I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests

Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Oof. This makes for grim reading and should be a huge wake up call on the need to rethink education, making it work for today’s children and teachers. Teaching should be one of the best jobs in the world, but too many things aren’t working for long term recruitment and retention.

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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Great launch @theclpe.bsky.social for new BEYOND THE SECRET GARDEN book. Congrats @darrenchetty.bsky.social & Karen Sands-O'Connor & illus Lucy Farfort. We're proud to publish their columns in #BfK & delighted they're available (+ more) as an @engmediacentre.bsky.social book tinyurl.com/24j7wccf

Photograph of authors and academics Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor (left) and Dr Darren Chetty (right) with illustrator Lucy Farfort, holding copies of their new book Beyond the Secret Garden, which draws on and expands their long-running column in review journal Books for Keeps.

Cover of the book Beyond the Secret Garden, available now from the English and Media Centre, and basically essential reading.

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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

👾LAUNCHING TODAY!!👾 “An invaluable resource.” @charliehacking.bsky.social / @theclpe.bsky.social “sparks the conversations we need to be having about the stories we tell and how we tell them” Jeffrey Boakye @darrenchetty.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social

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Andrew McCallum @andrewemc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Really enjoying proof copy of the latest by Matt Goodfellow. Pacy, complex, gets the reader thinking. And it's about transition from primary to secondary - so must have school use! @charliehacking.bsky.social

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Teresa Cremin @teresacremin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

How exciting this arrived today! I am getting stuck in straight away! Thanks @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social @mattgoodfellow.bsky.social yahoo! Can’t wait ! 😜 @mattcourtney.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Excellent, as always, from Megan Dixon. There are issues in education and they’re also inextricably linked to wider societal issues. It is indeed time to take stock and work out how to fix this. Children are at the centre of this.

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CLPE @theclpe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Wow, this is a (pardon the pun) novel approach…

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Another day, and another wave of university redundancy news: today's universities shedding jobs are Leeds St Trinity and Loughborough. The wave of job losses is speeding up, and there's nothing left to say now really.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is concerning but sadly, unsurprising. @suttontrust.bsky.social do such vital work. With the economic climate as it has been, of course disadvantaged students stay closer to home, it’s financially crippling for them otherwise. And these subjects can be seen as an unaffordable luxury for many.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I think more and more we are seeing the 'evidence based' narrative used to push a specific ideological position. Ofsted are particularly guilty of this and indeed they have been picked up on for using research to justify things it doesn't actually say. #EduSky

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CLPE @theclpe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our CLPE School Membership just got even better 😍 Find out how you can support all teachers in your school to engage children in fantastic books, and improve their reading and writing with our lesson plans, curriculum maps, online CPD and more! 👉 clpe.org.uk/membership

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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The @theclpe.bsky.social also recently published a handbook for teachers which “teaches us and highlights how engagement with inclusive literature positively impacts school reading cultures and wider teaching and learning”. Deets here: clpe.org.uk/research/rep...

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Representation in Children's Literature: Reflecting Realities in the Classroom | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

Representation in Children's Literature: Reflecting Realities in the Classroom is authored by our Research and Development Director, Farrah Serroukh, and is a p...

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Mary Bousted is great for this, but I hope there’ll be conversation & collaboration with the curriculum & assessment review commission panel as these two things are intrinsically interlinked. Half the problem in education is too many things operating in isolation without looking at the big picture.

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My Balancing Act co-writer Dominic Wyse has joined us here on Blue Sky; give him a follow here @domwyse.bsky.social. He’s a fount of knowledge and a thoroughly decent chap too!

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ... Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This was such a wonderful session. @rogmcdonald.bsky.social’s students are always so enthusiastic, reflective and engaged as we talk about the importance of poetry and walk through a range of poetry activities. Sessions that live in my memory and bring a smile as I think of these students in schools

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Edmund Barnett-Ward @edmund-b-w.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’ve been quiet on the subject of Ofsted recently, waiting for details to surface before commenting. So, we can see from TES and The Guardian that details have emerged about the ‘scorecard’ system set to replace the current inspection framework next September….

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Dr. Aaron Bradbury @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Here is a little article I wrote on play for BERA. #EarlyYearsSky #Play #PlayMatters #EYFS #EarlyYears

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This lies at the heart of what Dominic Wyse and I have explored in a new model of teaching: The Double Helix of Reading and Writing shown here in a peer-reviewed paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and explored in depth in our book, The Balancing Act: www.routledge.com/The-Balancin...

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Decoding, reading and writing: the double helix theory of teaching

This paper presents a new theory and model of the teaching of decoding, reading and writing. The first part of the paper reviews a selection of influential models of learning to read and write that t....

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

An excellent thread by my friend & ally in the tech accountability trenches @moonalice.bsky.social. Technology underpins it all.

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Just saw this on the day I’m wearing this jumper. Schultz really did write some great letters…

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Dr Debra Kidd @debrakidd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Rereading The Balancing Act by @charliehacking.bsky.social and Dominic Wyse and thinking that if I could only ever recommend one book to this government and then shut up forever, it would be this one. If you teach primary, read it.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

An early morning thread about cognitive load! Some people say that the 'biologically primary and secondary' theory explains why young children seem to 'naturally' learn to walk and talk etc. and can manage the load themselves. The claim is that school work creates 'load' because it's not natural. 🧵

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Absolutely this, loud and clear from @emmaturner75.bsky.social. This was at the heart of the binned 2009 curriculum review, but hope it will be taken note of in the current review. Thank you for writing this.

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Teachers and school leaders, ensure your voices are heard in the curriculum and assessment review at CLPE’s The Future of Literacy half-day Conference on Thursday 14th November. With keynotes from Dominic Wyse, Iram Siraj & Cressida Cowell. Last places available here: clpe.org.uk/training/con...

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The Future of Literacy: Have your voice heard in the Curriculum and Assessment Review

Join us at CLPE, the leading subject association for primary literacy, for a half-day conference aimed at gathering insights and perspectives from our members f...

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I have to say, that in the short time I’ve been here on Bluesky, it feels so much better than the bad place… Let’s hope it lasts as am seriously considering getting rid of all social media otherwise.

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

And Kevan Collins is a man with a wealth of valid and valuable experience to know this. This is a conversation that needs to lie at the heart of a curriculum and assessment review, looking at how we reprofessionalise the profession to know and teach children, not schemes.

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