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Elizabeth Draper @draperel

@draperel.bsky.social
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30+ yrs English teacher,post-16-SFC & FE. #JoyFE 💛📖📚📙✍️🗣️🎧Campaigner for bringing creative & critical thinking back into ❤️of education.Deputy Chair, trustee, Fellow of @englishassociation.bsky.social The English Association #EnglishTeaching / North West

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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Myths #Legends #Engagement #roundtables #quests what’s not to like? Have a listen for excellent ideas and resources for #teaching ⬇️⬇️⬇️🙌🙌🙌
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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This!The IAS teacher network welcomes both experienced practitioners & newcomers, offering opportunities to deepen subject knowledge,explore innovative teaching methods, & connect with educators & scholars worldwide who share an interest in Arthurian literature, culture, and myth. Sign up! Join in!
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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pleased to have read @nicwilson.bsky.social Land Beneath the Waves - rich,poignant,inspiring. Personally,loved reading this from former English teacher become writer & naturalist. Love the focus on local landscape, wildlife & what it tells;of chronic illness ‘management’ & sanctuary to be found.🌻❤️👏🏽💫
Photo of book cover Photo of page 229 on the devastating decline of nightingales in England
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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This!The IAS teacher network welcomes both experienced practitioners & newcomers, offering opportunities to deepen subject knowledge,explore innovative teaching methods, & connect with educators & scholars worldwide who share an interest in Arthurian literature, culture, and myth. Sign up! Join in!
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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Walt Whitman, in a notebook, c. 1854, points to “earliest times“ when “every thing written at all was poetry . . . history, laws, religion, war, were all in the keeping of the poet.“ And concludes with a curiously modernist sense, the omnivorous need to appropriate the unpoetic:
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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 23/09/2026
Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.
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Emily Robinson wins The Conversation Prize for writers 2026 for her entry on the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd
Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
English Association Monographs: English at the Interface explores innovative research and examines the intersections between English Studies and other languages, cultures, professions, disciplines and technologies from the medieval period to the present day. More here: bit.ly/4xmuf72
Promotional graphic for Liverpool University Press featuring three recently published book covers: Reading Place Writing by David Cooper, Multilingualism and the Early Modern City by Christopher Joby, and Playing with Lines by Thomas Gould. Pale blue, cream, and slate blue blocks frame “Recently Published” and the series title, “English Association Monographs: English at the Interface.”
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📣Over the coming weeks & months, we’ve a great range & variety of EVENTS! 📣 Useful, informative, enriching! #CPD Visit our 🌟website 🌟Many are FREE online, at ‘twilight’ times (16.45-17.30) to hopefully fit more with busy schedules. 😊 Come along! Invite colleagues! englishassociation.ac.uk/events/
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎉🎉🎉 Please do come along ! ⬇️⬇️⬇️💫💫💫⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🎂Our 120th birthday ! 🎂
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our colleagues in the @englishassociation.bsky.social are hosting an event in London on 17 October, Why Subject Associations Matter -- celebrating their 120th birthday! Do come along if you're in the area. Details here: englishassociation.ac.uk/confronting-...
A painting of a group of hands in a rainbow of different colours
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/09/2026
The Society's events programme resumes this month. Join us at 6pm on Friday 25 September for: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’, with Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes) bit.ly/4i0YEDS All welcome #Skystorians
Image of footpath signs and text: Professor Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes University): ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’, on Friday 25 September 2026 (in person at the Institute of Historical Research, London, and online)
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Come along ! Spread the word! thttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diversifying-english-practical-strategies-to-make-english-more-inclusive-tickets-1992345475951?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=b4b6bde97c&mc_eid=fe738b8607
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Diversifying English: practical strategies to make English more inclusive
Join expert practitioners for a day of CPD dedicated to diversity in English, with a focus on the English Literature A Level
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🥳🥳🙌🏼🙌🏼⬇️⬇️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're looking for a book about how relationships with the natural world can help in dealing with intergenerational trauma, my memoir Land Beneath the Waves (one of BBC #Wildlife Magazine's Best Books of 2025) is on #Kindle special offer now! tinyurl.com/4xjj6x7j @summersdalebooks.bsky.social
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/08/2026
Young people are almost always online, and also the age group most likely to describe themselves as lonely Read more in our latest report⤵️ buff.ly/v7pfxOa
Proportion who are almost always online (left side) and are often lonely (right side), by age group: UK
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📢 We are hiring: Creative Manchester Graduate Intern 📅 Apply by 9pm, Sunday 6 September 👉 Full time, 12-month internship based in Manchester 📝 Apply here: ow.ly/nQGp50ZCiNV Applicants must be graduating from UoM in 2026 or be a 2025 graduate.
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📣Hello all followers 📣, just a reminder to check out our many - and varied - upcoming webinar events! Please share far and wide ! ⬇️
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congratulations to all in their GCSE results 🥳 Wishing them luck 🍀 and success in their next steps. Huge applause 👏🏽👏🏽to all teachers 💫and support staff 💫without whom …
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FFT Education Datalab @fftedudatalab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's #GCSEresults day! And our analysis of the main trends is out. - Grades remain broadly stable - The gender gap in grading has fallen again - Entries are up in statistics, business studies and media studies - Retake entries are up but grades remain low ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2026/08/gcse...
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GCSE and Level 1/2 results 2026: The main trends in grades and entries - FFT Education Datalab
Our round up of everything you need to know about the 2026 results.
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think it is challenging for sec school teachers- they are charged with “teaching reading” yet are not trained to do so. In fact, most teachers could easily adapt their teaching to easily support reading development… But they would probably have to let the daily ppts go
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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/education/20... Correlation is not causation. Also, it is fascinating that most of the people quoted have been involved in promoting the use of tech in schools in different ways. Secondary schools are run on tech- students spend their days looking at ppts.
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‘Our children are less cognitively capable,’ says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools
Jared Cooney Horvath argues that educational technology undermines how children learn and develop
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clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social @clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
When I work with student teachers on placement at our school, I ask what they've learnt so far about teaching reading. Quite often, they haven't covered anything (unless English trainees) and can't explain to me how they would use a disciplinary text to support reading. I find this surprising.
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clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social @clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reducing use of ppt and reading more authentic disciplinary text would support reading and writing development and help students to actively process the academic content. It should complement teacher explanation and modelling in most subjects. Teaching by ppt can oppose good literacy practice.
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Have a listen ! Response to latest A-level data, including from our v own Lead for Cross-Sector Educational Policy: @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Have a listen to this ! ⬇️⬇️
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Haywain 2026
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Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our analysis of the 2026 Level 3 results is live now. Stable headline figures conceal a widening divide. Almost a third of entries in London were awarded an A or A*, compared with under a quarter in the North East and the East Midlands epi.org.uk/publications...
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Level 3 Results Day 2026 - Education Policy Institute
Young people across England have today received their A level, vocational and other applied Level 3 qualification results, and should be applauded for their hard work and commitment.  While A levels a...
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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
✅ T Level and other vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) results are out today – here’s your FE Week rundown of key findings… feweek.co.uk/vtq-and-t-le...
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VTQ and T Level results 2026: 8 key trends
T Level and other vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) results are out today – here’s your FE Week rundown of key findings
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nationalise the water companies without a penny of our money. Here's how with Feargal Sharkey youtu.be/MPo3_0DjgyU?...
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The Water Industry Scandal
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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FFT Education Datalab @fftedudatalab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Some of the headlines on #Alevelresults day are focused on the increase in top grades... but in England the increase in the proportion achieving an A*-A is just 0.1 percentage points compared to last year. vist.ly/5epe7
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A-Level, T-Level and other Level 3 results 2026: The main trends in grades and entries - FFT Education Datalab
Our round up of everything you need to know about the 2026 results.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 13/08/2026
Restoring peatlands, planting trees, recovering wetlands and creating more resilient landscapes helps store carbon, reduce both drought and flood risk, and give wildlife the best chance of adapting to a changing world.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 13/08/2026
🧵 Wildfires have burned across the UK, drought has been declared across the whole of Wales and two-thirds of England, while rivers continue to run low...
An image from above, the charred landscape where heathland once stood
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 13/08/2026
The Prime Minister led an emergency Cobra meeting this week as the UK experiences more high temperatures, but the Government must put intentions into action before it’s too late.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 13/08/2026
Sign our petition to call for climate action here: buff.ly/IrLHG0f
A fire service vehicle stands on the charred remains of heathland, smoke blows around the area
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🥳Congratulations!🥳 to all receiving their A-level results today! We wish them well, luck and happiness ahead 🤗 Big thanks and congratulations to all 💫teachers 💫out there, central as you all are to making this day happen - with all its successes and your continued support, as needed. 👏
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Useful info on today’s results provided by @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/a-level-resu...
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A-Level results 2026: 6 key trends in this year's data
A-level results are out this morning – here’s your handy Schools Week round up of the key trends
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Useful article on results from @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/a-level-resu...
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A-level results 2026 show a 3.2% rise in A* grades
But regional and gender gaps widen
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Interesting results analysis from Wales. Especially those interested in English Literature A-level uptake … www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
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Top grades at A level rise in Wales in 2026 - the results in full
Results have a returned to a more consistent pattern following the end of the pandemic
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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A superb ‘provocation’ by Katherine Rundell on the impact of #AI on developing young minds. Have a read … www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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Newham Bookshop @newhambookshop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Please read and share widely.
Newham Bookshop facing 32% rent increase with £20K due immediately.
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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
View from the High Peak Trail.
Photo of a view across a drystone wall across fields and trees rising in the distance and a cloud strewn blue sky
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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In the Cairngorms by Kathleen Jamie The heartbreaking Sunday Poem printed in today’s Observer newspaper. #Poetry ❤️ ..’the mountain thyme is in flames, / and our bonny purple heather.’
Photo of the poem printed in today’s Observer by Kathleen Jamie : In the Cairngorms
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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Thames Water CEO went unchallenged on the BBC on the claim that public ownership means water investment competes with health and defence. This is a myth! 99% of water investment comes from BILLS. Take 2 mins to complain to Ofcom and the BBC vist.ly/5d5xb
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Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership
Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We can give you a sneak peek into the next phase of this project, which will be an English Skills Translation Lab, in partnership with Jo Bowser-Angermann @angliaruskinuni.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/the-ea-x-aru...
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The EA x ARU English Skills Translation Lab | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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