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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 27/08/2026

I spoke to ITV news about why it’s so important to register as an organ donor and tell your family your wishes. My life was saved by a liver transplant in 2009 to cure a rare and potentially fatal condition. youtu.be/Xl-wYRRCbnY?...

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ITV News: Organ Donation - David Monis-Weston and NHS Blood & Transplant

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 18/05/2026

The common bit is this: when something hateful shows up in your crowd, it is not enough to privately think, “well, that’s not why I’m here.” You have to say so. Otherwise the people on the receiving end will hear the silence more loudly than your good intentions.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 18/05/2026

These situations are not the same. They don’t have to be.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 18/05/2026

As a Jew, I’ve seen this from the other side too. I know friends and neighbours who feel scared watching other protests: the chants, the signs, the people walking beside them, and the shrugging when Jews say it feels threatening.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 18/05/2026

That is the bit I wish more people understood. You don’t have to be the person holding the sign to help make people feel threatened by it.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 18/05/2026

But from the outside, silence doesn’t look neutral. If someone is marching next to an ugly sign or chant and nobody around them seems bothered enough to challenge it, the people targeted by it are not unreasonable for thinking: maybe this crowd is fine with it.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 18/05/2026

I can imagine what some of those people will say: we weren’t there for that. That was fringe. Opponents will use anything to smear us. Don’t let them make us lose. Maybe some of them mean that.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 18/05/2026

The anti-Muslim stuff at yesterday’s march was vile. Muslim friends, neighbours and colleagues should not have to watch scenes like that in London and wonder whether their city has a place for them. It should have been called out, loudly, by people on the march.

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Chartered College of Teaching @collegeofteaching.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The Teacher Development Trust has announced that it will place its work, assets and intellectual property into the stewardship of the Chartered College of Teaching by June 2026. Read more in this blog: chartered.pulse.ly/pkizsql4dd

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 11/03/2026

…and the College coming together in this way. TDT was one of three core organisations that formed the Claim Your College coalition for the creation of the College, and this will give those who care about professional development a strong platform to advocate and achieve in the future.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 11/03/2026

The CPD landscape has changed so much in the last decade and the TDT journey has taken us further than we ever imagined. When TDT began, CPD was barely on the policy agenda and now it’s central to government policy and leadership frameworks. I am so pleased to now see TDT… (cont)

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 07/12/2025

That version of the Cell Block Tango needs hauling up in front of The Hague. 😱 #strictly #scd2025

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Mark McCourt @markmccourt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

CPD expert? Interested in programme design, delivery and evaluation? Working freelance? Why not join us on a six-month project from January. Details below. Feel free to ask any questions. Please share @informededucation.com @profbeckyallen.bsky.social

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 01/06/2025

We didn't write the Sunday Times article. That was by a journalist who saw our report and had some additional quotes from members of our team. So the language in that article is not ours.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 01/06/2025

It does indeed. In our report that we wrote we are clear that it is "as little as 14% of the marks". Either way, it is genuinely problematic to say that a standard pass is possible even if the range is between 14% and say 20%. It doesn't show a broad range of competency across fundamental maths.

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Maths Horizons @mathshorizons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Thank you again to our brilliant Chair, Professor Lord Tarassenko CBE, to our co-leads Dr Helen Drury and David Monis Weston, and to all of our fantastic Executive Group. Their experience and insight has been truly invaluable. And this is not the end! More from Maths Horizons will be coming...

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Maths Horizons @mathshorizons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We shared our 7 recommendations in the House of Lords in May, and we are delighted to be able to share the full report today.

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Maths Horizons @mathshorizons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Since September 2024, we have heard from hundreds of experts through interviews and consultation feedback, as well as roundtable discussions and school visits, as well as conducting large-scale polling through Public First.

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Maths Horizons @mathshorizons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Today, Maths Horizons publishes our full report about the future of maths curriculum and assessment in England, and features in the Sunday Times here: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

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Students can pass maths GCSE without ‘some basic numeracy’

Independent experts are calling for curriculum change as too many pass the exam without essential skills

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 01/06/2025

We’re very happy to listen to critiques and alternative viewpoints of any of our suggestions or analyses, of course. You can read the report here: www.mathshorizons.uk/reports

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 01/06/2025

Good morning. Our report says that England’s system is in the best position yet. We’re not suggesting that the Grade 4 standard is too easy but that it’s currently possible to reach it with too few questions which is an exam design issue. We don’t suggest anywhere that all teachers should use AI.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 27/05/2025

Wow Sue, your allotment looks amazing! What an amazing achievement. My husband and I had one for five years and I don’t think it ever looked as tidy as yours!

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🧮 'Our new report finds a surprising consensus: the curriculum is overcrowded and assessment doesn’t always reflect what matters' @mathshorizons.bsky.social leads - @informededucation.com and Dr Helen Drury schoolsweek.co.uk/the-maths-cu...

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Curriculum and assessment must catch up with maths mastery

Our new report sets out what's wrong with our systems approach to maths and how to fix it

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 14/05/2025

What a great post for science teachers to use.

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Maths Horizons @mathshorizons.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Today, Maths Horizons is delighted to be publishing our report about the future of maths curriculum and assessment in England. Our launch event at the House of Lords later today will present the following seven recommendations: (🧵1/7)

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 19/04/2025

This means everything to me. I’m only alive today due the miracles of medical science and my donor’s (and donor’s family) unbelievable generosity to donate a liver to me in 2009 to cure a rare disease. #WorldLiverDay organdonation.nhs.uk

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 05/04/2025

Luke, this looks fascinating! Was this prompted by the book The Unaccountability Machine? If not, it’s a very thought provoking read.

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History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🧑‍💻 EdTech Experts needed! A leading platform is compiling a list of education innovations originating/established in the UK to celebrate their inventors with historical markers. Could you contribute? Full credit will be given. Please reply if you can help! #histech #research

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The education sector is being urged to 'get involved' as the government launches a call for evidence as part of its national professional qualification (NPQ) framework review

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DfE calls for evidence to aid NPQ review

The DfE is asking for 'recent, relevant and high-quality research' as it reviews its suite of NPQs

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

And it obscures the real scandal - which is the totally inadequate child services support for kids post exclusion, the disaster of CAMHS, and the shocking lack of AP places (and in many places AP quality). Schools have a right to exclude - but excluded kids still have a right to an education.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 21/03/2025

“the greatest risk of this AI technological wave is that we heed the siren calls to remove things from the curriculum if “AI can do it” - this feels precisely the opposite of the right approach.”

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

💻 The AI revolution in education will rest on solid teaching of knowledge and adapting to a new way of looking at metacognitive skills, argues @informededucation.com

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What schools need to get right on AI

Finding the right balance between embracing AI but ensuring it does not dominate is critical, argues David Monis-Weston

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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If you work in general FE or a 6th form college, there's an exciting opportunity to join a new evidence partnership with the @theeef.bsky.social. Join this exciting work to support evidence use in 16 to 19 settings. Find out more here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/eef-ope...

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EEF opens applications for new evidence partnership for the 16-19…

Charity calls on general FE and sixth form colleges to apply for funded opportunity

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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

➡️ How do we modify education to prepare for a world where more jobs will require fluent use of AI tools? ➡️How do we modify the way we plan and teach to make use of AI tools? @informededucation.com offers some answers ⬇️ www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

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What schools need to get right on AI

Finding the right balance between embracing AI but ensuring it does not dominate and rob young people of necessary knowledge is critical, argues David Monis-Weston

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 19/03/2025

My new piece today on how we can teach for an increasingly AI world, out today.

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Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Great to see @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social now here on @bsky.app 👏

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!
I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

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Anna McShane @annacmcshane.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Stricter school phone policies significantly reduce screen time Our polling with @moreincommonuk.bsky.social for the @neunion.bsky.social shows students in schools where smartphones are completely banned use their devices nearly 50% less in a typical day than those in schools with no restrictions.

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David Monis-Weston @informededucation.com · 26/02/2025

Delighted to be part of this new board.

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John Jackson @jajackson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This report on AI and tech in maths teaching from @informededucation.com is well-worth a read. Refreshing to see such a wide-ranging, balanced view of the potential and challenges of tech in education, especially around e.g. school capacity. cdn.sanity.io/files/uiql8s...

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