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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Getting consistent in the 5k legs, now for the breath! Tips welcome! 🎧 today we disco’ed 🪩 Feel phrase - ‘have you processed your emotions? No, but I am running much more now’ 😂 Mmm If only unconscious attachment responses were actual conscious choices 🙄 #running #runsky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A teacher brought their baby to our conference The group made space & held that mum and as facilitator it was bloody wonderful A little learning community getting though their qualification together as life happens 🤍 #edusky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes we speak of attunement like it’s not the rare, fragile alchemy of resonance, we need to notice the rarity but practice the hope of it intentionally, as it holds the capacity to forever change #developingbrain

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year the days when summer is changing into autumn the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change’ Charlotte’s web #childrensliterature

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Recently overheard comment… ‘40 years’ SERVICE’ & felt surge of discomfort as ‘service’ WASNT purpose of that profession…like a sacrificial celebration of giving yourself to an org, no reciprocity …just language or awks reveal of how culture & society shape our ideas of work, loyalty & worth?

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Silence as a response can be deafening indeed! But for a child is it chosen, imposed, protective or powerFULL? It may convey calm, compliance, uncertainty, withdrawal…It can uphold rights, but for ECE it can be the most destabilising response with so much to understand, we need to know more #edusky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How hard should we resist the ‘availability heuristic’ in #research? The vivid can shape interpretation. But what if the memorable moments ARE conveying something crucial? How do we hold onto them without letting them become the whole story, whilst ‘knowing’ they’re not always a bias to eliminate

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A day with EY leaders, lots of chats re the elusive culture of safety & the cost of its absence. Safety shapes us. When present, we risk vulnerability, honesty & remain connected. When absent, we adapt, protect & lose connection. Once felt, all that follows is measured against it.Can it be restored?

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How perfect, alone, running a tow path, under blue sky, with ☀️ & stillness but so much life, narrow boats one side trains the other, so zen, didn’t want to leave, so turned right round & stayed Run angry, happy, loose or holding on tight. distance not speed today Dundas Aqueduct Above/below #runsky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing about the beautiful synchrony of proto-conversations btw child/adult, the rhythmic attuned exchanges BEFORE words in movement, gesture, expressions Got me thinking how deeply these conv remain part of emotional intimacy adults need to connect & how practised weve become at talking over them

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

4 minutes quicker on #5k #run gotta love #strava alerts & #springsteen 🎧 90 mins soaking up my girls FA Cup win ⚽️ Making a vow to notice the minutes & footsteps fwd as Sept does Sept with all the feels of what’s lost, what endures, what’s emerging & what will ALWAYS be #recalibrating #runsky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To dads, mums, carers, & all the wonderful people who know, love & stand alongside a child navigating transition right now.. ♥️ So much can sit behind that reply to ‘How’s it going?’ I hope your child is being understood, not just settled And I hope you are being listened to

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sometimes the thing children really notice Is that we have stopped noticing #attunement #earlyeducation

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fresh Sept vibes joining writing/teaching team on new EY Teacher Degree Apprenticeship Hope•social justice to underpaid w/force & exceptional care for children, replacing uni privilege with workforce equity Fear•Level 6 status used to protect & uplift ECE NOT justify 1:13 ratio #academicsky #edusky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Upping the 5k #run to 3pw, eek! Body don’t fail me now… Living the whole one foot in front of the other & all that life metaphor stuff…Onwards ☀️ New pace. New path. #Bristol suspension bridge #running

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/2 Relational pedagogy…only til it gets difficult? When does prof caution start to erode relational authenticity & when does being aware of how we’re ‘seen’ stop us being ourselves? If we declare a relational appr, we should remain recognisably the same, even as contexts /conversations change..

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reflective practice can be transformative, but it also asks us to resist the urge to turn every experience into something that needs explaining Not everything has to be pathologised Some things are simply felt, raw, unedited, real #reflexivepractice #ECE #edusky #thinksky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today’s #5k ‘two tunnels’ (4miles of old railway Bath) Fast pace due to surreal space.. Like a mix of a 4 mile MRI scan & Harry Potter’s chamber of secret, basilisk 🐍 vibe #run #runsky #running

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fastest 5k #run so far, but it’s not the time, it’s just the validation that the time matched how it felt My beautiful canal Needed that today Back home to write & imagining a barge / writing life - now that’s sounds like a bit of heaven #Happyplace #Canalgirl #barge

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why does #PMQ’s feel like The Godfather and why does all the humour always feel so inappropriate… like read the room! Yuk

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Lesson 36: intentional listening Listen more to your subconscious #running map than conscious thoughts of what you’ll never hear #paris #homesick #eiffeltower

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On a #run tonight random 8yr old (ish) initiated the widest smile for the longest time. Caught me completely Such an unexpected connection. 💛 Really grateful #running

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

End of 18m teaching a grp of #educators today, thinking, questioning, exploring what it means to LEAD in #ECE So great to be small part of their leadership stories, has been such a real warmth & natural ease of coming together The EY sector, children & families are lucky to have u 🤍 #NPQEYL

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Love my home town for #running but is it a thing no matter how beautiful the space or how good / bad personal history in space, new places are better? Always a hard #run here 🤷‍♀️ Todays view/not todays pic ☁️

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Care in EY has become so reduced, secondary to education & more distant from being politically, ethically & materially valued This manifesto centres care in EY & asks what more inclusive, affordable & non-exploitative c/care might look like A read for all, not just as an EY sector but as a society

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Turns out I have a starting tree 🌳 Obvs every #run needs a ceremonial tree from which to begin #running

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

‘Resistance’ & ‘activism’ are regularly being declared between what we believe children deserve & what is made possible every day in early years settings & classrooms What an exhausting starting point for play never mind advocacy #eduskyuk #edusky #academicsky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sometimes you just hope people listen to what was / is NOT being said… Gonna take that personal feeling more intentionally into professional practice & think what that means for… #mentoring #lecturing #childrensadvisoryboad #research #consultancy #Attunedlistening #unsaid #academicsky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thoughts?Wondering if posing reflective q’s to #ECE creates a hierarchy of thinking?Advocating for reflective practice makes q’s irresistible but do such prof rituals in trg & mentoring smugly sit in comfort/power priv. verbal articulate thought rather than silence/creativity #ableism #academicsky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes you’ve just got to look after yourself until the world looks different.. Squeezing in a little Exmoor magic pre Sept madness #academicsky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New term,thoughts of prof who won’t be seeing those they built sig rel’shps with due to yr grp/setting/service. Attachment doesn’t have a schedule that switches off when terms/appts end. You made a diff, it’s ok to feel that loss, we can all lose when it matters #edusky #professionalrelationships

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In our forest sch there was no talk of interventions, inclusion, differentiation. Just shared philosophy of trust, freedom, play, curiosity, rel’ships. Playful, respectful adults enc. children to ‘be.’ So sad /weird we privilege learning at tables, the conform/perform, teaching children ‘how to be’

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Love my job, many hats, but freelance is so cool to be able to sit with policy, research & practice Always a little bit in love with the late great Colwyn Trevarthen & today readying his theories & research for collab practice with settings, quite yummy #academicsky #edusky #psychologist

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not all children are going ‘back to school’… So many are ‘choosing’ not to return The language that others use to describe this ‘choice’ can be traumatising for families already traumatised e.g school refuser Haven’t heard an appropriate term yet.. have you? #backtoschool #edusky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Still in 2026 safeguarding policy changes, such a diff in practice philosophy re anti-racism across ‘KCSIE’ & ‘Working Together’ Both DfE stat guidance, but WT is much more explicit re challenging stereotypes, discrim. & disproportionality A consistent commitment is needed across sig policy #edusky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When The Velveteen Rabbit meets The Hobbit… ‘Once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always’ ‘You are not the same hobbit that you were’ Through relationships we are forever changed #booksthatmatter #childrensliterature#readitandreap #edusky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Great research focus on neighbourhood initiatives. So important to consider real community attunement & belonging as protection, looking to that ‘village’ approach as an infrastructure for children & young people’s wellbeing.. more please! #academicsky #Edusky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This book 👌🏼 Words from a mother to her son. Simple, no BS honesty, a beautifully unique person Poetry & remembrance, a world shaped by loss, gratitude, curiosity & joy…

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ever feel that adding to a paper is like jumping into a child’s skipping game? The rope already has its own rhythm, you’re poised, tucked ready to go, jumping in, nope same point diff angle, jump out, poised again, edge forward, spot the gap, take the risk, jump in, find your rhythm, stay a while..

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As researcher/ reflexive educator my goto is thinking. But thinking a way out of activated nervous systems is nigh impossible. This academic break I’ve practiced what I preach & let my body exp safety not just think about it, great! but what tips for mntg reg. before reasoning in Sept, dawn running?

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

School Transition, the anxiety children hold daily, like a tangible aura, we navigate alongside, preparing…but what if in our great intentions to hold their state of transition To, we listen more of their transition From, attending to loss, & start to address true foundations for readiness #edusky

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

‘To me, you will be unique in all the world…’ It’s always ok to throw in a bit of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s ‘Little Prince’ to your day… Meaning, I see you & through knowing you, you become uniquely you to me… #childrensliterature #booksthatmatter #children #grownups #seen&known

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Jacqui Lewis @jacquiearlyed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1/ Keeping children safe in education 2026 (KCSiE) Such an overwhelming reflection of a world our children are navigating rn Reviewing, I was immersed in racism, misogyny, misandry, abuse, weaponry, violence, sexual exploitation, deepfakes, org crime, modern slavery, MH, the lost children…

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