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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Another one. It's infuriating.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

1. A story. Please read. Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit. I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.

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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

"She states that “only 14.9 per cent of teachers were identified as being from an ethnic minority background" [implying this needs rectifying]" Only 18% of people in England and Wales belong to an ethnic minority* background. 3.1% is not a worrying disparity. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

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How racist are British schools?

Kalwant Bhopal presents school as a terrible place to be an ethnic minority in her book Race and Education. The evidence suggests otherwise.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I enjoy reception class but miss the older ones. Y5 loved using magnifiers to read this timeline.

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Julie Davis @anotherjules.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Tarjinder is right; primary schools don’t tend to PEX a child if they bring a knife in. We work with the child, family and relevant authorities to try to understand the reason why. However, I wouldn’t want my child going to a secondary school that DIDN’T have a zero-tolerance policy on this.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Even to someone who's no expert in aircraft so obvious this is beautiful design.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Long anticipated and after #TDaPE conference and ⁦‪Christopher’s session, I know it will be worth its weight in gold!

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I am a FT teacher and have been asked to mentor a student 2nd school practice ( 2 terms). Apparently, I now need to do 20 hours training. ( several modules) to make sure I’m fit for purpose. This does not seem reasonable to me. I just did around 6 hours to mentor an in school trainee last year!!

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Comparative Judgement is a proven way of assessing writing reliably without a rubric. If you're thinking "how is that possible" then join our webinar on 3 February at 4pm, take part in some demo judging of real Y5 & Y7 writing, and find out! buff.ly/3YzOgav

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

AI has made me even more concerned. I don't know how much I can do about it but it worries me someone could use it to go "find all examples of where Ben has criticised the government" and there everything would be in a nanosecond. It's not I worry about this now, it's the future.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My trust in the stability and security of the future is declining a lot. I'm concerned that big companies or governments might use data in ways we now find unacceptable. I don't trust what we say now to hold in the years to come.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A lot of my older relatives have always been deeply concerned about providing data to government/big companies and for years I was sort of "oh bless them with their old paranoid ways" and now I've 180ed and won't even give my fingerprints for the cashless canteen. ID cards now horrify me.

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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

What we were promised: an end to Ofsted grades, an awesome report card, and generally sunlit uplands What's been leaked so far: Nando's chilli-pepper nonsense TUNE IN FOR COMMENTARY - please share if you can :) open.spotify.com/episode/11pW...

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

New from us on our latest AI trial. We're dubious about AI feedback because of the error rate. Instead, we've got teachers to record verbal comments & then used AI to transcribe & combine them. Quality human feedback - just quicker.

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Using AI to automate written comments

Verbal feedback given!

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

open.spotify.com/episode/0Pm0... Another cracking podcast with special guest Sam Freedman. If I could have asked a question, it would have been: About the recent OECD report which argues in favour of more investment in 'high-quality early childhood education, why does EYFS get so overlooked?

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Why is everything broken, and how do we fix it? With special guest Sam Freedman

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I will be discussing the results of our first oracy assessment in more detail with @claresealy.bsky.social on Tuesday at 4pm. All NMM subscribers can register for the webinar for free here. hub2.nomoremarking.com/trainingVideos

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A valiant effort @adamboxereducation.bsky.social , I was not expecting to hear the ditty so jauntily adapted in the tenor range on the podcast today. No AI in sight, just a pure a cappella delight🔥 open.spotify.com/episode/27cT...

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a woman wearing headphones and glasses is talking into a microphone

ALT: a woman wearing headphones and glasses is talking into a microphone

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East London Research School @elresearchsch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🌟Join Kat Branco from @NorthLondonRS & @flissj.bsky.social from East London Research School tomorrow for our free webinar 4-5.15pm. 🌟Sign up here; docs.google.com/forms/d/1R8j...

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”

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

Final words to Julia Waters, Ruth Perry’s sister: “If this is true, then Ofsted have learnt nothing from Ruth's death. They have learnt nothing from the recommendations of the Prevention of Future Deaths report, or the ESC parliamentary inquiry report…

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Jonathan Mountstevens @mrmountstevens.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The Ofsted changes are likely to have much more impact on what happens in schools than any changes to the NC (although possibly not to exam specs or criteria). Bad Ofsted reforms will wreck any chances of positive impact from the review.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Someone offline just pointed out we are now able to score schools out of 50. The horror.

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Jonathan Mountstevens @mrmountstevens.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yeah but I want to preserve my 'man of the people' credentials. It's become an inverse snobbery thing. And honestly I don't think the world needs an edu-book from me. I think there are probably too many already.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I can't believe Ofsted went for the working it did when this was right there and we already have experience with it.

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Michael Fordham @michaelfordham.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Read @mrmountstevens.bsky.social’s new blog and also read this one he referenced on Senior Curriculum Leadership by @counsellc.bluesky.social. So many pitfalls can be avoided in current reforms if these warnings are heeded. thedignityofthethingblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/i...

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In search of senior curriculum leadership : Introduction – a dangerous absence

This is an introduction to a series of posts exploring future possibilities for senior curriculum leadership in schools. What does it mean to be in a whole-school leadership team and to be leading …

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Can someone get Sean Harford back to explain this mess to us please?

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm now imagining Ofsted training inspectors on this. It's just.. staggering.

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Sam Creighton @samcreighton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Absolutely this 👏 'The quality of teaching cannot be considered intelligently without reference to the content being taught.' Also, there is a danger schools could be penalised because inspectors don't get/or agree with the pedagogical approach - but there's not just one way to teach effectively!

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Follow me on Bluesky for: * Updates about the Comparative Judgement writing assessment projects we run at No More Marking - in the UK, US, Australia & NZ. * General education and ed tech stuff (also see our Substack) * Bits about football, cricket, VAR, DRS, etc.

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Education, assessment and technology by Daisy Christodoulou & Dr Chris Wheadon. Click to read No More Marking, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I've created a starter pack of education accounts too - let me know if you'd like me to add you.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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