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Claudia Lewis

@mbdscience.bsky.social
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Doing better will always open more doors, but that doesn't stop a lower class of qualification existing. I have a 2:2, there are jobs I wouldn't be able to get straight out of uni because I don't have a 2:1 or higher, I still have a degree though. These kids with their L1s still have a qualification
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Schools are essentially judged (graded? valued?) on how many level 2 passes they can get for their kids, which I think is a good thing, but that doesn't stop L1s from existing. Also doesn't mean L1s are good enough for everyone!
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Did you know there are nine levels of qualification? And that a grade 3,2, or 1 at GCSE is a Level 1 qualification? The Secretary of State apparently didn't. 🔗 mbdsciencepolitics.substack.com/p/its-a-pass...
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I made Results Day Bingo
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I made a fish pie
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
There are videos circulating of protestors repeatedly harassing and attempting to intimidate a foreign-born professor, because of where he's from and because he did his military service there. Can someone better versed in these things please explain why this isn't racism?
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
'Jews being murdered isn't a cause to grieve, they're just a set-up by our racist media's References to the "Zio-Lobby" Positive, celebratory reactions to the killing of a terrorist leader. This place is just as much of a hell-hole, you just don't see it.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"Maybe[...] this will take [o]ut some Zios" "Jewish supremacy" "Israel should be [...] decimated, Zionazi scumbag" Accusations the Manchester Yom Kippur attack was an inside job.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Given Amnesty UK have posted in support of protesters arrested for supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation, I don't really value their opinion, particularly not on where Nice People post online.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Channelling my inner @cantabkitty.bsky.social today
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Today was the first time the community came together since the Yom Kippur terrorist attack in Manchester. I wrote about it. mbdsciencepolitics.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I never left X, I just dual post when I remember
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
But why shouldn't it stop? Why shouldn't the world stop turning when Jews are murdered outside their synagogue on their holiest day? Why shouldn't the country stop and mourn and weep for our citizens, slaughtered like animals for the crime of being Jews? Why shouldn't we grieve?
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I resent that the self-righteous dismissal of Jewish lives by people who believe they are Good and Right and has made me feel such anger in my heart. Nothing "stopped in its tracks". Everything outside the Jewish community carried on as normal, with vigils and speeches just another item in the diary
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Today was the first time the community came together since the Yom Kippur terrorist attack in Manchester. I wrote about it. mbdsciencepolitics.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Nope.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I tracked the temperature in my classroom and the science office over the day. Highest temperature was 28.4°C. Blue denotes a lesson.
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CogSciSci @cogscisci.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
What is the difference between prerequisite knowledge and checks for understanding @mbdscience.bsky.social has the key definitions
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I hate eating breakfast, but I can't go through to lunch without something, so I'm trying to find a healthy mid-morning snack to tide me over. Today, I made omelette muffins. We shall see if they do the trick.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
At the beginning of the year, when asked which football team I support, I told my students I support a regional National League team, and now the boys give me weekly updates on how they're playing.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is what you wanted. What did you think "globalise the intifada" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Two Jews can't even be shot dead outside a Jewish museum after attending a Jewish event without Woo EduTwitter retweeting posts implying it was a set-up by the Israeli government.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Grit is a form of resilience and you can't build either unless you're exposed to setbacks. It's far better for those setbacks, inconveniences and failings come in minor form, in a supportive environment, where the consequences are low, and not later when they can be devastating
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We will never be able to teach students 'grit' while we're prevented from asking them to do anything evenly mildly unpleasant. Until I can set homework with a high pass mark, and a detention for failing to meet it, without getting pushback from parents, there will be no grit.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Woooo! 🥳
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🚨New post🚨 We need to make sure our students are not trying to be passive learners. We must make the horse drink. mbdscience.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/y...
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You can lead a horse to water…
Learning is an active process. Too often, I encounter students who believe they can simply sit, passively in a lesson and absorb what is being taught, without having to do anything. And to a degree…
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨NEW POST 🚨 It's been a while, but I'm on a cross-country train, so what better use of my time than to blog about feedback. mbdscience.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/n...
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Not all feedback is created equal.
“A lot of the same students were putting their hand up. Try cold calling or turn and talk.” Giving feedback is a vital part of leading, but – as with many parts of leadership &#82…
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CogSciSci @cogscisci.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Want to see an awesome list of speakers for this year's #cogscisci in Surrey #edusky? Check the thread below for updates on speakers
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a cartoon character with a candy cane and the words sensational below it
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I do have one. It feels like writing on paper which I love, and it syncs with my phone which I also like because it means I can keep track of everything, even if it's not technically filed away properly!
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I see Fazackerley has written her regular Observer column dumping on schools.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
AI for planning is the equivalent of thinking it's ok for children to talk as long as they "get the work done."
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I'm not so sure - the interaction with e.g. ChatGPT is much more human, and it feels the same as asking for advice, and I think that will lead/is leading to higher levels of trust in the outcome that previously with e.g. Boardworks or Badger or whatever.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
But for an inexperienced teacher, they don't necessarily have the expertise to realise it's bunkum...
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It doesn't "know" anything, it just uses statistical models to suggest the most likely next word, given the previous. It's no surprise it regurgitates VAK and the like, given how much information there is about them on the internet!
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you're a very inexperienced teacher, there's also the risk that you blame your delivery for the poor lesson, rather than the LLM that read every resource on TES and gave you the mean average.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It scrapes everything, even the bad. For inexperienced teachers that can very easily result in them delivering dross that doesn't help students learn, and there's no voice saying "actually, don't do that, try this".
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
One of my concerns about the use of e.g. ChatGPT in teaching is how easy it is. It's the looking up the answer of teaching. Why think hard about the best way to explain something, why find an experienced colleague and ask their advice when you can just type your question into a box and get an answer
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The robot at the Tesco petrol station near me shouts at you if you get your phone out at the neighbouring traffic lights
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Jo Castelino @drcastelino.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
This is beautiful! Homework instructions that are supportive, encouraging and bursting with high, manageable expectations!
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
I'm trying to get my students into good habits with their Carousel homework - to not race through the flashcards - so I'm trying the following instructions, and so far the students seem to be engaging with the flashcards much better and doing less cramming!
Task description 1. Go to this link: Homework. Your log in is your name. 2. Spend at least 15 minutes going through the flashcards. For each question, either write down the answer, or speak it aloud (whispering is fine!) 3. No earlier than the following day, repeat step 2. 4. No earlier than the following day, complete the quiz.. If you score below 80%, immediately revisit the flash cards. Repeat the quiz the following day. For example: Thursday - 15 minutes flashcards Sunday - 15 minutes flashcards Tuesday - quiz. 80%+, homework done. <80%, 15 minutes flashcards Wednesday - quiz
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
I'm not saying airports lie or that some people don't know how to queue, but I arrived at the airport and within 10 minutes I was through security and in a departure lounge. And that included getting swabbed.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
The three biggest myths in education: The system requires a third of students to be sacrificed to the GCSE gods. Knowledge is stickier when you work it out yourself. Discipline is bad for children.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Now, I understand why a maraschino cherry is placed inside the pineapple ring...
The image shows a beautifully baked pineapple upside-down cake. The cake has a rich caramelized glaze with pineapple rings arranged in a circular pattern, with one pineapple ring in the center and smaller slices radiating outward. The golden-brown cake beneath complements the shiny, juicy pineapple topping. Alas, the cake showing through the inner pineapple ring looks like an anus.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
I wonder how much of this is a fairly modern phenomenon - as identity politics grows, one's own sense of identity becomes more precise/niche and the perception of what "like me" becomes tighter, leading to the impacts shown there...
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
As an example, men are overrepresented in construction, but why is that a problem? 51% of junior doctors are non-white, so what?
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
It's a very slight underrepresentation, and I'm not actually convinced as to why it's a problem if the demographics of every level of the teaching profession doesn't exactly match the wider demographics of the country.
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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
*black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic group (2021 Census data)
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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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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
One of the parents at results day asked me which child was mine and I'm just going to go cry about the fact I apparently look old enough to have a 16 year old child.
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