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Michael Slavinsky

@michaelslav.bsky.social
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Trying to grow the number of students studying Modern Languages in UK state schools and universities. Formerly at The Brilliant Club and a secondary school French teacher. My new project is @LangForAll.bsky.social - get in touch!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/05/2025
For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. See Hyung S. Kim’s portraits of the sea women.
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The Sea Women of South Korea
For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor.
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is superb - very proud of The Brilliant Club and it’s enduring impact. This is a school that really gets it! 💪
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Adam Lamb @senorcordero.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Thanks, Michael! Being able to compile even more schools’ data to that of the 50+ in our trust will hopefully enable for better application of national distribution and give us a notion of potential grade boundaries.
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
May be a massive time saver?
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Schools are the fourth emergency service
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Stuart Lock @stulock.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Following the appointment of Tom Wood to the post of Principal at Bedford Free School, we are looking for a Deputy Principal from September 2025. This is a brilliant school we want to take to even greater heights. Please share: mynewterm.com/jobs/138228/...
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Deputy Principal - Bedford Free School, Bedford, Bedfordshire
Closing date: 8:00am, Mon 31st Mar, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @howardamos.bsky.social
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‘Russia’s Cartier-Bresson’: how Dmitry Markov captured beauty amidst the brutality of Putin’s regime
The photographer, who has died aged 41, took the nation’s most vulnerable people as his subject, and his soulful images, shared on Instagram, earned him comparisons with the greats
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Actually such a good point (pun intended).
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Tim Marston @tmarstonht.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I would far rather give salary scale a point bump that put money into the private sector for a finders fee.
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
ChatGPT to be embedded in Estonian education openai.com/index/estoni...
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Estonia and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to schools nationwide
Estonia and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to schools nationwide. OpenAI will work with the Estonian Government to provide students and teachers in the secondary school system with access to ChatGPT Edu.
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
6 strategies for effective learning from the Learning Scientists & Oliver Caviglioli 📚short explainer with references: www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/8/... 📸⬇️ downloadable posters: www.learningscientists.org/downloadable...
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José García @misterjgarcia.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Dear Spanish teachers teaching El Laberinto Del Fauno at A Level. I had a few very productive lessons with Y13 last week describing all main characters and finding key words to enhance essay writing. Here are our findings, in case they are useful: #MFLBluesky
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Jon Hutchinson @jonhutchinson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hugely energising day with over 60 school and trust leaders from across the country. We’re thinking about how local clusters of schools can build great System coherence Educational coherence Relational coherence So that all children and families have a better journey from cradle to career.
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just came across this organisation that puts on theatre plays in modern languages for schools. www.onatti.co.uk Looks really interesting!
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Home | Onatti Productions L
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I was today years old when I found out there's a language with only 12 letters AEGIKOPRSTUV Rotokas is spoken by a few thousand people in Papua New Guinea. Here's what I presume is the retelling the story of Christ in Rotokas so you can hear what it sounds like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tq6...
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Good News Rotokas People/Language Movie Trailer
YouTube video by World Language Movies
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Does anyone have recent experience of taking a non-EU, non-UK passport holder student (under 18) on a school trip to Spain? They have a visa for residency in the UK, but passport from Asian country. French consulate permits entry with letter from school proving enrolment. Same for Spain?
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Enjoying @neilgilbride.bsky.social’s “Self-Efficacy Theory In Action” while the kids go to swimming lesson. Really appreciate how complex ideas are being broken down into easy-to-follow reasoning. Trying to apply the ideas to better understand kids who give up on studying languages.
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Stuart Lock @stulock.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The exceptional Jane Herron is stepping down from her role as Bedford Free School Principal at the end of this academic year. She will be a very hard act to follow. We are looking for someone to do so. mynewterm.com/jobs/138228/... Conversations & visits very welcome. Please repost.
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Principal - Bedford Free School, Bedford, Bedfordshire
Closing date: 10:00am, Thu 20th Feb, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.
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Florence Sharman @misssharmanmfl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
chng.it/bVKm57Q56Z
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Sign the Petition
Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
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ImpactEd Group @impactedgroup.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you are interested in learning about engagement in your #school or #MAT, speak to us today and join the project: www.tep.uk More on the story: www.tes.com/magazine/ana... #RCELI #education
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The Engagement Platform
TEP exists to help schools improve pupil outcomes and build sustainable working cultures. We do this by enabling schools to easily interpret, compare and take action on robust staff engagement data.
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Well worth it
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Steplab @steplab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
✈️ The Steplab team are off to the USA 🇺🇸 @mrzachg.bsky.social and the team will be delivering one-day Instructional Coaching Intensives in: 📍 North Carolina 🗽 New York 🗺️ Pennsylvania 🗓️ May 2025! 🤝 Open to all! 🎟️ Find out more and book your place: buff.ly/40DsrrZ
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Jon Hutchinson @jonhutchinson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
East100 is a leadership initiative that’s locally rooted and internationally informed. In a couple of months the first cohort will be traveling to New York to see some of the pioneering charter school leaders and see the schools in action. Want to learn more? Join our 30 min info webinar!
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
AI may change language learning like streaming changed the music market: we stopped buying CDs but still listen to recordings, and live music continues. Languages will enter a new phase. Accessible to more people via the cheaper new tech, but linguistic skill will remain valued. Pontification over.
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is really great to see. I have visited the school and seen @lilystaff.bsky.social and @louiseverett.bsky.social & Team in action and it’s no surprise their routines and curriculum translates into improved literacy. 1/2
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Louis Everett @louiseverett.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
our early progress. If you’d like to know more about our ambitious reading programme see @lilystaff.bsky.social blogposts here with video footage: reachschools.uk/reading-outs...
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Reading outside of school - does it really matter? - Reach Schools
Find out how this west-London school is fostering a love of reading among its Year 7 students through diverse reading expectations, family engagement, and targeted interventions, addressing significan...
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A Chief Examiner for AQA, many years ago, described A-level ML as “general studies in another language”.
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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Chris Dennis, International Sports Commentator, speaking to us about how he uses his languages in his job @llc-rhul.bsky.social @michaelslav.bsky.social Reach Academy/LLC
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I've been promoting the idea of A-level languages to lots of students recently. I'll be the first to say that it's not a course for everyone (perhaps obviously), but I think many students underestimate how interesting it is. It's a truly interdisciplinary course, with modules in 1/3
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Jon Hutchinson @jonhutchinson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚨🚨APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🚨🚨 Over the last four years we’ve collaborated with leading trusts in the south west, Yorkshire, West Country & the east of England. The x100 programmes are for aspiring headteachers who want to take collective action. Find out more www.reachfoundation.uk/insights/joi...
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Joining the x100 — The Reach Foundation
Do you aspire to lead a school within the next five years?  Do you want to lead a school in your community where all children thrive—especially those underserved by our current systems...
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Jon Hutchinson @jonhutchinson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’ve hugely enjoyed reading all of the posts, blogs, articles, reports & conversations on here around the opportunities with the curriculum and assessment review. So much wisdom, experience & good sense shared. BUT
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Daniel Muijs @danielmuijs.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I don’t know how many times I’ve had the following conversation: Mr A: “Problem X is due to English education policy Y” Me: “It’s an international problem that occurs in countries with totally different policies to England” Mr A: “But Gove!”
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Michael Slavinsky @michaelslav.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
my first tweet
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