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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is such an important thread… countering misinformation in the online space. Another reason why the predominant theory of knowledge transmission that has obsessed the education sector for the past 10 years has done a huge disservice to our children…. bsky.app/profile/elio...

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London Association for the Teaching of English @lateteachers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

LATE Spring Conference alert! Saturday 18th April, at UCL IoE in London, speakers, workshops, bagels!

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is a lovely thread for #TeamEnglish I love seeing annotations and training pupils how to make their own is so important. I really enjoy teaching exam classes and seeing the systems and detail pupils come up with. My own texts were quite sparse as a student.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@bobeaglestone.bsky.social is absolutely right and, contrary to the headline, he’s not against 19thC novels, he just thinks there needs to be more choice of excellent books for our students . The length issue will still arise though- I think certain books should be taken off the spec every 5 years

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Sad that for #WorldBookDay2026 the only £1 books for my son’s age are netflix tv series based rather than books by a wonderful picture book author, equivalent to the MG ones. Bear Rescue, Skandar and Against All Odds are great but he’s never going to read them if his books are cheap nonsense

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Charlie Stayt, "A lot of people think those leaflets are the nasty side of politics" Zack Polanski, "Genocide is quite nasty"

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We have the next RHUL Studying Classics at University on 2nd July (not June, sorry!) and it's titled 'Of Gods and Women in the Ancient World'! Do pass on to any sixth formers of your acquaintance who might be interested.

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STUDYING CLASSICS AT UNIVERSITY - OF GODS AND WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

A University Taster Day of mini lectures and interactive experiences for school students.

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thank you so much to the 350 secondary English teachers who filled in our Poetry Survey & those whose extra comments have been so fascinating. We'll be quoting some in the report! The prize draw for £150 of EMC resources was won by Vicki Callaghan, Hollyfield School, Kingston

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Colleagues are looking for teachers and teacher educators (secondary/post 16) to participate in a research project - Decolonising STEM and geography education in secondary schools in England and Scotland. Details in the attached flyer

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Scroll down for ‘Nymph and the Goblin’ pupils’ work. Thanks to Crown House @mrstopcatteacher.bsky.social @crownhousepub.bsky.social www.crownhouse.co.uk/opening-door...

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Opening Doors to Quality Writing

Ideas for writing inspired by great writers for ages 6 to 9

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is not a separate issue to SEND and curriculum reforms. This is the issue. How we view those around us and believe they should be treated and spoken about should be core to your pedagogy and curriculum

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Emagazine is such a good investment. The archive of articles is so useful for thinking about critical perspectives. Give pairs or small groups different articles to look at, summarise or argue with. There will be tonnes on any text your studying. #TeamEnglish

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Looking for useful articles for A Level students to read on the Gothic? Here's a little sample of what's on offer in emagazine. Share with your students if you have a subscription. If not, why not subscribe now? www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazine...

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

emagazine articles on English Language are carefully curated, to be both challenging & accessible to A Level students, cover the exam specification topics, offer fresh ideas & research & introduce them to linguists, research & up-to-date thinking. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazine...

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is true and I think fair play for reflecting on this but now it would be good to see people who argued vociferously against ’prog’ baddies to *ask them* what could be done, to find a balance and to think about what assessment could look like.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is why the curriculum writers chose are a problem- I agree we need more diversity but it’s about their attitude towards English education too. The link between learning to perform and about performance, language and expression or thought has been eroded over 10 years.

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James Durran @jdurran.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I remember tweeting years ago, when the term was suddenly all the rage, that no school could possibly lay claim to "knowledge-richness" if it ignored (or even sneered at) media education. The Govian, selective evisceration of the English curriculum didn't help.

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

6/8 All of this happens when we share books and talk about them with children. We need children to have opportunities to misunderstand, and then to discuss this with them. We need to provide texts that are curious, fascinating, unusual. We need to ensure they know how texts and words work.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

These habits are what the Hackney reading programme/ reciprocal reading was based on (also small group) its the strategy I have found works enormously well. It’s fallen out of fashion which is a shame- small groups of readers trained in good teading skills vs a ‘knowledge’ approach….

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's that time of year again!!! 🥳 It's Goths for Breakfast time! This year, it's running on 28th February 9am - 10pm GMT. Online. Pop in and out as much as you like! It's a charity teach-a-thon, raising money for Magic breakfast to feed hungry kids. Get tickets - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

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Buy tickets – Goths for Breakfast: A Charity Teach-a-thon – Zoom

Goths for Breakfast: A Charity Teach-a-thon – Zoom, Sat 28 Feb 2026 - Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children ...

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is an incredibly important blog by my colleague Lucy Hinchliffe on behalf of @engmediacentre.bsky.social All English teachers should take a look & DfE should definitely be talking to us about this. If they get this wrong, nothing else will go right in the Nat Curric for English.

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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Yesterday we posted a series of blogs outlining the direction we would like curriculum reform to go in and airing some of our concerns about where it might go. Here's an additional blog focusing on assessment www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/curricu...

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Curriculum reform + getting formative assessment right

The importance of curriculum reform promoting formative assessment and combatting the dominance of the summative

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Anyone know where the figure skating finals are? Meant to be 6.30 but it’s snowboarding? #olympics #winterolympics

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thinktalkleah.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@openingdoors.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @natecommunity.bsky.social It is so often the artists, the writers who see and speak to tyranny whilst the rest stay quiet

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

just had news that my minor corrections have been accepted so my PhD is complete, so I’m officially going to be Dr Edwards. if anyone is remotely interested this contains essentially one of my chapters on casting, identity and the watching of Shakespeare www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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The Pedagogy of Watching Shakespeare

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - The Pedagogy of Watching Shakespeare

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thank you to all those primary teachers filling this in for us! If you are involved with KS2, we'd love to hear from you! Please share @ruthswailes.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social @writingrocks.bsky.social

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Southall Black Sisters (SBS) @sbsisters.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨 After careful consideration, Southall Black Sisters is leaving X. This isn’t symbolic. It’s a political and ethical refusal to engage with a platform that enables misogyny, racism, and violence against women and girls. Full statement 👇🏽. 1/ 🧵 southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/our-dec...

Pink-toned poster with illustrated women raising their arms and the text “Hate is your weapon, courage is ours – Southall Black Sisters, fighting inequality and injustice since 1979.”

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Napoleon wearing his Invisibility Cloak, just before he pulled the hood up over his head.

David's unfinished portrait of Napoleon from 1798. The joke is that ... but, wait: why do I dignify this stupid and pointless skeet with the title "joke"? You all see through me.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Was so confused as to why the Royal Shakespeare Company were wading into secondary chemistry. #edusky

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Is anyone else listening to the #bbcradio4 play whatever happened to baby Jane Austen? It is WILD and stars Rebecca front and maybe Jennifer Saunders? I’m at home with a bay and sort of can’t believe that this play is real. It is completely bonkers

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

"If the safeguarding principles of professional curiosity and challenge are lost to the white noise of such a zealot-like approach, we have truly lost our way." Hackney safeguarding chair Jim Gamble lambasts DfE's school behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett. chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

They definitely do 'push' schools but it's worth remembering that some schools refuse to play the game. If nobody played it, the game wouldn't work. The profession needs to reflect on that imo along with 'outstanding' Ofsted banners while complaining about Ofsted.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Not many tickets left for this so if you'd like to come along I would recommend booking soon. Thank you! #EduSky #inclusion

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Tapestry. A Willerby Story. A New Years Eve party and the opening of a sealed off room. willerby.substack.com/p/the-tapestry

Screenshot of text from the linked story.

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Stephen Lockyer @mrlockyer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I’m in a bit of a reading rut at the moment. I’d love some #booksky reading recommendations Please, specifically short story collections.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Love this for a language paper 2/ language of food lesson- comparison of BBC ‘neutral’ presentation vs in depth guardian piece by the person involved + bonus on colonialism & language ownership! #TeamEnglish @englangblog.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/food/comment... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began

The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

From yesterday: I read, but did not enjoy, three books by the Nobel laureate. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/krasznahor...

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Krasznahorkai, Krasznahorkai, Tiny Little Thing/ Krasznahorkai Dance, Krasznahorkai Sing

Nobels and Whistles

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Dr Penny Rabiger @pennyrabiger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Good morning 🌅 It’s Sunday and time for the #Edujobs #Edusky bulletin. An hour of education job ads that are not in classrooms or schools. If you’ve benefited from one of these in the past, say hi! If you’ve got one to share, please do. If You’re just watching give us a wave!

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looking for a job right now sign with magnifying glass

ALT: looking for a job right now sign with magnifying glass

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Tom Rank @tomrank.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Love the new look of @natefeed.bsky.social 's Teaching English magazine, which arrived today. More pages, too, and I like the realism of that quotation on the cover: 'Not by being perfect but by showing up.'

Cover of Autumn 2025 issue of Teaching English magazine from National Association for the Teaching of English . Photo shows young teacher writing on board.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This is positive after a slowdown in the reflection of our children’s realities last Year. These reports are so vital and have driven change over time. Well done to all @theclpe.bsky.social

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Something not awful in today's news! 🥳

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Welcome to Willerby. A midlands village where the uncanny is only as remarkable as the weather. Fifty free short stories with art, music and other ephemere. Come find us. www.welcometowillerby.co.uk

Lino cut print of the village main street. Timbered cottages, cobbled streets under a streaked sky.

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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

With lots of CPD coming up this term, here's a taste of what teachers have had to say about some of our recent courses!

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