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Orla Jackson

@onishiacais.bsky.social
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Mother, teacher, reader, school leader, PhD student; trying to remain disgustingly cheerful & positive. All views, musings,& ramblings are my own.

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BELMAS @belmasoffice.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
New on the #BELMASBlog: Orla Jackson reflects on leadership, learning, and liminality following two profound professional encounters with Andy Hargreaves and Graham Powell. Read it here. tinyurl.com/26fn3jv8 @onishiacais.bsky.social
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Orla Jackson @onishiacais.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This is so powerful, please read it. "Despite the horror, we students of Gaza still hold our pens like weapons of truth. We write, we learn, we dream. Our schools may be reduced to rubble, but our will is stronger than any bomb."
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ESAI @esai-irl.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
2/3] The ECR panel also commended: Dr Alan Sheehan for his paper on “The Assessment Machine-A Foucauldian Analysis of Pupils’ Perspectives of the Assessment Process” supervised by Prof Kathy Hall @UCC… and
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Orla Jackson @onishiacais.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This Tedtalk is at once terrifying and inspiring. youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
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Andy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Coming up next mth. 31 quotes in 31 Days from my new book, Making of an Educator. @crownhousepub.bsky.social @vivienneporritt.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @agavrielatos.bsky.social @belmasoffice.bsky.social Preface by @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/04/2025
BREAKING: The FBI arrested a Wisconsin county judge accused of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement in escalation of Trump's fight with the judiciary.
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FBI director says a judge accused of helping someone evade immigration agents has been arrested
FBI Director Kash Patel says a Wisconsin county judge accused of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement has been arrested.
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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The cover story for Trump's attack on universities is antisemitism but it's a ruse. 🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚 🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
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The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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Irish Educational Studies @iesjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Check out this recently published paper by Dr Ciara O'Donnell on teachers' careers following secondment! doi.org/10.1080/0332...
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Teachers’ careers following a secondment to a teacher education support service: post-secondment experiences when coming ‘home’ or going to ‘pastures new’
This article draws from a study investigating the professional learning and experience acquired by teachers seconded to an Irish continuing professional development support service. The study also ...
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Shane Leaning @shaneleaning.com · 11/02/2025
Why do teachers love becoming teacher educators? "We're on the cutting edge of policy & research, have deep professional conversations daily, and learn more from schools than they do from us." - fascinating insights from Dr. Ciara O'Donnell
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Orla Jackson @onishiacais.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The era of populism we are in is disturbing. Taking literary canons from library shelves and warning Irish students that their activism will affect their chance of obtaining a J1 visa. I spent more time at the gates of Leinster Hoise than I did in lectures in TCD. ❤️ every minute of it!
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Orla Jackson @onishiacais.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
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Andy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What's it mean to become an educator, to be formed generationally during a transition to populism? Here's what shaped me during the onset of Thatcherism & what it means for teaching, freedom of speech, & ed research today. @stevemunby.bsky.social @alisonpeacock.bsky.social @agavrielatos.bsky.social
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Andy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How can we respond to authoritarian populism in education? @dianeravitch.bsky.social & I led a discussion with 8 govts for the ARC Ed Collaboratory this month. @eduinternational.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @olliebray.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇺🇾 🇮🇸
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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Watching today’s events unfold in the White House.
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a woman covering her ears with her hand and the words " please make it stop " below her
ALT: a woman covering her ears with her hand and the words " please make it stop " below her
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.” www.politico.eu/article/volo...
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‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support, as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.
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Andy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
What do Kelly Clarkson, The Commitments, Pink Floyd & networks all have in common? They all have a dark side. Read more in my open access editorial for @alm30.bsky.social journal Slam. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @danetteparsley.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social
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The dark side of networks: and the implications for school leadership
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2025)
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Andy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Online learning "drains teaching of its emotional pull". I've just been teaching 100s of Australian educators in person - we think, wonder, doubt, challenge, laugh, cry, sing, & face our biases as a community. This is what we have lost. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
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When I was an undergraduate, student life was on campus. A lot is being lost in the shift to online learning | Judith Brett
A talking head on a screen is not the same as a flesh and blood person standing in front of you
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Happy new term. We're lucky to have our lives and our jobs.
Photo of a poster (I can't remember where I got it from, sorry). It reads, in block capital red letters, 'as you go to class today, remember that there are no universities left in Gaza.' There is a small Palestinian flag in the corner of the poster.
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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Worth a read now that Science teachers in Ireland are planning for new specifications #edchatie #cogscisci #lcreform
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Incredible photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walks towards an Israeli tank.
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Samantha Morris @samanthamorris.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Piece I wrote for RTE Brainstorm about #Headford #Lace www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #heritage #storytelling #history
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How Headford lace is having a moment in the spotlight again
The Co Galway town was a big player in Irish lacemaking and a new community initiative is reviving that craft for the future
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Julian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For everyone in Irish education: a proposal to revive #edchatie Monday evening discussions on Bluesky. Every two weeks in term-time. First session details on the graphic. More: www.juliangirdham.com/blog/edchati... Please repost within Ireland as much as poss & spread the word elsewhere.
"#EDCHATIE: In education, what do you want from a new government?

Date: Monday 2nd December 2024
Time: 19:30–20:30
Platform: BlueSky
Hashtag: #edchatie
Host: @sccenglish.bsky.social
A stick-figure bird is shown typing on a desktop computer, symbolizing online engagement. At the bottom, there’s a note inviting volunteers to propose ideas and host future chats, mentioning that the event happens every two weeks during term-time."
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Orla Jackson @onishiacais.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... Well done to everyone in St Aidan's.....maith sibh!👏
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