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Sarah Donarski

@s-donarski.bsky.social
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MAT Director of English. MSc T&L. Author @researchED1. Expat/Immigrant/Mongrel of AUS/UK/IT/PL 🌎

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 15/07/2025
A reminder that ‘knowing’ is not binary, it's not an on/off thing. We move through stages; hearing, recognising, recalling, mastering, before knowledge becomes truly usable. This example of of children's different phrases of 'knowing' words from Beck, McKeown, and Kucan is so useful
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Here's a reflection tip: ⬇️ Change "Why didn't they listen" to "why didn't they remember?"
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
🚨BIG NEWS: I am moving to Sierra Leone from Sept - March It's been a difficult decision to give up my current role but I will be working with the charity EducAid on some improvement work whilst I'm there. If you want to work together remotely please get in contact 😊
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
👏👏👏 Snuck in whilst everyone was distracted by the boats. 🍾🍾🍾
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Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Amazing, energising day recruiting our first GM100 cohort with @thereachfoundation.bsky.social. The children of Greater Manchester are in safe hands with this brilliant group of leaders.
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Change the culture in an underperforming school, they said. What a crazy but beautiful ride with this Year 11 cohort. Really looking forward to seeing how results day comes out. ✨️
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Amarbeer Singh Gill @amarbeersinghg.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
First up at #ReDBmouth was a very thought provoking look at assessment from @s-donarski.bsky.social - big takeaway being that "assessment" can't be separated from curriculum design and delivery.
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Wonderful keynote to drive the afternoon on oracy @claresealy.bsky.social ✨️ thank you.
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"Pupils ignored two years of deeper learning and focused their revision too narrowly, thanks to advice they had watched online" Good read. More awareness of this is needed.🙏
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Tom Sherrington @teacherhead.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Lesson feedback: don't send it, don't give it - co-construct it. Otherwise, it won't be worth it. teacherhead.com/2024/01/28/l...
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Lesson feedback: don’t send it, don’t give it – co-construct it. Otherwise, it won’t be worth it.
A big part of my work is around supporting schools to develop effective professional development programmes. I encounter a wide range of approaches to this but schools are always on a journey, look…
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Technique is what the teacher uses until the real teacher shows up." Only a few pages in and already inspired to remember the value of teachers as people, not simply deliverers of content. Thank you @megvertebrae.bsky.social for the recommendation.
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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 13/05/2025
Wow.. over 10,000 educators registered for this now. Going live at 4pm GMT info.mheducation.com/science-lear...
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Super proud of my husband who has achieved his PhD in parasitology. 🥳 Celebration dinner last night.
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
HERE WE GO! All prepped for exam mode, taking 51 beautiful key amber kids in the final stretch. All of our key kids kicking off Friday with 121 support or final intervention. Can't be more PROUD of these kids.
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Keats' To Solitude was published on this day, in 1816. Still beautiful. "If I must with thee dwell..." 🖤
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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Some reflections on two terms on my new role
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
My @litdrive.bsky.social with @greeborunner.bsky.social was an absolutely blast this afternoon. Thank you to everyone who came and shared their experiences of trust-wide leadership; there was a wonderful community feel to the session.
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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Some useful reminders and discussion points www.edutopia.org/article/educ...
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5 Popular Education Beliefs That Aren’t Backed by Research
Making adjustments to these common misconceptions can turn dubious strategies into productive lessons, the research suggests.
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School Data Updates @jpembroke.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
A big problem is that there’s certainly a lasting impact from COVID but it’s difficult to discern from the data because KS2 writing results were probably overinflated pre-pandemic. That drop is not just COVID related. And reading results didn’t drop at all. Hard to tell anything from these results.
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
This is an essential read and a sobering reminder for secondary teachers about the oncoming impact of COVID on our learners.
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
205 years ago, on 19th Sept, John Keats wrote 'To Autumn', inspired by his walk along the River Itchen. 5 years ago (on its bicentennial), @drchendrick.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to do the same. I come back to this every year today: "Season of mists..."
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Steplab @steplab.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 👀 Steplab is bringing the education community together to explore great teaching and PD in a very special conference! 🗓️ Friday 17th January 2025 🗺️ London, UK ❓Want to join us? 📣 Booking now open to non Steplab users! 🎟️ Don't delay, book tickets now: steplab.co/news/steplab...
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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 09/09/2024
For anyone interested in a book club or study group on our book this term, here are some questions to stimulate discussion. @paulkirschner.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Fairlamb (Lamb_Heart_Tea) @lambhearttea.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Would you like me to work with your organisation? I am available on Fridays for CPD and consultancy work. Please get into contact using the Google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1VQd...
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Alex Fairlamb @lamb_heart_tea Educational Consultancy
Alex Fairlamb is a History teacher and Senior Leader in charge of Teaching and Learning, CPD and Secondary Literacy based in the North East. She is an Specialist Leader in Education and an Evidence Le...
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
**NEW** ResED National 24: 'Spiralling Curriculum' Slides perspected.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/r... 🖐️ My slides are now available to download. Thanks to everyone who came to my talk; also to @tombennett71.bsky.social and @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social for making such an inspiring movement in education.
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ResearchED National 24: ‘Spiralling Curriculum’ Slides
ResearchED National Conference, 2024 - What a day! I cannot ever thank Tom Bennett or Helene Galdin-O'Shea enough for the outstanding work they do with ResearchED and, in particular, the amazing peopl...
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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
*** New Blog*** Prompted by this weekends #rEd2024 and follow-up conversations on here. Thanks to @pepsmccrea.bsky.social @evidencebasededu.bsky.social, @collegeofteaching.bsky.social and @carolaj.bsky.social plus many others 🙂 teachreal.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/w...
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What did research ever do for me?
Yesterday was a big day in terms of teacher’s interaction with research in England. It was the ResearchED national conference in London and teachers in their droves came from across the country to tal...
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
**NEW** ResED National 24: 'Spiralling Curriculum' Slides perspected.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/r... 🖐️ My slides are now available to download. Thanks to everyone who came to my talk; also to @tombennett71.bsky.social and @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social for making such an inspiring movement in education.
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ResearchED National 24: ‘Spiralling Curriculum’ Slides
ResearchED National Conference, 2024 - What a day! I cannot ever thank Tom Bennett or Helene Galdin-O'Shea enough for the outstanding work they do with ResearchED and, in particular, the amazing peopl...
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Dan Rosen @musingsofadr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Thank you for the talk. Awesome as always!
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Sarah Donarski @s-donarski.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Thanks @musingsofadr.bsky.social for summarising my talk today. Dusseldorf is next! 🙌 Thread below.
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Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Absolutely exhausted after the first week back and two talks at #rED24 - but loved spending the day with so many brilliant people, who care so much about making our schools great places for young people to learn and flourish. Hugely inspired to do more and do better!
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Dan Rosen @musingsofadr.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Session 5 - Sarah Donarski on spiralling assessment! #rED24
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