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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It’s so interesting to see people approaching essentially the same problem from such different perspectives. My own book looked at schools and exams in what I now see is a similar way too - just without having the theoretical framework to properly describe it.

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social i found the Unaccountability Machine fascinating - and wrote about schools, management cybernetics and games.

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

@add-hawk.bsky.social really enjoyed your book - wrote about it in light of exams and school

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

“In education, the fear is always of the cost of change. And the risk we run is of never changing because the cost seems too high. “

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

That was a cracking Halloween costume by my youngest

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Edge Foundation @edgeuk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The latest post in our series "What's in a Word" is out now. @sammywright.bsky.social examines the phrase 'knowledge-rich' which has a proper meaning, but around which a lot of other more vague and unsubstantiated ideas have accrued... www.edge.co.uk/research/wha...

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Knowledge-rich

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Sam Denno @samdenno-twinkl.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

@twinklresources.bsky.social are launching a new podcast series for leaders and teachers, and episode 1 is here! It was great to pick @sammywright.bsky.social's brain on the shape and texture of English schools. www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1hjk03 @twinklbeyond.bsky.social #twinklbeyondenglish

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Because society works better when people find fulfilment in life even when their jobs are meaningless and mundane.

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Apparently they’re ‘flying’!

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Why SEN is complicated… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Apparently they’re ‘flying’!

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Woo-hoo! Paperback in shops, and on offer at Waterstones!

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Out today - please buy/share/review, and above all read. I’m so proud of this book and the impact it’s had - and still a bit surprised at the places it’s taken me too over the last year. www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163...

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Exam Nation

School should equip children for adulthood. In reality, it means one thing: exams. Exam Nation sets out a better way – and, crucially, shows us how we might get there. Educationalist and Head of Scho...

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Going on holiday tomorrow. By the time I’m back, this will be out in paperback! Reviewed in every single broadsheet, the mail, new statesman when it was published last year - “brilliant”, “entertaining”, “insightful”, “essential” - please pre-order! www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163...

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Exam Nation

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Clark’s hands are together in his lap. “Me brother was born when I was 10. But he lived with me mam years before that.” He looks up. His eyes are wide, and he has that faint smile still. “Actually, I thought them having a child it might change, but it didn’t.” open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

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Why attendance and anxiety are complicated

This is a conversation I had three years ago with 16 year old Clark from Warrington. I don't post it to draw a particular conclusion. I just find it desperately sad.

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

First look at the paperback - and I’m just blown away by seeing al the amazing quotes on the cover

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

It could follow the pattern of Just William - lots of iterations vainly clutching for relevance in a changing world. Ending with ‘Gatsby and the Rock Band’ - in which our hero seeks to recapture the elusive freedom of the summer of love, only to realise, yet again, that you can’t repeat the past.

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Crown House Publishing @crownhousepub.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Thank you to @sammywright.bsky.social for this brilliant review of @johntomsett.bsky.social’s new book! 🌟 Learn all about the attributes and behaviours that make an outstanding teacher in This Much I Know About Truly Great Secondary Teachers. Out now! 📘: buff.ly/Vkizg1O

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

#FridayFive 1. Atmosphere - Joy Division 2. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel 3. Call me Al - Paul Simon 4. Praise me - Fatboy Slim 5. All the Single Ladies - Beyoncé

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I agree with your opinion of the speech, and the policies, and American history. But I’m glad he said publicly the speech was wrong. It is a good thing to acknowledge a mistake. There’s plenty other stuff he’s doing I could criticise. But that apology, in and of itself, was good.

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Would you rather he didn’t? I don’t quite get that.

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I’m just glad he has said it. It pisses me off more when people don’t acknowledge their mistakes.

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

As with so much, it’s all in the detail, and the way things are operationalised. ‘Basing schooling on individualism’ is not inevitably what an attention to neurodiversity necessarily means. It might go that far, but it doesn’t need to.

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Oh, I believe in growth mindset. I just think a lot of the ways we ended up talking about it encouraged exactly the opposite.

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