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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

*** NEW POST - PART THREE *** Talking about geographical concepts is all well and good, and they can pretty up a curriculum map no end, but what difference can they make, or should they make, to the teacher in the classroom? I take a look. enserm.substack.com/p/concepts-i...

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Concepts in the Geography Curriculum

Part Three: Concepts in the classroom

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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

GCSE results are out tomorrow. The data tells you real things, and it can't be trusted on others. Some thoughts for middle leaders on what to actually claim from your results before drawing conclusions: enserm.substack.com/p/what-your-...

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What Your GCSE Results Can (and Can’t) Tell You

Cutting through the data noise

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Knowing is always more important than knowledge. Reifying history as information (the Hirschian knowledge-rich position) was an avoidable mistake and simply inverted 21st century skills genericism (OECD, etc).

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Heather Delaney Reese @itsalovelylife.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Can you imagine going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that in 250 years, the King of England would be standing in the United States Capitol lecturing American lawmakers about the importance of democratic norms?

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Stan Smith @teachernotashoe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Right, I've separated history/philosophy from fiction in my bookcase. Not a fan of thematic/ era as too messy but not convinced either by organising by author name. How have people organised their shelves?

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Stan Smith @teachernotashoe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Significance of Bletchley Park- I'm thinking teaching significance as 'something worth talking about/something worth remembering' but BP was so secret until the 70s. Is there a phrase to use for the short term signif. of BP if they're secret? Or opportunity to teach how signif. can change over time?

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Stan Smith @teachernotashoe.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Brilliant day at #arksoane26 today! Cognitive Science and pedagogy, curricular thinking of the substantive, local history and ks3 assessment, and a talk with Richard J Evans- absolute bargain at £25 for food for thought and a really positive vibe. In the words of a good pal: Electric

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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

NEW POST Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time. Please do share if you can 🙏🙏 carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-long-t...

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The Long-Term Memory Problem: Why Teaching and Learning Policies Fail

Schools are very good at writing policies about in-the-moment teaching. They are much worse at strategising for long-term memory and learning.

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Mike Hill @michaeldoron.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨 Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25. Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today. Presenters & link below 👇

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I think it’s also a way of thinking. ‘Woman’ is often treated as a characteristic. So, for example, a social history book might have a chapter on women, but almost never specifically on men because men are still seen as the default or the norm.

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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Many of us involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation have been keen to see subject, & distinctive nature of our discipline, re-centred in the recent focus on instructional coaching & core-practices in schools. It was brilliant, therefore, to read 'Secondary History in Action'. 1/

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Stan Smith @teachernotashoe.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Just a selection of things I want for reference

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This morning in 1916 after days of monumental artillery bombardment on the Somme, British and allied troops were going over the top. Well over 100,000 men attacked. It would be the bloodiest day in the history of the British army.

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Taskmaster Education @taskmasteredu.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Secondary Teachers! 🚨 Want free, ready-to-go creative learning resources for ages 11–16? Join Taskmaster Club 100! Your school could even win a virtual lesson with Alex Horne 🛁 📆 Apply by 15 Aug 🔗 forms.office.com/e/0ceT84ZPLF #TaskmasterClub100 #Education #FreeResources

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Today in 793 Vikings raided Lindisfarne: "Never before has such terror appeared...as we have now suffered from a pagan race...The church of St Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God, stripped of all its furnishing, exposed to the plundering of pagans." Alcuin, scholar and priest

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Who liked eels? Kings did! In 1179 Henry II gave his favorite otter hunter property in Aylesbury w/ the condition that the king could stop there 3 times a year & get a meal of 3 eels. Just an intimate evening with the king, his best otter hunter, and some eels. 1/2 🗃️🧪

Meme. Photograph of an otter on its back in the water, looking at the camera. We will call her Walternity because she's so cute that she deserves to not be anonymous, but her true name is an Otter Secret. Walternity has her forepaws resting on her chest. She is wet and slick; her fur dark with water. Her nose is black and curious, and her white whiskers are completely out of control. Her dark eyes pierce you like an infant's airplane cry.

Her expression is curious, but troubled, like a careless man watching a rampaging elephant far down the street. Imagine that someone had asked her, "Did you know that the king has hired a man to hunt and kill you?" and she's weighing that fate against the general frolic of being an otter. She's considering being worried, but also thinking about fish.

The water behind Walternity is dark brown; almost red looking. It might just be muddy, or it might be unhealthy and polluted. We'll hope it's a trick of light and mud.

Meme text reads:
"Wait...what?"

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Stan Smith @teachernotashoe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What great bits of kit for some fresh Nazi Germany lessons

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Owen Williams @mrbwteach.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I read @teacherhead.bsky.social blog on 'closing the gap' via feedback. For assessments I write model answers. Then mark the scripts (mark in markbook, not on script). In lesson I go through model. STUDENTS WRITE FEEDBACK to 'close the gap' between their answer + model. Later I put mark on script.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It's 1086, & you're a fisherman in the English town of Wisbech. Every Lent you have to pay rent to your various monastic landlords. And they want eels. Each year you & your friends owe: 15,500 eels --> Ely 5,000 --> Bury St. Edmunds 5,260 --> Ramsey 4,000 --> Crowland and more! 🗃️🧪

Meme. Medieval painting of man fishing from a boat, in front of a wall. The water is a slightly disturbing shade of turquoise, as if there was a spill upriver at the dyeing mill. The man is dressed in red, and is leaning far out over the side of the boat. A heavy wave or a rogue hippo could knock him right into the water, and then he'd be screwed. He doesn't look prepared to swim, or to fend off a Nile Horse.

All we can see in the water, though, is a small fish about to take the bait. No hippo today...but it has been a narrow escape.

There are archways on the wall behind the man, making it look a bit like he's fishing in a flooded town and floating past the local cathedral. Perhaps the flood has washed the hippos away downstream, where they can terrorize the next town.*

Meme text reads:
"Why do they call it Lent?
I never get my eels back"

* There is a note in William Wey's pilgrim itinerary about a town in Greece that was destroyed by a crocodile. He gives no further explanation.

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Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Final revisions made to OCR B Bess of Hardwick story. Can't wait to teach this next week @benbassett.bsky.social Fantastic how you can really shape your own content when teaching OCR B - the freedom this gives you in planning an engaging GCSE curriculum is just fantastic. #historyteacher

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Stan Smith @teachernotashoe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Anyone particularly pleased with their way of feeding back to KS3 and KS4?

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Stan Smith @teachernotashoe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Bloody love the Norman Conquest. My only issue is that the grand BBC Teach video series does not make Harold Godwinson out as the Keith Lemon lookalike that he was

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Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Here's some of my thoughts and thinking behind this assessment - as usual the article from @counsellc.bsky.social in TH is a go to on KS3 assessment - huge thanks for this excellent work

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