
Founding team @OakNational. Director of School Support & External Relations. @BrentfordFC season ticket holder. Expect typos - all my fault.
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Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
After 5 years, today marks my final week leading @OakNational. I’m so glad to close this chapter with the brilliant news that our resources are now live in prisons.
@tes has kindly let me reflect (ok, indulge) on my time. A quick summary below…🧵
tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
🙌 Giving teachers their Sunday nights back…
Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers to save time and have a more manageable workload, explained below by @patmcfaddenmp.
👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed up for our webinar this Wednesday on how to plan high-quality, personalised lessons with Aila: oaknat.uk/3PsNd8w
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
⚡Don’t just take it from us.
Across the 2023/2024 academic year, here’s how teachers found using our resources helped them - from time saved to workload management to improved wellbeing, all of which leave teachers free to spend more time with pupils!
💫1 in 3 teachers use Oak
and those teachers are making the most of new resources - with Oak usage up 158% on last year!
💫73% of Oak users see a positive impact on their workload - either reducing their hours, or freeing them up to spend more time with pupils.
💫Oak users work almost five hours fewer per week with the impact growing the more a teacher uses Oak.
And these are just the highlights…
For a more detailed look at how we’ve impacted teachers over the last year, dive into the full blog post: oaknat.uk/3D3ZFII
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
.@OakNational chief @matthewhood explains why new data on the use of its resources shows that debates on teacher autonomy need to be more nuanced
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Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
On Tuesday we hosted a sneak preview event to show some of the education community just what Aila can do. It was a pleasure to have @pepediiasio from @ASCL_UK join us for an excellent panel discussion.
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
One of our missions at @OakNational is to give teachers their Sunday nights back.
To help, today we launch Aila, our AI-powered lesson assistant.
Our aim has been to develop a product that keeps teachers in control of planning, whilst lightening their load
🧵on what we've done
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
.@OakNational has developed its new AI tool with the aim of ensuring that teachers can create lesson plans without having to worry about the safety or accuracy of content, writes @johnrobeds
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Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
Amazing effort from a wonderful team -enjoy a well deserved summer break 😎
🙏 As the term ends, a huge thanks to all teachers ☀️
Indulge me as I also big up the work of our @OakNational partnership. They’ve released brilliant, new resources for 5,397 (and counting!) lessons to support teachers’ workload and expertise.
Just a couple of highlights…🧵
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
🙏 As the term ends, a huge thanks to all teachers ☀️
Indulge me as I also big up the work of our @OakNational partnership. They’ve released brilliant, new resources for 5,397 (and counting!) lessons to support teachers’ workload and expertise.
Just a couple of highlights…🧵
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
"you don’t walk around as a leader feeling like you are doing a great job, as you are regularly dealing with really complex things that make you feel the opposite"
Really personal, honest, How I Lead from @matthewhood that will chime with many ⬇️
tes.com/magazine/leadership/…
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
We're pleased to announce that we're renewing our partnership with @OakNational in England.
As part of this renewed collaboration, we'll provide an updated high-quality Computing curriculum and lesson materials for Key Stages 1 to 4.
🔗 rpf.io/blog-partnership-ona
#CSEd #Computing
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
We are delighted to announce that we are partnering with @OakNational to create lesson resources to support teachers across the country. You can find out more about the work we will be doing with them here: thenational.academy/blog/int…
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
A complete privilege to have welcomed an amazing line-up of education thinkers to #ASCLCouncil this week, including @bphillipsonMP, @martyneoliver, @LeeOwston, Sir Ian Bauckham, Richard Garrett, @matthewhood, @Jonathan_Dando, @lukesibieta & Prof Rose Luckin (@Knowldgillusion) 1/4
Many thanks to @bphillipsonMP for taking the time to join us at #ASCLCouncil today and sharing your priorities for education. Thank you also for responding to questions from representatives.
Pictured: with ASCL President @JohnCam72037614 and taking questions from Council.
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
Here @OakNational we'll soon be starting work on creating new curriculum resources to help teachers with their planning.
To do this we need to understand what will (and won't) work. Any volunteers to teach a KS4 Bubble sort lesson?
share.hsforms.com/1huAR39FFS…
#caschat
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
Want inspiration for your secondary #history lessons?
Get the lowdown from our History Subject Lead @groom_benjamin 👇
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Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
Amen to @jon_severs @tes daily message today, esp this sentiment:
‘It is possible, I think, to call out the areas we need to address and to take those incredibly seriously, while raucously celebrating what is great about education in this country.’
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
🤔📚 Want to know what's in @OakNational's new primary English curriculum, made with @FoxPrimary?
Have a read from our fab English lead @edufountain 👇
So, it's been about a month since we launched our new primary English curriculum at @OakNational -it's definitely time for me to share a few highlights from the curriculum 🧵
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
So, it's been about a month since we launched our new primary English curriculum at @OakNational -it's definitely time for me to share a few highlights from the curriculum 🧵
Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
.@OakNational explains why it has launched two new AI tools for teachers and how it plans to help harness the power of AI in education
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Jonathan Dando-Laing retweeted
AI has landed at Oak 🤖
We've launched two new experimental AI-powered tools:
📌A lesson planner
📌A quiz designer
They're free to access and draw on our quality-checked teaching resources. Try them 👇labs.thenational.academy/
What could this mean for your classroom practice?👇





















