@creativeHigg

Educator, speaker, school improvement facilitator & curator of the 'Finding my Voice' project. Passionate about supporting the most vulnerable to succeed...

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Joined September 2017
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The Problem with Play...@MichaelRosenYes @TeacherToolkit #Video #changecantwait #innovation
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If only people put as much effort into solving the fact that 1/3 of our children leave school year on year branded 'a failure' as they do into amplifying the challenges with the old Speaking and listening measures. Detail over purpose. The education killer.
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Audiences are silent in plays. Audiences are silent in concerts. Patients are silent in operations -after being anaesthetised. Children are not anaesthetised (or shouldn't be!). They contribute, respond, change the direction, alter the script, require/take part in improvisation.
Dale Chu
@Dale_ChuOct 19
Actors use scripts. Musicians use sheet music. Surgeons follow established procedures. Why are scripts for teachers treated as an affront to professionalism? @ehanford explains why Direct Instruction uses them.
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If you want to know more about spoken language & why it's helpful to know something about it in order to teach it, this by Prof Ron Carter is terrific. He's the GOAT in my books! Puts paid to the idea of children talking in full sentences! naldic.org.uk/Resources/NALD…
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Dan Morrow@MoreMorrowOct 20
5/5 After @LucyMPowell called for "a culture of collaboration not competition" at @CSTvoice, this is the question worth asking. Who do our schools belong to? danmorrowedu.substack.com/p/…
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Finding My Voice@findingmvoiceOct 20
🌱Oracy and cognition...🌱 We can see talk as a frivolous act. Something we do that wastes precious teaching time. Or...
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Worth sharing again? - on our research on small group talk . my.chartered.college/researc…

How teachers can shape group work in secondary English classes : My College

Research in the current climate is often focused on looking at precise, well-defined actions or initiatives, subjecting them to randomised controlled trials and then evaluating how far they can be...

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Dan Morrow@MoreMorrowOct 19
New piece arguing for how we complete an authentic and place-based reform of our sector that truly embeds collaboration over competition Please have a look and share danmorrowedu.substack.com/p/…
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I understand a debate around the enactment/assessment of Oracy. I do not understand why anyone would argue it's not a good thing. The struggle is real; Poor Mental health, Existential Challenges, Polarisation Oracy... It's about presence. Together. Being more human. 🙏🏼
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Geoff Barton@RealGeoffBartonOct 15
“Every child deserves to find their voice. From today, that starts to look less like a privilege and – irrespective of background or postcode – more like a genuine entitlement for all England’s children and young people”: my piece on #oracy @SchoolsWeek schoolsweek.co.uk/lucy-powel…

Lucy Powell is right. Every child deserves to find their voice

Oracy has for too long been a marker of privilege

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Geoff Barton@RealGeoffBartonOct 19
Talking of #oracy, in this @guardian piece @LucyMPowell references my comments on disciplinary oracy ... eg how explaining, describing, justifying and debating mathematical models deepens students' understanding of maths: theguardian.com/commentisfre…

My critics think speaking fluently is vital for fee-paying pupils, but not for anyone else. Here’s...

We are accused of dumbing down, but that’s nonsense: this is levelling up. All the evidence shows helping children articulate improves their life chances, says Labour’s deputy leader Lucy Powell

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Ed Finch@MrEFinchSep 18
Here we go!!!! Tickets for #BrewEdBrum are now available. Speakers, conversations, connection, lunch, laughs, a few drinks, quiz, panel, rucksack... proper job as we say in Devon. Get in quick before they all go... eepurl.com/z-HWvZT1yK
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A Cautionary Tale 😔 My daughter thought she was in middle set for science. She was so excited she did a whole physics workbook in the summer. Turns out she was wrong. She's in bottom set but the teacher said if they work hard they can move up. She now hates science.
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It's a testament to the system itself not being built for all... 'Inclusion' much?
Simon Smith@smithsmmSep 11
If schools with the most SEND pupils are more likely to receive the lowest inclusion grades, while also facing greater challenges on achievement measures, then we've reached peak accountability logic: penalise schools for taking on the children who need them most.
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I'm reposting this before the new term, hoping primary school teachers & librarians might think about getting a copy for their classrooms or library. (One of the poems is on @poetrybyheart timeline & one has been chosen for an upcoming @natpoetrylib poem of the week!)
Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation@BarbaraBleimanAug 8
I'm so delighted to have this review of my collection 'Snap! Poems for Children' in English 4-11, the primary English magazine of @NATEfeed @englishassoc @The_UKLA It's a real joy to get such wonderful feedback.
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Geoff Barton@RealGeoffBartonAug 20
Well said @ASCL_UK on the need to stop tinkering at the edges of GCSE English & Maths reform ... shorturl.at/mea17 #ForgottenThird
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Geoff Barton@RealGeoffBartonAug 11
"There will now be another round of asking too few people - across the whole education system - to do too much, too quickly, fuelled by positive intent and a promise that this will be the last time. Until the next time": excellent from Gareth Conyard: garethconyard.substack.com/?…
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Geoff Barton@RealGeoffBartonAug 7
“The relentless focus on exams, driven by the accountability system for schools, leaves too many pupils feeling as if they are being defined by what they cannot do rather than what they can achieve”: beautifully put by @RSylvester1 @ObserverUK: observer.co.uk/news/politics…

The Tories and Starmer bottled it. Burnham must seize the...

Education is too important to be a political football, but there is a complacency amongst those defending the status quo

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Dan Morrow@MoreMorrowAug 6
Highly recommend the original report by Tanya Ovenden Hope. Stunning scenery doesn’t change the huge disadvantage our wonderful children and communities face bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39e…

The 'education gap' hiding in picture-perfect Cornwall and Devon

Behind the South West's postcard image, poverty and isolation are limiting opportunities for many young people.

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Some of us have been asking this sort of question for about 50 years, however, there is no evidence that schools are getting better at teaching reading for meaning. Schools are getting better at teaching 'saying words out loud' which some call 'reading'.
Tes magazine@tesAug 3
If schools are getting better at teaching reading, why are so many pupils still not choosing to read, asks Adam Lancaster, who suggests we think of reading in ecological terms tes.com/magazine/teaching-le…

Why schools must consider the ‘ecology’ of reading

Our understanding of how young people learn to read has never been better, so why are so many pupils still not choosing to be readers? Adam Lancaster suggests that ecological factors could be at play

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My conclusion is that if, like me, educators birthed children for whom the current system didn't work, there would be much more energy put into finding solutions for the forgotten third rather than opposing proposed solutions....
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