Google Docs is used by 1.8+ billion people worldwide. The recent updates are perfection. 11 g-docs features so good, you'll kick yourself if you didn't know:

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The start of the academic year is a great time to revisit and rehearse our school routines. We've been talking about the purpose and importance of routines and it has been wonderful to see our Year 5 & 6 children modelling these for LKS2. 🌠

Good to hear BBC Radio 4 Today taking the school funding crisis seriously. Laura McInerney & Justine Greening laying out the issues. Frankly terrifying situation for school leaders, making an already difficult job much harder. Urgent action needed, as Dan Morrow has been saying

Over the last 12 months I've devoured hundreds of cracking edutwitter threads. To ease you into the new term, here's 40 of the finest: ↓

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Only took 8 years to get to a sensible place on differentiation. So glad that Ofsted has smashed through the nonsense around differentiation.

Amazing week with Ambition_Inst⁩ #NPQVFs ⁦Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy⁩ ⁦St Martin's⁩ ⁦KeyhamLodge⁩ @southcharnwood ⁦Andrew Monaghan⁩ ⁦Boundless Learning Ltd⁩ ⁦Oak Trust⁩ ⁦Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi Academy Trust⁩ ⁦Peter Kirkbride⁩ ⁦Latimer Primary School⁩ ⁦Birch Wood School⁩

Great thread on teacher expertise. Easy to read as usual from Peps!

Variation theory is a powertool for building understanding in the classroom. But many teachers have never even heard of it. Here's what variation is and how to use it: ↓

🚨EXCITING NEWS🚨 Today, I'm launching a weekly 5-min email for teachers who are keen to keep up-to-date with thinking and research around effective teaching. It's called 'Evidence Snacks'. Here's the lowdown: ↓

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🚨 NEW: Today, we’ve launched new resources designed to support early years professionals in using evidence to their advantage: The updated Early Years Toolkit The Early Years Evidence store Explore now: eef.li/early-years 1/2

I go to a lot of schools, and everyone is focusing on metacognition or dual coding or disciplinary this or curriculum intent that. Then I go into lessons, and teachers are asking questions and students are calling out answers or tchrs are picking ones with hands up. Fix that. >

All the links from Developing Expert Teaching: pepsmccrea.com/expertise/ (as many as possible are open source 🔓)

Fabulous day of instructional coaching training today with Steplab, Oak Trust, Embrace Multi Academy Trust, Craig Brown. So good to focus on how we can develop our teachers’ expertise through powerful coaching conversations.