Yes this is a real sign, advising to ignore a child in distress. ABA at its finest, lets not forget the clicker training and reinforcers either. Sickening.

Think of it this way… Less & less people are ‘attending’ the pub. Instead of asking ‘why are people less keen to come(?!)’, pub owner hires someone to make punters come back without considering changing anything whatsoever about the pub shouting, ‘just come back’ at them.

Read Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation + Andrew McCallum's thoughts on Ofsted's latest English subject report. We were very positive about the last one, but that was back in 2012 + we're now working in a very different educational climate englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-respo…

Our head Sir Charlie has said our parental complaints have gone down considerably. So much so, there aren't any at present. Behaviour is also in good shape. Why? We massively focus on #wellbeing, we have opened school up to parents more, we've improved playtimes (Neil Coleman OPAL Mentor)...

Ofsted questionnaire reflections. A waste of time. It’s an anodyne PR exercise, shaped to give the answers they need to survive. My advice: don’t answer the Qns. They are the wrong ones for the profession. Instead, fill in your Qns in the dialogue boxes, copying & pasting. 😀

On Saturday at the March for Palestine I led the crowd to sing “Yma o hyd” (“still here” in Cymraeg) and “Sumud” (“steadfast perseverance” in Palestinian) together And above those beautiful voices I sang this poem by Ukranian-Jewish-Puerto Rican poet Aurora Levins Morales:

The FFT Education Datalab data also reminds us that absenteeism and poor attainment is caused not by feckless parents, but by inequity, disadvantage, and lack of inclusivity in our ed system and beyond. How much more evidence does a govt need? tinyurl.com/bdepj7m2

Callum Robertson 🔸 "Pointing out?" That phrase suggests a universally acknowledged truth. In fact, the reasons, circumstances, timing of absence from school are important factors and some absence boosts attainment. Your simplistic graphic is potentially harmful.

Look at this headline. See the words: “Claim” “Holding back” The blaming & shaming of the sick is not even implied anymore. It’s in your face like this. Like the blaming & shaming of immigrants. And the poor. Who’s left? Who’s buying such headlines?

Heartbreaking how this is the reality for so so many children. 💔 School shouldn't be this bad for so many. Square Peg Not Fine in School facebook.com/share/r/HitK3U…

there has been a lot of critique about Astrea Academy and its punitive, ultra-strict discipline policies - and so it is no surprise to me that its oracy policy is also rooted in the punitive policing and monitoring of spoken language 🙃 (astreasheffield.org/wp-content/upl…).

So it seems a decline in student behaviour has coincided with a period of schools being under-resourced, often under-staffed, and with increased levels of poverty. Correlation is not causation; but ignoring variables is not good research.

at the very core of the so-called word gap is a raciolinguistic ideology which frames the language practices of marginalised communities as lacking. it is a victim blaming, deficit-based concept which simply diverts attention away from structural and systemic inequalities.

Is it behaviour? Or communication? In 2021/2022, 39,930 teachers left the profession for reasons other than retirement. That’s behaviour. That’s what they did. They left. What does it look like when a government treats that as ‘behaviour’? They’d use rewards and sanctions

Today I talked to a young person who stopped going to school in Year 7. He told me, when we looked around the school they said that detentions were only for when you did something really wrong and most people didn’t get them. Then, when I got there, I found out that in nearly

I've been reading about self-determination theory a lot recently. What's interesting is that it is not only children and young people who gain intrinsic motivation from feeling autonomy, competence and relatedness. It is their teachers too.

When I was much younger, before I had children, before I had a child who couldn’t go to school, I worked for a children’s charity. I got a call one day from Channel4. Can we comment on the first parent to be sent to jail for not sending her child to school? 🧵1/9

If you are an educational professional involved in making plans for years 6-7 or 7-8 transition ⚒ ☀ 📢 PLEASE PUT FLEXISCHOOLING IN YOUR TOOLKIT!!! 📢 ☀⚒ Here's why 👇 /1

Quick run through 👇 of why the Child Not in School registers won't help and are problematic. And (given that Terri will need to get her head around a ton of different topics) if she can understand it why can't those in govt, who claim to not understand their existing powers?

This has been demo'd for decades. The fact that control and the absolute thwarting of CYP autonomy in favour of standards continues to be the primary directive of government policies in relation to schooling shows just how entirely ideological and non-evidenced based it is.