Jim Lauder

Making this my main personal/mouthing-off-about-stuff social account moving forward, LinkedIn for professional anodyne stuff. Still with an edu bent as that's my lane, but this is more just a nice community now. Old teacher twitter is gone and not coming back.

What impact will the government's new education policies have on standards? substack.nomoremarking.com/p/why-are-we...

A masterpiece by @daisychristo.bsky.social. Only thing I'd add is changes being proposed are only possible because we have rising standards. Once they drop (and they will) behaviour worsens and we get a crisis and return to sense. How much damage first? substack.nomoremarking.com/p/why-are-we...

We have jobs. A newly created Pupil Welfare Lead, my replacement as Headteacher and Classroom Support Officers (TAs). If you want to work in a school that thinks hard about complex things and then delivers for the pupils their families and the staff who work with them, then take a look. 👇

I’ve written a book about building belonging in schools! It’s called Building Belonging in Schools! I argue that 1. kids feeling belonging is important just because But 2. If we want them to really learn lots, for rigour to be high, then they need to feel secure in their class. Preorder now!

It was an honour to give this year’s Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, discussing what the “end of neoliberalism” really means. My full speech is available here: renewal.org.uk/articles/rit...

It's really important every student can see themselves and see difference in the curriculum. The status quo isn't good enough.

Late to this but another piece really worth reading from Dan, about how schools and trusts can truly be held in common across communities. This is definitely the right direction, and I love the challenge at the end to join in thinking what this could look like.

I am consiering retraining as a secondary maths teacher. Have any other primary teachers made the same transition? I am aware of the NCETM route but wanted to know how realistic it is. RTs appreciated, especially if have a network involved in teaching.

Excellent posting, this is what social media is all about. I'd add, West London entirely is a god forsaken wasteland so Zone 2 either North, East or South are the only acceptable places to live in London.

Sure, lots of thinking / reports / campaigns in recent years, but now the question becomes what will oracy look like in practice, in classrooms, in schools, in exam situations - and that's where I think the trade-offs and controversies will be forced into the open.

The school that rejected my son has been graded 'strong' for inclusion by our darling inspectorate. Lovely stuff.

The lack of focus on FE and continued obsession over the (successful) pre-16 curriculum continues to astound. What will make more difference to young people? Tech routes at 14 and dodgy T&L in the name of oracy, or actually properly funding and reforming FE for a change?

NEW BLOG: Nothing to Lose www.emaths.co.uk/blog/general...

Please stop and take some time out of your evening to read this.

Very open to suggestions on what to watch! Since pandemic me and a friend have done all of Star Trek (mostly bad except DS9), all of Star Wars, Galactica (incredible), all of Who plus some other stuff. GoT is next but won't take long.

The data if you’re interested. It’s shameful that we continue to tolerate this - www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-re...

One of the challenges regarding SEND, and something lacking from the current reforms, is the absence of any sense of collective social responsibility to enable those who need more from us to thrive. The emphasis is on the delivery of statutory services not on what happens after. Until we look at 1/3

Hi #EduSky and apologies again for being a day late again with my #Saturday3 with yesterday being crazily busy. Normal service should be resumed next week after I have changed time zones…

Late to this but excellent journalism from ITV News - the anatomy of educational decline in Wales laid bare, with huge lessons for the rest of us. youtu.be/1FSIfPjXGeE?...

🚨 NEW: Poorer students have the most to gain from university, but they’re the least likely to go. Our brand-new best practice guide argues universities should redouble efforts to support disadvantaged students 🧵

Embarrassing outcome of lobbying and stakeholder placation. Sensible folk will ignore. www.gov.uk/government/p...

This is a shame I think - it gave a lot of confidence knowing there was a practising head in the building. Good luck Andrew.

There's a lot of talk about whether we can trust PISA scores or not. PISA is not the only international test. TIMSS & PIRLS test reading, maths, science too. England is the only country outside East Asia to come in the top 10 on them. More here. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/what-is-go...

The evidence is clear: countries with lower NEET rates than the UK get there almost entirely through higher rates of post-18 education. In these countries, more young people stay in education for longer and often combine it with work.

Britain can learn lots of how not to do things from Germany, especially in education.

Our search for ATT’s Chief Education Officer is now live. We are looking for an exceptional educationalist to help us build something genuinely special at ATT. If you are curious, please take a look. And if it makes you think, “perhaps…”, I would love to hear from you.

Friday evening thoughts. Butter paneer >>> butter chicken

Birkenhead rightly taking its place in the sun. Or Mirror, rather. Not mentioned in here, but a vital part of the Birkenhead renaissance, is Right to Succeed's flagship Cradle to Career programme that is supporting children and families to be successful www.righttosucceed.org.uk/cradle-to-ca...

Has it occured to him that someone saying "school wasn't for me" went to a crap school? Or wasn't taught to read properly at primary?

Sigh indeed. jonathansimons.substack.com/p/making-the...

This, on options for the future of the school system, is very good from @moremorrow.bsky.social cstuk.org.uk/news-and-blo...

Left hand side: England Right hand side: Scotland, Wales and a bunch of other places Suprisingly, the 'teach them maths' approach is more successful at teaching them maths