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Bodil Isaksen
@BodilUK
Chief Programmes Officer at @richmondproj. Previously Dr Frost, Unlocked Grads, Michaela, Teach First.
London, England
Joined March 2007
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    My 4-year-old was asking about childbirth and asked, “did it hurt?” As I was giving my carefully considered answer about how, “yes it did but it was worth it,” she interrupted, “no. I mean, did it hurt *me*? Did I get a plaster?”
    The kids were asking me what time they were all born and I said the youngest was born at 1:29am, and they all agreed that it must have been nice that she just came out while I was sleeping.
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    Classic: CIA advice from 1944 on how to sabotage and slow down an organisation.
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    Notes on how to plan a lesson from "Explicit Direct Instruction" by Hollingsworth & Ybarra
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    Replying to @JamesWorron
    @JamesWorron if we're being picky about it...
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    The discourse on scripted lessons is so depressing. If you're in the small fraction of teachers who get better results than an EDI script, crack on. Otherwise I think you have serious questions to ask yourself - is it about your ego or the kids' learning?
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    To really get how incredible these grades are, you have to meet some of the lowest quartile kids in year 7 - the kind who in a pretty good school would be massively pushed to get a 4 or 5 - and realise at Michaela they get a 9.
    Ask yourselves, the people who relentlessly criticise me, have they done half as much as we do for social mobility? What difference do they make for kids? Should you listen to them, OR maybe consider what I say, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable? #ThinkOutsideOfTheBox ✊🏾
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    Replying to @joshi
    So HSPG buy a dump and agree a long lease for exempt accommodation with a dodgy non-profit like Lotus. This radically increases its value, because a landlord has guaranteed rent. Then they sell it to an anonymous big property company, all in the same day? Yuck.
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    Notes on DT Willingham - How to tell good science from bad
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    The problems with rubrics: "in my music exam, we got marks for how we recovered from mistakes as a group. So we deliberately planned a small mistake we could 'recover' from easily"
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    Great to see maths (and @DrFrostMaths 😊) being shouted out in the Sunday Times. It echoes research from @AxiomMaths too. Go @SLSingh - forever bigging up maths for the benefit of all 👏 👏 thetimes.com/uk/education/a…
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    A thread on some similarities I've noted in prisons and schools, with a focus on staff and leadership.
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    NEW BLOG: These won't be your next performance targets. They should be. On underrated teacher qualities. blog.bodil.co.uk/underrated-tea…
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    This. Stay in school, kids.