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David Didau
@DavidDidau
Bristol
Joined May 2010
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    Let me get this straight, the govt is being advised to reopen schools but to ensure pupils remain 2m apart. Have they actually met any children?
    Coronavirus: School closures 'have little effect' on slowing spread of COVID-19 news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
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    George Sampson writing in the 1920s about marking:
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    Next Thursday 18th June at 3pm (BST) I'll be doing a FREE webinar on 'What every teacher needs to know about reading'. Watch this space for details...
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    NEW JOB > I’m excited to announce that from January I will be Senior Lead Practitioner for English (or, as I’m calling it, King of English) for @OrmistonAcads
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    Hands up, who would like @twitter to make it possible to edit tweets *after* you’ve sent them? (So fed up with sausage fingered auto corrects and lamentable lapses in my ability to punctuate)
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    Netherlands makes trains free on national book day for those who show a book instead of ticket
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    SLT: if you want to ensure your curriculum and it’s implementation are half decent, give curriculum leaders more time with their departments. An hour a week should be a *minimum*.
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    So goes my first week back as a teacher in 8 years. Loved it.
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    Ok. Here’s a new website which will host all our OAT English resources. It is very much a work in progress. Feedback welcomed
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    This may be unfair, but Gavin Williamson is giving every impression of being either completely incompetent, dumb as a truck or, not inconceivably, both.
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    *NEW* Implementing English: five useful teaching strategies learningspy.co.uk/english-gcse/i…
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    So, after 8 years of fannying about as a consultant I’m going back to the classroom to teach English in not 1 but 3 amazing schools @BroadlandsBS31 @GloucsAcademy & @HolmleighParkHS. Am pretty excited (and v nervous!)
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    At long last, my new book, Making Kids Cleverer: A manifesto for closing the advantage gap, is out in the world. The argument is divided into 10 chapters and a conclusion and, over the coming days and weeks, I... learningspy.co.uk/featured/makin…
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    Finished week 6 of Couch to 5k with a 25 min run. This is a significant achievement.