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Independent Thinking
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Independent Thinking
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There is always another way. Inspiring educators since 1994 - online, in print and in real life.🕊️ bsky.app/profile/itlwor…
- 'The House of Lords report says the education system for 11- to 16-year-olds is too focused on academic learning and written exams, resulting in too much learning by rote and not enough opportunity for pupils to pursue creative and technical subjects.'
- Schools are in turmoil, prisons are in turmoil, the climate is out of control and Brexit is a shambles. Wonder if there’s a common denominator?
GIF - Nice job advert in The Guardian, what the children are looking forward in a new head:
- ‘Love’ The answer given to us yesterday when we asked a secondary headteacher with the best Progress 8 in the county and with his SEND children scoring the most highly in value added what his secret was.
- "How did so many come to understand that there were contracts there for the taking?" @JolyonMaugham (who is a star for unearthing this and so much more) bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
- Wonder what would happen if you put ‘blue plaques’ in your classroom detailing some of the children who learned there and what they went on to achieve?
- "There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom." Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Wow. This is the opposite of the current education model isn’t itWhat if the point is not to beat the others but to make sure everyone makes it? x.com/buitengebieden…
