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It’s so interesting to see people approaching essentially the same problem from such different perspectives. My own book looked at schools and exams in what I now see is a similar way too - just without having the theoretical framework to properly describe it.
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social i found the Unaccountability Machine fascinating - and wrote about schools, management cybernetics and games.
@add-hawk.bsky.social really enjoyed your book - wrote about it in light of exams and school
“In education, the fear is always of the cost of change. And the risk we run is of never changing because the cost seems too high. “
That was a cracking Halloween costume by my youngest
The latest post in our series "What's in a Word" is out now.
@sammywright.bsky.social examines the phrase 'knowledge-rich' which has a proper meaning, but around which a lot of other more vague and unsubstantiated ideas have accrued... www.edge.co.uk/research/wha...
@twinklresources.bsky.social are launching a new podcast series for leaders and teachers, and episode 1 is here! It was great to pick @sammywright.bsky.social's brain on the shape and texture of English schools. www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1hjk03
@twinklbeyond.bsky.social #twinklbeyondenglish
School trip to flamingoland
Because society works better when people find fulfilment in life even when their jobs are meaningless and mundane.
Apparently they’re ‘flying’!
Why SEN is complicated… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...
Best book ever
Apparently they’re ‘flying’!
Woo-hoo! Paperback in shops, and on offer at Waterstones!
Out today - please buy/share/review, and above all read. I’m so proud of this book and the impact it’s had - and still a bit surprised at the places it’s taken me too over the last year.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163...
Going on holiday tomorrow. By the time I’m back, this will be out in paperback! Reviewed in every single broadsheet, the mail, new statesman when it was published last year - “brilliant”, “entertaining”, “insightful”, “essential” - please pre-order!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163...
Clark’s hands are together in his lap. “Me brother was born when I was 10. But he lived with me mam years before that.” He looks up. His eyes are wide, and he has that faint smile still. “Actually, I thought them having a child it might change, but it didn’t.”
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First look at the paperback - and I’m just blown away by seeing al the amazing quotes on the cover
It could follow the pattern of Just William - lots of iterations vainly clutching for relevance in a changing world. Ending with ‘Gatsby and the Rock Band’ - in which our hero seeks to recapture the elusive freedom of the summer of love, only to realise, yet again, that you can’t repeat the past.
