Alexandra Petrie

Director of Curriculum at Lionheart Educational Trust, mummy to girls, passionate about fairness and Shakespeare, learning about curriculum and skateboarding.

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

🚨 NEW POST 🚨

'Goal Setting and Building Cathedrals'

"...if we can help pupils to look forward into the future – they may find more meaning in their current efforts – thereby  seeing more value of persisting through their present struggles."

https://t.co/mGnmcxki94

[Alexandra Petrie @AlexandraPetrie]

@gracepetrie @glastonbury Er…. IVY? 🌸❤️

[Dan Worker @WorkerDt]

Pre-teaching Tier 3 vocabulary is one of the key ways teachers can make complex texts accessible.

Using prefixes, suffixes and their etymology is a highly effective way of doing this.

Here is a 5 step approach and examples:

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[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

My website offers around 30 free resources for busy teachers and leaders with a quick and easy sign up.

Resource topics include: adaptive teaching, reading, writing, vocabulary, and my new book, Why Learning Fails (And What To Do About It)

https://t.co/XtH6wtQofw

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

*** Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale Structure & Style ***

“If we are setting simple tasks for struggling pupils, but complex tasks for high prior attainers, how are they ever meant to catch up.”

https://t.co/vX3XzC0NmQ

[Access the infographic: https://t.co/XtH6wtQW54]

[Michael Chiles 🌍 @m_chiles]

***ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK***

A policy that focuses on purpose assessment and feedback that supports closing knowledge gaps 📖

Feedback not marking ✅
Live feedback through active observation ✅
Whole class feedback ✅
A focus on the qualitative not quantitative data ✅
Reduced workload ✅

[Alexandra Petrie @AlexandraPetrie]

@KayShepherd12 @LRTSHub @EducationEACT Congratulations Kay! 😊

[Lionheart Educational Trust @LHTrustLeics]

📈We’re looking for a new Chief Finance Officer to lead our financial strategies.

You will oversee the management of the Trust finances, promoting transparency and ensuring an effective process.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now👇https://t.co/YNSNJb1U5K

[Grace Petrie @gracepetrie]

Thrilled that Build Something Better is #1 in the Official Folk Albums Chart 🥳

[Lionheart Educational Trust @LHTrustLeics]

📱 This week, Lionheart students from upper primary through to sixth form will participate in a Global Issues lesson which considers social media and mental health.

Social media can be really useful; but it's important young people also learn to #takecontrol.

Did you know...

[Lionheart Educational Trust @LHTrustLeics]

📱 This week, Lionheart students from upper primary through to sixth form will participate in a Global Issues lesson which considers social media and mental health.

Social media can be really useful; but it's important young people also learn to #takecontrol.

Did you know...

[Grace Petrie @gracepetrie]

THREAD! Friends, I could really use your help this week.

In just under 81hrs the chart closes for release week. If you haven’t bought BUILD SOMETHING BETTER yet, please do it today!

If you still need convincing, get a load of these numbers…. 👇🏻

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

'Academic language and the phrases that matter'

"Some vocabulary we use routinely in academic subjects can be taught in the knowledge that we are not merely teaching one word, but instead we are teaching a whole family of functional academic phrases."

https://t.co/KXDfD3KUPv

[Miss Nadin @MissNadin4]

After many hours, I've finally plucked up the courage to share a resource that I've made. It's a booklet of extracts for pupils to read during the start of their library lessons. Each term there is a different question that the extracts all link to
https://t.co/zfATRZeICY

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

10 of the best teaching-related research papers from the first 10 weeks of 2024

(all open source 🔓)

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[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity" perhaps because handwriting adds desirable difficulties to the task of writing (although participants had to type with just one finger): https://t.co/NhigHAnBPE

[Lionheart Educational Trust @LHTrustLeics]

🎉"Staff are unwavering in their pursuit of academic excellence and holistic development" and "leaders ensure students are well prepared for their futures."

@BeaCitySixth is an OUTSTANDING sixth form, following a visit from @Ofstednews 👏🌟

Read more👇
https://t.co/5vCpiEV1rS

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Explicit instruction is useful for gifted students (i.e., speed up the pace) but its roots are in helping students who struggle. This article is great at explaining how explicit instruction supports students with working memory difficulties. https://t.co/rt4sBDjsUh

[The Engagement Platform (TEP) @TEP_Community]

Exciting news! 📣 Professor @JohnPeterJerrim's full paper 'The link between teacher buy-in and intentions to continue working in their current school' has now been published and uses @TEP_Community data, you can read the full report here: https://t.co/ql9cT0Hx67.