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[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

What Jo says 👇🏼 … a good parent teaches their child to be resilient, confident & independent, a bad or insecure parent wants their child to not function properly without them. The job of a parent is to prepare your child for the world, it’s a tough place.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Let teachers remove kids who make it impossible for everyone else to learn.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Head teachers here in the Uk who also do this can prove better attainment in class, less bullying & more physical activity. We absolutely must get phones out of school if we care about our kids.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

The aim is not to reduce suspensions and exclusions. The aim is to reduce the frequency and severity of the behaviours that *lead* to suspensions and exclusions.

[Hannah Ward 👩🏻‍🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer @HannahWardEdu]

From a teaching manual written in 1885:

[Jen @jenteach13]

After 30 years in the classroom, here's what I know: The system bends over backwards for the kid causing the chaos. The 28 kids just trying to learn? They get whatever's left. A mom finally shadowed her son all day, and what happened next says everything. 🧵

[Dana Palubiak @DanaPalubiak]

Teachers don't quit because they don't care. They quit because they're asked to do the work of five professionals for the pay of less than one.

And then they're told they didn't do enough.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

If students don’t experience consequences for their actions in school, they aren’t ready to handle them in life after school.

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Personally, I think @Miss_Snuffy should be in charge of our education system.

She has earned the title "Britain's strictest headmistress", and what she has done in her school should be admired, studied and emulated across the country.

She has conservative values, and we need these instilled in schools instead of the Marxist indoctrination we currently have.

We have huge problems in our education system, and whoever forms the next government should call her to ask for advice.

[British Thought Leaders @BritishThgtLdrs]

NEW EPISODE:
The Case for Traditional Education: Helping British Children Thrive

Britain's strictest headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh CBE (@Miss_Snuffy), tells @LeeAlanHall that it's time to ditch progressive teaching and go back to basics: firm discipline, structure, respect for authority, and clear rules.

She says her school Michaela is real-world evidence that a strict, no-nonsense approach delivers outstanding results even in deprived areas.

Katharine calls for a full ban on social media for kids, as well as a strict limiting of electronic device access for children, due to the damaging impact.

Finally, she emphasises that real courage is required from educators and leaders to embrace these proven traditional methods and truly help Britain's children.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

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[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Parents don’t parent.

Teachers don’t teach.

It is because we think being an authority is bad. We think it is being Hitler and confuse authority with authoritarianism.

We have abandoned our roles as adults and our responsibilities. 😳

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Came across this from a while ago.👇

How do we build resilience in children?

By holding the line and seeming unreasonable to others but sensible to that which is true.

Hold your standards high and they will reach up to you. ✊🏾

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

The more schools take on, the more likely they will fail at all of them.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

A fantastic teacher said to me yesterday ‘the biggest problem in schools today is that too many children don’t care, it’s a growing number, so much effort to get them to do anything (in general terms)’.

Pupils are provided an unprecedented standard of teaching and learning, more support and opt out opportunities than ever before. The passivity is a huge problem and this isn’t about teachers and schools IMO.

[Andrew Old @oldandrewuk]

One of the most damaging ideas in education over the last twenty-five years is the belief that SEND causes poor behaviour, and that enabling that behaviour is a reasonable adjustment.

[Justin Baeder, PhD @eduleadership]

Choice menus double the workload for teachers, while making it less likely that students will learn what they need to learn. Students need us to decide on the best learning activities. ##education##teachersoftiktok##learning##achievementscience

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Schools do not improve because leaders are superheroes or the staff are martyrs and saints; they improve when they create systems of effective behaviour, and stick to them. Supervising and maintaining those routines needs to also be a set of systems.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

When New York State banned phones in public schools from bell to bell this past September, the goal was undistracted learning. But within weeks of the Great Phone Lockup, teachers began to notice an incidental (and arguably even more compelling) benefit: The teens were talking to one another as if they were in a Brat Pack movie. Sure, there’s been grumbling and some burner phones and scrolling in the bathroom. But generally, with phones off-limits, the atmosphere feels different. There’s a pleasant buzz in the lunchroom, chatter in the hallways, and an alphabet of new analog hobbies popping up just about everywhere. “We’ve had a lot more school spirit,” said one senior at a charter school in Harlem. “People are more willing to do stuff.”

What stuff are they doing? At many schools, teachers have made cards, board games, and sports equipment available during free time, and the kids have deigned to use them. Aidan Amin, a ninth-grader at Hunter College High School, is in a friend group that congregates in the school foyer to stack ‘OK Play’ tiles and compete at ‘Sorry!’ and other tabletop games during lunch. “I’d say it’s made us closer. Honestly, half the people I’m playing board games with I didn’t know at all before this,” Aidan says.

Read more about how the state’s device ban has shifted the atmosphere in New York public schools: https://t.co/NMOJzQT2nS

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Schools exist to support families, not replace parents.

That means parents need to actually parent, and the govt & communities need to stop treating schools as the fix for bad parenting.

If you’re an educator who thinks otherwise, you’ve watched too many teacher hero movies.