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[Mr Potter 🇺🇦 🌳🧪🏎️🏁 @MrPotterChem]

@eleusinianatlas @MrMac_Math You’re not worth anybody’s time if you can’t even treat other human beings with respect and decency. Have a good day.

[Mr Potter 🇺🇦 🌳🧪🏎️🏁 @MrPotterChem]

@eleusinianatlas @MrMac_Math And who do they learn to drive with, learn languages from or do calculus? From experts. Teachers.

[Bruce Robertson @BruceNextLevel]

This week’s 🏆 Technique of the Week 🏆 is: Last Day, Last Week, Even Longer

A technique to enhance retrieval practice, for example, in Daily, Weekly or Monthly Review: https://t.co/0B1Fv5JsnC

Teaching PowerUps member school have access to over 100 Trusted Techniques like this.

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

https://t.co/texALAJQ2H

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

WEBINARS ARE BACK

We're going to be running a bunch of our webinars on various aspects of Teaching, Learning and Leading.

Would love to see you there, sign up link is below, retweets and shares massively appreciated!

https://t.co/iCesfuvA4A

[Mr Potter 🇺🇦 🌳🧪🏎️🏁 @MrPotterChem]

@dnleslie The Doug Lemov episode was great and I really enjoyed the chat with @MrZachG because I’ve been working on my explanations a lot over the past year. Really enjoyed his book.

[Darren Leslie @dnleslie]

Sitting awkwardly on 6,666 followers. If a few kind souls could follow to break up the satanic postcode I appear to have acquired, that’d be grand.

[Mr Potter 🇺🇦 🌳🧪🏎️🏁 @MrPotterChem]

Top 2% They Behave for Me listener - need to up my game in 2026 @adamboxer1 @amymayforrester

[Darren Leslie @dnleslie]

Becoming Educated is a podcast for teachers, leaders, and anyone passionate about improving education.

We explore what the evidence really says about teaching and learning, and what we can apply in classrooms today.

Listen here 👇
https://t.co/yNKMuXaBcI

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This is a neat illustration of why classrooms and teachers will remain the absolute norm for schooling at scale. Children are not consistently motivated as a cohort to learn independently. It’s madness to believe otherwise.
Education is 90% persuasion, 10% compulsion. Learning is *hard*. Thinking is hard. Intrinsic motivation is an unreliable and scarce fuel. Students need teachers.
AI will never be able to incentivise the unwilling. So, no more nonsense about whether it can replace teachers. Human behaviour trumps every heroically optimistic tech fantasy.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

researchED Edinburgh is COMING, at the beautiful George Heriot's School on Nov 1st. Featuring a galaxy of beautiful minds like @C_Hendrick @lamb_heart_tea @thebandb @BruceNextLevel and many more! Tickets HERE https://t.co/dEcFtR8GKR

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

We *know* how to close attainment gaps. This isn’t a mystery or a riddle.

1. Better behaviour in schools
2. Evidence informed teaching methods
3. Evidence informed teacher and leadership training

These are the nettles yet to be grasped in Scotland, but instead we have ploughed on with the same mad strategies that haven’t worked in a decade. Until these three are reformed, you’ll see constant, generational chasms between the attainment of the rich and poor.

Political row breaks out over closing the exam results attainment gap https://t.co/kZR5UU1NhS

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

There isn’t a single good reason a 7th grader needs a smartphone in class. But there are a thousand reasons they can’t focus, and we handed them the gateway to just about all of them.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

It’s not something constructivist education would ever admit, but it comes out in whispers: “progressive” teaching isn’t designed with strugglers in mind. It subverts Tier 1 prevention by refusing to break down and explicitly teach complex tasks, overwhelming Tier 2 & 3 support.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

You can engage in focused, systematic practice, or you can engage in random practice that frustrates and embeds misconceptions. It’s why explicit instruction is so focused on the alignment between what is modeled and what is practiced, and the gradual release of responsibility.

[Kevin Fulton @Teacher_Fulton]

Pedagogy for developing critical thinking in adolescents: Explicit instruction produces greatest gains

Lisa Marin & Diane Halpern (2011)

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Minimally guided learning is dessert.

We’ve spent too long trying to find out how to make dessert healthier, debating which dessert is healthiest, and trying to balance healthy food with dessert.

Maybe we should focus on healthy food and excercise, aka explicit instruction.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

What explains that the same people who advocate for explicit instruction also support phone bans?

A simple explanation is that phones suck attention in class.

But really, it’s the rejection of romantic beliefs that whatever the kid wants is somehow best for them.

[Mr Potter 🇺🇦 🌳🧪🏎️🏁 @MrPotterChem]

@mrallanmaths Broughty ferry (is it cheating if I live in Dundee?)

[Mr Potter 🇺🇦 🌳🧪🏎️🏁 @MrPotterChem]

@UnofficialOA The implication here is that schools are childcare. They are not.