Ms.A

Teacher. Foodie. Views my own.

[Ms.A @MsA_900]

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[Tes magazine @tes]

The DfE today launched a toolkit to help schools improve attendance – with suggested measures including allowing pupils to skip the lunch queue on their birthday
https://t.co/wWufkZc2nD

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

🚨New paper released today:

10 Common SEN Mis(Interventions)—An Evidence Summary

https://t.co/8lQNH00Co4

Supporting students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) is a vital and growing challenge for schools. But it’s not straightforward. Learning is complex, marketing claims are confident, and the evidence is often hard to access. As a result, we can sometimes end up adopting approaches which are less effective than we initially think.

For some, this may well be uncomfortable reading. As a profession, many of us have put time, effort and belief into these things, and lots will have seen students who looked like they were getting something from it. However, it’s essential that we temper our intuition with evidence, because ultimately: our most vulnerable students deserve it.

This new paper co-authored with @Barker_J is an attempt to raise the visibility of the best available evidence around several commonly used SEN interventions. For each, we provide an overview of what the research says, offer a more informed approach, and provide a suite of rigorous links to help you get started.

We hope it will serve as a useful resource and over time: push us to be even more 'evidence demanding' as a profession.

As ever, let me know what you think. If you have pushes or suggestions for how this paper could be better, hit reply and give it to me straight.

👊

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

"Polling" before you Cold Call students can make the technique feel even more natural and conversational.

Here's what that looks like:

https://t.co/Sgb2slvjsF

[Simon Smith @smithsmm]

Scrapping School Sports funding will be disastrous for school sports. We use it to fund inter-school sports, extra swimming (we’re coastal)

This s will reduce opportunities for primary children. There is no money to cover this gap. Budgets already threadbare.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

We don’t have a classroom management problem.
We have an emotional regulation crisis that teachers are being asked to handle.
Somehow, “classroom management” has turned into:
• de-escalating trauma
• supporting anxiety and depression
• calming panic attacks
• breaking up fights
• being cursed at, threatened, and even assaulted
• being the counselor, social worker, and crisis team
And at the same time…
we remove the very things that actually help:
• recess
• movement
• art
• play
• connection
Teachers aren’t trained for this.
And they shouldn’t have to be.
Classroom management was never meant to do all of this.
It’s about:
relationships
rules
routines
responsibility
That’s it.
It was never designed to replace what families, communities, and systems failed to provide.
And until we stop offloading every societal failure onto schools,
teachers will keep drowning under expectations no human can meet.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

A country that has nuclear weapons is threatening to use its nuclear weapons on the country it won’t allow to have nuclear weapons because if they had nuclear weapons they would ‘use them.’

[Mr G @DeputyGrocott]

Before anyone says it, today is the end of ‘TERM’ not half term. Thanks.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I’m sorry but the future belongs to those who read widely, who are able to write without the assistance of a machine, who haven’t allowed endless slop to kill their curiosity and cognitive abilities. Excess tech is going to melt many brains. Yours doesn’t need to be one of them.

[Tal✨they/them @talyaTheeEnby]

please get a library card even if you won’t use it because cities will look at library statistics and use that to decide to keep libraries open and properly funded

[Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_]

A reminder for all Muslim leaders across the globe.

“The destruction of the Kaaba, stone by stone, would be lighter with Allah than the shedding of the blood of a believer.”

Your behaviour is shameful.

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

[Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

Imagine telling the world that you're liberating the women of Iran and one of the first things you do is blow up a school full of girls. Extraordinary.

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

Every Ramadan in the Middle East has been filled with trauma for as long as I can remember.

[Mia♡ @luxemiaa]

reading is a great hobby because it lets you bedrot with moral superiority

[Inside the Haramain @insharifain]

BREAKING NEWS: Ramadan 1447/2026 Crescent has been SIGHTED

Subsequently, tomorrow i.e Wednesday, 18 February 2026 will be the first day of Ramadan 1447

Ramadan Mubarak!

[Ms.K @mskmalibu]

“are you busy tomorrow?” my dear, that entirely depends on the rest of the information you’re about to give me

[فيها خير @meowyclouds]

when someone tells you things, it’s an aamanah. they shouldn’t have to tell you not to tell anyone, for you not to spread it around without their permission.

[Teacher's Manual @UnofficialOA]

Morning,

A request for help:

I recently moved up north (near Bolton) and I’ve been on supply ever since.

I need a permanent job. Science teacher. 20yrs exp.

Schools don’t always advertise on the TES so if anyone knows anyone, please pass this on?

I’d really appreciate it!

[Ms.A @MsA_900]

@ScholarshipfPhd Hi