No More Exclusions #Free 🇵🇸

An Abolitionist Grassroots Coalition Movement in Education focused on racial justice, abolishing exclusions & free quality inclusive edu 4 all #NoMoreExclusions

[No More Exclusions #Free 🇵🇸 @NExclusions]

Our Abolitionist Alternatives to Exclusions Guide launch event is this week!

All welcome and food will be provided.

Get your tickets via this link, we hope to see you there: https://t.co/NOabJTHxqy

[No More Exclusions #Free 🇵🇸 @NExclusions]

NME is launching our ‘Abolitionist Alternative to Exclusions’ guide!

Join us next week to discuss ways of building care, support and freedom into our education system.

📆 Thursday 5th June
⏰ 6-9pm
📍 Brixton
🍴Dinner is provided

Register here: https://t.co/NOabJTHxqy

[ALLFIE @ALLFIEUK]

One week to go!

Inclusive Education Conference - 18th November @ 3-4pm

Dr Seamus Byrne (@seamusobeirn) will be in conversation with Zarah Bei (@NExclusions) & Our Voice members Israt Ahmed & Simmy Kaur

Where? Online-Zoom
Access? BSL Interpreters
Book: https://t.co/hzQ4yVtpx2

[Dr Toyin Agbetu @toyinagbetu]

A timely reminder.

Please note: the eugenicist and openly white supremacist Nathan Cofnas also tries to replace the word “racist” with the euphemism “race realist.” Any of these labels would serve as a far more accurate title should he be interviewed again by UK media.

[Defend Digital Me @defenddigitalme]

"The death of online anonymity will come at the expense of a policy that doesn't even work."

This is the key issue in a #SocialMediaBan and age-gating life online: It. does. not. work. What does it actually do and mean in practice?

Read our new report: https://t.co/EPHr2wiw8X

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

The BBC gaslit its audience for 3 years, routinely caveating death tolls from Israeli massacres in Gaza with "according to Hamas-run health ministry", all in the name of "transparency".

Yet again, that "transparency" runs only one way: no mention that this Bell review is far from independent, as we explain below.

[FocusE15 @FocusE15]

Come join our #Halloween #housing #funday Sat 31st Oct #Stratford Park 12-4pm
With bouncy castle & face paints
Come join us

[©️Ruth Swailes @SwailesRuth]

Underneath all the data are human beings, very young human beings with very specific needs. We can’t outsource meeting those needs to an algorithm that has never met them.

[Rachael Jefferson, PhD, PFHEA 🇬🇧🇦🇺💃🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️ @3dancingfeet]

This 👇

[John Cosgrove @johncosgrove405]

Demands that Martyn Oliver should go are becoming more insistent. So let's be very, very clear: that the current inspection framework would damage teachers, schools and children was well known before it was implemented. I wrote this over a year ago.

https://t.co/30eVET26ll

[Rachael Jefferson, PhD, PFHEA 🇬🇧🇦🇺💃🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️ @3dancingfeet]

No, we shouldn’t be blaming parents for behaviour challenges in schools. We should be working WITH parents to look after the child and their holistic progress.

AND looking closely at our school culture and whether we are prioritising our children’s needs on all levels 🙏🌈

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Fifteen outlets published 249 articles about Professor Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout surrounding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove’s ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from the University of Oxford after being charged with possessing indecent images of children.

[Rachael Jefferson, PhD, PFHEA 🇬🇧🇦🇺💃🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️ @3dancingfeet]

The body dilemma 😏

Schools regulate the body all day (SLANT).
Bodies are “freed” for sport only.

It’s the body regulation all day that gets me. Sitting still/upright is NOT the best way to learn - control of children is usurping “science” and associated research 😶‍🌫️

[FocusE15 @FocusE15]

HALLOWEEN FUN DAY
join us in #Straford Park bring the kids for face pains & bouncy castle Fun
#Halloween #Housing #Horrors @NExclusions @magpieprojectuk @NewhamCopWatch @ClaptonCFC @LDNRentersUnion plz #share

[Vic Goddard @vicgoddard]

Ofsted can slow down and damage an already improving school. It is not a force for good for the children and families in the school. It is not about a framework or the HMCI. It is a fundamentally flawed approach to school accountability that does long term damage in numerous ways

[ALLFIE @ALLFIEUK]

ALLFIE is shocked, but not surprised, by the disdain shown towards Disabled people. This raises serious concerns about the content and recommendations of Alan Milburn’s upcoming full report https://t.co/KbBkg2BZqP @johnpringdns

[Rachael Jefferson, PhD, PFHEA 🇬🇧🇦🇺💃🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️ @3dancingfeet]

“The only correct way”… 😵‍💫

Here, Bennett assumes exclusions are a *valid* and *proportionate* response to behaviour in the first place.

You can reduce exclusions through better *prevention*, and through *changing* how schools respond to behaviour hand in hand with families.

[Ian Cushing @ian_cushing]

if Tom Bennett’s classist and essentialist views on families living in poverty surprises you, then you haven’t been paying attention for the last decade. but remember the guy isn’t an aberration. he’s a mouthpiece for how bipartisan governments view and treat working class life.

[Dr Kenny Frederick (FCCT)#Antiracist,BLM @kennygfrederick]

@smithsmm I love this honest overview based on experience & is free from jargon & ego. A must read for all school leaders & school staff. Improving behaviour & getting children to take responsibility for themselves is complex particularly in some context but don’t need a guru to sort it!

[Simon Smith @smithsmm]

Inspired to write my first blog in three years.
Thinking about behaviour culture and why compliance can only ever take us so far. Walking round our school (admittedly primary) and seeing that being part of something more all around. It’s not by accident.

https://t.co/0VMqmf2GUA

[Rachael Jefferson, PhD, PFHEA 🇬🇧🇦🇺💃🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️ @3dancingfeet]

🧵

Bennett claims there are radical differences between English and Scottish education systems.

Is this due to him not being embraced as a behaviour expert in his country of origin, or is this based on facts? Or…?

Let’s take a look at the actual evidence 👇

[John Cosgrove @johncosgrove405]

Comments on this post show how common it is for distressed staff to be further hurt by insensitive school leaders. Our baby died on January 28th 1984. On the 30th my head rang. Those days are a blur in my memory but I recall very clearly him asking: "When are you coming back?"