Andy Griffith

Co-author of Engaging Learners, Teaching Backwards, The Learning Imperative and The Working Classroom. Keynote and training enquiries to [email protected]

[Andy Griffith @OTeaching]

Great that our new book, The Working Classroom, inspired a phone in on James O’Brien’s show on @LBC. Thanks @mrjamesob and our publisher @CrownHousePub

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Do Sunak’s Tories stand for anything?
Andrea Jenkyns’ barely literate letter.
The role of the #GammonMaypole.
Do children need to learn about more working class cultural heroes? https://t.co/JAXiNwqeg0

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I don't just like it... I love it.... 👏👏👏

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Swathes of UK economy are foreign-owned.

No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends.

USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors.

UK could do the same, generate billions.
https://t.co/9DLCUPTCex

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

Remember JD Vance on the left? "They seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders."

"Just google ordo amoris," he told @RoryStewartUK.

Well, google this new PNAS study: 743,402 people across 121 societies. Conclusion: those who are unkind to outsiders also tend to be unkind to their own. And those who are kind to outsiders are also kinder to their own.

Turns out decent people are just decent people, and assholes are just assholes 💡

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

“The labs are saying to governments: ‘We’re quite likely to kill every human being on Earth; please stop us.’ Governments respond with ‘Can we give you a tax break? Build you a datacenter?’ Perhaps at some point governments will remember that their voters prefer not to be dead.” https://t.co/6ANyBtMePt

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I notice that @Arron_banks deleted this post.

Let’s share it 100,000 times to show the world how vile he really is.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Just to make clear how dramatic these [E. coli] readings were, the level considered unsafe for bathing is 1,000 colony-forming units per 100ml. The group’s highest reading showed 370,000."

Christchurch Harbour everyone, Christchurch Harbour.

https://t.co/CH7nvPaAVr

[Vic Goddard @vicgoddard]

So to be judged ‘exceptional’ at inclusion you can select your intake. Who knew? That gives carte blanche to all ‘schools down the road’ that behave despicably and select by having an ‘uninclusive’ reputation and behaviour compliance

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers.

Companies loaded with debt. Profiteering, high prices, profit shifting, tax abuse is rife.

Paid £205m to shareholders/investors. Public purse robbed.

Must end privatisation
https://t.co/QiSO0QVFul

[Andy Griffith @OTeaching]

https://t.co/aHtu0gPhtW

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

We are going to pass 200K signatures soon. You can be part of ending the privatised water scam; please sign and share widely.
This will be debated in Parliament on 14 September - is your MP going? This is the link 👇👇👇
https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[Andy Griffith @OTeaching]

@dave_mcpartlin If only the “Big Listen” wasn’t in fact a Big Con. Ofsted was poorly designed from the outset. We know that Theory Y management smashes Theory X. You need to give trust in order to get it. The Super Mario Effect works too. Ofsted doesn’t prioritise wellbeing for staff or pupils.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants data centers in space. Nobody wants humanoid robots or flying cars.

We want clean water. We want a stable climate. We want a habitable planet. We want wildlife to survive. We want to live.

[Vic Goddard @vicgoddard]

I think the DfE needs to rethink what is achievable with no funding improvement. Could be time to stop making new work until the economy is actually growing. Close ofsted (apart from safeguarding) and save that wasted money. Treasury is the only dept needed at the moment it seems

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

The brilliant Paul Whitehouse promoting the water referendum petition - this one - please sign and share https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[Andy Griffith @OTeaching]

@Jusmasel2015 Your emails in the post office inquiry were awesome.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In 2020, 13-year-old Callum Manning from South Shields, England, created an Instagram account for one simple reason. He loved books and wanted somewhere to share his reviews.

At the time, the page had around 50 followers.

Then some students at his new school found it.

Instead of encouraging him, they created a group chat and mocked him for reading, calling him names like “creep” and “sad weirdo.” Callum was added to the chat and had to watch the messages appear himself.

It hurt more than he expected. He later said it was the first time in a long while that he had actually cried.

His 24-year-old sister, Ellis, decided to do something. She shared what had happened online, hoping maybe 20 or 30 of her friends would follow Callum and leave a few kind comments.

That wasn't what happened.

Within days, Callum went from around 50 followers to hundreds of thousands.

Authors including Neil Gaiman, Malorie Blackman, Matt Haig and Caroline Kepnes reached out. Publishers offered him books. Waterstones encouraged him to keep reviewing and offered him a free book when he next visited.

And Callum kept reading.

The account that classmates had mocked became the place where hundreds of thousands of people came to hear what a 13-year-old thought about the books he loved.

His sister had only wanted a few people to remind him that there was nothing embarrassing about loving books.

She found an entire community waiting to tell him the same thing.

[Stephen Logan @Stephen_Logan]

Always remember @vicgoddard one of the most caring and kindest leaders in education who continues to serve communities and gives so much back to others. Vic you are the best of us 🙏

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🔥🔥🔥Andy Burnham thanked us for getting him to take Manchester's buses into public control

Now it is time to get him to take Thames Water into public ownership. You've done it before; you can do it again.

Share this video and send Burnham a message in the replies

[Ian Widdows @wids_widdows]

Ofsted Coalition X account, website and Crowdfunder. Please share!