Stuart Scott

The Collaborative Learning Project.
A resource network since 1983 to enable talk for learning in multilingual classrooms. Access and empowerment.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

Time for reflection is just a vital as time for relaxation so the Future of English @LondonLATE summer conference on Saturday will cheer you in many ways. Plus super lunch! See you there!

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

Good rant!

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Looking back on 14 years of the Tories is like looking back at the traumatising post-vindaloo shit you just did in the toilet.

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

I'm watching a little person learning to read. Everything that @charliehacking & @Dominic_Wyse say in their brilliant book on reading is happening before my eyes. The double helix model should be a game-changer, with reading & writing intimately connected & meaning at its heart.

[Colin West @mooseandmouse]

Query

Is it true in Leighton Buzzard
that the blizzards are a hazard
for the wizards who are gathered
with their lizards who have staggered
where the buzzards with their gizzards
hover overhead haphazard?

Or not?

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

Very striking! I would like to see the same analysis made for UK wealth.

[Rupert Wegerif @rupertwegerif]

I do not want to get political on this medium but this is such a striking visualisation of a system that does not seem functional for collective flourishing that I think all should see it.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

We believe that playful classroom conversations evolve into purposeful and empowering dialogue: oracy in the curriculum. Our newsletter is updated and we are promoting the next @LondonLATE conference on 6th July. Hope to see you there!

[Colin West @mooseandmouse]

It’s true I have a funny bone
(We all have, I believe)
It’s just that I don’t show it off —
I keep it up my sleeve.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

Intimations of Dotheboys Hall.

[Andrew McCallum @AndrewEMC]

We're increasingly hearing from teachers working in large MATs about the demoralising experience of having to teach a centrally imposed curriculum of poor quality. I can't think of anything more damaging for English. Wake up MAT leaders. One way is rarely the best way

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

Even if you can't make it to our in person resources development in Bristol on 21/5, you can still browse our activities and choose one to try out and one to tweak. @BetterBilingual PS We plan to post the results of our collaborative planning.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

Only a week now to our hands on workshop with @BetterBilingual in Bristol on 21st May. See you there.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

@Miff__ If viewed as a commodity it can be monetized, if viewed as a process - a long conversation it can be free for all.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

@BarbaraBleiman Collaborative Learning provides lots of scaffolds for reading aloud to each other, to small groups, to the rest of the class with curriculum foci (love that word!). Join our @BetterBilingual workshop in Bristol on 21/5.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

@WTACRaymond @AndrewEMC Oracy needs to be modelled by teachers sharing exploratory talk with each other

[Raymond Soltysek @rsoltysek2024]

Oracy is the verbal equivalent of literacy. Listening is to reading, talking is to writing. All four need to be developed together in a planned oracy/literacy curriculum. It is not a fad or a strategy: it is fundamental learning.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

We have neglected to remind you of LATE's cheap and inspiring research conference: 'Becoming our own Experts this Saturday. Drop everything and come along. Explore the difference between research and teacher action research
https://t.co/F4oY25jF9Q

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

English Association is spot on with their warning on Ofsted's narrow interpretation of spoken language in their telling the story report.https://t.co/1KIPmEQtlx

[Andrew McCallum @AndrewEMC]

Well done @guardian. And it's not just money. MATs often v controlling of curriculum too. Multiple schools teaching exactly the same. Deprofessionalising for teachers + in extreme cases leads to 1000s of students learning from sub-standard material https://t.co/6S6PvJj9CK

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

@anna_annauser1 https://t.co/oKRIU0qdRm

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

January 29th: SW NALDIC RIG features Collaborative Learning. @EAL_naldic Open to all via Zoom.

[Stuart Scott @collearn]

Headline in this morning's NYTimes:Research suggests that speaking multiple languages can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by up to five years.