Joan Stark

Mother, teacher, reader, knitter

[Joan Stark @joan_stark]

Having worked in both sectors over the years, this has sadly what I have seen

[Dr James Shea @englishspecial]

👀Breaking News👀

Pupils in England disengage more than other countries when they move to secondary school, Impacted report shows.

https://t.co/dDCFmDczAe

[Joan Stark @joan_stark]

@MichaelRosenYes Your father talked to a group of PGCE students at Goldsmiths' College in 1970. I have never forgotten his messages about children, teaching and literature. It's been threaded though my career ever since.

[Joan Stark @joan_stark]

If you get a chance to see this, go!

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was forced into an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #womensart

[Joan Stark @joan_stark]

@Emma_Turner75 Happening to a school near me today- just too much stressfor staff and children

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

"..You have the right to be angry sometimes" - Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson who first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous and fiercely independent and partly based on the author herself. #WomensArt #Monday

[Joan Stark @joan_stark]

Well-deserved

[Grasmere School & Nursery @grasmereschool]

A message from our Governors
I wanted to write to let everyone know that Jo has been invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. The event is to recognise and celebrate those who make outstanding contributions to education. I can't think of anyone more deserving of thanks...

[Lecturalia @Lecturalia]

Cada vez que un lector lee un libro, lo reescribe ✍️

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

"You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language."

—Joseph Brodsky

[Yorkshire Book Lover 📚 @YorkshireBook48]

Friend of mine just shared this on insta, what a great way to look at the importance of reading and the magic of it! ❤️

[Lecturalia @Lecturalia]

El vacío que dejan los libros al terminarlos 💔

[Joan Stark @joan_stark]

This is so thought-provoking and relevant. Also read the link to @C_Hendrick article. I like the distinction between vertical/horizontal reading - and that's not lying in bed!

[David Didau @DavidDidau]

This is, I think, the best thing I've written: How to read seriously
It's a deliberately long read (at over 6.500 words it'll take you about half an hour)
Link to follow...

[Pie Corbett @PieCorbett]

Lists of grammar to include and over egging ‘wow words’ is the death of composition. No writer ever thinks like that.

[Help A Teacher @HelpATeacher]

This.

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

In both "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments," Canada is the place you can escape to when things become too oppressive in the States. You're welcome.

[Joan Stark @joan_stark]

Very important read for Y6/Y7 teachers. Wonder if the same thing happens between Y2/Y3? Has anyone done work on this? I'm thinking about separate infant and junior schools.

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

How the words students hear changes significantly at the transition to secondary school.

Really interesting research with specific examples via Prof Alice Deignan & Marcus Jones.

https://t.co/c6rN0CAn8E