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[DM @lovelearning85]

A blog I wrote: https://t.co/Ua2lPNydXC

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This is why I started @researchED1. Because education's landscape is still dominated by motivated reasoning, fairy tales, and folk-teaching. The only way to smash through this junkyard is with evidence: evidence and reason. Conclusions that match the data. Uncertainty where it doesn't. We're starting to make a dent in the madness when we come together to discuss what works, when, why, and with whom. #researchED

[ESPN MMA @espnmma]

This photo of Justin Gaethje goes hard 🔥

[Barry Smith @BarryNSmith79]

@joenutt_author Sector doesn’t want what @Miss_Snuffy offers. Relentless attention to detail. Head’s values define school. Head doesn’t bow to pressure. Head questions fashion that not aligned to her values. Head’s honestly makes others feel uncomfortable.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

I will never get tired of watching old Milton Friedman videos.

[DM @lovelearning85]

@JDaviesPhD Learnt how to box, although I recommend any martial art: great for fitness, self-esteem, learning, a new identity in part.

[Millionaire Framework @Milli0nairePath]

This video on "criticism" will change your life:

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

“It’s so good… It’s wisdom.”

Reflecting on his guest edit and leaving In Our Time after almost 30 years, Melvyn Bragg gives an emotional reading of Thomas Hardy's 'She, To Him'.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Good behaviour precedes high quality learning environments. Always.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Abigail Shrier: "The number one symptom of depression is rumination, pathologically obsessing over your pain. Getting out of your house and accomplishing anything is good for you, sitting around, talking and thinking about your problems is a bad habit."

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

High text; Low Tech

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

I think this is true, and important. We rush, as non clinicians, to diagnose the complexity of a human’s personality as a pathology of mental health that few of us are trained to recognise. Because we burn to understand the causes of such behaviours. But inventing reasons doesn’t help us understand them. We are no wiser.

Descriptors like ‘kind’ ‘brave’ ‘shy’ are perfectly serviceable indicators of patterns of behaviour we recognise, without assuming omniscience.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

The most common criticism of removal is ‘what about SEND?’ And the answer is:
1. Yes, what about the children with SEND who cannot bear chaotic behaviour in others? Children with ADHD, ASD, anxiety disorders etc disproportionately need calm classrooms. Don’t they matter?
2. You make reasonable adjustments dependent on specific accommodations. For example: a child with Tourette’s syndrome would usually not be removed for swearing, unless it was obviously deliberate and intentional.
3. In the removal destination, you can assess if any support etc is needed. This is incredibly hard in a busy classroom.
4. The vast majority of children sent out of class are not doing so because of some inexorable mental distress or neurological difficulty, but because of perfectly normal human behaviours of self amusement, peer bonding, rudeness, unwillingness to try hard etc.
5. Even if a child has a form of SEND this does not mean they are immune to boundaries and consequences. All children need these to some level. If we don’t give them this, we habituate them into low effort and poor conduct, further entrenching their disadvantage.
6. All adjustments need to be *reasonable*. We can’t jettison the rights and needs of a classroom because one kid wants to abuse and disrupt the needs of others.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

"Teaching isolated facts is almost aways a waste of time; the unit of learning should be the link, because retrieval speed comes from connectivity, not accumulation."

Oh, to have @C_Hendrick's gift of sublime summary.

[Barry Smith @BarryNSmith79]

Not complicated

[DM @lovelearning85]

@Shabnamagram https://t.co/5uQGT9Hizh

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

There's a nice scenario in this one, and I think there are at least 16 points and questions for discussion that it raises. How many can you spot?

[David Didau @DavidDidau]

Here’s a blog which captures some of this: https://t.co/Af6yFS08QL

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

The best teachers I've seen don't use a wide range of activities.

They do a few things, and they do them well. They hone them, practise them, and know exactly when each one should be used and why. The students become habituated to them, and learning goes through the roof.

[DM @lovelearning85]

@stoneman_claire ‘Sometimes I think that’s the best thing to hope for when you’re eulogized: after all the words and recitations and resumes are read, to just say somebody was a good man.’ - Obama