David Medway

Teacher, Headteacher, Future Leader 2013, Enthusiastic Bore. Views my own etc.

[David Medway @misterdme]

We are recruiting at the moment and have put together a Sway that explains the school a bit. It’s nothing fancy, but it made my Mum cry apparently. https://t.co/Q1kigrPQjy

[Ros Atkins @BBCRosAtkins]

Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. We looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline and found a range of false and misleading information being amplified. Produced by Catherine Karelli, Shayan Sardarizadeh and Jake Horton. Graphics by Jacqueline Galvin.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Learning is a change in long-term memory.

[David Medway @misterdme]

@HeyMissSmith @oldandrewuk Where should I start if I want to read about EYFS?

[David Medway @misterdme]

@HeyMissSmith @oldandrewuk And experience can sometimes be a hindrance due to sunk cost fallacy. But anyway, I think you are somewhat continuing with what I was saying. I can see it must be frustrating to disagree with someone so strongly if they have a bigger platform for impact.

[David Medway @misterdme]

@HeyMissSmith @oldandrewuk Okay, that’s fine, but the amount of time spent on something or amount of something that exists does not always correlate with its quality or accuracy. You have said you engaged with the debate previously, should I just read your previous post?

[David Medway @misterdme]

@HeyMissSmith @oldandrewuk Is it as simple as believing that children should spend more time learning subject disciplines in a more structured and deliberate way at an earlier age, versus free play and more socialisation? I’m not sure either side can be proved ‘correct’ on that one if so?

[David Medway @misterdme]

@HeyMissSmith @oldandrewuk I don’t have a view on EYFS, however I am intrigued by how much the points someone makes are readily attacked either on the basis of the individuals ‘behaviour’ on social media or ‘experience’ or their membership of a club, rather than on the quality of the points.

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

Implementation can take time to show positive effects. This interesting Dutch study showed it took two years for positive effects to start to show in literacy outcomes. This is both a challenge, but also a support for school improvement approaches:

https://t.co/HVNllgaqtX

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

A sample of ~5,100 5th, 7th and 9th grade German students showed no evidence that more reading increased competence but some evidence that increased competence led to more reading. Notably this was true for both boys and girls, though the latter read more: https://t.co/FGHI1DYk4v

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

I've seen people criticized for using the words "effectiveness" and "efficiency" in education. Whatever you think education should do, if you don't care about effectiveness, you don't care about students, and if you don't care about efficiency, you don't care about teachers.

[barry @BackseatsmanLFC]

@AnfieldSector @David_Ornstein Transfer deal sheet that includes a Liverpool update? The children of the iron age used to draw murals praying for times like this

[LBC @LBC]

Watch the full call here:

https://t.co/DnaoOW3rrP

[Claire Hill @Claire_Hill_]

*NEW POST*

@SaysMiss & I recently spent time together at Ed Fest, presenting on curriculum. It provoked a conversation about how our ideas had evolved since writing Symbiosis 4 years ago. We’ve captured them here:

Part 1: https://t.co/qaJt9lDej3

Part 2: https://t.co/9mzt9c52nu

[David Medway @misterdme]

@Braden_LFC Hilarious.

[David Medway @misterdme]

@Braden_LFC @Dgoat12344 That’s Doak, surely? Or Gordon.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

We should be shocked by the behaviour that many students and staff are expected to endure in their everyday lives in school. Children need and are entitled to a place that is safe, calm and dignified free from disruption and harassment.

Excluded children still deserve a full time education option. Councils are obliged to place all excluded students in AP. No excluded child is outside that system.

Which is why we need more investment in high quality post-exclusion destinations PRUs, AP etc. We also need more investment in in-school specialist units where children with chaotic behaviours can be supported to re-integrate, without threatening the well-being of others.

'Inclusion' must be understood properly- it can't just mean 'keep them in the classroom,' or everyone suffers. Sometimes, the best inclusion work is done *external* to the classroom.

[Michael Cox @Zonal_Marking]

✅ Spain 2024 an outstanding team. Up there with Germany 1972, France 1984, France 2000 and Spain 2008 as the best Euros winners. Won all seven games. Could dominate via possession and pressing and dribbling. Not reliant on one or two individuals. A real joy to watch throughout.

[David Medway @misterdme]

@StuartLock @Samfr I did that thing of joining a thread without having read the full context. Apologies. I think this acknowledges what spooks some: how easy it is for leaders of trusts to push responsibility down. However, that can happen in any organisation and is the responsibility of the board.

[David Medway @misterdme]

@StuartLock @Clive_Hill The challenge is that ‘trust’ can mean so many different things since they have all emerged from different contexts and are of different ages and sizes, so attempting to do so beyond what is in the audit would be super challenging.

[David Medway @misterdme]

@StuartLock @Clive_Hill I’m not inspecting anything, but I am pointing out that I can see why people believe the behaviour and impact of the central team of trusts should be considered separately to the schools themselves and according to some sort of standard criteria.