Mr Gurd

Assistant Head Teacher - Pastoral & KS4 • Former Head of English • Former Lead Practitioner • Former Head of Year • Just out here trying to make a difference 😅

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

Happy back to work day to all the educators returning after a long break.

May your year be filled with success. 💫⭐️

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

NEW POST Systematic inclusion: Is literally everyone thinking, talking, practising, learning? How much does it matter to you. https://t.co/BxTyllMMBh

[Prof Michael Green FCCT @Michael_S_Green]

🚨 Just in case you missed this, in May @EducEndowFoundn published a really useful guide with practical suggestions to support pupils with #SEND in mainstream. A MUST read for all leaders, including SENDCOs ⏬️
https://t.co/J15bJvxSqa

#SEND #SpecialEducation #schoolleadership

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

Almost 8 years ago.

Since then I’ve conducted many whole school and borough wide training sessions - as well as many presentations to Governors, Senior Leadership & Middle Leadership.

I wonder how many more presentations I’ll do in the next 8 years and who’ll they’ll be to?🤔

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

I’m presenting at a Middle Leaders Meeting tomorrow - first time in my Teaching Career. Should be interesting 😁

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Worth pointing out to anyone who accuses Michaela Community School of excluding its way to excellence: 22 suspensions and zero exclusions in the latest year figures. Obviously this won’t matter to anti-standards activists, who will find new myths to fuel their hatred, but it’s worth making it clear for public record: when you get the school behaviour model working, you exclude *less* because *you don’t need to* exclude frequently.

The chaotic, dark mistake many make is to try to reduce exclusions by simply making it harder for schools to exclude. This results in worse environments for all students, not better.

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

Shout out and big up to all students, teachers and parents of GCSE class 23/24. 🙌

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

We would all get along better if we were all better educated.

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

@k_dacosta 💪

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

@LodgeGdfun Happy birthday!

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

@k_dacosta 😂

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

Last day of summer holiday for me 😅.

Hopefully Utd beat Arsenal to round off what’s been a brilliant break! ��🏽😁

Shout out to all the teachers heading back and giving their all to change lives. ✊🏽👊🏽 #Respect

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

NPQSL passed! 😅🎉

Praise be to the Most High! 🙏🏽🙌🏽

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

NPQSL Assessment Submitted 😅🙏🏽

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

“This isn’t a phase, this is phase one…This isn’t divide and conquer, this is provide and prosper. This isn’t destroy and rebuild, this is I love my future more than I hate parts of my history”

~ Stormzy (Mel made me do it)

🥶 🥶 🥶

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

Dickens with the Easter Eggs at Xmas:

Stave 2 of ACC begins with “When Scrooge awoke” and ends with “he sank into a heavy sleep.”

Could be interpreted as:
Blinkers removed -> Weight of guilt (Marley’s chains!)

#book #grammar #litchat #teachingenglish #engchat

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

The quality of life chasm between the rich and everyone else is not just a 19th century issue…

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia https://t.co/gtHvhNsnuT

Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people.

A thread:

[Mr Gurd @MrAGurd]

Thank you for the recommendation @MrCaseyBailey - I think KS3 gonna love @CalebFemi_’s poetry. 🙌🏽��

[Akala @akalamusic]

Framing Black English kids whose great grandparents came here as culturally ‘Caribbean’ may no longer be useful for these kinds of things, given the actual nations of the Caribbean take education so seriously/have pretty good outcomes when measured against comparable nations.

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

Five Ways to Secure Progress Through Modelling https://t.co/YqxK85td0E

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

There's a teacher shortage coming. It's been coming for a while, but was staved off by the pandemic.

Now, it's heaving back into view & it isn't pretty.

It's easy to blame the DfE, but I think some other things are happening that matter outside of education too 🧵... STRAP IN!