Ex-teacher with a PhD in classroom dynamics. Creator of a suite of online Reflective Tools designed to support teachers' wellbeing & professional growth.
🥁 Introducing the host for our online conference 🥁
💥 Baasit Siddiqui - Former teacher, founder of Siddiqui Education, and star of Gogglebox, Baasit will guide the conversation with his trademark warmth, insight, and humour.
Not to be missed, sign up for 'Professional Development in the Age of AI: Reducing Workload, Growing Agency' now.
📅 5th February, 4–5.30pm (GMT)
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We've had a lot of new followers recently. Welcome to all. Our job is to support headteachers - it's a challenging job and we help them to create a vocabulary of wellbeing strategies allowing them to flourish. We believe every head should have an entitlement to quality support.
@C_Hendrick This quality is something I have been grappling with for a long time - is it acquired automatically due to length of service? Is extensive experience a necessary prerequisite 4 developing heightened intuition? Is it possible to prepare the ground 4 those entering the profession?
Sir Kevan Collins has spent his career driving up standards in education. He has fought fiercely for our children, notably during the pandemic.
He will play a crucial role in my department as we work to break down barriers to opportunity.
I'm so pleased to have him on board.
This is how narratives are made. New research says children who ‘are not school-ready’ are twice as likely to be persistently absent. The author says “School is where children develop & flourish, academically, emotionally, socially, and physically.” 🧵1/16 https://t.co/lIvyVKFBsT
Building on a recent post where I used my tools to tentatively coach my younger self, I returned to my research to share some key insights from deep reflection: https://t.co/nni8Z4J8C7
Now that I'm a man of a certain age with grown-up kids, it's easy to forget a time when the future stretched out in front of me. To be transported back, for even a few hours has provided a perspective no wellbeing package can compete with: https://t.co/OZ6qNp0pPK
Watch Ben Chu tear apart Rishi Sunak's GDP growth & tax claims.
"This is like saying if a football team wins on the first day of the season, they're winning the league."
NEW!! A metacognition Teaching and Learning Map summarising the ideas of @EvidenceInEdu@EducEndowFoundn @FunkyPedagogy @teacherhead to make research accessible to busy teachers. Thanks to @evans_madeleine for the original T&L map idea. Please RT if you would like a copy.
@DrChrisWB@SCottinghatt Phronesis underpins Rachel Lofthouse’s Cycles of Growth model. With permission, I converted it onto a reflective tool for mentors: https://t.co/NNvDgfEp1V