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Eternal optimist, life long learner, enthusiastic teacher of English, living in Waterford via Limerick.

[Ciara Quill ☘️🇮🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺 💚💛 @ciaraquill]

This 👇🏼 #edchatie

[INOTE @INOTEnews]

🔷Creative Writing Workshop🔷

Award-winning author, Claire Keegan, will deliver a full day masterclass exclusively for INOTE members, taking teachers through the writing process for short stories and longer form fiction.

Book via the CPD button on the INOTE website.

[Francesca Simon @simon_francesca]

My article in defense of 'rip-off' degree subjects

https://t.co/Hf9LMborTO

[Dr. Catlin Tucker @Catlin_Tucker]

🧐 Working with your students on the See, Think, Wonder #ThinkingRoutine?

📝 Use this FREE template to help them break down and clarify their thoughts: https://t.co/omYElPl1ky

#EdChat #EduTwitter #MetacognitiveSkills #EdChatEU #UKEdChat #AussieEd

[INOTE @INOTEnews]

🔷INOTE Creative Writing🔷

Chair Mikey announces upcoming INOTE creative writing workshop for English teachers with author Claire Keegan. Early registration available today at conference. Places are limited.

https://t.co/EIFNgEtUJ3 for further details from Monday

[INOTE @INOTEnews]

🔷INOTE Conference 2025🔷

Author Louise Nealon took attendees through her secondary school journey & her relationship with inspirational English teacher @littlemissbutler

Louise talked about the devices that worked in the classroom for her, the Rumpelstiltskin & AI 😛

[Patrick Huff @Mr_PHuff]

This is an amazing opportunity for teachers of English, organised by @INOTEnews. Clearly, a lot of work has been put into this!

Grateful to have been at the conference and relieved to have secured a place!

#EdChatIE

[SCC English @sccenglish]

Colin Barrett talks to Mikey Meally of @INOTEnews at the annual conference, a truly ‘authentic voice’ in the words of today’s theme.

[Ciara Quill ☘️🇮🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺 💚💛 @ciaraquill]

Well now, let’s hope that Helen McEntee and Norma Foley are reading this! The €9 million for pouches should have been used elsewhere in Irish education.
#edchatie

Mobile bans in schools do not have any impact on student grades or wellbeing, study finds
https://t.co/mcFgjTA3c8

[Eddie Duffy @EddieDuffy]

How will we explain to future generations that we spent millions of euros "reforming" the Senior Cycle at the exact time AI became freely available to everyone?
This is a potential news clip from 2029 describing the farce Senior Cycle exams have become because of AI.

[Ciara Quill ☘️🇮🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺 💚💛 @ciaraquill]

The bonus points initiative that enables Leaving Cert students to gain extra points for achieving a pass grade in higher-level Maths appears to have led to a decline in standards in the subject & system should be reassessed, a major new report has found.
https://t.co/O1rFu7lrTR

[INOTE @INOTEnews]

🔹2025 Conference October 18th🔹
🔹🔹🔹SAVE THE DATE🔹🔹🔹

We are enlisting your help & creativity. This year the theme will be ‘Authentic Voices’. Your design could feature on our 2025 magazines available at our conference & Education Centres around the country.

[Conor Murphy @conorsmurf]

Accounting postponed.
English postponed.
Member of Construction Studies redevelopment group resigns.
3 out of 7 subjects.
43%
This is a symptom of the stupidity of the rushed reform insisted upon by Foley.
Makes you worry about the integrity of all subjects she rushed through.

[SCC English @sccenglish]

Letter in today's 'Irish Times' on AI in the Leaving Certificate.

[punctuation clarification: paras 3 & 4 are all by Daisy Christodoulou]

[Robert @Eintrachtrob]

Circular 58/04, Croke Park hours, Haddington Road S&S, Junior Cycle with CBAs, Senior Cycle with AACs.....Every few years we have this "reform" and it's always "reform" which adds to teacher workload.

None of this extra workload is paid for by @Education_Ire.

Where does it end?

[INOTE @INOTEnews]

🔹@INOTEnews Executive Committee Meeting took place today ☀️🔹
Summer holidays 🌞 are on the horizon but for @INOTEnews our planning for 2025/26 has just begun. We’re looking forward to engaging with our members new&old in the next academic year. Keep an 👁️ on your socials 😛

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Adolescence might be great, but that doesn't mean it should be shown in schools. TUNE IN AND SHARE

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

We do not agree with Adolescence being shown in schools and intend to put our arguments across urgently to government.

Whilst it is a fantastic, gritty piece of writing, Adolescence is not an educational resource and is not suitable for schools. Teachers cannot be expected to roll this out, and this cannot be a knee jerk response.

If you are a professional who has concerns about this being rolled out in schools, please get in touch so we can put our names and thoughts together.

@Jaimi_Shrive and I will write up and share key arguments in due course, so please get in touch or add your name.

[SF Said @whatSFSaid]

Never under-estimate children's books. They're the books that make us readers in the first place. As such, they're the foundation stones of our civilisation - there would be no other books or reading without them!

(Art: Quentin Blake)