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Becky Francis

@beckyfrancis.bsky.social

4.7K followers 220 following 190 posts

Educationalist, sometime academic, committed to supporting social justice and evidence-led policymaking and practice in education.
CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation. Chaired the Curriculum and Assessment Review (2024-2025) but now back at the EEF .. more

Rebecca Jane Francis, is a British educationalist and academic, who specialises in educational inequalities. Since January 2020, she has been Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF). .. more

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 22h

Media speculating whether media will continue to speculate about something that only media is speculating about.

"Rachel Reeves will be hoping the shock resignation from the boss of the economic watchdog tonight will drown out questions about whether she misled the public about its forecasts."

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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social · 22h

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Reflecting on @beckyfrancis.bsky.social Curriculum and Assessment Review to consider the 6 components of a truly ambitious curriculum.

www.nace.co.uk/blogpost/176... with @greeborunner.bsky.social

An independent charity founded 40 years ago, the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) works with schools, education leaders and practitioners to improve provision for more able l...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

If you would like to know the actual problems with the budget I set it all out in detail here.

As Stephen says the problem is the headroom isn't really there. Not that Reeves had loads of spare cash...

samf.substack.com/p/survival-f...

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

It does rather feel that Rachel Reeves is being relentlessly pursued for the major sin of having a comms strategy.

Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 1d

Good summary of the issues from @samfr.bsky.social #EduSky

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the special needs problem highlighted by the budget and the big political battle over it coming next year.

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Labour’s holiday homework: solve the problem of special needs education | The Observer

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

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Rosemary Hoyle @hoylerosemary.bsky.social · 1d

There is also #UkEdGovs for govermor chatting but this tends to be mainly me! There aren't many governors on here but sometimes chats spring up

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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 1d

NEW POST

On questioning, respect, and hearing the voice of every child.

Link in reply, please share if you can! 🙏🙏

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Every student, every lesson

When we allow the loudest voices to dominate classroom conversation, we neglect to show respect and dignity to all our students, forgetting that every voice needs to be heard.

open.substack.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the special needs problem highlighted by the budget and the big political battle over it coming next year.

share.google/kTTENR1gX4Y4...

Labour’s holiday homework: solve the problem of special needs education | The Observer

Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 2d

Don't know, sorry

Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 2d

The brilliant Shelagh Legrave wins the Puttnam Award for lifetime service to education @TeachingAwards Richly deserved 👏 #EduSky

Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 2d

Lucy Harrison, winning Headteacher of the Year in a Secondary School, speaks of the importance of her early decision to ban mobile phones for her school Archer Academy @TeachingAwards

Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 2d

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social talking about the difference teachers made to her life - including Mr Hurst, who told her he expected her to go to uni, and inspired her to go. Teachers are amazing 👏 @TeachingAwards

Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely brilliant to be here at the @TeachingAwards to celebrate the Gold winners. It's always such an inspirational celebration of the profession, as well as the individual winners 👏

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Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 2d

I think (I might be wrong) that Bluesky is more diffuse..discussions are less in-your-face and it doesn't feed or reward rage threads in quite the same way as Twitter. I do agree that there are less education discussions and I think this may be the low point of a wheel which will turn.

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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of people also don't do much. They lurk. That's their choice of course, but most people feed off of engagement. If you write a blog or post and get no engagement at all, then you are not incentivised to write another!

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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 2d

Most people have just left social media for work purposes

There are lots of variables

I find there are still a lot of people on Twitter, but engagement is hard work across platforms

Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 2d

Fair. And definitely a reason people quietened on Twitter. But Bluesky does feel a more - convivial? - space #EduSky

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.

'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.

'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

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James Handscombe @jameshandscombe.bsky.social · 2d

She says that everyone has left social media generally because it sucks: why share your views with a world that will troll you unpleasantly when you can chat with friends on what’s app or in the pub?

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 3d

I get great recommendations and answers to specific questions. I think @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and others are right to suggest there isn't as much broader education discussion.
With changes to come after the curriculum review, it could be good to try to build some.

Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · 3d

No - Does it relate?

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 3d

I think the problem is lack of algorithim, so people just don't see posts. My interaction has improved since I started using the button on a persons profile, that allows you to set up notifications from a person. Your notifications become your curated feed

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 3d

I think there was frustration at the lack of engagement. Why on earth would people stay if nobody is interesting in talking?

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Simona McKenzie @signoramac.bsky.social · 3d

Very little take on here and, even worse, almost silence on #EarlyYears apart from the odd post. There used to be EYMatters on the other side but all discussions here are about education in general and little about early education and care.

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RR @rlrossi64.bsky.social · 3d

I’m having some great conversations on here, but I think it’s harder to find them.

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Jon Hutchinson @jonhutchinson.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a shame because in many ways it feels like we are at a similar inflection point to 2014/15. The purpose of education and how we meet the moment seems quite up for grabs for me. Ten years ago we had new voices driving that conversation. I’m not sure who those people are now.

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Beth G-G @bethgg.bsky.social · 3d

You can pin the #EduSky feed to see everything with the hashtag (click on the top right # if you're in the BSky app and search/pin/reorder feeds)