Caroline @Ka81
@ka81.bsky.social
Data Scientist, Award Winning Teacher, Maker, PhD Researcher 📚 #Tes #Edtech50 #Bima100 #Judge #Crafting edu/tech narrative.
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Since you all love #Oddsock. He has a statement.
"My human is at risk in UK only because she's autistic. Here we lock up autistic kids & adults for decades for no reason - 2500 of them right now & we do nothing about it. No dog should lose their humans this way. This is what should be trending"
"My human is at risk in UK only because she's autistic. Here we lock up autistic kids & adults for decades for no reason - 2500 of them right now & we do nothing about it. No dog should lose their humans this way. This is what should be trending"
Shoutout to everyone binge watching season 4 of #StrangerThings to recap 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Shoutout to everyone binge watching season 4 of #StrangerThings to recap 🤣
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Plans to fund SEND from central government budgets will mean a £6billion a year shortfall with no savings yet found, the spending watchdog has warned. The OBR says only using the core schools budget may see mainstream school funding fall by 1.7% per pupil schoolsweek.co.uk/government...
Government faces £6bn SEND shortfall once override ends
Spending watchdog warns 'no savings have been identified' to offset pressure on government coffers
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Plans to fund SEND from central government budgets will mean a £6billion a year shortfall with no savings yet found, the spending watchdog has warned. The OBR says only using the core schools budget may see mainstream school funding fall by 1.7% per pupil schoolsweek.co.uk/government...
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Is it still a thing for anyone to plan on their own? Most schools now using a lot of schemes like White Rose and Kapow. A lot of teachers I know don’t do any actual planning from scratch except for English maybe.
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Is it still a thing for anyone to plan on their own? Most schools now using a lot of schemes like White Rose and Kapow. A lot of teachers I know don’t do any actual planning from scratch except for English maybe.
If your a #ECT struggling remember you don't need plan everything yourself. Why we share, ask online, ask colleagues, set up drives between ECTs, go to OakNational or Tes for resources, go ask on edutwitter groups.
Your not on your own. Ask for help!
Your not on your own. Ask for help!
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If your a #ECT struggling remember you don't need plan everything yourself. Why we share, ask online, ask colleagues, set up drives between ECTs, go to OakNational or Tes for resources, go ask on edutwitter groups.
Your not on your own. Ask for help!
Your not on your own. Ask for help!
Budget...
The scope of the solutions has to match the scope of the problems. This isn’t enough to match anything.
The scope of the solutions has to match the scope of the problems. This isn’t enough to match anything.
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Budget...
The scope of the solutions has to match the scope of the problems. This isn’t enough to match anything.
The scope of the solutions has to match the scope of the problems. This isn’t enough to match anything.
When your orthotics insoles have subluxated your hip #EDS
FFS. Walking now bloody problematic again. Got a rollator for this so will be rolling or using a cane again for a while till we work it back in place ....again. 🙄
FFS. Walking now bloody problematic again. Got a rollator for this so will be rolling or using a cane again for a while till we work it back in place ....again. 🙄
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
When your orthotics insoles have subluxated your hip #EDS
FFS. Walking now bloody problematic again. Got a rollator for this so will be rolling or using a cane again for a while till we work it back in place ....again. 🙄
FFS. Walking now bloody problematic again. Got a rollator for this so will be rolling or using a cane again for a while till we work it back in place ....again. 🙄
This is probably the best reporting of the SEND crisis I've read in a long time thank you @mmulholland.bsky.social 👏👏👏
EHCPs have been blamed for driving an unsustainable rise in SEND. But would limiting these actually fix the problem, asks @mmulholland.bsky.social
Are EHCPs really driving the SEND crisis?
Education, health and care plans have been blamed for an unsustainable rise in special educational needs in schools, but would scrapping or limiting these plans fix the problem?
www.tes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is probably the best reporting of the SEND crisis I've read in a long time thank you @mmulholland.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Yep I have this too. One big daily board, a monthly one and each child has a mini board under the monthly one. Its a clipboard so anything relevant can be put on. Plus one in kitchen for meals. And a mini DO THIS TODAY one where I cant not see it. Then I have my inhalers at bottom of stairs so I
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yep I have this too. One big daily board, a monthly one and each child has a mini board under the monthly one. Its a clipboard so anything relevant can be put on. Plus one in kitchen for meals. And a mini DO THIS TODAY one where I cant not see it. Then I have my inhalers at bottom of stairs so I
Can't describe how much happier I feel now the command center has gone back up in the new house. My brain has not been working for months. If you have a ADHD Autistic person in your life. Have a command center. ♥️♥️
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Can't describe how much happier I feel now the command center has gone back up in the new house. My brain has not been working for months. If you have a ADHD Autistic person in your life. Have a command center. ♥️♥️
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Join me & David Gray-Hammond in our new community NeuroHub.
Access to exclusive webinars, resources, space to connect with others & more!
https://autisticrealms.com/join-neurohub-community-space/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
Access to exclusive webinars, resources, space to connect with others & more!
https://autisticrealms.com/join-neurohub-community-space/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Join me & David Gray-Hammond in our new community NeuroHub.
Access to exclusive webinars, resources, space to connect with others & more!
https://autisticrealms.com/join-neurohub-community-space/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
Access to exclusive webinars, resources, space to connect with others & more!
https://autisticrealms.com/join-neurohub-community-space/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
Oh I just got given this....
My family is epic ♥️♥️
My family is epic ♥️♥️
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Oh I just got given this....
My family is epic ♥️♥️
My family is epic ♥️♥️
Long post today ⬇️ I'm an autistic educator and after years in schools, these are the five things I know from my own lived experience .... #AutisticTeacher
www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-p...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-p...
Five Points About Autism in Education -
An autistic educators view on what we're getting wrong and why the debate isn't helping. So what do I know about autism in education? It's a depressing question.
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Long post today ⬇️ I'm an autistic educator and after years in schools, these are the five things I know from my own lived experience .... #AutisticTeacher
www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-p...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-p...
This is so true. Having set the first one up in a school in the UK and being part of the maker community for decades now. Makerspaces help alot just being around others doing a project. Bliss.
This is why I keep returning to the makerspace. Losing myself in the creative flow is therapy for my weary mind. The socially prescribed method of talking to a kind stranger 1 hour a week does *nothing*. Its sole benefit is placating medical doctors ignorant of autistic adult lives and needs.
Blog inspired by Betsy Selvam: “Art opens up space for healing and a way of reclaiming your own narrative".
https://autisticrealms.com/the-power-of-monotropic-flow-reclaiming-ourselves-through-creative-practice/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
https://autisticrealms.com/the-power-of-monotropic-flow-reclaiming-ourselves-through-creative-practice/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is so true. Having set the first one up in a school in the UK and being part of the maker community for decades now. Makerspaces help alot just being around others doing a project. Bliss.
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New article alert in Cambridge Journal of Education: ‘The power of the norm: How schools interpret, use and disclose data’ w Gavin Duffy and @chriszomer
50 free copies here >>>
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4K3ZN...
50 free copies here >>>
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4K3ZN...
The power of the norm: how schools interpret, use and disclose education data
While education data is frequently collected and used in schools, critical edtech research has revealed a range of issues and harms for individuals and institutions. In this article, the authors in...
www.tandfonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
New article alert in Cambridge Journal of Education: ‘The power of the norm: How schools interpret, use and disclose data’ w Gavin Duffy and @chriszomer
50 free copies here >>>
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4K3ZN...
50 free copies here >>>
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4K3ZN...
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A 6% levy on international student fees was proposed in the Immigration White Paper. The impact is about £600 million, though very unevenly spread across institutions.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A 6% levy on international student fees was proposed in the Immigration White Paper. The impact is about £600 million, though very unevenly spread across institutions.
When you have no idea how universities have been keeping thr lights on... this is remarkably stupid.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When you have no idea how universities have been keeping thr lights on... this is remarkably stupid.
Back to writing again next week having took last week to teach (which was glorious !)
But reserach papers need prep and a viva and probably a book. Means between that and meeting stuff....
But reserach papers need prep and a viva and probably a book. Means between that and meeting stuff....
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Back to writing again next week having took last week to teach (which was glorious !)
But reserach papers need prep and a viva and probably a book. Means between that and meeting stuff....
But reserach papers need prep and a viva and probably a book. Means between that and meeting stuff....
Classic poor instructions.
NT Mentor: first do it, then do it right, then do it better.
My ADHD brain:
which one of the five hundreds super important things living rent-free, right here, right now, do I “do it”?!
My ADHD brain:
which one of the five hundreds super important things living rent-free, right here, right now, do I “do it”?!
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Classic poor instructions.
Reminding everyone that reasonable adjustments are a legal right under the Equality Act (and Autism Act) regardless of where you work.
Accodomations aren't just nice to have or stop when it's inconvenient to a NT way of doing things, as we can't just stop being disabled...surprisingly.
Accodomations aren't just nice to have or stop when it's inconvenient to a NT way of doing things, as we can't just stop being disabled...surprisingly.
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reminding everyone that reasonable adjustments are a legal right under the Equality Act (and Autism Act) regardless of where you work.
Accodomations aren't just nice to have or stop when it's inconvenient to a NT way of doing things, as we can't just stop being disabled...surprisingly.
Accodomations aren't just nice to have or stop when it's inconvenient to a NT way of doing things, as we can't just stop being disabled...surprisingly.
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Being observed while I was training was terrifying and then being told that I needed to do something differently or “better” without usable feedback on how to improve was often overwhelming. You feel bad that you’re not doing it “right” and then worse because you don’t know how to improve.
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Being observed while I was training was terrifying and then being told that I needed to do something differently or “better” without usable feedback on how to improve was often overwhelming. You feel bad that you’re not doing it “right” and then worse because you don’t know how to improve.
Hows this work for disabled and neurodivergent teachers?
Backwards this is. Thread 🧵
I have had several inspections over my career and each one was terrifying. I wasn't publicly autistic back then, most teachers aren't.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Backwards this is. Thread 🧵
I have had several inspections over my career and each one was terrifying. I wasn't publicly autistic back then, most teachers aren't.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Ofsted judging teachers? Here we go again...
The news that Ofsted is proposing inspecting teaching as a standalone category is unwelcome in the sector, and for very good reason, argues Zoe Enser
www.tes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Hows this work for disabled and neurodivergent teachers?
Backwards this is. Thread 🧵
I have had several inspections over my career and each one was terrifying. I wasn't publicly autistic back then, most teachers aren't.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Backwards this is. Thread 🧵
I have had several inspections over my career and each one was terrifying. I wasn't publicly autistic back then, most teachers aren't.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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Monday the 24th November is our next open evening at #HitchinHackpace. Why not come along and see what the hackspace is all about? From 19:30. Free tea or coffee and biccies 🫖☕🍪🙂
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Monday the 24th November is our next open evening at #HitchinHackpace. Why not come along and see what the hackspace is all about? From 19:30. Free tea or coffee and biccies 🫖☕🍪🙂
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock
Anyone else autistic have that thing where people in real life really think they REALLY know you? ⬇️ Thread 🧵 I have really 3 settings
1. I like you and you know as I've told you and I really like you. This doesn't change over time or distance at all.
1. I like you and you know as I've told you and I really like you. This doesn't change over time or distance at all.
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Anyone else autistic have that thing where people in real life really think they REALLY know you? ⬇️ Thread 🧵 I have really 3 settings
1. I like you and you know as I've told you and I really like you. This doesn't change over time or distance at all.
1. I like you and you know as I've told you and I really like you. This doesn't change over time or distance at all.
I'm just going to point out again what I keep pointing out with AI.
From a Equality Act perspective in education your on really shaky ground. Disability and Neurodivergency is rarely even considered, bias is bad & people will start to take legal action
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
From a Equality Act perspective in education your on really shaky ground. Disability and Neurodivergency is rarely even considered, bias is bad & people will start to take legal action
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Prevalence of bias against neurodivergence-related terms in artificial intelligence language models
Given the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in many decision-making processes, we investigate the presence of AI bias towards terms related to a range of neurodivergent conditions, including autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, and ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I'm just going to point out again what I keep pointing out with AI.
From a Equality Act perspective in education your on really shaky ground. Disability and Neurodivergency is rarely even considered, bias is bad & people will start to take legal action
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
From a Equality Act perspective in education your on really shaky ground. Disability and Neurodivergency is rarely even considered, bias is bad & people will start to take legal action
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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AI in education is obviously not just a technology but something that different groups interpret and construct in various ways. I thought I'd have a go at characterizing them:
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
AI in education is obviously not just a technology but something that different groups interpret and construct in various ways. I thought I'd have a go at characterizing them: