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Sammy Wright
@sammywright.bsky.social
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Teacher, writer, school leader, lives and works in North East: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163/exam-nation-by-wright-sammy/9781847927521 #edusky #Teaching #UKEd http://substack.com/@sammywright
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 15d
Because society works better when people find fulfilment in life even when their jobs are meaningless and mundane.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 16d
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Education and money
I’ve read a few things lately about the connection between educational levels and income, and they made me think of the argument I made about in Exam Nation.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Aug 14
Apparently they’re ‘flying’!
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Aug 14
Woo-hoo! Paperback in shops, and on offer at Waterstones!
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 20d
Why SEN is complicated… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · 23d
Something new…
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A New Thing
I’m not at school. It’s exciting. I’m at my desk, with a clean notebook, a list of jobs, and a three year timeline in front of me.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Aug 25
Best book ever
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Aug 14
Apparently they’re ‘flying’!
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Aug 14
Woo-hoo! Paperback in shops, and on offer at Waterstones!
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Aug 14
Woo-hoo! Paperback in shops, and on offer at Waterstones!
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Aug 7
Out today in paperback!

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Three weeks to go…
The paperback of Exam Nation is out on 7th August, so I thought I’d do a little series of short extracts, starting with the very beginning.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Aug 7
Out today - please buy/share/review, and above all read. I’m so proud of this book and the impact it’s had - and still a bit surprised at the places it’s taken me too over the last year.

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Exam Nation
School should equip children for adulthood. In reality, it means one thing: exams. Exam Nation sets out a better way – and, crucially, shows us how we might get there. Educationalist and Head of Scho...
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jul 20
Going on holiday tomorrow. By the time I’m back, this will be out in paperback! Reviewed in every single broadsheet, the mail, new statesman when it was published last year - “brilliant”, “entertaining”, “insightful”, “essential” - please pre-order!

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Exam Nation
School should equip children for adulthood. In reality, it means one thing: exams. Exam Nation sets out a better way – and, crucially, shows us how we might get there. Educationalist and Head of Scho...
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jul 19
Clark’s hands are together in his lap. “Me brother was born when I was 10. But he lived with me mam years before that.” He looks up. His eyes are wide, and he has that faint smile still. “Actually, I thought them having a child it might change, but it didn’t.”

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Why attendance and anxiety are complicated
This is a conversation I had three years ago with 16 year old Clark from Warrington. I don't post it to draw a particular conclusion. I just find it desperately sad.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jul 19
First look at the paperback - and I’m just blown away by seeing al the amazing quotes on the cover
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jul 17
It could follow the pattern of Just William - lots of iterations vainly clutching for relevance in a changing world. Ending with ‘Gatsby and the Rock Band’ - in which our hero seeks to recapture the elusive freedom of the summer of love, only to realise, yet again, that you can’t repeat the past.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jul 17
Paperback soon out… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...
Benny
As we go into the summer holidays, here's an interview with a parent from Exam Nation. Home is pretty hard, sometimes.
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Crown House Publishing @crownhousepub.bsky.social · Jul 7
Thank you to @sammywright.bsky.social for this brilliant review of @johntomsett.bsky.social’s new book! 🌟

Learn all about the attributes and behaviours that make an outstanding teacher in This Much I Know About Truly Great Secondary Teachers. Out now! 📘: buff.ly/Vkizg1O
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jun 28
#FridayFive
1. Atmosphere - Joy Division
2. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
3. Call me Al - Paul Simon
4. Praise me - Fatboy Slim
5. All the Single Ladies - Beyoncé
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jun 28
Or move to Newcastle.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jun 28
I agree with your opinion of the speech, and the policies, and American history. But I’m glad he said publicly the speech was wrong. It is a good thing to acknowledge a mistake. There’s plenty other stuff he’s doing I could criticise. But that apology, in and of itself, was good.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jun 28
Apologise
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jun 28
Would you rather he didn’t? I don’t quite get that.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jun 27
I’m just glad he has said it. It pisses me off more when people don’t acknowledge their mistakes.
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jun 27
Good. I’m glad to see this.
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Keir Starmer says he ‘deeply regrets’ island of strangers speech
Immigration speech was criticised for echoing Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ rhetoric
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Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social · Jun 22
As with so much, it’s all in the detail, and the way things are operationalised. ‘Basing schooling on individualism’ is not inevitably what an attention to neurodiversity necessarily means. It might go that far, but it doesn’t need to.