ICYMI - A blog from the EMC Archives

'Teaching Writing: Putting Intentions Before Technique', in which EMC's Barbara Bleiman argues that a focus on meaning and intentions should come before a focus on form when teaching writing.

Read here: buff.ly/XbcgRCQ

‘Outcomes for students graduating with English degrees are not significantly different in the longer term than for those graduating with STEM degrees. Studying English provides training in skills and knowledge which will hold their value in years to come.’ #EnglishCreates 4/4

Sylvia Young, RIP
A dream school timetable: Monday- Wed: 📚📖👨‍🏫
Thursday & Friday: 🎭🕺🏻🩰🎤🎼

Led by a woman who taught all her students the importance of hard work
and learning their lines.
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If you've never read Persepolis here's your reminder to read Persepolis

"jealous/ grapes"

The green - with- envy ones; furious red ones? I'll keep this image, Barbara, when I'm on the fruit & veg aisle

UK Cabinet Office AI event: we've just been shown typical planning docs from the Housing dept. Narrative seemed to be these docs are cumbersome, problematic. For me, they're nostalgia, story, ideas: the feel, the font, the layout. Like Lloyd George medical reports and library cataloguing cards...

The concerns in @domwyse.bsky.social's blog chime with those we raised after the publication of the interim report into the curriculum review. Links to both here
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/evoluti...

englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...

Over ONE THOUSAND of us are live streaming the @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social Zoom on AI for gov comms. As a writer, comms person and English tutor, I'm here for it along with plenty of earl grey, cake, paper notebooks and pens. 🫖🍰✍️

LOVING this & the disco we're having in the kitchen. 🪩

GCSE prep:

Ten days to go before GCSE English Lit paper 1 and suddenly…there is much note - taking, focus, questions & thinking. It’s a joyful time to teach.

I love the raised beds…with added names. A nice touch! 👏

“Crap!”
When you win a mini free -write exercise ( inspo: 5 little items in 3 mins)…
My students love this sort of stuff but I definitely love it more and this is exactly what I’ll be doing with them for GCSE English prep this week.

Dr Amy Miller, curator @burghhouse1704.bsky.social Hampstead, is doing some interesting work on illustrators. Currently: Helen Oxenbury: Illustrating the Land of Childhood & May 21st, Kate Greenaway & Helen Allingham #booksky #illustratorsky #reading #family #childhood #whatsonlondon

1/3: This looked promising - a clay pipe with a fair bit of stem intact. Follow the thread to see the video as I pick it up and see what more there is to it...

Three weeks' today, I’ll be heading off on tour with the brilliant Henry Normal, armed with a bunch of new poems, plus some old ones, too.

If you’re nearby and fancy coming along, you can get tickets here:
brianbilston.com/events/

Parents and educators - there are a lot of discussions in publishing about how to improve reading for pleasure. Is there anything you wish publishing would do more of? Or just understand about kids and reading? Any insights from teaching/parenting of what gets kids reading? #KidLitUK #Edusky #KidLit

A drum, a drum.
Macbeth doth come.

What is micro poetry? Let our Professor of Poetry John McAuliffe explain all as today marks the launch of our 2025 micro poetry competition.

@uniofmanchester.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social

#poet #poetry

www.youtube.com/shorts/Gr0U5...

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

Just to say that like every year it's so nice to see your kids dressing up as Learning Languages in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2019) for World Book Day. Keep the pics coming!

"This isn't something that's just nice or lovely. It's something fundamental to becoming a human being."

Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social shares why reading is a right for every child. #ReadingRights

“Reliance on Instagram influencers can only get you so far. We still need Our Mutual Friend.“
The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis

There’s nothing like Haiku bingo on the theme of Fish & Chips with @lauriebolger.bsky.social 🐠🍟✍️ open.spotify.com/episode/5cTo...