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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦

@ecarda1.bsky.social

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Enthusiastic about educating but suspicious about schooling. Interested and experienced in school and system governance. Career spent investigating how mathematics teaching can best effect mathematics learning.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 12h

Reminds me of the reflective prayer my Michel Quoist
Some time in the 1950s I think.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 13h

Time back NCC designed a curriculum checking in with subject associations. It was about selecting what was beneficial to learning the subject. After which SEAC designed instruments to assess a sample of the intended curriculum. A separation of powers to ensure curriculum not reduced the testable.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 26d

Big listen merits a report on loudest heard.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 8

The alleviation of poverty is a driver of growth not a consequence.
The current economic model needs turning inside out.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 7

🙂

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 6

Because they are not part of the cancel culture.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 6

I agree

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 6

Quote from conference:
"[You’re] not allowed to question what’s going on…You’re just told to think a certain way.”

Is Reform suggesting that compliance and control is killing off curiosity and questioning?

A curriculum based on questioning rather than being told is quite radical. Tell us more...

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 2

atm.org.uk/write/MediaU...

I've found the second recent article which draws on the work of the first.

I hope you find them of some interest.

atm.org.uk

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Here's a link to the original written in 1990 & shared in 1991. A bit dated! But I kept a diary when I was an adviser & used this to reflect my observations and constructions back to those schools I had the privelege of serving.
The later version tomorrow.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 2

I started my training as a teacher 60 years ago this month. Piaget featured prominently in our "psychology of education" strand.
Looking at some of my writing of 1990, more recently republished, shows how much Piaget's theory continues to influence my thinking.

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Sep 1

I think some of the behaviour publicised in the media over the summer holiday period shows breaking rules of conduct is applauded and actively encouraged by some of those with influence and power.
It must present real challenges to schools now that they have reopened.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 29

A bit spoilt for choice on which Orwell quote to use here, but this came to me first..

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 27

An assessment system that cannot give information about what a learner knows and can do is unfit for purpose.
We are in a world of schooling which purports to measure and define performance rather than a world of education which seeks to recognise and describe achievement.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm being asked to verify my age before I can access my bluesky account. Is this normal or is it a scam?

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 25

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ironic that St George and the flag is shared with Palestine.

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Sarah Watkins @minilebowski.bsky.social · Aug 19

Brilliant! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’

Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detained

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yes!
In 1823 Joseph Jacotot wrote in Enseignement Universel that "to teach is to cause to learn".
The simplicity of his statement belies the profundity of its meaning.
Pedagogy is the teacher's response to all that we know about the complexities and idiosyncrasies of learning.

Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 15

And behind Vivergo in Saltend Hull is a large farmer supply chain. This is a disaster: a dereliction of responsibility to look after the interests of working people and, as ever, sacrificing the North. And all to clinch a deal with POTUS. Haven't heard much from local MPs and new Mayor.
#Hull

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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · Aug 12

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sponsored/vi...

Now then, @uklabour.bsky.social tell me how your trade deal with POTUS is putting the interests of working people on the Humber Estuary first?
From where I am, you have sold us down the river.
#Hull