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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 1d

Even though attendance is high in many of our schools, we're having a real focus on this. APs have provided key learning where often pupils have been out for significant time, but also come from different curriculum pathways

Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

With schools facing problems with persistent absence, @greeborunner.bsky.social shares advice on making sure that gaps in attendance don’t translate into gaps in learning

How to ‘absence-proof’ your curriculum

As schools across the country struggle to tackle persistent absence, Zoe Enser offers advice on how to make sure any gaps in attendance don’t translate to gaps in learning

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 23h

Supporting pupils when they come back to make the experience better for them is precisely what is happening here. Large numbers of pupils do in fact find school a place they enjoy coming to. I think adults often fall into projection traps which can influence how children feel though.

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 1d

A piece from @ensermark.bsky.social and myself in Teach Secondary

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Teach Secondary Issue 14.7

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 23h

I often have visited schools where leaders express surprise when we don't see something they believe is systemic. They ask staff later who say they always do x. Closer tracking and awareness can be surprising. I always think of the observations looking at who answers questions. Fascinating stuff

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 23h

Two-thirds of teachers fear the government’s SEND reforms will result in more pupils being taught in mainstream classrooms without adequate support, a new poll shows

Teachers fear SEND reforms will worsen crisis

Most teachers expect the government’s upcoming changes will have a negative impact on pupils with complex needs, YouGov survey finds

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 1d

A piece from @ensermark.bsky.social and myself in Teach Secondary

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Teach Secondary Issue 14.7

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

With schools facing problems with persistent absence, @greeborunner.bsky.social shares advice on making sure that gaps in attendance don’t translate into gaps in learning

How to ‘absence-proof’ your curriculum

As schools across the country struggle to tackle persistent absence, Zoe Enser offers advice on how to make sure any gaps in attendance don’t translate to gaps in learning

www.tes.com

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Crown House Publishing @crownhousepub.bsky.social · 1d

Dispelling myths, highlighting best practices, and prompting readers to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Mark and Zoe Enser introduce their new book in their recent article for @tesmagazine.bsky.social: buff.ly/VNN3kf4

@ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 1d

Even though attendance is high in many of our schools, we're having a real focus on this. APs have provided key learning where often pupils have been out for significant time, but also come from different curriculum pathways

Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

With schools facing problems with persistent absence, @greeborunner.bsky.social shares advice on making sure that gaps in attendance don’t translate into gaps in learning

How to ‘absence-proof’ your curriculum

As schools across the country struggle to tackle persistent absence, Zoe Enser offers advice on how to make sure any gaps in attendance don’t translate to gaps in learning

www.tes.com

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Daniel Bundred 🦡 @danielbundred.bsky.social · 3d

In our English curriculum, other than the bedrock of teaching only Literature which is important and we believe will endure, we have two requirements for the texts we choose and the questions we ask. We must empower our students as Londoners, and require them to engage with ethical complexity.

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 3d

Not easy, but tenacity will win 🙂

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 3d

We all benefit from challenge. I like the collaborative approach to building the curriculum you used

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Richard Southward @gwhitebread.bsky.social · 3d

We built a really strong consensus by employing a really broad ranging research team when we built our approach to curriculum. No Leaders just ‘boots on the ground’ teachers. Loads of reading to make it bullet proof. We had to switch the ‘lower prior attainers get easy stuff’ mindset from some.

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 3d

I think the buy-in via consultancy will be key. Then lots and lots of overcommunication to keep the focus. Let me know how it goes 🙂

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Red @sesquip.bsky.social · 3d

Consulting on and clarifying our values, then ensuring our curriculum meets them (while providing aspirational & engaging learning)… Lots of overmessaging.

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. It can be hard to reach an agreement around what that is. How did you navigate that?

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Richard Southward @gwhitebread.bsky.social · 3d

Hi Zoe, for me/us it is entitlement, everyone deserves to have access to the best we have to offer. I think most staff would say something close to that but it’s been a hard won change.

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 3d

I'd be interested to year thoughts on this one.
It's something I pose around PP, behaviour and attendance especially. Do people have the same shared understanding?

Crown House Publishing @crownhousepub.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s another thought-provoking question from #HowDoTheyDoIt? by Mark and Zoe Enser – perfect to use in #CPD & to reflect on your own practice now that the new school year is underway!

Copies available from our website at: buff.ly/TEn9ZXR

@ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 3d

What steps do you think you will take towards this?

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 3d

I'd be interested to year thoughts on this one.
It's something I pose around PP, behaviour and attendance especially. Do people have the same shared understanding?

Crown House Publishing @crownhousepub.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s another thought-provoking question from #HowDoTheyDoIt? by Mark and Zoe Enser – perfect to use in #CPD & to reflect on your own practice now that the new school year is underway!

Copies available from our website at: buff.ly/TEn9ZXR

@ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social

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Crown House Publishing @crownhousepub.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s another thought-provoking question from #HowDoTheyDoIt? by Mark and Zoe Enser – perfect to use in #CPD & to reflect on your own practice now that the new school year is underway!

Copies available from our website at: buff.ly/TEn9ZXR

@ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 4d

Singing in the Wire.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead. Five minutes to say something you've always regretted not saying.
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Singing in the Wire

A Willerby Story

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 4d

They have, indeed. Currently now sat on on the sofa with one on my lap, one on Mark's and Badger on here too.

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Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social · 4d

Happy kittens

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 4d

Tbh, the whole anti-migrant rhetoric is already making my friends on ILR look at moving.

Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.

James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 4d

The 10 year wait for Indefinite Leave to Remain will make the UK very unattractive for high skilled workers who often have alternatives. 2019 data (excluding the NHS and universities) shows that high skilled workers on visas are heavily concentrated in multinationals who can move jobs abroad (5/x)

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