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Jim Lauder
@mrjlauder.bsky.social
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Dixons Academies. Schools as civic institutions - ensuring our communities have a voice and power. Building place based partnerships. Views my own. At weekends I post about cooking.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 18h
As you say, I hope they reflected.

I wonder if it would make a difference if venues advertised as ND/LD friendly or similar.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 18h
Sorry that happened Ben. I think it matters if she was a member of the public or acting in some sort of official capacity, as each throws up slightly different issues. But respect if you don't want to be that specific.
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 1d
NEW POST: A new report shows teachers fear education policy reforms will make things worse, not better, for children with SEND. @catrionamoore.bsky.social has explored the new survey from Bett www.specialneedsjungle.com/t...
image shows children gathered around colourised in pink and shots of two graphs from the post (alt for the graphs is in the article)
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 1d
Mississippi basically followed the same route as England - phonics, training, accountability, plus held back kids who needed extra support.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 1d
The coverage and debate over the Mississippi reading miracle is essential reading. This one is paywalled but it links to other articles that aren't.

www.theargumentmag.com/p/is-mississ...
Is Mississippi cooking the books?
No. The skeptics are wrong. The Southern Surge is real.
www.theargumentmag.com
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 1d
My great hope is it eventually ushers in an era of joined up data in the public sector. So much time and money is wasted at present. But that seems far off, except for a few pockets.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 1d
Milestone contribution to the discourse right here. Can see this sticking.
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madison! @madepn.bsky.social · 1d
here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 1d
A lot more 'see it, say it, sorted' announcements on the trains this week. Grim.
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JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · 2d
Last month, the government published a new Pride in Place Strategy. I was really struck by the graph below.

There is a very clear and worrying link between incomes and social trust in an area.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Trust declines as income declines
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 3d
Institutionalising segregation is unlikely to produce better outcomes no matter how good the guidance is.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 3d
Here's my best practice guidance:

- are minoritised groups overrepresented?
- are kids shunted in to avoid accountability?
- is the curriculum the same?
- are leaders held to account for high expectations?
- is it staffed by the best trained and paid person?

schoolsweek.co.uk/best-practic...
SEND: Guidance on mainstream school units to be published
The government will publish 'best practice' guidance for mainstream schools to open and run SEN units, resourced provision and pupil support units in February.
schoolsweek.co.uk
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New To SLT Chat @newtosltchat.bsky.social · 3d
Welcome to #NewToSLTChat!
Thank you to Twinkl Trainee Teachers and ECTs for the questions tonight.

All welcome to join ⬇️
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 3d
Some lovely Yorkshire for the Sunday timeline
Looking towards Ilkley moor
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New To SLT Chat @newtosltchat.bsky.social · 4d
Tonight we’ll be discussing trainee teachers and ECTs, why they are valuable assets to your school and how to support them.

Join us at 8pm - all welcome!

Thank you to Twinkl Trainee Teachers and ECTs for the questions .
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 4d
I need to read that. Sounds like serious stuff.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 4d
On the traditionalist side, Marijn van Putten has pretty firmly located the Qur'an in the Hijaz, and Nicolai Sinai has some creative but probably not yet convincing responses to some awkward points raised by Shoemaker and others.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 4d
I don't think he's right, and I think he makes big claims he can't back up, but his book's an easy read 😂.

Yes Crone's opus was Meccan Trade in the 80s but she had some more recent stuff too.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 4d
Stephen Shoemaker's book from a couple of years ago is free to download and is the most recent attempt I'm aware of at establishing an expansive revisionist paradigm... And whilst being fun to read, spectacularly fails IMO.

Most of Patricia Crone's later work stands up well, if not her conclusions.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 4d
Yeah, what you have here is roughly the current scholarly consensus. The revisionists have tried to go much further and it's not been convincing.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 4d
Yes, 100%. The traditional narrative is holding up pretty well. And since Crone died, the intellectual firepower is a bit... No polite way of saying this, lacking.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 4d
I think the extant early Qur'ans make it a tough sell but there's a comparative furrow here they should probably plough (and to my knowledge, haven't)
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 4d
Really interesting precedent here for western revisionist scholars of early Islam, who (more or less) argue this for the first ~100 years of Islam but have completely failed to make that paradigm stick (a few good points they've made notwithstanding).
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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 5d
One important thing about Bluesky is that there is no link suppression so your posts with links are treated exactly the same as your posts without links.

This makes it a great place to share blogs etc. I usually catch up on Saturday so plan to share my #Saturday3 favourite blogs / articles. #EduSky
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 5d
This was my issue with Wagner. The prologue was two hours long.
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Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 5d
That's an opera I can get behind.

I tried regular opera once. It was so boring. Turns out not a lot happens in Das Rheingold.
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