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Madeleine F-B

@mxfb.bsky.social

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Secondary Vice Principal T&L in London; teacher of English; TF 2011; MTPT trustee; mum of 2; GSOH 🍎🎓 #UKTeaching

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 3d

What are your concerns?

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 3d

(We’ve also gone totally phone / device free in the school day, which might explain the new need/enthusiasm for reading the time the old fashioned way)

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 3d

Turns out one of the girls actually wears an analog watch. She never knew how to read it until now and now she proudly tells me she can!

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 3d

I’m going on record to call that a radical, pro-democracy action. Any educative act that supplants device-driven attention/reliance with an individual’s skills is democratizing and anti-technocratic. Boss moves, babe. Boss moves.

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 6d

Hi Bluesky, reach out to your Jewish colleagues today please. 🙏🏼
#UKEd #UKTeaching

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 8d

I started re watching Orphan Black on Netflix- that show is so darn good! Any other fans out there?
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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 8d

This is a shocking bit of civil rights history I had never heard of before.
Closing the pools…

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

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Public pools used to be everywhere in America. Then racism shut them down.

In her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” Heather McGhee looks at how racism drained not only public pools, but also public support for universal he...

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Jed @jedediyah.com · 9d

In #MathsToday we introduced spreadsheets. Students who have never written a spreadsheet formula are always shocked to discover how powerful basic spreadsheets are...

"Are you kidding me that's like actually low key sick"

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Spreadsheet Formula Practice

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 9d

📌 to read list

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 9d

I taught two year 11s how to read an analog clock today! ⏰ 🍎🎓

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 9d

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 9d

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Interesting provocation on QLA here from Becky Allen: QLA is a bad way of telling what children know, especially individual children
#Assessment #UKEd
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What do teachers actually need to know about assessment? With Becky Allen

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 9d

open.spotify.com/episode/3Nzb...

Interesting provocation on QLA here from Becky Allen: QLA is a bad way of telling what children know, especially individual children
#Assessment #UKEd
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What do teachers actually need to know about assessment? With Becky Allen

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 10d

“Assessment is a learning process, not an event”

@profbeckyallen.bsky.social
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social
@amymayforrester.bsky.social

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What do teachers actually need to know about assessment? With Becky Allen

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 10d

Target grades are one of my least favourite data points

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Target Grades - Useful or Unhelpful?

A motivating way to use predictions

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 19d

No pain, and also a completely different game…

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 19d

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‎Gemini - Write me the rules for the game pain ou chocolat

Created with Gemini

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 21d

Another cracking episode from
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social and @amymayforrester.bsky.social with Carl Hendrick.

I think this one may have to go in the staff bulletin.

Also good to hear how Adam has reformed his social media persona!

#UKEd
#UKTeaching

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What three things from cognitive science should every teacher know? With Dr Carl Hendrick

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 21d

“A Helping Hand” by L, age 8 (title by her mother)

Colourful Child’s drawing of lots of hands overlapping with different colours at every point of overlap

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 21d

“Ribbons” by L, age 8.

Children’s picture of Lots of swirly squiggly shapes in different colours on a yellow background

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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social · 21d

6/ Real change takes years.
Schools we studied transformed behaviour and attendance through long-term culture building: clarity of purpose, investment in staff, consistent follow-through.

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 22d

Turns out Jacqueline Wilson writes for adults too - in almost exactly the same style as her children’s books!
📚 #BookSky

Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson

Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 22d

School experiences that are universal via bedtime conversations with my kids.

6 year old: “we had loads of different teaching assistants in year 1. They kept changing”

8 year old: “I didn’t enjoy PE today so I went to the toilet half way through and deliberately did everything really slowly”
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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 26d

Really interesting episode with Nick Gibb

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@amymayforrester.bsky.social

Did Nick Gibb get it right?

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Aug 29

Teachers, unions, education leaders: AI does not clearly do what it's being marketed and hyped as doing in education. It won't save time, solve inequality, raise achievement, and it's not inevitable. But it will line their wallets. Still time to call a pause on it nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai

Time for a Pause: Without Effective Public Oversight, AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good.

Ignoring their own well-publicized calls to regulate AI development and to pause implementation of its applications, major technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta are racing to fend o...

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Best line so far from this podcast
“I remember my headmaster saying: ‘when you all leave, some of yous are gona be crooks. For yous that are gona be crooks, be good ones, cos it’s only the ones that are not good that get caught’”
#Gangster
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Gangster - The Story of the Black Widow - The Black Widow: 1. Spinning the Web - BBC Sounds

East End girl Linda Calvey becomes a widow when her husband is killed by armed police.