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🎉 The online Rethinking Education conference is now FREELY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC! 🎉
90+ videos by mainstream and alternative educators, parents/carers, *actual young people*, homeschoolers, unschoolers...
😍Also, check out our peng new vid 😍
Enjoy:
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THREAD:
Here's a free video course for parents and carers who want to help their children become more confident, independent learners. It's called Learning to Learn at Home.
Please feel free to share it. We would also welcome your feedback as we improve it in the coming weeks.
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Soon, we're going to start a series of 'campfire conversations' to rethink education using an appreciative inquiry approach.
Who would be good to include in these conversations?
RTs appreciated!🙏
@RethinkingJames
@Rethinking_Kate
@kathsoweni
@NatalieR_W
@sarahcatefraser
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📢 THE PROGRAMME HAS LANDED! 📢
LET'S GET TOGETHER:
The inaugural Rethinking Education conference
LDN, Sat 17th Sept
(and online throughout 2022-23)
Check out our speakers, talk titles/descriptions & bios:
Tickets:
#reconf22
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🎉🎉🎉 All content (90+ videos) from the online Rethinking Education conference will become publicly available for 🆓 at midnight tonight 🎉🎉🎉
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💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡
💡 NEW CONFERENCE POSTER! 💡
💡 AND WHAT A LINE-UP! 💡
💡 THE EARLY BIRD DEAL 💡
💡 EXPIRES THIS SUNDAY 💡
💡 17TH JULY @ MIDNIGHT 💡
💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡
TICKETS:
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In case you missed it...
This is a powerful conversation with nine young people - Aliyah, Lottie, Lox, Andreas, Olivia, Marcos, Sam, Eddie and Grace - talking about their experiences of education and making a compelling, heart-wrenching case for change.
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Next week's Rethinking Education Campfire Conversation will feature nine *actual young people*, age 9-18. We'll be asking:
❓Is the education system fit for purpose?
❓What should be the purpose of education?
❓What would your dream school / learning community look like?
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Check out our ace new trailer for Let’s Get Together - The Rethinking Education Conference 2022
#reconf22
Read on for more details... 🧵
A few months ago, I posted two tweets that received a much bigger response than I am used to.
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EXCITING NEWS!!!
Here's the release of the first wave of speakers for the inaugural Rethinking Education Conference
Please feel free to help us spread the word 🙏
Sat 17th Sept
Addey & Stanhope School
London
Early bird 20% discount until July 17th
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"The education system is now creating an oil-and-water graduate class that looks down on other people. That's a given for me now."
⚠️ PODWARNING: So fascinating it may hurt ⚠️
@DonaldClark
on 2500 years of learning theory - from the Greeks to the geeks
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On the eve of the release of
@GuyClaxton
's sensational new book, a reminder that you can hear Guy outlining the central arguments in this fascinating podcast with
@RethinkingJames
.
Averaging 100 listens a day currently - not bad, considering the length!
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To get the conversation started in the run-up to the Rethinking Education conference, we will be releasing some of our online keynotes in the next 2 weeks.
Tickets for the online conference are donation-based:
Check out our speaker spotlight tiles below!
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💥 Rethinking Education Conference Programme 💥
⭐️= 14 sessions led by young people (age 10-21)
Plus *many* more contributions to the online conference!
Full programme:
Sat Sept 17
9.15-4.45
@Addeys300
School, London
Tickets:
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The Rethinking Ed conference 2023 is ON!
Saturday 23rd September
Parliament Hill School, Camden
Speaker applications open soon
Save the date 😎
#reconf23
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📦 If school can’t fit around your child, how do you create an ‘education other than at school’ that will give them their wings? 🦋
Laura Kerbey discusses the brilliant programme of EOTAS.
@LauraKerbey
@_MissingTheMark
@teamsquarepeg
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📽️ A number of RETHINKING ED 2023 * speakers at have made short trailers to preview their amazing talks 🙏
Scroll down to peruse this heady mix of topics...🧵
* Sat 23rd Sept, 9.15am-4.45pm
Parliament Hill School, London
Tickets:
#teachertwitter
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LET'S GET TOGETHER!
The RethinkingED conference 2022
ONLINE | FACE TO FACE
Sat 17th Sept, 9.15-4.45pm
Addey & Stanhope School, London
Tickets:
Blog explaining why it's happening - and why 𝐲𝐨𝐮 need to get involved:
#reconf22
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Saturday September 17, 2022, 9am to 4.30pm
Addey & Stanhope School
472 New Cross Road
London
SE14 6TJ
Speaker applications:
Tickets:
The early bird ticket offer is available for a few more weeks
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Happiness is the meaning of school.
Check out this fscinating talk by teacher and award-winning author,
@AdrianBethune
, who argues that the purpose of education should be to improve the happiness and wellbeing of pupils now and in the future.
#RECONF22
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📢 New episode of
#repod
📢
Tom Sherrington (
@teacherhead
) on Rosenshine, behaviour and why we need to stop grading schools
Full episode:
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📢 The Rethinking Education Podcast has landed! 📢
Episode 1:
@debrakidd
on pedagogical activism
Available wherever you get your podcasts (some platforms are still processing mind)
😍 Please feel free to spread the word! 😍
Soundcloud:
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🔑Imagine an education system that ran on appreciative inquiry & keys to success (rather than compliance & labelling: inadequate). 🔏
What values would immerse children and young people as they grew?
Enjoy Sir Tim Brighouse’s long view keynote:
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Listen to this fascinating conversation with Cat Place (
@catrplace
) & Ty Golding (
@tjgolding
) where we take a deep dive into the exciting developments that have been happening lately with the Curriculum for Wales.
👉 👈
#edutwitter
#repod
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⚡️From today all children & young people will be able to choose where & how they will spend their time. 🕒
They are able to walk out of
#school
.
Liberating or terrifying?
@naomicfisher
explores side effects of school in her excellent keynote.
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"You saved my boy's life. He was feeling so useless, I was really worried he might harm himself. Literally you have saved his life."
@RoweGeraldine
on collaborative decision-making and why coercion is bad for kids
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🔥🔥🔥 New episode of
#repod
🔥🔥🔥
"If kids leave school with straight-As but they have no self-esteem, and no self-worth, and they feel like an imposter... have we actually won anything?"
The astonishing
@jazampawfarr
on the power of 'withness'
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"I really think it's the weakest case in the whole of education... testing and dividing children at 11. There is no question that where selection exists, it benefits the already well-off."
@Melissa_Benn
on our divided education system.
New episode of
#repod
out Saturday
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🤩
@RethinkingJames
's conversation with Kulvarn Atwal (
@Thinkingschool2
) on leading a 'thinking school' is our most liked podcast to date! 🤩
It's not hard to see why. Here's one of our favourite clips:
(Full episode: )
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Hi Dr Cuthbert
@ASCphiled
. We have just posted an update to our statement on the conference, offering an unreserved apology for any and all implications caused by this decision. Please find it here:
@GBNEWS
@andrewdoyle_com
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😍 New episode of
#repod
! 😍
"Let's look at the things the 'Govery' never talk about... They never talk about private schools, the existing grammars, austerity..."
@melissa_benn
in conversation with
@RethinkingJames
about our divided education system
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EARLY BIRD 20% DISCOUNT EXPIRES JULY 17TH
The inaugural Rethinking Education conference
Sat 17th Sept
Addey & Stanhope School
London
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"There's been a huge impact of the pandemic on children's mental health, and oracy is so crucial to helping children discuss how they're feeling"
🎙️ New episode of
#repod
🎙️
@EmmaHardyMP
on
#mentalhealth
,
#teacherretention
& the power of
#oracy
education
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🔥🔥🔥 NEW EPISODE OF
#REPOD
🔥🔥🔥
Dr Chris Bagley (
@hiddendepths
) on the three "shadow cultures" that shaped our education system
Video, audio, blurb:
Here's a taster:
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Tickets are still available for the online Rethinking Education conference *
1. Visit:
2. Click 'View details'
3. Click the 'Details' button
4. Scroll ↓
5. Enter a donation of your choosing **
6. Please RT :)
See line-up here:
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"Are we satisfied if kids come out of school passive, docile, compliant, frightened of making mistakes, and needing to be directed the whole time?"
This is a *fascinating* podcast about learning to learn with Professor
@GuyClaxton
Full episode:
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Confirmed speakers include:
Yumna Hussen
@Yumna_Hussen
Tim Brighouse
Naomi Fisher
@naomicfisher
Mick Waters
Debra Kidd
@debrakidd
Neil Mercer
@profneilmercer
Meena Wood
@WoodMeena
Ian Cunningham
@Ian1Cunningham
Sarah Seleznyov
@sarahseleznyov
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Have you ever wanted to set up your own school?
In this episode,
@RethinkingJames
spoke with four inspiring women -
@Rethinking_Kate
,
@kathsoweni
, Hayley Peacock
@Atelier21School
and Lucy Stephens
@new_school_uk
- who have done just that.
Listen here:
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The modern school is a mish-mash of precedents and ideas, cobbled together in a haphazard way over centuries
In this fascinating conversation,
@GuyClaxton
and
@RethinkingJames
discuss the need to revive the radical critiques of the 1970s
Watch here:
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💥 NEW PODCAST DROP 💥
And it's an absolute zinger
Ollie Lovell (
@ollie_lovell
) on visiting Michaela, XP School and the Self-Managed Learning College
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"If I have a life's mission, it's to say: Can we please have a proper historical view of the education system and stop talking in these cartoon terms?"
A preview of
@RethinkingJames
's interview with
@Melissa_Benn
on our divided education system
New
#repod
out this Saturday
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📢 NEW EPISODE 📢
The Rethinking Education podcast, episode 6
Kulvarn Atwal (
@Thinkingschool2
) on leading a 'thinking school'
A fascinating, inspirational conversation to raise your spirits before the new school year
Full episode:
First 2 mins:
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Kulvarn Atwal
@Thinkingschool2
Lottie Cooke
@LottieCooke16
Cat Kucia
@catkucia
Ty Golding
@tjgolding
Rupert Higham
@rupert_higham
Becky Carlzon
@beckycarlzon
To name just a few!
Speaker applications are open for a few more weeks - see below for details below.
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"Are we satisfied if kids come out of school passive, docile, compliant, frightened of making mistakes, and needing to be directed the whole time?"
This is a *fascinating* podcast about learning to learn with Professor
@GuyClaxton
Full episode:
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10% off until July 31st - 7 days remaining...
Plus new free hardship tickets released for those that need 'em
Happy holidays people ♥️
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Fans of agreeable disagreement will find plenty to chew over in this fascinating new episode of
#repod
with
@jon_hutchinson_
and
@RethinkingJames
Jon Hutchinson on knowledge, assessment - and 'cradle to career' education
@ReachFndn
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📽️ Rethinking Ed Campfire Conversation
#001
📽️
A fortnightly fireside chat about how and why we need to rethink education. Today's guests:
@RethinkingJames
,
@Rethinking_Kate
,
@kathsoweni
,
@sarahcatefraser
,
@NatalieR_W
and Grace McAllister.
#repod
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🏃♂️ Escalating absenteeism
❤️🩹 Spiralling mental health crisis
🧑🎓 1/3 of school leavers branded a failure every year
It doesn't have to be this way
It's time to rethink education
Sat Sept 23
London
👇
Full programme:
Tickets:
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Why should *young people* attend the Rethinking Education conference?
With thanks to
@andr3wsp8
🙏
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☀️ New episode of
#repod
☀️
Dr Naomi Fisher (
@naomicfisher
) on self-directed learning and how schools can do more harm than good
Full episode: - or wherever you get your podcasts :)
Naomi's *brilliant* book, 'Changing our minds':
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🧵
#RECONF
PREVIEW VIDS RELEASED SO FAR:
BRAND NEW TODAY:
1/ Kavin Wadhar (
@KavinWadhar
): Little things parents can do that make a BIG difference (16 min clip)
To see the rest (and to access the rest of the conference videos):
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📢 New *special episode* of
#repod
📢
@Rethinking_Kate
on opening her dream school
Here, Kate describes the 'Alice through the looking glass' moment that led her to sell her house and move halfway around the world to open a 'Hive School'
Full episode:
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HUGE thanks to everyone who liked, RT'd, QT'd or commented on the original tweets. That's you
@beckycarlzon
@MrsSDalton75
@teachglobalgoal
@gillditch55
@AndyHodgkinson
@SehMiss
@15mfcymru
@AdeleBatesZ
@NikaMagSlt
@mmmm_astrom
@Anda19
@tarabellue
@TesneyWheeler
@HajiMun09168799
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This weekend, we will publish the talk titles, talk descriptions and speaker bios for all the speakers at the face-to-face and online conferences. We will also confirm which speakers are doing online-only, and which are doing both.
Watch this space!
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"Previously, on the Rethinking Education podcast"
🍿
@debrakidd
on pedagogical activism
🍿 Ian Cunningham on self-managed learning
🍿
@RossMcGill
on chaos at the DfE
🍿 Kulvarn Atwal (
@Thinkingschool2
) on leading a thinking school
🍿 Next up:
@GuyClaxton
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Hey homeschoolers!
Here's a free 10-part video course for parents and carers who want to help their children (or anyone really) become more confident, proactive, independent learners
Learning to Learn at Home
#homeschooling2021
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It looks like we should get around 450-500 people at the Rethinking Ed conference on Saturday. Super exciting!
There are still a handful of tickets left for anyone still wavering...
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🎓🔍What role do you feel adults should have in the education of children & young people?
@GuyClaxton
discusses educators becoming more like ‘Research Supervisors’ in a redesigned
#education
landscape.
Join the conversation in
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👀 Did anyone ask you whether you wanted to go to school? What if you had said no? ❌
Consent is a huge issue in our world. How can we teach it when so much of our early life demands compliance?
@schristophy
in conversation with
@RethinkingJames
…
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Here's a new preview from
#reconf22
This is the first half of Eliza Fricker’s (
@_MissingTheMark
) moving presentation about her experience as the mother of a child who struggled to attend school for 8 years.
Tickets:
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If you're looking for Dr James Mannion, Director of Rethinking Education, he is now
@RethinkingJames
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"People haven't learned how to engage with others in a humane way. And so it's not about subject learning"
📢 E02 of the Rethinking Education podcast has landed 📢
Ian Cunningham on self-managed learning
Here's the full episode:
And here's a short clip
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A beautiful review of
#reconf22
here.
As to conflict, we agree - more dissent next time please!
"Most events were intimate, interactive, collegial. There were no big-name corporate sponsors, no visionaries flogging their ‘simple trick’ to fix everything'
@StanPinsent
reviews
#rethinkingeducation
"
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🎶 Guess who's back, back again 🎶
Must be time for another...
🔥🔥🔥 CAMPFIRE CONVERSATION 🔥🔥🔥
This week, we will be joined by
@LottieCooke16
from
@ThePupilPower
and Kulvarn Atwal (
@Thinkingschool2
)
When: Sat 8th May, 12-1pm
Where:
#recc
#repod
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🔥 New episode of
#repod
🔥
"We are indoctrinated to seek accreditation and reward and acknowledgement. Is it not just enough to BE?"
Listen to Cat Place (
@catrplace
) and Ty Golding (
@tjgolding
) on the Curriculum for Wales:
#podcast
#edutwitter
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"Why is it, if a young person has had an adverse childhood experience, we should then punish them for it?"
😍 New episode of
#repod
😍
Adele Bates (
@AdeleBatesZ
) on self-care, self-regulation and dealing with challenging behaviour
Full episode:
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The online
#reconf22
website is now (finally) live - WOOHOO!
You can access it for £3 here - all proceeds go to educational charities. So far we have donated £2407.
All content will be made publicly available on 17/10 (1 month after the F2F conference)
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A massive 🙏 to everyone who shared and contributed to this. We're doing a pilot this Saturday at 12 noon UK time (eek!). It will be live-streamed exclusively to members of the (free) Rethinking Education Mighty Network.
Join us @
#recc
#marshmallows
Soon, we're going to start a series of 'campfire conversations' to rethink education using an appreciative inquiry approach.
Who would be good to include in these conversations?
RTs appreciated!🙏
@RethinkingJames
@Rethinking_Kate
@kathsoweni
@NatalieR_W
@sarahcatefraser
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@educationgovuk
@kitmalthouse
@SusanAclandHood
Hi Kit! We would be delighted to welcome you and your team to the forthcoming Rethinking Education conference. It's on Sat 17th Sept at Addey & Stanhope School, SE14. Here's a blog outlining why the conference is happening - and why you should come along!
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Other speakers include:
@naomicfisher
@SJDavies87
@teamsquarepeg
@abrahamsdarren
@LoveRee__
@DRDAVIDDIXON1
@KathKtl
@Yumna_Hussen
@FaugereMae
@WaldenKent
@debrakidd
@ArtemisDBear
...to name just a few!
To join us, either face-to-face or virtually:
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😧 Can we emancipate young people from fear? 🔓
Fear of failing at life before it’s barely started?
@andr3wsp8
eloquently & dramatically paints a picture of life growing up in the shadow of prophecies of failure at school.
We need to listen. And act.
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NEW PREVIEW: Rethinking Ed Online Conference
Adam Boxer (
@adamboxer1
) - In defence of educational traditionalism
Here's the first 13 mins:
To see the rest:
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🎤What happens when everyone involved in a child or young person’s life assembles around them to hear them speak, with no adult agenda? 🎯
Human connection.
This is the first principle of Open Dialogue, a beautiful initiative at Korowal School.
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🧭How do you navigate setting up & running an inspirational & robustly researched democratic school? 🧐🎨🌸
@new_school_uk
have done it. Soon to be entering their third year,
@LucystephensTNS
& Tom Oberst are breaking new ground in the UK…
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🔥🔥🔥 NEW EPISODE OF
#REPOD
🔥🔥🔥
Sir Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters interviewed by
@RethinkingJames
about their sensational new book 'About our schools'
They interviewed every Education SoS for the last 40 years
The analysis is truly mind-blowing 🤯
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NEW sneak preview of the Rethinking Education conference
Meet our youngest speaker, Lox (age 10), who will be leading a moonwalking workshop
In this short video, Lox outlines some of the key moves - so you can get practicing!
#reconf22
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☀️ New episode of
#repod
☀️
Dr Naomi Fisher (
@naomicfisher
) on self-directed learning and how schools can do more harm than good
Full episode: - or wherever you get your podcasts :)
Naomi's *brilliant* book, 'Changing our minds':
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🔥🔥🔥 NEW EPISODE OF
#REPOD
🔥🔥🔥
The first in a series of interviews with headteachers and former heads talking about
@Ofstednews
First up:
@RebeccaLeek_
on straitjackets, ethics and inspectors' eyebrows
Video, audio, show notes:
Clip:
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*** NEW THIS WEEK ***
This is a *fascinating* conversation about learning to learn (mainly) with Professor
@GuyClaxton
Full episode:
Clip below: "Education is a fundamentally moral business..."
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🌱 I’d like to be asked what would I like to learn about. What questions do I have about the world? Then be supported in that exploration…🌴
Imagine a caring broker between you & a world of experts & fascinating wonders.
@kjinquiry
is that very broker👇
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LET'S GET TOGETHER!
The inaugural rethinkingED conference
Face-to-face and online
With new online keynotes from
@sjblakemore
and
@adamboxer1
Let's get together and figure this thing out!
#reconf22
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Check out this fascinating talk in which the radical geographer, teacher and social and environmental activist
@geography_paul
explains how to embed sustainability across the whole curriculum 🌍
Watch Paul's brilliant talk here:
#edutwitter
#reconf22
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The next episode of the Rethinking Education podcast will drop later - an entirely life-affirming conversation with Kulvarn Atwal
@Thinkingschool2
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Let's talk about a method for making sure that every child is able to engage in productive, exploratory talk with every other student in the class, in any group size.
Find out more about this method and how to put it into practice:
#edutwitter
#blog
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Literally a handful of tickets left now with 2 days to go.
Full price and concessions still available.
Grab 'em while you can!
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This 3h(!) podcast with
@RethinkingJames
and
@adamboxer1
is flying off the shelf 🍿
Over 100 downloads in 24h - it usually takes a week to get to triple figures 🍿🍿
Workload, behaviour and neotrad/progressive beef - what's not to like? 🍿🍿🍿
#repod
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There is a small number of tickets available for young people to attend for free, should you require it.
The event will be 100% accessible by wheelchair.
Any proceeds will be donated to educational charities.
Sponsors/exhibitors - please email hello
@rethinking
-ed.org
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LET'S GET TOGETHER!
The Rethinking Education Conference 2022
9.30-4.30pm
Sat 17th Sept
Addey & Stanhope School
London
Details, trailer, early bird tickets:
Who needs Glastonbury?!!
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Check out our BRAND NEW research-informed programmes for...
School leaders:
• Implementation science
• Action research
Classroom teachers:
• Metacognition
• Self-regulation
• Oracy
Pupils:
• Metacognition
• Rhetoric
• Oracy
Visit for details
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"Right now our system is dysfunctional because it separates winners from losers..."
😍 New episode of
#repod
😍
@jaymctighe
on how to backward-design educational nirvana
A lot of people have been waiting for this one...
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Speaker applications close one week from today folks 👇
This will be an education conference with a difference
📢 Make your voice heard
👂 Learn from the perspectives of others
👧 Let's create an education system that works for *all* young people
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Since then, we have been busily scheming away at Rethinking Education towers.
'Let's get together' will be an education conference with a difference.
Too often, the education debate is dominated by a few powerful voices.
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We aim to attract roughly equal numbers from each of the following five groups – and to ensure that each of these groups will be equally heard throughout the day.
Mainstream educators
Alternative educators
Parents and carers
Children and young people
Education reformers
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