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Joe Kirby

@joe__kirby

School leader. Writer. Director of Education at Athena. I champion school leaders, teachers and school staff so we can create great schools together.

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Hornets, Slugs, Bees and Butterflies: the workload relief revolution wp.me/p31zUY-Li 🐌a let-go-of list of 20 slugs 💥a not-to-do list of 18 hornets 🐝a keep-doing list of 10 honeybees 🦋a start-doing-list of 12 butterflies ✊ join the revolution

joe__kirby's tweet image. Hornets, Slugs, Bees and Butterflies: the workload relief revolution

wp.me/p31zUY-Li

🐌a let-go-of list of 20 slugs
💥a not-to-do list of 18 hornets
🐝a keep-doing list of 10 honeybees
🦋a start-doing-list of 12 butterflies

✊ join the revolution

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New blog! On leadership, observation, and spotting great teaching 👇👇

NEW POST The Radiologist Link in reply - hope you enjoy it and please share if you can 🙏🙏

adamboxer1's tweet image. NEW POST

The Radiologist

Link in reply - hope you enjoy it and please share if you can 🙏🙏


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Using one of @Mr_Raichura ‘s videos in our department CPD tomorrow. 🙌🏼 The goal is for teachers to activate and build on students’ prior knowledge, helping them make meaningful connections within the text.

hkateaching's tweet image. Using one of @Mr_Raichura ‘s videos in our department CPD tomorrow. 🙌🏼 

The goal is for teachers to activate and build on students’ prior knowledge, helping them make meaningful connections within the text.

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Agree entirely. Virtuous leadership is just as problematic.


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NEW POST The Radiologist Link in reply - hope you enjoy it and please share if you can 🙏🙏

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The Radiologist

Link in reply - hope you enjoy it and please share if you can 🙏🙏

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From the Acland Report, 1911: 'It does not seem to be sufficiently realised that English is a particularly difficult subject to teach well, and that nearly all its educational value may be ruined by examination papers set on unwise lines.'


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Inspired by @C_Hendrick’s 10 Rules for Designing Effective Learning, I realised that using just one example and one non-example in vocabulary instruction leads to misgeneralisation. mrjakecowling.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/fau…


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The government are said to be planning a new Year 8 reading test. Do we need it? Some thoughts here. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/does-england…


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Superb article. My personal opinion is that much of teaching isn’t that complex, but the volume of minorly-complex things that teachers have to do adds up.


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This blog is, in my opinion, spectacular and a strong candidate for Blog Of The Year. Set aside some time to study it. Utterly wonderful. It's interesting, scholarly, provocative, useful, and made me think about my own teaching. Everything a blog should be.

New blog post from me: The Promises and Pitfalls of Personalisation. In this post, I review how Learn Your Way with Google has introduced personalised examples into textbook content. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-promises…

profbeckyallen's tweet image. New blog post from me: The Promises and Pitfalls of Personalisation.
In this post, I review how Learn Your Way with Google has introduced personalised examples into textbook content.
profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/the-promises…


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🚨 LIBERAL OVERREACH When applying our values backfires: ↓

PepsMccrea's tweet image. 🚨 LIBERAL OVERREACH

When applying our values backfires:

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“It is common to find that SEND discussions slide from ‘most children do X’ to ‘children ought to do X’, and thus pathologising difference as it if were a defect.” open.substack.com/pub/bernardand…


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“What is it useful for the teacher to know and how much can we expect them to internalise and act upon?” Excellent piece from @head_teach examining the complexity facing every teacher every day and how we can help or hinder them


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Critical thinking is not a matter of teaching critical thinking. It is domain specific, knowledge dependent and reliant upon transfer that doesn't take too much of a leap from one context to another. I cannot think critically as a mechanic one minute, and a doctor the next.

SaysMiss's tweet image. Critical thinking is not a matter of teaching critical thinking. It is domain specific, knowledge dependent and reliant upon transfer that doesn't take too much of a leap from one context to another. I cannot think critically as a mechanic one minute, and a doctor the next.

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In some schools, children thrive; focused, engaged, and achieving exceptional results. Just 100 metres away, children from the same community in another school, struggle with every anxiety known to man, rely on fidget spinners, wellbeing rooms, and achieve depressingly low…

Children learn at different paces, in different ways, and on different days. The education system needs to be structured accordingly.

WeinsteinEdu's tweet image. Children learn at different paces, in different ways, and on different days. The education system needs to be structured accordingly.


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If they aren't listening, they aren't learning If they look like they're listening, they still might not be learning If they are definitelt listening, they still might not be learning If they look like they're not listening, they still might be listening and learning


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'I've developed more as a teacher in the past year at Ernulf than I did in the previous 9 at other schools...' If you want to make real impact and develop as a teacher, have a look at @AstreaErnulf opportunities below. This school is an exciting, vibrant place to work.

Come and join us! We’re on a journey to be one of the best schools in the country. I’ve developed more as a teacher in the past year at Ernulf than I did in the previous 9 at other schools because of our systems. Be part of the team!



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The best teachers I've seen don't use a wide range of activities. They do a few things, and they do them well. They hone them, practise them, and know exactly when each one should be used and why. The students become habituated to them, and learning goes through the roof.



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Do school leaders know enough about other subjects? Is a lot of curricular friction and frustration caused by a simple lack of awareness that different subjects are different? 👇👇👇

NEW EPISODE We asked @profbeckyallen what are the three most important things for teachers and leaders to know about assessment. Number 1? That it's all about learning. Tune in and share! open.spotify.com/episode/3Nzb9e…



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