Zoe Livingstone @ZLEDUCATION
Education adviser and lover of children’s literature. Passionate about outcomes for disadvantaged children, reading, writing and oracy. Joined September 2013-
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OK, I *THINK* this is my R&J best quotations list... what would you add/remove? Because I've been staring at it all day and I've forgotten my own name 😂
Have just finished rewriting the overview for a weekly picturebook assembly which focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion. It's still a work in progress but please feel free to use and adapt. All shares appreciated! The link is on my Padlet: padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/rea…
What can schools do to improve boys' attainment? I've been writing and researching this for years, and here's a thread featuring 7 easy(!) steps schools can take to reduce gender gaps:
This isnt going where you think it is. 🧵 One of the most annoying things about children is that they want you to stop what you're doing every 0.7 seconds to watch them attempt what I think is supposed to be a cartwheel, or show you how good they are at standing on one leg.
Inspired by @educationswuk, here is a poster summarising proactive and reactive approaches to adaptive teaching.
The beauty of wildlife - a thread 🧵 1. Dick Van Duijn captured the exact moment a squirrel stopped to smell a flower
A grid of images that relate to the AQA Power and Conflict poems douglaswise.co.uk/blog/grid-of-i… Hopefully, they’ll generate some good quality discussion and debate 💥🪖
Love this from @davegray
In the most basic terms, reading lessons involve a mixture of reading text and responding to it (i.e. discussing text or producing written responses). And I think that in many (if not most) primary schools the balance between these two things is *way* off. A thread... 🪡
Perfect example of what we've been banging on about for ages. Ofsted grades & reports are ridiculous. And this is supposed to be 'useful' to parents? It couldn't be more confusing!
@mrspennyslater @HertsEnglish @BobCox_SFE I think the teaching of writing through grammar has destroyed composition and effect. No writer ever thought, ‘I need to use a relative clause now,’… they are imagining what is happening and bring that alive through generating and crafting the words.
Great to launch to HTs, our second Early Years and KS1 Oracy Programme. Wonderful to be working with the expertise of @OracyCambridge again. @hydeh_rose @StMattResearch @BEPvoice
Here is a short video about focussing on the underlying causes of inconsistent attendance, rather than symptoms. This is about the role of schools. But schools can't solve this alone. Partnership with families, other agencies (esp health) and govt is key. youtube.com/watch?v=TVomJ0…
Breaking: Ofsted inspections will restart 'a couple of weeks' later than planned this term, the new chief inspector has told Schools Week, as he launches an internal inquiry into the watchdog's response to the death of headteacher Ruth Perry schoolsweek.co.uk/inspections-wo…
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A Thread on Handwriting… Over the past 2 years, I have paid more attention to the way handwriting is taught than at any other point in my career. Handwriting seemed a fairly simple thing that pupils would just pick up with a few lessons on letter formation. I was wrong! Here are…
The impact upon our young people is frightening. Why has the @GOVUK not banned vapes completely? The harmful effects of vaping really is shocking! #edutwitter #PersonalDevelopment #Health
Just had to retweet this because it is so beautiful and I will want to find it later, for a little well-being boost
In early 2024 we at @UnityResSch are running a primary and secondary programme on addressing educational disadvantage with the *wonderful* people at @ASCL_UK @tiffnieharris | Primary: ascl.org.uk/professional-d… | Secondary: ascl.org.uk/professional-d…

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