FYI a new Slough House/Slow Horses book this week AND a new series in about 3 weeks!
Slow Horses author Mick Herron: ‘I love doing things that are against the rules’ | The Guardian
FYI a new Slough House/Slow Horses book this week AND a new series in about 3 weeks!
Slow Horses author Mick Herron: ‘I love doing things that are against the rules’ | The Guardian
Bit of a rusty start but Arsenal have picked it up since.
First time building in a long time, and only the second time in the last 13 years. Yeah, I missed it a lot. Guess life got in the way. Obviously I’m looking to buy shoes and a chalk bag now.
the teacher-student relationship is linked not only to academic performance, but also to motivation, executive functions and self-control, emotions, classroom behaviour, well-being, and school engagement.
Why the teacher-student relationship matters so much! - From experience to meaning… %
Yumo and I talk about his pillow and school orientation.
Elise and I talk about a few things including her student orientation day.
E woke up to give me a hug before I leave for work, then went back to bed. ❤️
Tomato soup hot pot on the last day before going back to work. It’s one of my favourites, the soup just reminds me of tomato soup growing up. Except we’re not using it to cook meat and vegetables.
Looked at the clock, it’s 9am. Happy Sunday!
All the coffee.
Active August Day 3 aka that was “fun” aka my lower back and legs are feeling it aka gotta keep moving aka “just” need to sort my diet now.
Joined Lyra at her exercise class today. Very different to what I do normally. A little humbling but always good to try new things!
Trialing YouTube Premium Lite for a month, so shall see how it goes. Thanks to @rpmik for the suggestion!
We’re enjoying Dexter Resurrection. Enjoying the cast, the music and the main storyline.
Does have pay for YouTube Premium? It seems worth it to not have ads…
I found the thing i ‘lost’. It was in the place I’d put it.
In this case, the Switch was in the cupboard out of reach of the kids.
Any honest assessment of the science is going to recognize that there are things we understand pretty darn well and things that we sort of know. But there are things that are uncertain and there are things we just have no idea about whatsoever. (Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise, 2012, p. 409).
Ah, if only federal and state policymakers, researchers, and reform-minded educators would see the “science” of school reform in K-12 and higher education in similar terms. I put “science” in quote marks because there is no reliable, much less valid, theory of school reform that can predict events or improvements in schools and classrooms.
Still, for K-12 children and youth there are “things we understand pretty darn well.”
*We understand that socioeconomic status of children’s families has a major influence on students’ academic achievement.
*We understand that a knowledgeable and skilled teacher is the most important in-school factor in student learning.
*We understand the wide variability in student interests, abilities, and motivation.
*We understand that children and youth develop at different speeds as they move through the age-graded school.
It’s funny because the longer I teacher, the less confident I feel about my impact. Despite all the new practises, reforms and ideas I am expected to follow in my day to day life.
Teaching feels so simple - to help someone learn. Yet, in the day to day it’s this constant maelstrom.
In most primary schools, many pupils don’t become fluent readers simply because they do precious little reading in the classroom.
Never enough time… Always too many things to do. The Most Common Reason Why Children Don’t Become Fluent Readers… And What We Can Do About It – Primary Colour
Going from driving on the left in a manual (🇲🇺）to the right in an automatic (🇨🇳） was fun today. Kept trying to press the clutch and change gear. Also, the indicators being on the other side meant we had the windscreen wipers on a couple of times too.
Day 1 of Active August aka I ate and drank too much on holiday aka oh no, my school clothes don’t fit aka this time I mean fit!
A couple of the sea from today, one looking back at the beach and another from a late afternoon stroll.
Reading on the beach.
Not a cloud in the sky… damnit!
✅ Apple Music now shows me listening habits for individual months. Which is cool.
❎ I have to open my browser to see it and can’t do it in the app. Which is not cool.
