Director, English and Media Centre, author of Creativity and Learning in Secondary English (Routledge). Now posting only on Bluesky @andrewemc.bsky.social
Joined November 2013
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I've gone across to Bluesky. My infrequent posting will just be there from now on. @andrewemc.bsky.social
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November's Big Picture Writing webinar with me @BarbaraBleiman explores 'composition-led writing' - getting something on paper working with it. It's such an important part of any effective writing pedagogy! englishandmedia.co.uk/course…
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A wonderful new blog by @AndrewEMC for @EngMediaCentre describing a lesson he saw taught by one of EMC’s current Associate Teachers & what it reveals about the potential for expansive learning & multiple outcomes from expansive, imaginative, open tasks. englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/t…
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1 May 2025
5 HOURS TO GO!
Our summer webinar package is available to buy until 5pm this afternoon. Give your team the gift of CPD!
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This is an absolute must-read by the brilliant @DamsonEd! Some of us have been trying to make these points for a long while, especially about reading being more than decoding, and meaning being more than words in isolation from text.
14 Nov 2024
Three new worrying reports about reading are canaries in the coalmine, writes @DamsonEd, and we need to listen to their warnings
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11 Nov 2024
Spring course programme up and ready to book. Including the Spring Webinar Package, with access for all your department!
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14 Nov 2024
Jaw is dropping afresh on reading this, even tho general position on Ofsted's misuse of research ev in these reviews is well-known. One finding: Ofsted based a statement in its report on the findings of a study involving only four children,then "generalis[ed] to all children"
Thank you for sharing this. A very troubling read. It’s shocking that these documents have not been withdrawn by Ofsted.
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9 Nov 2024
"Stifle talk and you stifle thinking. Stifle thinking and you stifle learning ... ": a terrific, uplifting account of #oracy in action from @AndrewEMC (HT @BarbaraBleiman): buff.ly/4fA55ZW
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I offered some thoughts to the arguments about knowledge that blew up on X a few days ago. X isn't great for extended thinking, so I've done a short blog, raising a few points about the past period from my pov & interest in knowledge in subject English. barbarableiman.com/post/my-t…
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Terrific piece, opening up serious questions that go well beyond what to ‘keep in’, ‘add’ or ‘lose’ in curriculum reform. Great on linearity, subject differences, complexity & the journey not being the same as the outcome.
18 Oct 2024
'A curriculum and assessment review can achieve valuable shifts and avoid predictable disasters. Here are my four best bets for doing so'
💬 @Counsell_C | #TheCurriculumConversation
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At what point will govt sit up & take notice? GCSE English results are of critical importance to students, for future study & employment. Also to schools & teachers proving 'success' to Ofsted. Yet, as @mr_englishteach says, the system is broken! It's not reliable.
18 Oct 2024
Another GCSE English paper gone up *two* grades after marking review. The system is broken...
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4 Oct 2024
EMC CPD Online: Grammar – Getting the Balance Right at KS3 (6.11.24)
Andrew cuts through the myths and misconceptions to help you get your grammar teaching right at KS3.
Book your place by 8.00am on 4 Nov
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4 Oct 2024
EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Assessment – Principles & Practices (19.11.24)
"I came away buzzing with ideas and a vision of how I would love to change what we do, and elements of how we do it."
Book your place by 8.00am on 15 Nov
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15 Oct 2024
EMC CPD Online: Audience with a GCSE Poet – Liz Berry, AQA Worlds and Lives (24.10.24)
A chance to hear live from poet Liz Berry and put your questions to her.
Book your place by 8.00am on 22 Oct
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2 Oct 2024
Really interesting blog from @SocialistEdu which rightly locates Tory policy in the Black Papers of the 1970s. What the blog could have added was how deeply racist some of those papers were educationpolitics.substack.c…
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30 Sep 2024
The window to buy the EMC Autumn webinar package closed last week. Really heartwarming to see those who bought it for their school booking on to the first live event on Thursday. Bookings for individual courses still open englishandmedia.co.uk/course…
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Really looking forward to doing this webinar again with @AndrewEMC, especially after the great response from teachers last time!
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30 Sep 2024
The quotation at the bottom of this slide, which I'm using in a webinar this week, is so important to bear in mind when planning for secondary English. Not everything can be neatly sequenced. In fact, most of what we do can't be neatly sequenced, not in a way that helps learning
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25 Sep 2024
Much to celebrate & think on after our successful GCSE English Reform event! @The_Globe as partners & generous supporters- huge thanks ! & to all contributors incl. @BobEaglestone Lola Young @PGCE_English_Br Emma Smith, @lucycuth8 , facilitators & scribes. A significant day!
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26 Sep 2024
Thought-provoking, balanced, insightful and knowledgeable piece in the latest @NATEfeed English in Education journal
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