New post: Rebel Education – A Dcoumentary chris.edutronic.net/rebel-ed…

Again, probably not what most people want to hear. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcas…

Bags and Chris come out of their respective closets for Pride week and we discuss how setting up patterns in the classroom accelerates boys’ learning. chris.edutronic.net/patterns…

Is it reasonable that I'm feeling saying "Literacy is an English Teacher's Responsibility" is somehow a controversial statement? chris.edutronic.net/the-conf…

Gena and I look at the precursors for the great teching of boys chris.edutronic.net/love/

My cherished friend Bagley and I are both HoDs of English at boys' schools. What better reason to launch a podcast! podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcas…

The 2nd edition of 'How Learning Happens' is finally out! and @P_A_Kirschner and I are very excited to share it. Here's a brief preview of what's new ⬇️ 🧵 ➡️ Firstly, we felt that the missing elements in the first part of the 1st edition all fell within the broader category of memory and specifically how it underpins, foregrounds, and interacts with learning so we added a new section featuring 5 seminal works and why educators should know about them. ➡️There is a new foreward by John Sweller. ➡️ We also added a second closing chapter in which, after discussing the ten deadly sins of education (the original concluding chapter), we discuss the ways in which seminal research can become distorted into dysfunctional implementations of its original form, what Brown and Campione christened “Lethal Mutations”. ➡️ Finally we’ve updated, checked, and rechecked the links and QR‑codes, added some links to new additional materials, and corrected mistakes that we and others found in the original book.

If you share our concern about the 1000s of boys in New Zealand who are not realising their potential - come and join us at our conference. We're bringing together a group of experts - all of whom seek to lift up boys and see them thrive trybooking.com/nz/QXM @BorrowdaleLaura

Author of more than 30 books, teacher for more than 30 years in the English classroom, Ngāti Porou @banquotrilogy Tania Roxborogh speaks to us about the relationship between mātauranga Māori and Shakespeare podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcas…

“We read Keats, who is dead. We read
Chaucer, who is even deader.” The Friday Poem: ‘love lyrics’ by Cadence Chung thespinoff.co.nz/books/04-11…

I was on the @NZATE01 Podcast with @Edutronic_Net and @PhilippaWintle It was a great conversation podcast.nzate.org.nz/streami…

Performative Allyship much? stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/1300…

The Royal Family seem perfectly happy to use the Oxford Comma.

Still waiting to be added to the Poets Laureate group chat...

Having a great time with the @NZATE01 communication crew planning for the next year - lots of ideas for our #IsThisForCredits podcast @PhilippaWintle #engchatnz

Sam Uffindell was lucky to avoid NZ’s criminal justice system as a schoolboy – but it was the right outcome. @rnz_news this article makes some outrageous claims that are well beyond the scope of the author’s expertise. Did you read it before republishing? rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside…

The National Party's downplaying of the unprovoked violent assault perpetrated by their MP Sam Uffindell as a 16 year old sickens me. It's exactly that narrative that explains why bullying and violence is so endemic in our education system.

Very much looking forward to seeing everyone from the IBSC @BoysSchools global family at Westlake Boys’ in Aotearoa New Zealand next year. I definitely recommend taking the extra time to visit us in the South Island #IBSCAC

Being in a presentation with teacher-librarians does indeed make me feel as if I’m with my “Tribe”. @givemeabooknow presents with passion and nuance about Tribalism in Australian literature for our edification at the IBSC conference in Dallas. #IBSCAC @BoysSchools

Claudia and I face some difficult questions about the direction in which our teaching of Secondary English has drifted in recent years. Her doctoral research brought to our attention that the study of complex literary texts is diminishing in New Zealand. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcas…

The beautiful world of teaching throws up another extraordinary moment. This time I’m in a Texan classroom working with boys’ educators from around the world #IBSCAC @BoysSchools