Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation

@BarbaraBleiman

Education consultant, EMC; NATE Outstanding Contribution to Teaching of English (2019); 'An Inspector Called Stories' (2022); Snap! Poems for Children (2025)

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman 36m

Thrilled that my poem, 'Waddle like a Penguin' is in Poem a Week – a new resource created by @SouthbankCentre, @NationalPoetryLibrary, & Wandle Learning Partnership. For KS1 & KS2, 80+ poems & resources. Free download on the Southbank Centre’s website: southbankcentre.co.uk/create-learn/s…

Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman 6h

1. Smart phones are a distraction & affect attention span
2. Screen time limits experiences & human interactions.
3. Screen learning to date is often poor quality
4. Teacher support & relationships are key
3. I'm going to work for Alpha Schools because AI & screens are so great!

Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman 6h

We need to take this seriously. It ties in with stopping GCSE content/option choices eroding KS3 & the Oracy initiatives. Students' voices need to be heard, the curric needs to be sufficiently varied & challenging & include many opportunities - not just a narrow runway to GCSEs.

Tes magazine @tes 1d

A new government survey shows the proportion of students enjoying school has fallen across all secondary age groups, alongside a declining sense of belonging
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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman 6h

Excellent piece!

Tes magazine @tes 1d

Trust leader Rebecca Boomer-Clark writes for Tes on why she welcomes the government’s plans to protect KS3 from GCSE teaching, arguing it secures the early years of secondary as a phase of discovery
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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman 9h

Education is about developing the whole person - confidence, ability to work with others, practical life skills (incl ones like First Aid), morals & values, behaving as we’d hope all responsible adults would. Congratulations to these young people & their school!

Chris Passey FCCT @MrChrisPassey 2d

Tonight, I am the proudest Head in the country. After school today, a man collapsed at a train station. Adults stood by. Our students didn't. One rang 999 and, using first aid she'd learned in LIFE lessons, put him in the recovery position until paramedics took over. 🧵1/2
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