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James Murphy

4 years

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns." - Charlotte Bronte

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

Is behaviour worse in schools? 🧵 Almost universally the (hundreds of) schools I have spoken to have said YES - and attributed this to mental health and emotional problems arising from the pandemic. BUT . . .

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

. . . in the few schools I’ve spoken to where they say behaviour is as good as, or better than, before they’ve focused on orderly environment, clear expectations and consistent policy around behaviour.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

You get what you reinforce, as the old saying goes. Give lots of time and attention to self-control, diligence, courtesy and respect, and we will likely see more of it.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

Teachers, the full-out assault in recent days is co-ordinated and deliberate. It’s purpose is to shape a narrative that *when* schools aren’t able to ‘open’ on 1 June, it will be your fault, not that of the government who promised but couldn’t deliver. See also PPE etc.

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@AllieHBNews

4 years

Friday’s Daily MAIL: “Let Our Teachers Be Heroes” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

Give lots of time and attention to why children can’t be expected to behave at the same standards as they used to, and we will get lots more children feeling they don’t have to behave at those standards.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

@afneil is correct. It’s also true that a lot more testing capacity is in now place. But is there any clear strategy for how it will be used to get us out of lockdown, and get the economy moving again? It feels like the focus is still on PR, not public health.

Andrew Neil

@afneil

4 years

Let’s now disaggregate this. The 122,000 total includes almost 40,000 tests posted to homes and patients in hospital. There are no figures for how many of the 40,000 we’re actually tested/processed. Also only 73,000 people were checked as some had multiple tests.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

2 years

I think six years is long enough to say ‘we told you so’

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

2 years

We're protesting against Brexit today because we don't think it's OK for the Tories to keep making people poorer. BE THERE! #MarchForRejoin

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

In other words, our kind intentions have overloaded support systems and increased poor behaviour. Time to change our narratives. IMHO

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

Have worked with a number of secondary schools with no library or librarian. Tends to be something new leaders inherit, and are desperate to fix, but it is striking that once lost, v difficult to get back. What has been happening in education that we would cancel libraries?

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

Perhaps we need to be looking at the narratives we create and follow, since they (consciously or unconsciously) influence our expectations.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

And no, that’s not simplistic or reductive. Good behaviour policy provides clear expectations, predictable routines and additional support for the few children who need it. But if ‘few’ becomes ‘many’, support systems are overwhelmed and standards crash.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

@jon_hutchinson_

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 months

The replies to this. Seriously, if you don’t know that you have to teach children explicitly how to act in different settings, you’re not qualified to make a professional comment.

David Scales

@MrDavidScales

4 months

Also great to see that the site continues to develop. These posters were designed by our excellent librarian, Mr Harris, and are in every classroom - and now on the corridors to reinforce our message and ethos.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

One of the most experienced, informed voices on behaviour. Full of sound advice e.g. we’re past the pandemic, don’t victimise children by treating them as if they can’t help their behaviour now. They can and it’s healthy to hold them to account.

Bill Rogers: Where we are going wrong on behaviour

Rather than trying to be liked and accepted, teachers need to call every student to account, and craft their language to lead for better behaviour, says Bill Rogers

www.tes.com

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

2 years

If you think Sold A Story is pushing ´phonics only’, you are buying into the obfuscations of those whose sub-standard training, materials and practices have damaged millions of lives. In the thread below, @ehanford refutes these misrepresentations of her work - very well.

Emily Hanford

@ehanford

2 years

I'm seeing a lot of response to Sold a Story and to my work more generally. And I'm seeing something inaccurate being said. It's being said by people who are defending themselves. It's also being said by people who are promoting better instruction based on scientific research. 🧵

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

If we really want to level up: Have a gorgeous library in every town over 3,000 people, which includes a literacy centre so that anyone, of any age, can learn to read well. That’s how we can change the world for the better. Let’s not forget the dream of universal literacy.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 years

But can’t everyone see how these poor children are being oppressed?

Katharine Birbalsingh

@Miss_Snuffy

5 years

Performance tables came out today and... Super well done to ⁦ @danicquinn ⁩ and her Michaela Maths team! 🥰

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 years

Many people will soon be sitting down to cosy Christmas dinners to enliven the darkness of winter. Spare a thought for those of us trapped in s Southern Hemisphere summer, trapped in a subtropical paradise and spoilt rotten by family. It is SO tough. Merry Christmas.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

Today's Sunday Times article claims that there is a crisis in reading, as if we haven't had one for decades. Let's get the facts straight, and our priorities right:

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

@Learncompsci Consistency from the top all the way down is required. If leaders aren’t consistent, it’s game over. For teachers, obvs. Senior leaders can insulate themselves if they want, while everyone else suffers.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

This is, in my view, exactly why we have such a dangerous government now, and why we will again if we don’t climb off our tribal horses and work together - highest priority, electoral reform that ensures representation is linked to all votes.

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

4 years

If Labour wants to win the next election, it will follow this plan. ⬇️ If it doesn't follow it, it won't win. Real simple.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

Large scale study spends millions to find that a programme that doesn’t teach children to read doesn’t improve their reading.

EEF

@EducEndowFoundn

3 years

The evaluation of AR found that children who started the programme in Year 5 and Year 4, on average, made no additional progress in reading compared to children in comparison schools. Find out more: Read the full report:

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

My key message at #rEdKent today: there are no magic bullets, but *nothing* gives a return on investment like teaching a child to read - at any stage of their education.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

That’s one of the key purposes of behaviour systems - to prevent that from happening.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

I disagreed with @toadmeister 's article but it should surely be debated not buried. V concerned at the fear of debate in education.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

New research shows controversial Reading Recovery program eventually had a negative impact on children | APM Reports

New research shows controversial Reading Recovery program eventually had a negative impact on...

Initial gains from first-grade intervention didn’t last and kids performed worse in third and fourth grade.

www.apmreports.org

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

So much misattribution of learning problems as 'disabilities' or 'problem children' when the truth is we didn't know how to teach them to read.

Dianne Murphy 📚🇳🇿🇮🇪

@ThinkReadTweet

6 years

The presenting problem is not always the problem to solve: our new book delves below the surface of learning problems.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Excellent analysis and rebuttal shows just how destructive trite words can be:

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

Sharing this with any schools who think AR is a reading intervention. Great to see clarity from the providers that it is not a tool to teach reading. Hugely helpful. @Team_English1

Accelerated Reader UK & Ireland

@AccReader

4 years

@HoratioSpeaks Hi James! AR isn't a tool to teach reading - it motivates independent reading practice and reading for pleasure. Celebrating Word Millionaires is just one way schools can use AR data to give an element of competition & motivate students to read more. (1)

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 years

I found school a stable and safe place in difficult circumstances. But I went there to learn, not for love, and learn I did. Important not to oversimplify and stereotype. Our fundamental job is teaching kids stuff that makes them smarter. That’s the best loving we can provide.

Raymond Friel OBE

@friel_raymond

5 years

"Children who are loved at home, come to school to learn; those that aren't, come to school to be loved." From a headteacher a while back and it stayed with me. For many children, going back to school this week is a return to a stable and loving environment. #backtoschool

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

Agree, and also: if children ‘correct’ nonsense words to known words, they are not fluent readers at all. They are using whole-language strategies to guess instead of decode. Which is what the PSC is designed to expose, and why whole language proponents hate it so much.

Greg Ashman

@greg_ashman

3 years

NEW TODAY Zoe Lyons on the phonics check: Yet more uninformed commentary #edchat #edreform #education #aussieED #ukedchat

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

It's not about how much we 'care', it's about what we do to improve outcomes for children. V clear post from @tombennett71

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

Don’t read this thread if you aren’t up to more dystopian news. But the media’s bland treatment of many thousands of deaths is dystopian. The growing personality cult of Johnson is dystopian. Meanwhile, NZ has 1/12 of UK population and has had one death. Think about that.

Edwin Hayward

@edwinhayward

4 years

The death toll from coronavirus was over 900 people in 24 hours. So what do the media focus on? The fact Boris Johnson apparently sat up in bed. Hey, that's good... but what about all those deaths?! Why were we shouting about Italy for so long, but not now about ourselves?

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James Murphy

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4 years

Investigative journalism may be harder to find, but @BylineTimes has some crackers, especially the recent signing of @sianushka Some very rapid butt-covering following this story, and some very illuminating information on the protagonists:

sianushka

@sianushka

4 years

When I started writing this story about Tory links to the Invicta Academy, Tory MPs, councillors & associates were described as "sponsors". After I requested a comment, the Sponsors page was deleted & replaced with supporters: @BylineTimes

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

10 months

Can’t believe how lucky I got.

Dianne Murphy 📚🇳🇿🇮🇪

@ThinkReadTweet

10 months

OTD 45 years ago: On a beautiful spring day in New Zealand, I said “I do” to this wonderful man. @HoratioSpeaks Who knew what would follow? Two daughters. A move to the other side of the world. The satisfaction of working together ensuring all children learn to read.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Instead of ensuring that bottom 20% get very best teaching, govt focuses on finding selective places for top 10%. Shameless.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

1 year

Why is the attainment gap increasing? A very cogent question, since as ⁦ @daisychristo ⁩ explains, stronger students are getting stronger as well as weak getting weaker.

Why is the attainment gap increasing?

Weaker students are struggling - but stronger students are thriving

substack.nomoremarking.com

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

There is understandable concern about what students will have missed, or forgotten, in September. My guess is things won’t feel that different, because *every* year we !have to re-teach stuff students have forgotten. This is because we don’t teach them so that they can’t forget.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Really enjoying Thai dinner with Research Ed contributors and hanger-on @tombennett71 .

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

This is just half of what you need to read to know you’re safe to have a vaccination. So what happens to the millions of people who went to school but didn’t learn to read? This why literacy is an urgent social issue. It’s not a ‘nice to have’. It can be life or death.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

8 years

Phonics has some pretty great side effects, like the joy of being able to understand print instead of having to guess from 'context'.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

In case you are under the delusion that anything in education is more important than getting the teaching of reading right, here's what happens when we don't. ‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’

‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’

John Corcoran graduated from university and became a teacher for 17 years - but he had an extraordinary secret.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

2 years

There are a lot of interesting sentences in this piece but this one really stood out: ´At one point during Beth Rigby’s evisceration of the Prime Minister on Sky I quite literally had to hide behind the sofa.´

Sam Freedman

@Samfr

2 years

New post on the disastrous Tory party conference, what a Truss reset could look like, and the mechanism for removing her if things don't get better quickly. "Out of Control" (First half free to read; second half for subscribers)

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Everything you need to bust edumyths.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Great thoughts on how teachers can develop student writing in much smaller steps than we often do. Sharp focus, immediate feedback, time to revise and improve.

Doug Lemov

@Doug_Lemov

7 years

Developmental Writing, sentence-length assignments and fast revision.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

@amymayforrester Possibly the first time in history where civil disobedience involves behaving responsibly in defiance of a wildly irresponsible government.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

The most interesting thing about Gavin Williamson poking the edutwitter hive with a stick is how many people, once provoked, are capable of creating a dystopian fiction around the idea of students being quiet and paying attention.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

8 years

Creativity is not breaking rules. It's what you do when you've mastered the rules.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Excellent incisive writing that cuts to the mushy heart of pseudoeducation: via @EllenKMetcalf & @tombennett71

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 months

@oldandrewuk That standing on your desk to spout poetry does not inspire students but confirms that you are giant egotist with a captive audience.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

@PamelaSnow2 @ThinkReadTweet @tombennett71 We have so many stories of ‘problem’ students who made remarkable turnarounds once they learned to read. And schools consistently report a strong correlation between poor reading and poor behaviour.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Very proud to see my wife @ThinkReadTweet in print. Years of hard work coming on stream. Well done darling!

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

#rEDLang . @C_Hendrick suggests that teachers should focus on reading research rather than doing it - for now at least.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

What better Father’s Day gift from my daughter than a Cameo from the wonderful Rosie Holt ( @rosieisaholt ) Demonstrating excellent research skills and her usual brilliance! #cameofameo via @bookcameo

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Deeply impressed what @BarryNSmith79 and the team @GYCharter have achieved in such a short time. Students we spoke to were very positive. Huge potential being unlocked! Keep going!

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 years

@karenvaites @SlentzKen @Doug_Lemov @FaithBorkowsky @buckingham_j @ehanford @EdTrust @lifelonglit At secondary school the cumulative impact of reading failure is pervasive and many-headed. There are strong correlations with disruptive behaviour, exclusion and incarceration. There is growing evidence that students’ mental health is adversely affected.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Thank goodness for a voice like @amanda_spielman at the highest levels of the system. She's just enabled thousands to of teachers to breathe

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

Australian academic resurrects straw man, gives it a thrashing: "He said the problem was with those who advocate phonics as the only approach." Name one professional who is a phonics advocate who says this.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Do read this. It won't take long but it makes the point very clearly!

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

Given that we aren't even teaching them to read properly yet, why would anyone expect us to be training up critical news analysts? 20% are arriving at secondary without the skills they need to understand classroom material, let alone contextualise digital bias and falsehood.

Charlotte Hacking

@charliehacking

6 years

The national curriculum is not equipping children with the critical literacy skills they need to survive and thrive in the digital age, says the @Literacy_Trust Fake News Commission.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

8 years

A sharply focused piece providing the kind of evidence @timleunig called for via @headguruteacher #grammars

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

This is why I do what I do. Because education is the only way out. And if you can’t read, education is out of reach, whether you go to school or not.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

People simply can’t bear to accept that they were conned. Which is what con artists rely on to get away with it.

Byline TV

@BylineTV

4 years

Cambridge Analytica documents dumped online last night prove the data hacker’s involvement with both the Leave EU & official Vote Leave campaigns, as well as further evidence of connection between Bannon, Farage & Aaron Banks - killing the theory it didn’t intervene in Brexit.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 years

This book is full of powerful, myth-busting, and research-informed advice. Useful for ALL teachers who teach in English! Primary, secondary, SEN

John Catt Educational from Hodder Education

@JohnCattEd

5 years

⏰Excellent timing! The new ' @researchED1 Guide to Literacy' edited by @HoratioSpeaks is back, just in time for our 50% off Black Friday promotion this week. Use code CATT50 on the SHOPPING CART page for 50% off any order - before midnight Friday.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

Over The Abyss

“ . . . But so much was our love, We would not understand what was most fit; But, like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging, let it feed Even on the pith of Life.” Tonight we are …

horatiospeaks.wordpress.com

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

@Samfr Because he has no sense of consequences, having escaped from so many that would befall a less privileged, less mendacious person. I guess.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

2 years

Very much this. They can’t ‘lose’ places they hadn’t yet earned. Unless you think that they were theirs by birthright.

Sam Freedman

@Samfr

2 years

Urgh at this framing. Private schools don't own the places. As more and more state school pupils compete for places of course they will get fewer each year.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

When speakers like Mark Diamond make recourse to claims about money to deny the importance of systematic phonics, they demonstrate: 1. They have run out of arguments. 2. They lack integrity. #phonicsdebate

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Engelmann's DI may be the most powerful approach to learning yet devised. Yet how many of us know it? Find out more:

What is Direct Instruction and how can it help pupils in our classrooms?

About the course Many of the teaching methods in use in classrooms proceed from notions of learning that are conceptually limited. They do not sufficiently take account of the principles of learnin...

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

There are many ways that schools make exclusion more likely or even inevitable. Here are just seven:

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 months

@adamboxer1 Require schools to report standardised test scores for reading at end y9. Really simple but makes it apparent who’s doing something and who’s not. Relatively cheap but massive implications for future life and for society.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

Excuses for ensuring poor children do worse: Children must learn through play Developmentally 'not ready' Specific learning disabilities Class, gender stereotyping 'Disadvantage' Write on, QT!

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

I’m increasingly coming to the view that Accelerated Reader is highly inequitable. It rewards those children who can already read well. How do those who can’t read become ‘word millionaires’?

Michelle Stevens

@m_stevens0

4 years

How are schools finding enough time for students to become word millionaires in one year... Are you letting the students take the books home? Do you have timetabled Accelerated Reader lessons? @Team_English1 @AccReader

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

Important response to a disappointing and predictably shallow paper that claims phonics teaching is bad, once you change what you measure and leave out the relevant evidence.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

It's been a challenge to write but we're hoping people will get the message that all secondary teachers will be more use to their students if they understand how reading works, and what to do when it doesn't.

Dianne Murphy 📚🇳🇿🇮🇪

@ThinkReadTweet

7 years

Why is reading so important? #1 Our new book explains

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

This is an excellent piece, enjoyably written and clearly argued by @iQuirky_Teacher . On the romantic delusion of not having to teach stuff:

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Interesting research design and convergent with other studies. Phonics aids comprehension!

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

A nice change from delivering intense training: baking. Tonight’s effort is chicken and leek pie. Rustic but hopefully soul food!

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 months

This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

Buitengebieden

@buitengebieden

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Kitten trying to catch the sunlight.. 😊

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James Murphy

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1 year

School leaders - addressing illiteracy has to be part of your behaviour strategy if you want long term impact.

Thinking Reading

@ThinkReadHQ

1 year

When children learn to read after years of failure, major changes in behaviour, motivation and mood follow. Read more in our latest blog ‘Learning to Read – what started going right?’ (7 min read). #EduTwitter

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James Murphy

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3 years

@jon_hutchinson_ V few people in secondary schools know much about phonics. Or about related reading skills and reading acquisition. If students and teachers learn and teach through language, then teachers need to understand language deeply - regardless of subject or year group.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

This paper from @buckingham_j is concise, lucid and damning. Essential reading for anyone concerned with early reading, reading intervention, and educational policy around the funding of reading interventions.

Jennifer Buckingham

@buckingham_j

6 years

Reading Recovery: Evidence from studies involving thousands of children shows a short term positive effect but no medium/long term benefit. @FIVEfromFIVE

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

And this is why we wrote our book about adolescent reading. It's not too hard and it's not too late to solve these problems. If we don't, the results are catastrophic. Literally. The catastrophe might be silent, but it is no less real for that.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

Christmas Eve, sunrise. Wishing you peace, joy a good rest.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Researching ancient arrangements of classroom furniture today. #windowgate

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

Lots to challenge in this - many of the ‘SoR claims’ that being debunked are actually straw men. Example 1. SoR advocates have always advocated for ‘The Big Five’ not just phonics.

Rod

@rodjnaquin

5 months

Robert Tierney and David Pearson take a close look at 10 major assertions that are often put forward by advocates of the "Science of Reading" (SoR) approach to literacy instruction. SoR has gained a lot of traction recently, with its emphasis on explicit, systematic phonics as

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James Murphy

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4 months

Nothing illustrates the unreal world created by social media better than the vehemence with which people argue for complying with ideas that have no basis in the real world. Thus, schools are prisons; teachers are oppressive; questions in class are either cruel or capitalist . .

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

@AccReader Thank you for being so explicit about AR not being a tool to teach reading. Many schools seem confused on this point so I will point them to your tweet in future.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

We're starting to ditch learning styles. Now to ditch contextual guessing that leads to so many comprehension and decoding problems later on

five from five

@FIVEfromFIVE

7 years

Decoding is more reliable than guessing @sydney_dyslexia @ReadingCentre @DyslexiaSPELD @dyslexia_sa @SarahAsome

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

It’s wonderful to be here, with the person who understands me most. She has stuck with me through thick and thin (and I can be quite thick).

Dianne Murphy 📚🇳🇿🇮🇪

@ThinkReadTweet

6 years

40 years ago today, on the other side of the world, I married my best friend ⁦ @HoratioSpeaks ⁩ ❤️🇳🇿Celebrating in Sicily 🇮🇹

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

I do not believe intelligence is fixed and immutable. Teaching - esp teaching them to read well - can change outcomes dramatically. Seen it!

Thinking Reading

@ThinkReadHQ

7 years

Low reading makes it difficult to succeed in IQ tests, but that doesn't mean a lack of intelligence.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

6 years

What is sometimes overlooked is the two arrows. ‘Increasingly strategic’ comprehension required ‘increasingly automatic’ decoding. Some guidance leaves out this crucial element.

Amy McGovern

@AmyMcGovern1

6 years

Still one of the most compelling visuals for reading. Every strand of the rope requires instructional attention.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 months

At Greenwich High School for #researchEDG . Buzzing crowd in the biggest school I think I’ve ever visited. All set up to talk about how not being able to read affects young people emotionally and socially- and what we can do about it!

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

4 years

I can’t get over what @MarcusRashford has done, not just for hungry children, but for restoring faith in human decency in the UK.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

It’s very sad that 186 people died of coronavirus today, like so many other days lately, and we’ve just become used to it. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends. Not numbers. People.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

3 years

Excellent and thought-provoking talk by @gdmorewood at Essex sec HTs conference. What helps autistic learners also benefits non-autistic students. How to redesign learning contexts to reduce everyone’s stress. 👍🏻

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

7) It is a myth that good readers don't rely on decoding. The reverse is true: poor readers rely on visual cues / context, not decoding.

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

7 years

Excellent post! @Team_English1 would all benefit from this. Lovely to see sources cited. #notjusthunches

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James Murphy

@HoratioSpeaks

5 years

This post. Always. Please read, especially if you work with children in challenging situations.

Robert Rogers

@choirdoc

5 years

Reading isn’t just about reading: “...the single most powerful predictor of their ability to overcome the trauma and survive their circumstances is the ability to read.”

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