I wish I had the kind of life where a 10pm curfew affected me.
Becky Allen
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Becky Allen
@profbeckyallen
Recovering academic | co-founder of @teachertapp | now mostly thinking about instruction and learning | yes, I do have a Substack.
- I think we should declare tomorrow ‘National Find Your Logins to Your Child’s Online Learning Platform Day’.
- When I run the education system, no two schools will be allowed to have the same name. Sorry to all the Saints, but you are a data cleaner’s nightmare.
- So one of my kids is going to get 22 hours a week of classroom instruction between now and end of July whilst the other will get zero hours. I just can’t get my head around how someone came up with this plan. 🤔
- Why is school closure binary? Why not increase social distancing a little to slow transmission? Stage 1: ask all parents who can home educate to do so Stage 2: keep just 1-in-10 schools open for health and other key worker kids What am I missing?
- My son was excited to be told he was having a spy teacher today. Less excited to discover she was just a supply teacher. 😂
- This may not be mad, just irrelevant: How often does a student get a better grade in mock than in exam?
- Thanks for all your kind words - I'm very excited about the new research centre and looking forward to sharing our plans very soon!Professor @drbeckyallen has been appointed Director of the new Centre for Education Improvement Science. 📰 bit.ly/2zGKoc0
- Think what you like about politicians, but this DfE party included civil servants - public officials - who were at the time forcing unvaccinated teachers to keep schools open amid the Covid surge.BREAKING: Gavin Williamson's lockdown-busting Christmas party investigated by Cabinet Secretary mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
- I’ve had to make some lifestyle changes to adapt to living in Tier 4. One is increasing my daily naps from one to two. Any other recommendations from Tier 4 veterans?
- Thought for the day: After this is over, we should introduce universal basic income of £1 a week for all citizens. That would set up the infrastructure for us to immediately ramp it up to £100 or £500 a week at times of crisis like this.
- If schools have large numbers of kids in every day, transmission rates won’t fall so all the other children will be at home until May, which will be catastrophic for non-key worker families.Williamson clearly says that only ONE parent needs to be a critical worker in order to access a school place for their child. (We have results from @TeacherTapp coming up on how many schools are following this at 3.30pm)
- My husband is teaching my 11yo to tie a tie ready for Friday. It’s a fraught training session. Still, at least it’s an essential life skill to prepare her for a life as a male estate agent (or something). (Who else wears ties nowadays?) 🙄
- Transcript of the #teacherworkload speech I gave last night. Warning - speeches are made to be heard and not read. The book chapter with @Sam_Sims_, when we finally publish, is much clearer and more concise. beckyallen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/2017-1…
