The Association of National Teaching Fellows @ntfellows.bsky.social The ANTF vision is “To enhance and embed the impact of National Teaching Fellows in promoting excellence in teaching and learning.” https://ntf-association.com/
EFYE 2025 @efye2025.bsky.social Connecting people & ideas to improve first-year student experience in higher education through workshops & engaging conversations.
The theme for EFYE 2025 is 'Bring on the future!
Shaping the first year experience
in a rapidly changing world'.
Emma Duke-Williams @emmadw.bsky.social Ed Tech & Learning Designer, interested in Social Aspects of learning. Outside work love travelling, photography & Lego #EduSky #AcademicSky
Kelly Smith @smithkj.bsky.social Enterprise and entrepreneurship educator at the University of Birmingham. Art collector and greyhound guardian. PFHEA, Fellow and Life Fellow of EEUK, and Fellow of ISBE.
The OEAP @theoeap.bsky.social Outdoor learning and educational visits advice and guidance- A AnneMarie Graham @amgraham.bsky.social Chief Executive at UKCISA
Chair of Trustees at Ouseburn Trust
Rhonda Hewer @rhondahewer.bsky.social MEd, Lecturer @WLU, Math Consultant @WRDSB, Learner, @LeadandDesign Fellow, Master of Creative Disobedience and Disruption, Adventure Seeker, Hiker, Kayaker
Aaron King @9000lives.org Inclusion | SEND | Schools
Be kind, even if someone's different to you.
98% positive. Yorkshire. #Edusky #SENDSky #Inclusion
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Carly Waterman @carlywaterman.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Painter. Thinker. Listener. Bad dancer.
Interests: education, history, philosophy, trance, musicals, politics, activism, food.
Dr. Sarah Parkes @grainparkes.bsky.social Passionate about HE staff development, student learning and success. National Teaching Fellow, CATE Award Lead and SFHEA. Reader in Collaborative Pedagogies and Practice at Birmingham Newman University
Jo Tedstone @j0tedstone.bsky.social Change Lead for Education @ YEF. PhD student @ Lancaster University exploring associative stigma & children living with parental alcohol misuse. Chair of Governors. Romans 8:18 🙏🏼 Views are my own.
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social Working with National Writing Project teachers and students to create Writing Partners writingpartners.net a social annotation platform that supports AI-guided writing, reading, and discussion. I'll be posting here about what we are learning together.
Natasha Porter OBE @natashaporter.bsky.social CEO and founder Unlocked Graduates
Board for Children’s Commissioner, Impetus, Get Further & The Times Crime and Justice commissioner. Young Australian of the year in the UK 2025.
Into all things education/prison reform/leadership
Leora Cruddas CBE @leoracruddas.bsky.social Chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
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Andrew Old @oldandrewuk.bsky.social Teacher and blogger. My blog can be found at https://andrewold.substack.com/
#ukteaching
Jack Worth @jackworth.bsky.social Education economist at NFER researching recruitment and retention in the education workforce
Luke Sibieta @lukesibieta.bsky.social Research Fellow at IFS, independent consultant, posts about about school funding, education, inequalities and cycling
Ravi Gurumurthy @raviguru.bsky.social CEO, Nesta and Behavioural Insights Team. Governor, Health Foundation.
What I do: applied research, venture building, policy. Particularly in net zero, education and health.
Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71.bsky.social Behaviour advisor to the UK Department of Education. Founder of researchED. Professor of School Behaviour. Academica University of Applied Science.
Loic Menzies @loicmnzs.bsky.social Edu-policy specialist. Chief Research Officer @centreedusyst.bsky.social
Teacher, teacher trainer & youth-worker first
✍️Writing📖 on policy making
🎓Academically affiliated Jesus College Cam/Sheffield IoE
🧗Often Climbing
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Emma Norris @emmanorris.bsky.social Deputy CEO @ippr.org. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Former deputy and now senior fellow @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Progressive. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social Prof Public Policy & Director, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Trustee at Foundations and HEPI. Chair, Living Wage Commission.
Sarah Waite @sarahjwaite.bsky.social Former teacher & Labour education adviser, now CEO of @getfurther.bsky.social #loveourcolleges
Steve Rollett @steverollett.bsky.social Deputy CEO of the Confederation of School Trusts (CST). All opinions are my own.
Martin Smith @martinrsmith.bsky.social Head of Policy Lab, Wellcome. Science policy things, puns, cats
UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social CEPEO is a research centre at UCL working to improve education policy and wider practice to equalise opportunities http://ucl.ac.uk/ioe/cepeo
Confederation of School Trusts @cstvoice.bsky.social We are the national organisation and sector body for school trusts in England advocating for, connecting and supporting executive and governance leaders.
Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social Journalist, now with my feet up. Ex-editor of Education Guardian. Also ex-Indie. Feminist. European. Labrador lover. Beetroot hater. Born in Chipping Norton. Surrey, West Oxon, Arizona.
Prof Sam Twiselton @samtwiselton.bsky.social OBE Emeritus Prof, Education Policy Advisor Visiting Prof UoS, Former Founding Director of SIoE,Chair of DfE ITT CCF Group, PFHEA FCCT. Proud Cumbrian
Samantha.twiselton@shu.ac.uk
Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com Dad | Professor of applied sciences @AcademicaUoAS | Dubliner | PhD @KingsCollegeLon | Keats devotee | persecuted by an integer
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Keziah @keziah70.bsky.social Executive Headteacher. Co-founder WomenEd. Co-chair of Headteachers’ Roundtable. FCCT. Writer of Punk Leadership. Pug wrangler. From Bath to Brum.
Rob Coe @profcoe.bsky.social Director of R&D at Evidence Based Education; Senior Associate at Education Endowment Foundation; Visiting Professor at Loughborough University.
Former maths teacher and professor of education
Peps @pepsmccrea.bsky.social Keeping you (teachers) informed // Director of Education, Steplab // Author of Evidence Snacks, a weekly 5-min email read by 25k+ teachers → https://snacks.pepsmccrea.com 🎓
Caroline Barlow @carolinebarlow.bsky.social Headteacher Heathfield Community College. History teacher. LLE. MBA. HTRG. Co-Chair #HeadsRoundtable #AmbitionLeadership. All views my own. Occasional blogging/published pieces via: https://residueofthinking.wordpress.com/
Tom Rees @tomrees.bsky.social Chief Executive - Ormiston Academies Trust.
Chair of the DfE's Expert Advisory Group for Inclusion.
RHB.
Isaac @isaacmoore7.bsky.social Deputy headteacher
Curriculum/Assessment/Reading/CPD
Co-author of Desirable Difficulties In Action
Daniel Muijs @danielmuijs.bsky.social Professor of Education, Queen’s University Belfast
Kate Jones @katejonesteach.bsky.social Teacher. Senior associate for Teaching & Learning at Evidence Based Education. Author. Mum.
Clare Sealy @claresealy.bsky.social Head of Education Improvement for the States of Guernsey. Blogs at primarytimery.com
#UKteaching
Claire Hill @clairehill.bsky.social Executive Director @Steplab_co | Expert Advisor for Ambition Institute | Standards Officer @LitdriveUK | NPQEL I Co-author of Symbiosis
Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social School improvement lead for a small but varied and beautifully formed trust. TES columnist.
Education, improving things for our most vulnerable. Literature, Yorkshire, folklore.
Susan Acland-Hood @susanaclandhood.bsky.social Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education, parent of teenagers, singer, reader and proud nerd
Cassie Buchanan OBE @cassiebuchanan.bsky.social Trust Leader at The Charter Schools Educational Trust. Interested in ideas & people making a positive difference to the lives of children & young people - education, better starts for our youngest children & good economic policy
TobySalt @tobysalt.bsky.social Former serial CEO , now advisor and non executive chair.
Lekha Sharma @lekhasharma.bsky.social School Improvement Advisor, Author-‘Curriculum to Classroom’ & ‘Building Culture’, MSc Student Oxford University. Views my own.
David Bartram @davidbartram.bsky.social Director Prescient Education | Trustee KPMG Foundation | Advisory Board Education Policy Institute | Author Beyond Boundaries | Editor Great Expectations
Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social Yorkshire based freelance writer, TES columnist, author of books and school support person.
Ex-HMI and national geography lead
Once a teacher
Wanderer of hills, wonderer of everything else.
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Julie McCulloch @juliemcculloch.bsky.social Chief Executive at the Education Policy Institute. Views my own.
Dr Neil Gilbride @neilgilbride.bsky.social Academic #education #adultdevpsychology #edleadership. Chartered Psychologist. PhD AED &sch leadership TF'11. Assoc. Dean @Ambition_Inst Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Uni. Of Worcester. Views my own.
Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social Trust Teacher Development & Curriculum Lead, GMET | Deputy Chair,TrustCPDLeads | Speaker,co-Auth ‘The Trouble With English’, ‘Love the One You’re With-Why Teachers Stay & What We Can Learn From Them’. | LeadingTrusts100 | Running, Reading, Red | Views Own.
Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social Science teacher
Education Director at Carousel Learning
Teacher Trainer
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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social Co-Founder of TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Former editor of Schools Week & Guardian columnist. Once a teacher, always a teacher.
SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
Dr Debra Kidd @debrakidd.bsky.social Teacher, doctor, author, Leader of Learning and Teaching at the British School of Brussels.
Books: Curriculum of Hope, Teaching Notes from the Frontline, Uncharted Territories and Becoming Mobius. A Pedagogy of Power currently gestating!
Natalie Perera @natalieperera.bsky.social Chief External Affairs and. Communications Officer, AQA
Charity Trustee and former civil servant.
Education Endowment Foundation @theeef.bsky.social Supporting schools, colleges, and early years settings to make a difference with evidence.
http://eef.li/news-alerts
UCL Centre for Holocaust Education @uclholocaust.bsky.social We are the world leader for research informed teacher and student Holocaust education. Part of UCL Institute of Education.
https://holocausteducation.org.uk/
#edusky
Dr Jeffery Quaye OBE PhD @jefferyquaye.bsky.social Chief Executive Officer. OBE. PhD, PQSI, HonDEd, AST, FRSA, FCCT, DfE Advisor, Liveryman, Trustee. Former National Director of Education and Regional CEO.
Interested in Bourdieu's social field theory, social class, race, gender & maths education.
Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social Journalist.
I like sad soup and rocks.
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social Lead Politics Presenter, Sky News
Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver
📧 thomas.calver@the-times.co.uk
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
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Matt Whittaker @mattwhittaker.bsky.social Chief exec at PBE (Pro Bono Economics). Previously at Resolution Foundation. Inequalities-focused economist, cinephile, football coach (Fishersgate Flyers u17s), player (Sweet FA) and fan (Spurs & Stockport County).
Fliss James @flissj.bsky.social 🌟Assistant Head Teacher Sheringham Nursery School & Children’s Centre
🌟Director @elresearchsch.bsky.social
🌟#earlyyears
https://sheringham-nur.org.uk
https://researchschool.org.uk/eastlondon
Carolyn Jackson @carolynjackson.bsky.social Professor of Gender and Education at Lancaster University, UK. Works on gender-related violence in higher education, 'lad culture', gender and learner identities, fear in education.
Aaron Porter @aaronrossporter.bsky.social London. Theatre, football, running, reading, travel, dining out, politics ⚽️🏏🎭🏃✈️
Chair, BPP University; Deputy Chair, Goldsmiths University; Trustee @kingsheadtheatre; Non-Exec, IFoA; School governor
@headsroundtable.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social
SecEd @seced.bsky.social SecEd is a free secondary education best practice website for teachers, support staff & school leaders. Weekly ebulletins. Best practice articles/case studies. Regular podcasts & webinars. Best practice downloads. Posts by @pwhenshaw.bsky.social
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Nicola Woolcock @nicolawoolcock.bsky.social Education Editor, The Times
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social We are the UK's national academy of academics, learned societies & practitioners in social science & the founder of the Campaign for Social Science. We exist to promote social sciences in the UK for public benefit: www.acss.org.uk
Hermione Thompson @hermo2610.bsky.social Education policy
Association of Colleges @aoc-info.bsky.social The national voice for further education, sixth form, tertiary and specialist colleges. Our members educate and train 1.6m people each year. #LoveOurColleges
aoc.co.uk
Alison Peacock @alisonpeacock.bsky.social Passionate teacher and Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching. Learning without Limits.
Dan Worth @dan-worth.bsky.social International editor at Tes - news, analysis, interviews, long-form, you name it. I like running, cycling, books, puns. Two children = very tired all the time.
Steve Munby @stevemunby.bsky.social Visiting Professor at UCL. Facilitator ARC summits. Former CEO of National College for School Leadership and EDT. A Geordie and a supporter of Newcastle United.
Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social Education journo (Head of News at Tes Magazine)/data nerd/school governor/mum of girls
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news
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John Blake @johndavidblake.bsky.social Director, The Post 18 Project // Professor of Social Innovation and Public Policy at University of Salford // musical theatre obsessive
Geoff Barton @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social Recovering English teacher, headteacher, and union baron. Chiefly: food, books, Shakespeare, oracy, articles of interest … and gratuitous pics of border terrier Molly B.
https://linktr.ee/geoffbarton
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) @ascl-uk.bsky.social ASCL is a leading professional body representing more than 25,000 school, college and trust leaders in all phases across the UK.
Ian Pickup @profianpickup.bsky.social Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor; currently Acting DVC, the Open University, UK.
Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org Inorganic Chemistry || University of Liverpool || Education || Blogging || Textbooks || www.michaeloneill.org || PERIODically Podcast supporter
(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social Lecturer in UKHE (North East).
Interdisciplinary. Qualitative.
Lost my brother to suicide and that matters in all I do.
Research: Mental Health in HigherEd settings; Sibling Suicide Loss. Lived(ing) Experience.
Mum 👧🏻👼🏻 🐶. 🇬🇧 🇲🇽
https://sibsas.blogspot.com/
Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social online pedagogies, digital/data/multiliteracies, belonging, open ed. Three Fires Confederacy land. they/she.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
Tom Whitby @tomwhitby.bsky.social Author, Blogger, Speaker, podcaster, 40 yr teacher, Founder #Edchat, Blog: My Island View https://tomwhitby.com senior consultant http://www.innovations4education.com/
Kat Hart @katjayhar.bsky.social Registered Veterinary Nurse and Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Nursing, Department of Animal Health, Behaviour and Welfare, Harper Adams University
Dr Chris Martin CPsychol AFBPsS @drchrism.bsky.social EdD SFHEA FSEDA CPsychol AFBPsS | Academic Developer - Professional Practice Lead | AdvanceHE Fellowship Lead | Academic CPD | Module Leader - MA Education Dissertation
Richard Wallis @richardwallis.bsky.social Teach and research at The Media School, Bournemouth University in the UK.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-wallis-8161976/
Academic profile: https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rwallis
Ruth Arnold @rutharnold1.bsky.social Public Affairs, Intl Education & Charities
Outstanding Contribution PIEoneerAwards 2020
#WeAreInternational cofounder
Poetry and ideas. Own opinions, open to revision.
Dr Nicola Byrom @nicolabyrom.bsky.social Mum to 2 tiny super stars | Reader King’s College London (IoPPN) | Founder Student Minds| Leader SMaRTeN, UNISMaRT & UBelong | students and public mental health
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
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