Favourite EduBlogs and Vlogs

A blog about blogs (and a couple of vlogs/podcasts thrown in). I love learning from others. I love sharing and celebrating others' successes. I also love learning with them through mistakes too!

For me connection and collaboration are key. Without either of these things, I feel like my growth is stuck in the mud and I start to worry that I am not equipped well enough to best serve my pupils as an educator.

Here is a blog about my favourite blogs right now. It will be continuously updated and serve as a record to me of my learning through others' learning but also as a huge shout of appreciation to these bloggers for inspiring me too!

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May 2020

1) Hedreich Nichols Blog and her new Small Bites episodes on YouTube are incredibly inspiring. It is the responsibility of all educators to ensure equity within their classrooms, schools and wider communities. Hedreich explores strategies for promoting equity with such passion, heart and love that you will finish reading one of her blogs or watching her videos with more energy and fire than you started with!

2) Action Hero Teacher's blog also explicitly talks about equity and how we can promote it through our approach to behaviour in schools! I very much wish I had read some of his blogs whilst teaching in an inner city school in London!

April 2020

1) Naomi Toland's Empathetic Educators YouTube channel. After connecting with Naomi on Twitter I started to watch her awesome YouTube Channel and listen to some of the Empathetic Educator podcasts. What I absolutely love about all of Naomi's work is her vulnerability to share her learning and struggles whilst maintaining such a steadfast passion for becoming a better educator every day! I have loved taking part in her twitter chats too (@naomi_toland) every other Sunday using the #Empathetic_Educators. Next chat is July 19th check it out!

2) Benjamin Doxtdator's Blog - A Long View on Education. I first read the post Beyond Champions and Pirates by Benjamin. To me it highlighted that educators cannot continue to pedal the attitude that "a mindset will help you achieve anything" as this completely ignores systemic racism and prejudice. It in effect gaslights those who are treated unfairly into thinking the reason they aren't achieving is on them and not down to the multitudes of glass ceilings still invisible within work places, organisations and systems today. An absolute must read if you are obsessed with mindset within education!

March 2020

1) The Reflective Educator by David Wees (@davidwees on twitter) - an awesome blog for Maths teachers wanted to unpick mathematical procedures versus concepts! Loved reading his blog about why multiplying with two negatives becomes a positive!

February 2020

1) George Couros' Blog - for all things Innovator's Mindset! Love reading his blog whilst reading his second book Innovate Inside the Box. One of my favourite's so far is 4 ways to not let others dim your light (click here to view it).

2) TeacherToolkit - a blog by Ross McGill and lots of other awesome educators. This blog helps me keep my finger on the pulse of UK education whilst I am teaching internationally. I also still absolutely love the #5minlessonplan resource page (click here to find it).