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Not to forgot EMC's own 😉

Ahhh actual real books about watching Shakespeare! National Theatre in Schools
British Shakespeare Association Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance Team English English & Media Ctr two teachers and an academic writing about practice, history and policy

Each year the #CLiPPA24 highlights the best contemporary poetry for children, and we think this year's shortlist does just that! A huge congrats to Matt Goodfellow Kate Wakeling Julio Serrano Echeverría Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Stephen Lightbown Nikita Gill & everyone involved in ‘My Heart is a Poem’. 🥳

'Really helpful, concise and interesting.'

Looking for inspiration for teaching poetry? Join Barbara Bleiman for EMC CPD Online: Teaching Poetry at A Level (21.5.24).

Book by: 8am on 17 May
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EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Refresh Your Approach to A Streetcar Named Desire (22.5.24)

Emma and Lucy have loads of teaching ideas and resources on the play. You will also hear from Professor Sos Ellis of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Book by: 8am on 20 May
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EMC CPD Online: Refresh Your Approach to Shakespeare at KS3 (16.5.24)

'I thoroughly enjoyed it. Katie and Anmika were knowledgeable & clear. I've come away with ideas that will help at KS4 as well.'

Book by: 8am on 14 May
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A thoughtful, generous review of #ReadingLessons from Annie. Thank you!

New book on the fascinating topic of students watching Shakespeare. Written by EMC trustee Myfanwy Edwards + available online at cambridge.org/core/elements/…

NEW TOPICS!

EMC CPD Online: Politics, Critical Discourses and Narrative: Approaches for A Level English – Teacher Conference (15.5.24)

A chance to hear linguists discuss recent research relevant to A Level Language.

Book by: 8am, 13 May
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EngLangBlog

Hurray for this! Perceptive call for policymakers to reevaluate English. With shout outs to Carol Atherton & Charlotte Hacking CLPE theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Really important ideas to revive English as a subject, after the highly damaging policies of recent years. It needs to re-connect with its most important & valuable traditions. The Guardian view on English lessons: make classrooms more creative again. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A really lovely group of teachers on our CPD yesterday 'Beyond the Critical Essay', responding so enthusiastically & with such thoughtful ideas to everything we had to offer. The feedback was excellent, which is always very nice.

'Really helpful, concise and interesting.'

EMC CPD Online: Teaching Poetry at A Level (21.5.24)
Book by: 8am on 17 May

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation

EMC CPD Online: Teaching Poetry at A Level (21.5.24)

As usual, erudite and interesting. Barbara always makes me think in some slightly different way about things.

Book by: 8am on 17 May
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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation

Seminar 3b. Cathy Savage
A-Level English recruitment – bucking the trend
NATE Annual Conference 2024. King’s College London. Monday July 1st. (£19-£49)
Book your place here: nate.org.uk/summer-confere…

Spent two hours today mired in the annual faff of Spoken Language NEA admin. Never were so many filenames toiled over by so many English teachers for so little. Speaking and Listening ought to be so much more important than it is in the current incarnation of GCSE.

NEW COURSE!

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Lang Lit – Drama and Poetry (14.5.24)

Enrich your teaching of the combined English Lang and Lit A Level using recent advances in literary-linguistic scholarship.

Book by: 8am on 10th May
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EngLangBlog

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!
Book by: 8am on 3rd May: tinyurl.com/2zbbcyj5

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Refresh Your Approach to Othello for A Level Literature (8.5.24)

'The best CPD I have ever done. So impressed that Prof Emma Smith was there too!'