Today, I'm going to talk to you guys about how living full time in an RV literally saved my life Happy Sunday birdwatchers, it's Robin with creativity RV. I hope you're all doing well out there I'm doing great. As you can see, I'm in a beautiful place. The fall colors are out. Nobody else is around It's just after dawn and I thought this was a good time to talk to you about something pretty personal to me If you saw last week's video you saw that I kind of did a rant about all the YouTube channels telling people that RV Life is over and everybody's quitting and how there's a mass exodus and normally, you know I'm like let channels do what channels are gonna do. I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do but what bothers me about that kind of thing is that They could be affecting somebody who this life could really benefit Like it did me after I did that video. I couldn't stop thinking about it And I decided that now's a good time to tell you guys How RV life literally changed me and saved me If you've been following me for a long time, you've probably heard some of this But for all the new people, let me tell you how I stumbled upon this life I had never been in an RV Until a friend dragged me to one. It was an airstream dealership in Seattle and I did not want to be there I had a negative view of RVs and trailers at that point because I thought it was all retirees And I didn't understand how I could do that and it didn't look appealing to me in any way But when I walked into this airstream I had this moment where I I just imagined myself writing books at the dinette surrounded by the windows Because my degree is in creative writing. I'm also an artist and um I gave all that up To pay the mortgage to work a regular corporate job Because I thought that I had to for safety. I didn't understand how I could get health insurance and save for retirement and Have a place to live If I pursued my dreams as an artist, I thought that I had to Sell out and go into the corporate world to have those things and then my family got the sad news that my sister Terry who was two years older than I was Was diagnosed with a really aggressive form of cancer Now my sister had the same kind of job I did. In fact, we were pretty competitive in that field and I was really surprised that While I was taking care of her in her final weeks She asked me if I had two years to live if I would keep that job And the answer was no my sister could have asked me anything And the thing that she was most concerned about was how I was spending my time When she asked me if I had two years to live if I would keep my job What she was really asking me is if I died at 47 like she did what I have regrets And I would have and I knew in the moment That she asked me that question that something had to change and I had to find a way to live my life and pursue my dreams Before retirement because nothing is guaranteed everything could be gone in a moment So I remembered that airstream and that dealership And I just started ravenously binging youtube videos and seeing these people going down these dirt roads and I thought is that legal and how do they do that and how do they get power and they knew nothing about it I was not a camper. What I was Was a person who was held bent on figuring out how to live their life Before they died when I told my friends and family. I was going to do this I think they all thought I was nuts. I gave up a great job to basically live in a car and just barely make ends meet to pursue my dreams and They kept saying things to me like can't you just do that as a hobby and here's the thing I tried that and I was not fulfilled And I didn't want my dreams to be put into a tiny little box. I didn't want my dreams to be a hobby I really believed I was on the same path as my sister I was afraid that I was going to die To be totally honest with you guys I had really deep anxiety that I was going to Be told that I had just a few weeks to live or I was just gonna keel over Because of the stress of my job. I didn't love what I did every day I just got through it and then went home Sat on the couch tried to get enough energy or enough sleep to go back and do the job again And I was just a gerbil on a wheel running running running And how long can you really do that without any kind of personal satisfaction? I knew that It wouldn't be long for me and I'm being completely honest with you guys So the fear of that for me Was greater than the fear of an unknown rv life And so I dove into it. I went headlong. I went full time right out of the gate Even though I didn't know what I was doing even though my income wasn't secured Even though I had no friends on the road and I want to tell you guys that for me It was the best decision I have ever made I can't even imagine going back to my old life It's been six years and I'm not quitting anytime soon I can't even imagine living full time in the sticks and bricks At the most I can imagine as I get older maybe part timing But even that I have a hard time wrapping my head around when I saw those youtubers saying rv life is over and everybody's quitting with these heinous thumbnails You know with these scary skies and these big eyeball faces trying to scare everybody to get some views I got a little bit fired up because I know that there are people out there just like me That need an answer To move forward in their lives and rv life might be it and I don't want even one person to be dissuaded from that If that is going to be the key to their happiness like it was for me So I wanted to put out this video today To tell you guys That the life that you're living Doesn't need to be the only life you ever have There are lots of choices out there and if you don't know by the way how you can make a living from the road I wrote a book called work from home while you roam the ultimate guide to jobs that can be done from anywhere And if you haven't subscribed already, please do and hit the little bell Because next sunday a week from today I'm doing an entire video dedicated just to Jobs for our veers just to give you guys a taste of the hundreds of jobs that are out there now We do not have to be tethered to a location dependent job anymore And wait for retirement to be able to travel We can do it right now because of the internet and because of remote work One other thing that I did want to mention from the research I did on last week's video about rv life According to the latest reports again In 2023 the fastest growing demographic in rv life Is solo women around my age Ladies if you're out there and you're feeling stuck the water's warm dive in there's a whole community of us out here I cannot tell you how many Deep friendships I have with other nomads on the road since I've decided to pursue this life And the same could be for you if you decide to do it So don't be scared and if you want a community of like-minded positive people That are either already living this life or in the planning stages Do go to patreon.com and search for creativity rv because my tribe is fantastic Now I don't go to bed at night anymore Wondering if i'm going to wake up in the morning Like I used to and that's the truth Now I go to bed at night and think about all the places that I want to see before I die And my biggest concern is that I won't get to all of them in time I just want to have the longest happiest life so that I can see and do as many things as possible and that Is because of my rv life and that is how my full-time rv life Saved me and I hope that if anybody out there is Looking for a way forward I can be an example for you instead of the fear mongers All right, you guys I'll see you next Sunday with an all new video all about jobs that you can do from the road Until then everybody out there have happy travels And be free


Mae'r newid yn ymwneud i'w teimlo i'r teimlo fel ystau cyfnod. Rwy'n credu'r mewn gwahanol o'r tîmu, mae'r gwahanol o'n ddweud i'w ddweud o'n gwahanol i'r ddweud o'r tîmu, felly mae'n gweithredu o'r gweithredu, felly mae'n gweithredu o'r gweithredu. Mae'n an выходd o'r wyf ar ôl, o'r byw'r gweithredu o'r gweithredu. Mae'n anodd, mae'n anodd o'r gweithredu pryd yma. You may have seen it at previous Food Teacher Centre events, at other parts of London we went to. This is Rose here and otherwise and may have known as that teacher toolkit. The most followed purse educator in the whole of the U.K. on social media. A multi-award winning blogger, author, teacher, deputy head teacher. Dyma'r ddau teulu yn cymdeithasol lle'r ddau ddau'r ddau ar y naddw wir yn gwych, lle rwy'n hefyd, lle'r ddau ddau ffordd ar y naddw lai, er mwy wneud 25 rydw i'r ddau'r ddau sgol, bod eu bwysigol yn maen nhw'n ddoi'r bellach a'r llun ar gweithreul. C'ch wnaeth hynny i gaelfodd dros, atrofi'r hwn ar hyn, byddwn ni'n fathio am y prosiectol teulu, a efallai ei wedi ddweud i chi, atrofi'r gweithreul chi. Rhaid i gwybod. Rhaid i gyd, rhaid i gyd, ddwy'i gyd. Rhaid i gyd, Rhaid i gyd, Llu. Rhaid i gyd. O'r cyflawn i chi, dydyn ni, ychydig yn gwneud o'r amlwg. Rhaid i gyd. Rhaid i gyd. Rhaid i gyd. Rhaid i gyd yn gwneud o'r ysgolion gwylliau newyddol o'r ddweud, dwi'n meddwl sy'n gallu ni'n cymdeithas. Mae'r ddweud o'r cyflawn o'r ysgolion noblig, o'r ddweud o'r ysgolion.  So that's me, you know, for people that in the room will probably know my story last time we met, but for new people I started blogging 10 years ago when I lost my job as a senior teacher. My boy was born premature, so I started blogging as a dad to communicate with my family about all the things that he was going through, so he was born £1.99, it says 700g. Very traumatic, that alone, never mind losing your job at the same time. But when he got home safe I started writing a blog about teaching for therapy, and then six or eight weeks later I got back into a school with all the stigma associated about being redundant, you know, are you difficult to work with? What's wrong with you? Is it them or us? You know, all sorts of things. But I kept on blogging, it's become a habit, and it's now read all around the world, 250,000 followers, which is very flattering, but I'm just Ross, I'm just sharing ideas. I've just made blogging a habit to a point where I've got quite a large voice, I suppose, and it's led to all flattering things such as books and being asked to speak at events. Last year I've been training all around the country teachers, so I've committed to doing it full time. I've just started my doctorate at Cambridge, looking at how social media influences education policy, and if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you'll kind of know the occasional rant that I let out and how I'm trying to change the dialogue. But that's me. So what I would like to go through, I've got tons of stuff to try and squeeze in 60 minutes, so I don't know if I'll get through them all, but I'm going to do my best. I want you to go away with at least one or two things that you can try in your classroom. And while we do this, I want you to just, if you can get this web address on your browser please, on your phone, so on Chrome or Safari, whatever you've got, it can all be lower case. And while you're doing that, I'm going to increase your cognitive overload by asking lots of questions while you do that as well. So hands up, if you are a NQT in the room, any NQTs? Okay, fantastic, nice to see you here. People with responsibility who have to direct and manage other people, okay? School leaders in the room? School leaders, okay, welcome. Any part-timers? Okay, quite a lot of part-timers, good, that's really good to see. How come I have to go part-time before and after an inspection and then after an off study that happened, I wasn't allowed to go part-time? That's interesting isn't it? Anyway, there's more part-time requests than ever before if you look at the Department for Education Census. Any bloggers in the room? Food bloggers, come on. Okay, well done. This is an opportunity today for us to big up design technology in food. So the hashtag food tea centre, I want you to be taking pictures. At the moment I'm going to ask you all to take a selfie and we're going to tweet it to the world or Instagram or Facebook. That's fine, but we have to celebrate the arts in the current government agenda where it's narrow-minded. And dare I say people don't quite understand how to measure a good plate of food when you do and we understand that assessment and the work that's gone in. I think that's partly the problem. Anyway, I'll come to that all shortly. On your phone, it should automatic refresh. Tell me what we had for breakfast. I just want you to get used to the software. Nothing, coffee, tea, milk, juice, toast, jam, cereal, porridge, rice, a full English croissant, fruit, yoghurt or a muesli bar. What did you have? Look, we have a room of food tech teachers and five people, nine people are probably either full English this morning and a cup of coffee. So I'm quite in a good place. All right, fantastic. Okay. So that's just get warmed up so you can see this is poll everywhere. I use this as a free and a playful version and we've had 131 votes. Okay, it's great for the classroom. It's good for training days and it's great for school assemblies. Okay, next one. Teachers need feedback. How am I doing so far? If you're not happy, let me know. If you're not sure you haven't worked me out yet, if you're in the middle or if I'm doing okay. Okay, if I don't know, right. Where are you? Okay. Right, next one. One word. What's your workload issue? Reports. Press submit. Do it again. Press another word. Type it in. Submit.  Even if you sit next to your line manager, they won't know it's anonymous. Okay. When I ask this to trainee teachers, they do rude words because they haven't quite yet learnt the teacher standards. So keep it clean. There's no filter. Okay. So the more times the word goes in, the larger it gets. So it didn't take long for the boogie word to appear. Now I've asked 12 to 14,000 teachers, I think, from memory of the last 12 months, this same question. And in every school, in every setting internationally and all around the country, England, Scotland, Wales, that word comes up. What if we replace that word with feedback? Suddenly it looks different. I'm going to feed back to you on your work. Okay. What type of feedback? Written, verbal, maybe non-verbal. Okay. Lots of different ways to give feedback. I could do it right now or I can tell you in a week's time. So marking is blighting teachers across the country. So we have to. I think the root cause is exam board specifications, actually. But on our own level in classrooms, school leaders in the room, and that means all leaders, not just S or T. We have to change the dialogue. For the last 25 years, I've not yet discovered the most effective form of marking. I've got some good ideas of what might work in DT, but as a school leader across the whole school from master languages, there's no one-size-fits-all. So we have to allow departments to go off-piece and do their own thing. And if you tell a department to mark five times a month or once a week, it's not conducive. It's not helpful and you drive and teach your workload. In the current climate where we don't have enough teachers, that's a problem. OK, next one. Do you grade lessons, not grade lessons? Do you grade your teachers? Do you grade appraisal? So it's A or B, C or D, E or F? Or do you grade teachers' markbooks? What do you do in your school? College or FE setting? OK. 150 votes so far. OK. Now, this is quite scary. Did you just say that word? OK, this is very scary. I've not seen these results before. This is shocking. 2014, myself and a few other bloggers were invited to Ofsted headquarters. We challenged the notion that it's unreliable, a poor proxy, that I can come into your classroom and tell you how good you are in a snapshot. And schools four years later are still doing this to teachers. OK. You think I can come to your school on Monday morning and grade your lesson? I've got no chance. And I have observed, whether it's five minutes or a 60-minute lesson, in the last 70 years of my school education career, I reckon 40, 50,000 lessons. Pop it in high or low. How are you doing? Making a quick judgment. Learning walks. It's not a reliable measure. There are other ways of looking at quality teaching, which is why I think Ofsted are now moving to quality of education rather than teaching learning assessment. So if you're doing that, my provocation, I'd find another skill. If you can. I don't know what this looks like, how you do this, but appraisal, Michael Gove follows me on Twitter. No idea why. I have met the man. I have met the man, and I've told him, Michael, you've made performance-related pay statutory, but there's zero evidence to show that it improves classroom performance. Learning, or me as a teacher. I'll jump through hoops to get evidence to the hope that my head teacher can do that pay rise. But we know, American Scientific Association, 2014, I'm a good teacher, so is Louise. We both get up to 15% impact on kids' outcomes. The other 85% is out of our control. I work with kids in gangs and knives. Louise works on the coast, all the kids go surfing, they get tutoring, Wi-Fi, et cetera, et cetera. Demographics, post codes. You have mum and dad at home, I don't, et cetera. These things are out of our control. We only try to narrow the gap, and I think by grading schools, I think we're exacerbating social mobility and exclusion. No evidence. Show me the evidence. Someone send it to me. Where is the evidence to say, mark in a teacher's mark, books improves learning? Where is it? Show it to me. Where is the purple pen of progress evidence? Where is it? Show it to me. Show it to me. There's no evidence. Large multi-academy trust, whole school manufacture, are ranking teachers every six weeks from my research and insights through social media. I have teachers sending me anonymous emails, I'm sharing them anonymously, or screenshoting them out to the world, where schools are doing bad things. And I think it could be because of the system that then drives these bad decisions in schools.  Is mental health week last week or the week before, when last did your school talk about teacher mental health? We're good at talking about kids, but what about our own? Okay, so context for today. Professor Dylan William, he wrote assessment for learning in the original black box book. We all think it is assessment of learning, red, amber, green, colour, code and cells. It's assessment for learning. I ask you a question.  I internally decide what to do next and I evaluate the learning. Dylan says this. Now, I've been to a school, I've been probably 100 schools in last year. More than ever in my entire career. One school in the Swiss Alps, facing Mont Blanc, not only is it £95,000 a year for fees, second most expensive school in the world, but they have skiing on the curriculum. So why don't you have skiing on your curriculum? You don't know. It would be quite a good thing to do, wouldn't it? So because we don't live on a mountain, of course we're not going to have skiing, but every child in that school has to do skiing. And the staff. Context, they're on a mountain and they'll be probably snowed in many more days than we ever will here. OK, this quote. So when I share something you don't like, it might work in my school experience, but it might not work in yours. And can I just do a chat? I didn't ask. Anyone worked with early years? Primary teachers in the room, hands up. Primary, secondary. FE, so adult education higher, anybody. OK, so you've got a real mix. OK, people work with four-year-olds all the way up to adulthood. OK, and again it doesn't matter where you are. We're all at different stages and we see training. Teacher training is like a car MOT. I passed my test. I might have been 18, but you might have been 25. Doesn't matter, we both passed the test. But we still have to regularly reflect. It's like an MOT. Pump the tyres up, check the wipers every year. We get better at research, cognitive science, evidence, and then we need to tweak our interventions and approaches. And that's really important. It can't be you qualify and that's it. I'm just going to sail on for the next 40 years until I'm 68. It doesn't work like that. We need to constantly refine. Take a quick picture of this or write it down. You need a capital T and a capital P to grab loads of resources. While you're at it, let's everyone take a selfie or something or a picture of the screen or even me. And we'll get this all shared out on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. And let's big up design technology. OK, let's support the arts. Hashtag food, tea centres. So in this pack, loads of work, loads of tips, loads of videos, loads of things I've found on my travels, loads of resources from me. I'll stick the slides in after the event or I'll send them to Leeds and you can circulate them. But yeah, grab a quick selfie everyone. So you're a person next year. Hashtag food, tea centre. I'm going to grab one. OK, everyone give me a wave. OK, I'll get that tweeted out later. Right. OK, back to some serious business now. OK. So this is why I started 5 years ago when I started to really look at my own workload, the teachers that I was responsible for, plus the support staff, about 220 of them, in a huge school. This was Nicky Morgan. Do you remember Nicky Morgan? OK. Secretary of State, when you look at research, they're in and out every two years, two in a bit years. I think Damian Hines will go by Brexit when we have a big cabinet shuffle. The workload challenge, 44,000 teacher responses are top one, 56%, recording input and data. Hands up if you like putting data on Sims. A couple of people. OK, what happens if your Sims blows up tonight? How long will it take for kids to notice? Second one, mark it. Hands up if you like marking. All right, next one. Hands up if you like a meeting. Cake meeting. Yeah, I'll come to that meeting. OK. So firstly, staff meetings. Research shows if you have a stand-up meeting, they'll go quicker. If you have a difficult mum and dad coming, sit down, stand up in the corner and have a quick chat. OK. Walk around the school. It's good for your mental health. Get out of your office. Japanese schools, they have green, orange, amber lines, and some schools have researched. The green has 60 for 60 minutes, orange 30, red 15. Normal walking pace, you're around the school, you just follow the line that's got a number on the floor. It's good. Get out of your office. If we don't like meetings, why do we do them? We force everyone to go for an hour or two hours after school when they're exhausted to talk about loads of stuff. OK. Give them a bit of time to go off and actually do it in their working day. Three things we need to fix, OK? Has anyone looked at the Department for Education's Census? Hands up. One person. Just me and Louise are the geeks. OK. This date is 25 years old. So when we look at teacher attrition, it's well-known teachers leave in the first five years. Actually, they leave in the first three. Last year, 303 people trained to be a DT teacher. So that's one for every 10 secondary schools. OK. So when you want a DT teacher, you cut it up against one in the next 10 schools. So let's say 10% don't qualify. So that's 10 or whatever the numbers are, 303. To 15% in the first year after NQT. So already you've lost 25, 15%. 78, 73. So 27% of that 303 DT trainees have gone in the first three years.  And it's new to a profession. That's where we need good quality coaching and mentoring, folks. Or a school where they don't grade you and you've got to jump through a million hoops. OK. And if you've been teaching a long time like me, I had time even off the screen. 25 years, I think it was about 38% I was down to. So it drops every 2% you've been in the profession. Now, I think natural wastage happens in any pocket of society. OK. I don't think we'll ever get 100%. It's just unrealistic. But there are a lot of things we can do. We need a taxpayer money, but also to stop good people, including myself, leaving the profession prematurely. There are 35,000 people in the British Navy. In 2025, when the pupil population reaches secondary, we'll need 47,000 teachers. 35,000 in the British Navy, 47,000 teachers we'll need. OK. Has anyone read the book Outliers? Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm bastardised the comment 10,000 hour rule. A pilot teacher 10,000 hours to reach mastery. So if you teach full time 750 hours an academic year, how long do you need to teach to reach mastery? Anyone mathematician? Should all be mathematicians, food and maths? How long? About 13 years. You need to be in the classroom to reach that 10,000 hours. OK. So let me just show you one more slide. I'm going to get a vote on the screen. Why teachers leave the profession? This was published in June 2018. Not behavior, it's workload, off-stud pressure. Behavior is there and so is salary. But it's actually these reasons why people kind of quit. It's too much. So tell me, how long have you been teaching? Let's see what the experience looks like in here. So I've already kind of gauged a few hands survey questions. So if we need to teach 10,000 hours, and if Gladwell's right, when were you in your mojo really enjoying teaching? For me it was about my fifth or sixth year when I became a head of department, building, setting up new classrooms, having about a quarter of a million pounds to spend over four years. It was a breast time of my career. And I took risks. I made a few mistakes, but I was really thriving in my career. So let's see what the experience is here. So the 10,000. So we've got about, so it's at the top fluctuating. Sorry, I haven't put any statistics on here. It's just ranking. OK, so I can assume hands up if you're on the top bracket. Six to ten years, hands up, hands up. So it's probably a fifth of the audience. So not a lot. So these people are kind of in the mojo, so to speak. OK. Right, so enough from me. What would you do on your screen? You've got 15 choices. What the top five you would choose? It'll appear on the screen to reduce or reform, teach your workload. What do you think the profession thinks? So stick that on your phone. 15 choices. The top five appear on the screen. And then I'll try and squeeze in lots of ideas in the next, how long we got, another 40 minutes. So let's see. OK, and while these results are appearing, so we've got 200 results on the screen.  So the top one is, because if Damian Hines doesn't fund the school, then we're never going to fix that. Headteachers' hands are tied. So we have to keep fighting this nationally with social media post challenging, I mean Liz Truss, the Chief Secretary for Treasury, has said there's more funding for real terms, but actually the Institute of Fiscal Studies has proven that real term funding is down by 8%. She's in charge of the budget and she's got the stats wrong. She said it on the radio this week. What hope do we have? Those two, mark and data collection. We can do that in our own school. We can change the narrative. If I don't know what effective marking looks like after 25 years, what hope does mum and dad have at home when they last went to school 30 years ago and they still want Miss or Sir to do tick or cross on Freddie's homework at home? So we need to change the narrative. Let's change the word marking. I challenge all of you to never say the word marking again and say feedback instead. Data collection, I'm going to show you some data shortly. This, parents outside the school gates, social media, we need to change the dialogue. There's lots of negative stuff about teaching, but I also sense particularly from my research is we're at a place now where social media will give us a voice and there's loads of demonstrable evidence that I could probably share another time and show you how Twitter, blogs, all sorts has changed national policy. And again, the bottom one, PISA, they're looking at removing the testings. Finland is sweet, Singapore, they're always top of the league tables. Guess what? They have off-stead, but they don't publish a report to the public. And they're now talking about getting rid of the tests and actually rumour has it, creativity is going to become a false test. So watch this space, that would be good for all of us. So quick summary of workload. Get rid of the meetings. We don't like them. I'm not going to them anymore. Give your staff time to do them. Let's come together half an hour, half an hour, let's go off and do it. If your marking policy says you mark once a week or once a month, I'm more concerned do I mark once a month rather than am I marking what's right for Louise if she needs it? Coloured pens. Now context, still a William, something works somewhere but not everywhere. If I work in a visually impaired skill special needs, then maybe a purple pen is going to be important for the kids to find what to fix. Context. But if it becomes compliance, art, drama, maths teachers, food teachers, you've all got to use an aqua coloured pen. One school I've found uses aqua coloured pens. I can't even find a red pen half the time. Never mind buying an aqua one from a shop. Show me the research. Where is it? Quick some ideas. High expectations. Hands up if this looks familiar, this kind of data. It's a secondary one. There's a primary one, look at that. There's 32 kids there. Hands up if that makes you feel uncomfortable. Anyone make it feel comfortable? Now when I look at this data I used to think, God, it's very helpful once you understand it. If an NQT I wouldn't know where to start.  But am I now in the system of tracking an intervention or assessment of learning? Here you've got 14 kids. Student L is really naughty. Why? Well I can assume. Speech language communication is talented in art. Low attaining student has got a reading age of eight. My perceptions of that child before they arrive to my classroom when I get the data exported off Sims. 75 primary feeder schools into the secondary school. 12 teachers on the carousel evaluating what a level five looks like. That's 12 teachers versions of what level five is in DT. I've written a blog thinking we need to reform how we do curriculum in design technology. It's a matter of do we want experiences or do we want outcomes? Maybe we should just teach kids one subject for a year and get better results. Otherwise, when I teach the kids how to thread a sewing machine up, see you in a year, I hope you can remember, in a year's time, because you're going to get three other teachers before I'll see you again in year eight. Experience, yeah great, but outcomes, they're not going to retain much information. Here is a school that fine grades the kids. A grade A star, A star one, A star two, A star three, B, or A, sorry, all the way down to a G3. So you've got nine grades, now it's 27. So I've got it in my head before I put it on the Sims, hope that I've got Ross's grade right, and I've got to say effort, homework, behaviour, target grade on a scale of 27 possibilities. Okay, and that's 14 kids. Imagine doing this four, sorry my clicker's gone, doing it for 32. On my travels I met a teacher who's got 39 kids. Has anyone beat 39 kids? How many got 44? Right okay, I'm going to take that, that's 44, it's a lot. It's a lot of work, I mean look at all this. Like where do you start, take me an hour just to understand it and interpret it. So going to a point, if I look at our data calculator for teacher work though, 30 kids, I want you to enter data once a term, well you can do that, that's easy, it's 90 decisions. Oh but I want you to give me the effort, homework, current grade and target. 30 kids, three times a year, that's 360 decisions, I can do that, it's manageable. I want to do a fine grade now, A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, make the decisions, okay, so that's three more. 30 kids, three times a term, four fields on a nine point scale, that's 3,240 decisions you make. On a 27 point scale, it goes to 19,000.  But you just have, you have teach more than one class don't you? Primary teachers, they do English math, science, they teach 5 or 10 subjects, so do you in a secondary school? So look at the numbers, 5 classes, 65, 10 classes, 90,000. Anyone do we get data wrong, okay? So we need to just reform it, so easy way, this is my book, let's look at the data but it might be misleading, it might be inaccurate. The best thing a teacher does is I assess for learn. Coming to my lesson, 10 word spelling test, Louise spells volcano wrong, we won't do volcano food lesson, but pepperoni, I then support her how to spell this. She's a bit naughty, I move her to another seat. I then meet mum and dad, I talk to her outside the lesson, I go and see how she behaves in an art lesson, I triangulate and differentiate her over time. You haven't seen that as a school leader. When you come and ask me to show differentiation in a lesson in a 20 minute window, I'll say no because you didn't come and hear me talk to Louise's mum and dad on the phone last night or watch me in her art lesson, okay? That's me differentiating to try and make my life easier for Louise in the class, triangulating sources. That's just one child, never mind 30 or if you teach 300. So we need to also pop our perception of what we think differentiation is, can it be observed in a lesson, I don't think it can. Has anyone heard of the pig mailing effect? I'm going to show you a video for five minutes because I think it's really important. The research is 60 years old, so it needs probably a bit of critique but it's still important to share this chap, Robert Rosenthal. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, this. I tell you you've got a naughty class, there's the data, you're going to teach it, what are you going to do? You're going to panic first of all. Mr McGill has told me the class is a bit naughty and student L is really difficult. I'll plan more resources to get difficult Louise because she's going to be naughty.  I start to be naughty in the class. So I set a glass ceiling for Louise because she's in set four maths. I'm only ever going to get a grade D because I've been labelled set four. Watch this and then we'll have a quick chat and then we'll squeeze in lots of more ideas. Does it make a difference whether your teacher believes that you are a high performer or a low performer? That you are a late bloomer that even though you haven't demonstrated your intellectual ability, you know, you would have lost it. Or you're not a good student or you're a good student. Psychology drop it wasn't all. And school principle when you were a day with the did a remarkable study some years ago in which they told school teachers, elementary school teachers that on the basis of some psychological tests some of their students, some of their children in their class were designated as late-bloomers even though they hadn't shown any academic success they are expected to bloom. The amazing thing is that in a very short time the teachers began to treat those children differently than the other kids. Those kids began to think of themselves differently and in the end they actually performed significantly better than the other kids. They were transformed by the teacher's positive expectations the opposite of Jane Elliot's study in which teachers' negative expectations that the teacher in school led them to think of themselves as inferior. So let's see the pig-mailing effect in action in these classrooms set up by Wilson-Dawson-Bates. Positive expectations can change a person's perception of the situation just as dramatically as negative expectations. Psychologists call this the pig-mailing effect after the George Bernard Schurl play of the same name in which even an uneducated grammar muffin can be transformed into a commerce society lady. In an experiment conducted at an elementary school like this one psychologist Robert Rosenthal and school principal Lenore Jacobson took the pig-mailing effect one step further. What we wanted to show was the extent to which teachers' expectations could actually affect pupils' intellectual performance, for example their IQ scores. So what we did was we tested everybody in the school with a test that pretended to be a test that would predict academic blooming, so-called Harvard test that reflected that position and allegedly on the basis of that test but not really, we gave each of the teachers in the school the names of a handful of children in her classroom that would get smart in the academic year ahead. These kids' names were taken out of a hat. We chose them by means of the table of random numbers. The children themselves did not know in any direct way that teachers were holding certain expectations for them. Teachers were told not to tell the kids and of course we didn't tell the children either. So the children never knew. And then when we tested the children a year later we found that those kids who had been alleged to their teachers were going to show intellectual gains, in fact showed greater intellectual gains than did the children of whom we'd said nothing in particular. So the kids actually got smarter when they were expected to get smarter by their teachers. OK, I'm going to stop there. So the rest of the video explains the reasons. These are the reasons. I'm going to be nicer. So Louise is a high attained student. I'm going to be nicer to her. Welcome to my classroom. It's lovely to see you. I'm going to teach her more material. I think she's worth my time. I'll give her more time to answer because I think she's worth it. I don't accept low quality response. Now the research is 60 years old in the primary classroom in America and the teachers by the researchers and the head teachers said you've got the top set, you've got the bottom set. What's included was if you've got high expectation of your kids or you're given certain preconceptions it limits kids' possibilities of outcomes. 20 person next year, 30 seconds. What do you think? Agree? Disagree?  OK, five seconds. OK. Now four years ago I shared this with people. You've got modern hands that you've got a visualiser? OK, best thing that I ever put in my classroom 15 years ago I do, we do, you do. As food teachers you're brilliant at this. Kind of like here's a pizza kids chopped the vegetables in the oven, brilliant. OK, other subject areas may be struggle. You know maths teacher I can model an equation make a deliberate mistake. Kids what I've done wrong, it's really important. If kids have not done it before we need to encourage a climate and create it where I'm modelling what to do. OK, and this is called live marking. Now in my book I've shared seven areas of research. OK, just by simply marking your work in the lesson by speaking to you I can correct the work there. I create a dialogue in the room and it's fast. OK, red pen. You do it all the time around the classroom mark four or five kids work. Instead of trying to do all 30 it's just that I'm going to do four this lesson and four the next then it becomes a bit more manageable. So live marking. Another idea I shared a while ago was yellow box. Some research shared these three words. When you're marking kids work, if it's not manageable for you it doesn't mean anything or motivate Louise to want to fix the work then it's probably not a very good strategy. Yellow box I shared a long time ago, five years. I mark one thing, give the kid feedback and they redraft it and essentially the box determines how much work you want back. It doesn't have to be yellow. I see it as zonal marking. I'm a PE teacher. Kid can't hit the tennis ball. Turn your hips this way. Here's the ball. Velocity, et cetera, et cetera. Specific, explicit, one thing fix it. Zonal mark, zonal feedback. Find one thing in fix. There's a maths example. Rather than marking all the equations find one, fix it, redraft, let's get it right, Ross. OK, really nice idea. Feedback stamps, bin them. It's compliance. It's tracking. Does that help a kid? No. Good for me, come around and check in your books when I don't have time to talk to you and I'll sneak into your classroom in the corner and look in one or two books. Tell me the words. Is that meaningful for Louise? She gets that stamp. Louise, I've marked your work, now write it down and then actually do it after you've written it down. Run around the classroom, it's easy. Motivate Louise, probably not. Show me the research. Context, primary classroom, smiley face. You teach my son a spelling test if he gets seven or eight or nine out of ten at a gala table for lunch. Ask yourself the questions. Could you stamp Freddy's spelling test every Friday? Is it going to motivate him to learn a spell and do you read it at home? Possibly. Is it motivating? Definitely is. The value is he loves coming to your class. His attendance is high. He loves reading. It's a different outcome. He still gets a good spelling test. We need to consider context with everything but when it comes to compliance it's a difficult thing. If we do even the yellow box and it takes five minutes, here's the maths. Five minutes to do one thing, five and a half thousand minutes, 90 hours a day, the divide by 24s, three and three-quarter days of non-stop marking. No-one works 24 hours a day, so that's seven and a half days of marking. If your school says do the yellow box or the perfect amount of progress once every week for every child if you teach 30 kids, that's just one class. So you could potentially, if you teach five classes, that's 25 days of non-stop marking on top of your contracted hours. We need to change the narrative about marking and feedback. I'm going to skip into one of the best strategies that I discovered 10 years ago, which is voice dictation. Does anyone use their voice to mark? A couple of people. I've written half my books, in fact all my blogs and half Mark Plant Teach through voice. My head teacher, a good three schools ago, was paralyzed from the neck down and he used to use his voice through dragon dictate. You have to pay for that one. Google Docs is free, I'm going to show you this one. Evernote thinks to the cloud as does this and Cortana in theory on your phones. Speak to your phone. I'll do a demo now. I've got a document open. Let's see how we get on. Louise, what a fantastic piece of work exclamation mark. New paragraph. Why don't you use a ruler question mark? I'll do that 30 times. Louise, stick that in your book, there's your feedback. Get on with it. Email to Louise. Louise, thank you for allowing me into your lesson today. Full stop. What a wonderful atmosphere, ellipsis. Oh, dragon dictate will do the three dots. You can see Google's, because it's free, it's a bit clunky, it's not sophisticated. Et cetera, et cetera. It's fabulous. I wrote all my blogs and books through speaking on my phone, so I'll give you a quick demo because it's probably the best thing I can give you today that would totally transform your workload and improve your mental health. So, I'm just going to switch to my camera. Give me one moment. I'm just going to open up my notes. Can we see that okay? Can we see that? Okay, click the microphone in the corner. I'm just demonstrating how easy it is to provide written feedback to our students simply by speaking into my phone. Full stop. New paragraph. Imagine the possibilities this would open for me as a teacher. Writed emails, policies, or marking students work. Full stop. New paragraph. I can produce three times the amount of work as the other teacher next door. Full stop.  And it got it as well.  Okay, so try it. So what I want you all to do, you're going to have a quick 30 seconds of a practice. This is what I'd like you to say on your phone. So you need to find your phone, find your microphone on your keyboard and could you speak, don't cheat and no typing, could you say that into your phone and make it type it by itself. So a keyboard or Twitter or notepads or even on your browser for a website. Or maybe on your keyboard at the bottom. So let's open. Where's your notepad? All right, open a text message. Type a new message. There, microphone. Speak. Okay, five seconds. Okay. All right everyone, stop having fun. You're not allowed to have any fun anymore. Okay, hands up if it worked. Okay, fantastic. About 25 teachers life saved. Okay, practice, practice. Right, quickly.  If you still do that, nonsense. Detail lesson plans. I wrote lots of blogs to Ofsted last summer. Managed to get them to change the ITT guidance training teachers. You don't need to provide a detail lesson plan for inspection anymore. Stop the nonsense. Five minute lesson plan or do you do door knob lessons? That's high anxiety. Kids will catch you out. Yes, we all do it and we've all taught car crash lessons. This all the time either. 20 hours a day. Sorry, 20 hours a week. We can't do that 20 hours a week. The five minute lesson plan, I don't say use the plan. I say it's a thought process. And when I did my MA 10 years ago I literally took away a simple methodology. What, why, how, what if. What? Objectives. The big pictures in my head. I only share that if Louise asked for it when she comes to observe me. It's lesson four. Ross was absent last week. Lesson teaching volcanoes. This is the objective. I'm going to dress like a volcano to hook them in. But why, I want them to learn how to spell volcano and go home and whatever they're going to do for the next lesson. Bring it back. What sticks? How I do this is all my teaching strategies that are in my DNA. Red, amber, green flashcards. Thumbs up, thumbs down. Louise, how do you spell volcano? If I don't ask and don't check I can't assume she knows. So the big picture is I can't assume she knows. So the most powerful two in a teacher's repertoire is questioning. I'm going to finish with that today. What, why, how? It's a thought process. What if X, Y, Z stopped working or Louise wasn't in the lesson. Stickability modes. For people that are more experienced this is lesson one, volcanoes. Lesson two, how do volcanoes form? Lesson six, whatever we're on. When do I go back and talk about the volcanoes again? This is long term retrieval practice. Getting information into kids' work and memory. What do I want to stick each lesson throughout the curriculum? So when I come to lesson 22 and I test them, I've reminded them all the time of what we've been doing. Because if I surprise them at the end with a test they're not going to get great results. Regular low state testing works and I mean quizzing. How do you spell volcano, Louise? Louise knows the answer. Her long term memory. I'm now asking her to retrieve the information into her short term processor and bring it to memory. That's what we do when we learn. And when we ask a teacher asking a child question that's what happens in your brain. Louise is under pressure. How much do I force her to get the answer out but I'm also trying to manage her mental health. Her social emotions in front of her peers. And that's what good quality teachers do. They manage all that dynamics in the behaviour. I'll skip this one. So there's a way. What do I teach you last month, kids? Last week, last lesson. Any questions? Let's clarify any misconceptions. How do you spell volcano, Louise? And then we move on. We're going to the next lesson. This is called retrieval practises. What cognitive scientists call retrieval. I retrieve the information from my long term memory. Knowledge organisers. You heard of these? There's a food one. These are all on tests and on Google. If you write your own one, that looks like at least a year 11 or a year 12 level. I could be wrong. Very detailed. Lots of other things. Last one, teach. I'm not going to go through all this. This is 40 years of teaching and learning research by a chap called Barrett Rosenshine. Grab it on my website. It's 40 years of research of what things teachers do. The overriding message from this is I need to regularly review, check in what you know. If I don't check in, I don't know what to re-teach. Fascinating research. If you're on Twitter, you'll see me explain it in a little video as well. The link inside the slides will take you to the blog post. It's a three minute read.  Fermi. Enrico Fermi was a statistician. He posed limited questions. Why? To encourage creative thinking. Turn to your partner. How many balloons can you fit into this room? Go. Hold on. I didn't tell you it was a hot air balloon. Blown up. Contact. I gave limited information. What happened was, I started a creative discussion. I deleted some emails. I talked to Louise outside. Mr McGill passed the door. Hold on. How many balloons, kids? If I teach year one, I haven't got a cup. Hold up a cup. Year one, what would happen if I drop this China cup? Discuss. I'll just talk to Louise outside and I'll be back in 30 seconds. It's great for workload. It gets creative discussions going straight away. Fun ones could be looking like this. Now these are not curriculum examples because you all teach different things but they might start to look like these. These are just fun. How many hairs on my head? What size are my shoes? How many teachers can you fit inside this room? How many offset inspectors does it take to do XYZ? Or, Ross hates some adjectives. He was never taught grammar at school. I want to hook Ross in. He's finding Macbeth really difficult. Ross, here's an objective. How many in the first paragraph of Macbeth? I hook him into Macbeth. He's counting the objectives. He gets lost in his learning. And then eventually I remind him, Ross, you're learning Macbeth now. What happens is, I'm going to skip back to another slide. There's a chap called Cheek Xen Mahai. He's put me aided spirit of France's name. Where is he? Here he goes. He talks about on his TED talk and in his work. He's about 83, lives in the States. Called the flow model. Ross doesn't like Macbeth. How do I move him to flow without over-challenging and burning out, throwing a chair across the room? I'm not doing Macbeth. Sir, your lessons are boring. We're doing a worksheet again. I then say, right, let's focus on adjectives. You can choose. You want to do this paragraph, that paragraph and here or at the end of the lesson. I give you a clear objective. I speak to you in the lesson straight away.  How are you doing?  They've got lost in the flow. Technically speaking, they've been immersed in their learning and that's what happens. And that's just one child. You've got to try and do that with 30. So we've got Fermi. Or hinge questions. A great assessment for learning technique. Testing, retriever what you already know. A right, right answer. Possible right answer. Another possible right answer. So if I change the goal post, how many balloons, water balloons, hot air balloons or a definite wrong answer. So here's a food one. How many baked beans in one tin? So what's the definite wrong answer? Have a quick argument with someone next to you. What's the definite wrong? What do you say? OK. Five seconds. Four, three, two, one. OK. First of all, to support our subject knowledge domain, because it is a very explicit set of knowledge we're teaching. I have to defend this slide. Food is measured in weight, isn't it? Not by numbers of beans. So I'm going to clarify that one for you first. We are talking very technical here. But just for fun, for kids, for year seven, I could say, right, well, the definite wrong answer is 5,000. If I said it was a little microwave pot of beans, a little square tub, it might be 75, or the tin, or the big tin or the small tin. OK. And we can get them out and we can count them if we want to, or we can let them have a concrete example, psychologists call it a concrete example, or dual coding. Here's a tin of beans. Feel it. Let's open one up and have a look, rather than just look at a slide. But what I can do at the start of the lesson, next lesson after we've done that, right kids? Can you table it while we're getting our books out and setting up? What's the right answer? Discuss. Good for your workload. Good for retrieval practice. Retrieven information because the next lesson I'm talking about is something else. It's a good way to test. Douglas Moss book, Teach Like a Champion, I love his work. I've talked about this last time I was here. Wait time. When I ask a question, I need to give you time to wait. If I wait one second, I'll put you under pressure. What country was that chat from, that psychologist? Hungary. Now called out, ruined my question. I need to set the conditions. OK, Hungary, yes, you're right. OK, you must set the conditions for your questions. So wait time. I then ask a question again. How many water balloons could you fill in this room? I wait five seconds. How many, sir? 100,000. Agree or disagree? Disagree. Ooh, let's discuss. So her research shows these things. We need to give kids time to process. When I put Louise under pressure to spell volcano, her cognitive reflex was, oh, I'm under pressure, Ross really wants me to say the answer. OK, I need to give you time to think. So as a teacher, I have to create the conditions. Don't call out. All to think, share your answer, and then tell me. One other thing, if I ask you to think about the question, how do I know that you're actually going to think about it? So a top tip. Think, pair, share. Think about the answer. How many smarties can you fill in a coffee cup? Five seconds. Write down your answer. Write down your answer, everyone. Write it down. How many smarties in a coffee cup? Now share your answer with the person next to you. Show them that you've thought about the answer. OK. OK. A couple more ideas, 10 minutes to go. So that's why that's important. Take a turn. Everyone, hands down. Don't call out. Why?  And you need to learn to take a turn in life. Because your skills are still developing, and if you keep calling out and ruining it, or putting your hand, answer me, me, me, me. And I ask Louise, because it looks good, because when Mr McGill observes me, it looks like my kids know the answer. They're learning. It looks good on the surface. OK. Pose, pause, pounce, bounce. Bit of a marathon on a Friday night. Or the weekend after Butler Wine. Pose the question. Pause. Wait five seconds, one, two, three, four. I can pause a little more. Bounce the question and pounce the answer response to someone else. What do you think? Agree or disagree? Written about that in the garden. The question's planned for a scheme of work. He says, waiting to get your slides up. There's all questions for a structure scheme of work year seven. I pose the question. I've got the question ready for Louise. End of the project about evaluate. How effective was your design? Pause. Give me a response. Bounce the answer to someone else. You can get kids to do this for you really easy. I'm going to finish with the last idea and show you. I want you to watch this video. Why? Because I think it's the best thing you'll ever see.  One of the most powerful things you can do as a teacher is to cold call. That means calling on kids regardless of whether they raise their hands. When you cold call, you want it to be systematic. Watch our hair a lot if this does that. The first thing we'll notice is that it's pretty clear that everyone is going to get cold call. It's not personal. It's how she teaches. Let's go. Word one, word one, word two, word three, word four, word four. Those kids now know they have to be listening carefully and ready at any time. They're engaged even before they get cold. Words and mirror, said one word more sells. They haven't done it. Let's go talk to them. The second crucial thing about Hannah's cold calling is that she's positive. Cold calls shouldn't be a gutture. Now whether I just say Sarah, but a real question. If you want the student to get it right. When we left Edna and Carla, it'd be a quick synopsis. Let's watch Hannah one more time. What's this? Go ahead. a chweidwch am ystyried yr unig wedi bod yn tynnu gwirioneddol, gyda ein sefydlu a'r farmau. Ac chlau'n fyconfio. Mae'n pethau'r ddiwrnod, a'r cael ei wahanol, a'n dweud am ymlaen. Mae'n ddiwrnod. Mae'n ddiwrnod. Mae'n ddiwrnod. Mae'n ddiwrnod. Mae'r ddiwrnod yn rhan o gyllun, ond mae'n ddiwylldo i'r ddiwrnod hefyd, neu yna sgwyddiad i'r ddiwrnod. I can see that the answer is cognitive reflex. Mrs is asking me for a think about it, get it out of my mouth, you can see her body reflex in that way. Reasons what happens, kids could be standing up or sitting down, it doesn't matter. They know it's a technique, the most effective techniques are when teachers share how they work with their students. Rygir yn gwybod, a mae'r ddweud ei wneud yn y Tull Kit Pack. Mae'r Tull Kit Pack yn y gyfan y maes ei ddeithasol. Mae'r gweithio'n rhan o'r ddiweddau ychydig sy'n gwybod. So, mae'n fwrdd, mae'n ymwneud, mae gennym y tŷch. Rydyn ni'n fyrdd ar y cyflwyng? Mae'n gweithio'n gwybod i'r olygu. Rydyn ni'n gweithio i'n gweithio i ddweudderu. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'n gweithio i gydig. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'n gweithio. Felly, e'n gweithio fruit ni i'n funer ar 5. Mae'n meddwl i amherwydd, mae'r gyfael, Ac ei fod usread ddefnyddio, mae'n credu yma chi'n cael ei wahanol i'r ffrwngLae. Felly, e'n gweithio fruit ni i'r ffrwng Llywodraeth, mae'n gweithio fydd ymlaen, rwy'n symud o'r meddwl cenderung yw'r gweith. Efallai ei gadwyd ddiogel a ni'n gweld eich pethwyd yn un i ffordd o'i wgach. Felly, rwy'n gweld i'w meddwl o'r greif Ysgol. Ysgol y Cwylwyr Cwylwyr Ilywyr? Mae'r gwaith yn rhaid. Mae'r rhan. Rhaid. Mae'r ddolfoedd yma yn ddelfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Rhaid? Mae'r ddolfoedd yma yn ymddiw. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. Mae'r ddolfoedd. yng Nghariau'r parteid, ond nid yw gymaint iswyr wych ac ynnu'n gynyddoedd. How does a yellow box work kids redraft their work? It's important to test Opting out, I'm not going to show this video, but inside this video, there's two clips of two teachers. One teacher hands up kids, the other teacher hands down, and you can see the difference it has. When kids put hands up, they steer your lesson. Kids have the hands down. I steer my lesson. Rhaid o'r ddifrif. Rhyw gwybod yn cyntaf yma'rhewnau. Y 1 yr ymgyrch yn yr 11 yr ymgyrch. Rhaid o'r ddifrif yn cael ei wneud. Rhaid o'r ddifrif yn ceisio. Yn nid yw. Roedd ychydig. Yn ymgyrch yn ddifrif. Roedd o'n cael ei fawr, ac yn ddifrif yma'r hunain, nid yn ddiwr i. Roeddwn i'r ddifrif yma'r ystod y ffermwy. Roedd ystod ystod ystod ystod. Roeddwn i'r ddifrif yma'r wneud. Not to call out, don't speak. OK, how many letters Fs are in that sentence? 2 4 3 There are 6. No opt out how many are in that sentence? 6, how many? 6. How many? 6 If I don't get to practice the correct answer in classroom it's gonna be too late when you do the exam. OK, now this sentence isn't in your long term yn mynd i'n mynd i ddweud. Roeddwn i hefyd, ydych chi'n gweld i'r ffordd yma mae'n ddweud â'r greu. Ymwneud â'r greu, ydych chi'n ddweud â'r greu, ac mae'n ddweud â'r greu o'r ffonu. Mae'r ffyrdd yna, mae'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Mae'r gwneud yn ymddug yn drwyf. Mae'n gweithio'r ffordd yn ddweud. Mae'n gweithio'r ffordd, Rossys ydych chi'n gweithio'r clywed. I need to get the answer quickly under pressure in front of my peers. And we ignore all the small ofs. So that's what happens. It's called redundancy effects. So look at the slide on the left. This is my last point. Bears enjoy eating honey. The teacher says it. The conference presenter says it. There's a picture and there's text. Too much information. My working memory gets overloaded. Let me chunk the information. So here we go. What's happening on the screen? Bears enjoy eating honey. Could you say that sentence for me please? Bears enjoy eating honey. Everyone together please? Jewel coding. I put a little cuddly bear on your desk in a jar of honey. Taste the honey kids. Jewel code. I get you to practice the sentence in year two. I give you two ways to access the information and I chunk it into bite size bits. Barrett Roshenshine's work explains this. So bears enjoy eating honey. Last thing, question matrix. You've seen this before, hands up? Okay, a few people. You choose a question here. Link it to a question at the top. So what is, what has, what might, or down the bottom, how is, how has, you get the idea. Stick an image on it. What is happening in this picture, lesson one? Lesson seven, which person got on the train first? How might we stop this happening again? I give the grid to the kids. They write their questions on a blank bit of paper. Have a big poster on the screen. Kids, post it notes, exit entry cards. Stick your question up or print it in their books. Kids, stick it down, write the questions as we go through the scheme of work. Food lesson. Which olive oil should we choose? How might chili affect the flavour? Suddenly I've got 40 questions planned. And by the dynamics in my classroom, hands down, everyone got to give me an answer. I've got my questions planned. If I give one to each kid, they write the questions down. I have 400 questions that I just work out which ones I'll keep, which ones I'll get rid of. Any image works? How did he get hit on the head? What's happening to him? What's happening in the image? English GCSE. Any image. Acetate, put it over the kids' work. Put it on your marking policies. Why do we have meetings every week? OK? Now, in the slides, in the things I've given you, there's a grid, there's a blank one as well. Work out the questions. You might want to do these kind of things. Louise, these are your questions. Ross, this is yours. By the end of the lesson, by the end of the scheme of work. Colour code, the questions if you want to, et cetera, et cetera. OK? Fantastic resource. You've got your questions planned. I then meet my kids' needs in classroom on my feet through the tools that I use in my vocabulary. Last thing, there's the resource. I haven't got through all the things I really wanted to do today. Toolkit pack, the slides you'll have. Capital T, capital P. Let's just check what we talked about. This is what you said. Marking. We've got rid of marking. Look, it's gone. Planning, it's gone. OK. We've done it. It's all gone. OK. And then you also gave me feedback. So let me know how I did. If I don't ask, I don't know. I'm really setting it on your phone one last time. I'm watching this red face to see what happens. OK. You need to ask for feedback. As colleagues, but also in the classroom, kids, how do you spell volcano? If I don't ask you, I don't know. Think about this answer. I don't know if you're thinking about it, so write it down. OK. Thank you. OK. Right. I've gone through all this. OK. As much as I can. Need to reduce the amount of data we use. We need to replace the word marking with feedback. I didn't do number five. Five minute lesson plan. What sticks? Let's reduce the amount of time we spend lesson planning and make it a thought process. Let's trust it. Teachers need to plan, but let's trust them that they can do that. And you've got all these question and techniques at the end. Thank you. Two books, but I'm going to let Louise hand those out as prizes after I've gone, so I don't have the pressure. OK. So we have a big thought again. Massive thank you for joining us. Thank you for joining us today. Big hand. Thank you. Brilliant. There are some really good things there. I'm really going to take back and I'm sure you'll take some back snippets from there as well. As well as all those resources, you can get through that link there. It's really very helpful. Thank you so much. You had over 200 people watching on Facebook from through Teacher's Centre as well as you were doing that. So they watched snippets of that as well and they've been posting some fabulous thank yous. So I saw past those as well. Tweaks and selfies out. Let's speak up design technology folks. Let's change the narrative. Thank you. OK. So we're into the last workshop session of the day. If my team can come down and help give out the bags as people go. No fighting, please, on the way out with those things. The food presentation styling of photography, they can just remain in the room, but move towards the front for that first part of that session. Then you'll be off the practical. Thank you.


Okay, what is this? Okay, let's show how you can use web bluetooth to wirelessly program circuit playground boards with nrf 52 840 native bluetooth so Press reset and then press again when it's blinking to put into bluetooth mode And then request the device pair it And now that we're connected you see the ripple here. It's the same ripple here as I type in this ripple this one echoes so I can print Stuff and it appears on the display. It's just completely wirelessly Uh connected. I can even uh go up Printing and then you can also do file management as well. So it's pretty neat This is all completely wireless using web bluetooth You can use with the latest version of circuit python using your nrf 52 840 native bluetooth boards


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chapters 13 through 17 of Dr. Ox's experiment. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Alan Winteroud. Dr. Ox's experiment by Jules Verne. Chapter 13, in which it is once more proved that by taking high ground all human littlenesses may be overlooked. You say, as the Burgamaster Vantrikas of the Councilor Nicholas. I say that this war is necessary, replied Nicholas firmly, and that the time has come to avenge this insult. Well, I repeat to you, replied the Burgamaster Tartley, that if the people of Quiquendon do not profit by this occasion to vindicate their rights, they will be unworthy of their name. And as for me, I maintain that we ought, without delay, to collect our forces and lead them to the front. Really, Monsieur, really, replied Vantrikas, and do you speak thus to me? To yourself, Monsieur the Burgamaster, and you shall hear the truth unwelcome as it may be. And you shall hear it yourself, Councilor, returned Vantrikas in a passion. For it will come better from my mouth than from yours. Yes, Monsieur, yes, any delay would be dishonorable. The town of Quiquendon has waited nine hundred years for the moment to take its revenge. And whatever you may say, whether it pleases you or not, we shall march upon the enemy. Ah, you take it thus? replied Nicholas harshly. Very well, Monsieur, we will march without you if it does not please you to go. A Burgamaster's place is in the front rank, Monsieur, and that of a Councilor also, Monsieur. You insult me by thwarting all my wishes, cried the Burgamaster, whose fists seem likely to hit out before long.  I tell you, Monsieur, that the army of Quiquendon shall be put in motion within two days. And I repeat to you, Monsieur, that forty-eight hours shall not pass before we shall have marched upon the enemy. It is easy to see, from this fragment of conversation, how the two speakers supported exactly the same idea. Both wished for hostilities, but as their excitement disposed them to altercation, Nicholas would not listen to Vantrikas, nor Vantrikas to Nicholas. Had they been of contrary opinions on this grave question, had the Burgamaster favored war and the Councilor insisted on peace, the quarrel would not have been more violent. These two old friends gazed fiercely at each other. By the Quiquendon beating of their hearts, their red faces, their contracted pupils, the trembling of their muscles, their harsh voices, it might be conjectured that they were ready to come to blows. But the striking of a large clock happily checked the adversaries at the moment when they seemed on the point of assaulting each other. At last the hour has come, cried the Burgamaster. What hour? asked the Councilor. The hour to go to the Belfry Tower. It is true, and whether it pleases you or not, I shall go, Monsieur. And I too. Let us go. Let us go. It might have been supposed from these last words that a collision had occurred and that the adversaries were proceeding to a duel, but it was not so. It had been agreed that the Burgamaster and the Councilor, as the two principal dignitaries of the town, should repair to the town hall and there show themselves on the high tower which overlooked Quiquendon, that they should examine the surrounding country so as to make the best strategic plan for the advance of their troops. Though they were in accord on this subject, they did not cease to quarrel bitterly as they went. Their loud voices were heard resounding in the streets, but all the passers-by were now accustomed to this. The exasperation of the dignitaries seemed quite natural and no one took notice of it. Under the circumstances, a calm man would have been regarded as a monster. The Burgamaster and the Councilor, having reached the porch of the belfry, were in a paroxysm of fury. They were no longer red but pale. This terrible discussion, though they had the same idea, had produced internal spasms and everyone knows that paleness shows that anger has reached its last limit. At the foot of the narrow tower staircase, there was a real explosion. Who should go up first? Who should first creep up the winding steps? Truth compels us to say that there was a tussle and that the Councilor Nicholas, forgetful of all that he owed to his superior to the supreme magistrate of the town, pushed Vantricas violently back and dashed up the staircase first. Both ascended, denouncing and raging at each other at every step. It was to be feared that a terrible climax would occur on the summit of the tower, which rose 357 feet above the pavement. The two enemies soon got out of breath, however, and in a little while, at the 80th step, they began to move up heavily, breathing loud and short. Then, was it because of their being out of breath, their wrath subsided, or at least only betrayed itself by a succession of unseemly epithets? They became silent and, strange to say, it seemed as if their excitement diminished as they ascended higher above the town.   Why? We cannot answer this why, but the truth is that, having reached a certain landing stage, 266 feet above ground, the two adversaries sat down and, really more calm, looked at each other without any anger in their faces. How high it is, said the burgomaster, passing his handkerchief over his Rubicon face. Very high, returned the counselor. Do you know that we have gone 14 feet higher than the chert of St. Michael at Hamburg? I know it, replied the burgomaster, in a tone of vanity very pardonable in the Chief Magistrate of Quikwendoen. The two notabilities soon resumed their ascent, casting curious glances through the loopholes pierced in the tower walls. The burgomaster had taken the head of the procession without any remark on the part of the counselor. It even happened that at about 304th step, Vantricas being completely tired out, Nicholas kindly pushed him from behind. The burgomaster offered no resistance to this and when he reached the platform of the tower, said graciously, Thanks Nicholas, I will do the same for you one day. A little while before, it had been two wild beasts ready to tear each other to pieces who had presented themselves at the foot of the tower. It was now two friends who reached its summit. The weather was superb. It was the month of May. The sun had absorbed all the vapors.  The most minute objects over a broad space might be discerned. The walls of Virgaman, glistening in their whiteness, its red pointed roofs, its belfry shining in the sunlight appeared a few miles off. And this was the town that was for doomed to all the horrors of fire and pillage. The burgomaster and the counselor sat down beside each other on a small stone bench, like two worthy people whose souls were in close sympathy. As they recovered breath, they looked around. Then after a brief silence, How fine this is, cried the burgomaster. Yes, it is admirable, replied the counselor. Does it not seem to you, my good Vanthrikas, that humanity is destined to dwell rather at such heights than to crawl about on the surface of our globe? I agree with you, honest Nicholas, return the burgomaster. I agree with you. You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense. It is at such heights that philosopher should be formed, and that sages should live above the miseries of this world. Shall we go around the platform, asked the counselor? Let us go around the platform, replied the burgomaster. And the two friends, arm in arm, and putting as formally long pauses between their questions and answers, examined every point of the horizon. It is at least seventeen years since I have ascended the belfry tower, said Vanthrikas. I do not think I ever came up before, replied Nicholas, and I regret it, for the view from this height is sublime. Do you see, my friend, the pretty stream of the var as it winds among the trees? And beyond, the heights of St. Hermodod, how gracefully they shut in the horizon. Observe that border of green trees, which nature has so picturesquely arranged. Ah-ha-ha, nature. Nature, Nicholas. Could the hand of man ever hope to rival her? It is enchanting, my excellent friend, replied the counselor. See the flocks and hers lying in the verdant pastures. The oxen, the cows, the sheep. And the laborers going to the fields. You would say they were Arcadian shepherds. They only want a bagpipe. And over all this fertile country, the beautiful blue sky, which no vapor dims. Ah, Nicholas, one might become a poet here. I do not understand why St. Simeon's stylites was not one of the greatest poets of the world. It was because, perhaps, his column was not high enough, replied the counselor with a gentle smile. At this moment, the chimes of Quiquendon rang out. Their clear bells played one of their most melodious airs. The two friends listened in ecstasy. Then, in his calm voice, Von Tricas said, But what, friend Nicholas, did we come to the top of this tower to do? In fact, replied the counselor, we have permitted ourselves to be carried away by our reveries. What did we come here to do, repeated the burgamaster? We came, said Nicholas, to breathe this pure air which human weaknesses have not corrupted. Well, shall we descend, friend Nicholas? Let us descend, friend Von Tricas. They gave a parting glance at the splendid panorama which was spread before their eyes. Then the burgamaster passed down first and began to descend with a slow and measured pace. The counselor followed a few steps behind. They reached the landing stage at which they had stopped on ascending. Already their cheeks began to redden. They tarried a moment, then resumed their descent. In a few moments, Von Tricas begged Nicholas to go more slowly as he felt him on his heels and it worried him. It even did more than worry him. For twenty steps lower down, he ordered the counselor to stop that he might get on some distance ahead. The counselor replied that he did not wish to remain with his leg in the air to await the good pleasure of the burgamaster and kept on. Von Tricas retorted with a rude expression. The counselor responded by an insulting allusion to the burgamaster's age, destined as he was, by his family traditions to marry a second time. The burgamaster went down twenty steps more and warned Nicholas that this should not pass thus. Nicholas replied that at all events he would pass down first, and the space being very narrow, the two dignitaries came into collision and found themselves in utter darkness. The words blockhead and booby were the mildest which they would now apply to each other.   Then there were other cries, and it seemed as if bodies were rolling over each other. What was going on? Why were these dispositions so quickly changed? Why were the gentle sheep of the tower's summit metamorphosed into tigers two hundred feet below it? However this might be, the guardian of the tower, hearing the noise, opened the door, just at the moment when the two adversaries, bruised and with protruding eyes, were in the act of tearing each other's hair. Fortunately, they wore wigs. You shall give me satisfaction for this, cried the burgamaster, shaking his fist under his adversary's nose. Whenever you please, growled the counselor Nicholas, attempting to respond with a vigorous kick. The guardian, who was himself in a passion, I cannot say why, thought the scene a very natural one. I know not what excitement urged him to take part in it, but he controlled himself and went off to announce throughout the neighborhood that a hostile meeting was about to take place between the burgamaster Vantrikas and the counselor Nicholas. Chapter 14, in which matters go so far that the inhabitants of Quiquendon, the reader and even the author, demand an immediate dayneumal. The last incident proves to what a pitch of excitement the Quiquendonians had been wrought, the two oldest friends in the town and the most gentle before the advent of the epidemic to reach this degree of violence and that too only a few minutes after their old mutual sympathy. Their amiable instincts, their contemplative habit, had been restored at the summit of the tower. On learning what was going on, Dr. Ox could not contain his joy. He resisted the arguments which Eugene, who saw what a serious turn affairs were taking, addressed to him. Besides, both of them were infected by the general fury. They were not less excited than the rest of the population and they ended by quarreling as violently as the burgamaster and the counselor. Besides, one question eclipsed all others and the intended duels were postponed to the issue of the Virgaminian difficulty. No man had the right to shed his blood uselessly when it belonged to the last drop to his country in danger. The affair was in short a grave one and there was no withdrawing from it. The burgamaster Vantrikas, despite the warlike ardor with which he was filled, had not thought it best to throw himself upon the enemy without warning him. He had therefore, through the medium of the rural policemen, hottering, sent to demand reparation of the Virgaminians for the offense committed in 1195 on the Quiquindonian territory. The authorities of Virgamin could not at first imagine of what the envoy spoke and the latter, despite his official character, was conducted back to the frontier very cavalierly. Vantrikas then sent one of the aides to camp of the confectioner general, citizen Hildever Shuman, a manufacturer of barley sugar, a very firm and energetic man who carried to the authorities of Virgamin the original minute of the indictment drawn up in 1195 by order of the burgamaster Natalis Vantrikas. The authorities of Virgamin burst out laughing and served the aide to camp in the same manner as the rural policemen. The burgamaster then assembled the dignitaries of the town. A letter, remarkably and vigorously drawn up, was written as an ultimatum. The cause of the quarrel was plainly stated and the delay of 24 hours was accorded to the guilty city in which to repair the outrage done to Quiquindon. The letter was sent off and returned a few hours afterwards torn to bits, which made so many fresh insults. The Virgaminians knew of old the forbearance and equanimity of the Quiquindonians and made sport of them and their demand of their causes beley and their ultimatum. There was only one thing left to do to have recourse to arms to invoke the god of battles and after the Prussian fashion to hurl themselves upon the Virgaminians before the latter could be prepared. This decision was made by the council in solemn conclave in which cries, objurations and menacing gestures were mingled with unexampled violence. An assembly of idiots, a congress of madmen, a club of maniacs would not have been more tumultuous. As soon as the declaration of war was known, General Jean Orbedec assembled his troops and perhaps 2,393 combatants from a population of 2,393 souls. The women, the children, the old men were joined with the able-bodied males. The guns of the town had been put under requisition, five had been found, two of which were without cocks, and these had been distributed to the advance guard. The artillery was composed of the old culverin of the Chateau, taken in 1339 at the attack on Quesnoy, one of the first occasions of the use of cannon in history and which had not been fired off for five centuries. Happily for those who were appointed to take it in charge, there were no projectiles with which to load it, but such as it was, this engine might well impose on the enemy. As for sidearms, they had been taken from the museum of antiquities, flint hatchets, helmets, Frankish battle axes, javelins, hallbirds, rapiers and so on, and also in those domestic arsenals commonly known as cupboards and kitchens. But courage, the right hatred of the foreigner, the yearning for vengeance, were to take the place of more perfect engines, and to replace, at least it was hoped so, the modern metriuses and breech loaders. The troops were passed in review, not a citizen failed at the roll call. General Orbedec, whose seat on horseback was far from firm, and whose steed was a vicious beast, was thrown three times in front of the army, but he got up again without injury and this was regarded as a favorable omen. The burgamaster of the counselor, the civil commissary, the chief justice, the school teacher, the banker, the rector, in short, all the notabilities of the town marched at the head. There were no tears shed, either by mothers, sisters or daughters, they urged on their husbands, fathers, brothers to the combat, and even followed them and formed the rearguard under the orders of the courageous Madame Vantricas. The crier, Jean Mistral, blew his trumpet. The army moved off and directed itself with ferocious cries toward the Udnard gate. At the moment when the head of the column was about to pass the walls of the town, a man threw himself before it. Stop! Stop! Fools that you are, he cried. Suspend your blows.  You are not changed in nature. You are good citizens, quiet and peaceable. If you are so excited, it is my master, Dr. Ox's fault. It is an experiment. Under the pretext of lighting your streets with oxy-hydric gas, he has saturated. The assistant was beside himself, but he could not finish.  It was a battle. The burgamaster, the counselor of the dignitaries, who had stopped short on Eugene's sudden appearance, carried away in turn by their exasperation, rushed upon the two strangers, without waiting to hear either the one or the other. Dr. Ox and his assistant, beaten and lashed, were about to be dragged by order of entrecost to the roundhouse when... Chapter 15, in which the day-new mall takes place When a formidable explosion resounded, all the atmosphere which enveloped Quiquendon seemed on fire. A flame of an intensity and vividness quite unwanted shot up into the heavens like a meteor. Had it been night, this flame would have been visible for ten leagues around. The whole army of Quiquendon fell to the earth, like an army of monks. Happily there were no victims. A few scratches and slight hurt were the only result. The confectioner, who, as chance would have it, had not fallen from his horse this time, had his plume singed and escaped without any further injury. What had happened? Something very simple, as was soon learned. The gasworks had just blown up. During the absence of the doctor and his assistant, some careless mistake had no doubt been made. It is not known how or why a communication had been established between the reservoir which contained the oxygen and that which enclosed the hydrogen. An explosive mixture had resulted from the union of these two gases, to which fire had accidentally been applied. This changed everything, but when the army got upon its feet again, Dr. Ox and his assistant Eugene had disappeared. Chapter 16, in which the intelligent reader sees that he has guessed correctly, despite all the author's precautions. After the explosion, Quiquendon immediately became the peaceable, phlegmatic and Flemish town it formerly was. After the explosion, which indeed did not cause a very lively sensation, each one, without knowing why, mechanically took his way home. The bergamaster leaning on his counselor's arms, the advocate shoot going arm in arm with Custos to doctor. Franz and Nicholas, walking with equal familiarity with Simon Colart, each going tranquilly, noiselessly, without even being conscious of what had happened, and having already forgotten Virgaman and their revenge. The general returned to his confections and is aid to camp to the barley sugar. Thus everything had become calm again. The old existence had been resumed by men and beasts, beasts and plants, even by the tower of Udenard Gate, which the explosion, these explosions are sometimes astonishing, had set upright again. And from that time, never a word was spoken more loudly than another. Never a discussion took place in the town of Quiquendon. There were no more politics, no more clubs, no more trials, no more policemen. The post of the commissary Pasouf became once again a cynicier, and if his salary was not reduced, it was because the bergamaster and the counselor could not make up their minds to decide upon it. From time to time, indeed, Pasouf flitted without anyone suspecting it through the dreams of the inconsolable Tatenamans. As for Franz's rival, he generously abandoned the charming Susel to her lover, who hastened to wed her five or six years after these events. And as for Madame Vantricas, she died ten years later at the proper time, and the bergamaster married Mademoiselle Pellagie Vantricas, his cousin, under excellent conditions, for the happy mortal who should succeed him. Chapter 17, in which Dr. Ox's theory is explained. What then had this mysterious Dr. Ox done? Tried a fantastic experiment, nothing more. After having laid down his gas pipes, he had saturated, first the public buildings, then the private dwellings, finally the streets of Quiquendon with pure oxygen, without letting in the least atom of hydrogen. This gas, tasteless and odorless, spread in generous quantity throughout the atmosphere, causes, when it is breathed, serious agitation to the human organism. One who lives in an air saturated with oxygen grows excited, frantic, burns. You scarcely return to the ordinary atmosphere before you return to your usual state. For example, the counselor and the bergamaster at the top of the belfry wear themselves again, as the oxygen is kept by its weight in the lower strata of the air. But one who lives under such conditions, breathing this gas which transforms the body physiologically as well as the soul, dies speedily like a madman. It was fortunate then for the Quiquendonians that a providential explosion put an end to this dangerous experiment and abolished Dr. Ox's gas work. To conclude, our virtue, courage, talent, wit, imagination are all these qualities or faculties only a question of oxygen, such as Dr. Ox's theory, but we are not bound to accept it, and for ourselves we utterly reject it in spite of the curious experiment of which the worthy old town of Quiquendon was the theater.


Let's talk about the second half. When you see the Hornets go on that run, what changed and what was the difference in how you guys were able to kind of respond there in the late, in the couple seconds? Yeah, I think overall it was one of those games where we jumped out to a lead, just to be honest with you, an NBA game where that's a world coach team that will continue to fight back. We relaxed a little bit and kind of paid for it. Good thing we have some pretty good players to execute at the end of the game, which we did for the most part, so love that piece of it. But we just got too comfortable and let them start to get where they want to, to the rim, to the paint too many times. And you look at that first half to be able to put up numbers like that. What was working so well? I know you mentioned during pregame that you wanted to capitalize off of it. Yeah, we had 20 assists at halftime, which was great to see. You know, we were really moving the basketball and it was with pace. You know, we've been challenging ourselves a little bit without being for someone else to create pace. We were able to do that. Multiple guys had the basketball in their hand. And then we shared it and we ended up having 20 assists at half. Jacques, you've talked about managing Royce's minutes in addition to everybody else's. He got off to a slow start tonight. How much of that do you attribute to the workload maybe catching up to him a bit? It's a little bit of everything, Alex. It definitely is a part of the workload. I will test to that just accumulative games in minutes that he's played and what we've asked him to do, whether that's guard the best dude on the other end, whether that's initiate our offense that time, whether that's rebound the basketball. So he's kind of in that bucket. We talked about earlier with a guys who do need some time off and reduce minutes. And so he is definitely on the list. And it looks like he took a... He was getting treatment on the bench for something. He took a shot somewhere. Is he good? Yeah, I asked him, was he okay? He said he was okay throughout the course of the game. I missed the shot at the time underneath the bucket, but I trust him. He said he was good. So let him keep rolling. Coach, it looked like the Hornets started to go on the run in the second half and some of the minutes that Kevin was on the bench. Just what did you see during that stretch where he wasn't out there but the Hornets were rolling? Yeah, we weren't getting stops. And that was a big thing. I think we had a good enough offensive unit out there to hopefully put pressure on those guys. I mean, that's a pretty good unit we had out there at the time to produce offense, but we didn't keep the ball in front of us. So it was a little bit of combination like two or three offensive rebounds that turned into threes. The ability for a rose year to make some tough shots at the same time you give them credit, but we didn't get enough stops during that stretch. I guess following up on that, I mean, they shot about 60% in the fourth quarter.  Maybe I don't need to give that extra 5% of effort. I think it's more leaning that direction. It is more that is the Charlotte Hornets without Lamello, without Dennis Smith Jr., without Hayward, that is a let's get through this game. And that's the good part I said to the team is we feel good that we won the basketball game, but the overall feel of the game of the way we didn't execute, that part doesn't feel good. But you're five and one at home. You got one more. And that's what I said to the team. Let's be six and one in this homestand. You guys have had your struggles guarding on the perimeter, particularly with some other smaller guards like a Rose here. As you said, getting in the pain. Do you attribute that to just personnel, to lack of effort? What do you see there? I think overall it's just been inconsistent. I thought overall you take the Boston game where we're able to stay in front of Tatum and create some turnovers. The biggest part of the individual defense is you can't just think it's individual defense and if that guy goes by me, then no one's there. So our challenge is, Nick's going to guard some guys on the perimeter. Sometimes they're going to go by him. Joe is also sometimes they're going to go by him. Where's my teammate at so that they don't get all the way to the rim. That's the challenge. And we weren't there every time tonight. And so that part we'll watch and see where can I come over and help my teammates so they don't get all the way to the rim. Coach, there was a stretch, I think, in the fourth where you subbed Kyrie in for Nick and you had that small ball unit of him, Kevin, Royce, Joe, and I think Seth out there at the same time and that resulted in a pick and roll with Kevin and Ky that led to the Kyrie pull-up. What are you seeing from those small ball line-ups that you liked? Yeah, Christian, that was an interesting lineup. But you know, we ran out against them a little bit at their place and tried to put Plumlee and Pick and Roll. This time we didn't put Plumlee and Pick and Roll, but we played Ky and Kevin Pick and Roll in the middle of the floor. So the spacing was good for us. Had a little pin down for Royce to create a little movement for us. And then the floor is open so that if they switch, Kevin has a smaller guy on him, Ky can turn the corner. Getting those two to play together in pick and roll can be lethal force. You don't see it all the time. It was great for them to kind of produce and see how they can execute at the end of the game together.


And ahead of elections in 2023, lawmakers from the all-progressive Congress, APC, and the South-South region have converged on Kalabata drum support for the presidential ambition of Gov. Noya Hayabela of Kogi State using the Monkak GYB to PYB legislative team 2023. National coordinator of the legislative team and Speaker of Kogi House of Assembly, Matthew Kualawali says it is time for a generational shift in governance, adding that the lawmakers were ready to reshape and direct the political path of the country, hence the need to support a young personality for presidency in 2023. Speaker of Cross River House of Assembly, Etang Jonas Williams lending his voice said Nigeria was in their need of a young and resourceful president come 2023. Meanwhile, Jonas Williams, represented by Dr. David Setah, a member of the Cross River House of Assembly representing Abbey State Constituency, said that the youth deserve an inclusion in governance in 2023. In his remarks, the state coordinator of the legislative team, Hilary Beesong, who represents Bukitu State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, said across the globe, young people were being elected and appointed into leadership positions and commended Bello for aspiring to contest in the presidential poll.