1. AI AIn’t going away, however much it might be misbehaving. Here’s a great set of resources from TeachingEnglish, Pathways: AI in language teaching https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers/professional-development-pathways/pathways-ai-language-teaching

2. Here’s an important report for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the Ambition Institute by Loic Menzies and Marie Hamer on CPD (Continuing Professional Development), A System that Empowers: the Future of Professional Development https://ippr-org.files.svdcdn.com/production/Downloads/A_system_that_empowers_April25.pdf PDF below, and here’s the press release https://www.ippr.org/media-office/train-the-teacher-close-the-gap-report-urges-new-training-entitlement-to-raise-school-standards

3. A piece for Psyche by Katie Barclay on the history of the family, The history of family offers a liberating view of custom and love https://psyche.co/ideas/the-history-of-family-offers-a-liberating-view-of-custom-and-love

AITAH for not giving my step-sister my half of her mother’s life insurance,’ reads the headline on a post in the ‘Am I the Asshole’ subreddit – an online community where individuals bring their personal conflicts and problems and ask for judgment. Reddit’s users, largely American males aged 18 to 30, were asked to arbitrate a family conflict. Thirty years earlier, the poster’s father had died and left him the family home in his will, on the condition that his stepmother could remain in it for her lifetime. After his father’s death, the stepmother had thrown out the poster; he wasn’t yet 18. Subsequently they had little contact. When the stepmother died, the poster had finally gained access to his house.

4. I binge read all of Annie Ernaux’s translated work two years ago when she won the Nobel Prize. Here’s a New York Times gift article on her and her work by Rachel Cusk, Annie Ernaux Has Broken Every Taboo of What Women Are Allowed to Write: the novelist Rachel Cusk on what makes the Nobel laureate’s fiction so shocking https://tinyurl.com/bdeep58a

Plus a short video of Annie explaining why ‘she’s nobody when she writes’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLkpEHhBHe4

5. And, finally, for those of you like me who can never remember which word is which letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet [file] Don’t think I’ve infringed any copyright!