There’s always someone in the room who asks the awkward question. The one who says, “I’m not sure this will…
From Theory to Classroom Impact: What Professional Communities Can Teach Us About Improving Pupil Outcomes
In schools, we often talk about collaboration as if it’s a given, part of the daily rhythm of teaching. However,…
System Leadership at Scale: Leading With, Not Over
Still in draft; always learning. As the role of educational leaders continues to evolve, particularly within Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), we…
A Reflection Post: A Curriculum That Breathes – Animacy, Agency, and the Quiet Radicalism of Coherence
Reading Aurora Reid’s meditation on animacy and curriculum was like standing still in a clearing: something between a pause and…
What happens when we don’t get it right?
Note: this post is a reflection piece I am writing while reading Amy Edmondson “Right Kind of Wrong” A fear…
Generating learning
As mentioned in my post on relating knowledge, if we don’t retrieve knowledge often, we forget it. Once links between…
Relating Knowledge
If we don’t retrieve knowledge often, we forget it. Arbitrary facts are harder to remember than knowledge that is related…
Evaluating Learning
Learning is notoriously hard to evaluate. It is difficult for teachers to evaluate student learning without robust forms of assessment…
Motivation
Students find motivation difficult. The causes of a lack of motivation are often not understood well by teachers or learners.…
Attention
Managing attention is difficult. Learners often haven’t switched their attention from what they have just been thinking about to the…