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Here’s your school development plan – no, really, don’t thank me. #SLTchat
There are so many things you might need to do to take a school forward. Based on my reading and engagement with schools around the country this year, here are some areas I’d recommend for consideration. Before outlining the details, here are two preliminary considerations: A: Sort behaviour. Don’t do anything else until this feels … Continue reading
Schools that work for everyone? The challenges for comprehensive education. #educationfest
My talk at the Wellington Festival this year was originally intended to contribute to the discussion about new grammar schools. However, given that this idea seems to have been put aside – at least at any significant scale – I swerved it around to focus more on comprehensive schools. Years ago, when I worked at KEGS, … Continue reading
National Baccalaureate for England: Join in; sign up with @natbacctrust
In our view, establishing a National Baccalaureate for England is a policy gift for anyone responsible for taking our education system forward. Thankfully, we don’t have to wait. Schools and colleges can get started right away. The National Baccalaureate for England now exists as a framework for ensuring all learners have a rich, broad curriculum experience throughout their school … Continue reading
Beyond Growth Mindset: Two videos.
In the last couple of weeks I’ve come across two excellent videos that present ideas that I think are incredibly powerful for helping students and teachers think about learning. Some times, when people talk about growth mindset, it’s so incredibly nebulous that I can’t quite imagine what’s going to change. Simply urging students to adopt … Continue reading
Teaching and Learning Research Summaries: A collection for easy access.
There are several superb summaries of educational research that have been compiled into easily accessible websites and articles in pdf format that can be read online and shared with staff. Although they are easy to find via an internet search, I am pulling them together into one place for easy access. I’ll keep adding to … Continue reading
Teaching to the Top: Attitudes and strategies for delivering real challenge.
Teaching to top has been a long-standing principle of effective teaching from my perspective. One of my early blogs was ‘Gifted and Talented Provision: A Total Philosophy‘ and it remains one of the topics I am asked to talk about most often in CPD sessions. I no longer think that Gifted and Talented is a … Continue reading
Finding peace: Grief, solidarity and resolve. Responses to radicalisation.
Monday night’s bombing in Manchester was such an outrage. It’s hard to process. There are so many emotions to deal with. For all those affected, there’s the personal grief; the heart-breaking disaster of losing a child or a parent, a colleague. However hard we try to empathise from afar, we can’t get close to the … Continue reading
EVENT: Powerful Curriculum Design
If you are interested in curriculum design, this one-day course could be the perfect opportunity to explore a range of powerful ideas to take your school forward. Martin Robinson and I will be delivering the programme based on our experience working with schools around the country. Please come and join us for what promises to … Continue reading
10 Questions to ask about Work Scrutiny and Book Looks.
The ‘book look’ concept is now firmly established as part of the educational landscape. In many ways this is a positive development because it takes some pressure away from the problematic process of lesson observations. It’s not just the voodoo of grading – which is still out there albeit in decline – it’s the problem of … Continue reading
You’re doing it all wrong: context and complexity in Ed-research and debate.
It’s continually frustrating to me that so much of the discourse in our debates and in the reading of education research reduces teaching and learning effects to crude averages and sweeping assumptions, ignoring complexity and context At the same time, it’s equally frustrating that some people’s response to this complexity is to reinforce a … Continue reading
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