Monthly Archives: May 2020

“In education, the only way to improve is to stop people doing good things, to give them time to do even better things.” Dylan Wiliam It appears like a trite piece of … Continued here: https://ift.tt/2MhoZ0e

The pandemic has cast many assumptions about how education could or should unfold into sharp relief. Like many others, I’ve been wondering about the positives we might find in our current situation… Continued here https://ift.tt/3gBj2ZX

Could Ofqual account for improvements in a school’s results when grades are awarded this summer? Continued here: https://ift.tt/2TKewP4

Here is the recording of webinar I gave for #LDeduchat this week on ‘Why we need to read aloud’. The slides I used are available separately here: Reading aloud from David Didau (NB. There’s a… Continued here https://ift.tt/3cdBC7n

thinkingreadingwritings.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/removing-barriers-to-success-the-bridge-over-the-reading-gap-part-6/

The KS2 Reading SAT creates perverse incentives and drives the teaching of generic reading comprehension skills. This post examines why generic reading comprehension skills are a myth and Continued here https://ift.tt/2WXiA0A

On the 22nd of May, I had the great pleasure to join the researchEd Home gang to talk ‘Closing the Reading Gap (in the time of Coronavirus)’. A couple of years ago, … Continued here: https://ift.tt/2LPs47s

In 2018, 29,000 pupils lost their English as an additional language status between Year 6 and Year 7 Continued here: https://ift.tt/3gdcgtm

With no KS2 baseline, could P8 still be calculated for the 2020 Year 6 cohort? Continued here: https://ift.tt/2WP9Yck

Moving from primary school to secondary school, nursery to school, or school to college, is a seismic change for any child. The transition can be both exciting and frightening. As Covid closures … Continued here: https://ift.tt/2Ad60RL