Monthly Archives: December 2020

Originally posted on teaching personally:
This is my lockdown project: OK I admit it, I am a railway modeller. I have been one for around fifty years, well before that hobby’s supposed new-found Lockdown Cool. It’s a profound and wide-ranging…

Originally posted on teaching personally:
There is nothing I like more than settling down to an activity knowing that there are no constraints on the time I have available to spend on it, and I can in effect continue until…

Read new research exploring the impact that the introduction of Progress 8 had on schools’ priorities Continued here: https://ift.tt/3nnpqHk

The change in headline KS4 accountability measure saw the results of pupils with lower attainment increase, new research suggests Continued here: https://ift.tt/3nsesQJ

Barely half of secondary pupils were at school in some parts of the country last week Continued here: https://ift.tt/2K0NFNg

Pupils with SEND leave the state system much more commonly than other pupils, our research shows Continued here: https://ift.tt/3nilwPQ

Originally posted on teaching personally:
During my degree course in the early 1980s, there was one module that struck fear into most geography undergraduates. It had the added sting of being compulsory – and it appeared on the timetable with…

I slide I used in a presentation on the ideas in my book, Making Kids Cleverer has been getting a bit of love on Twitter, with New Zealand school principal referring to it as containing what might be… Continued here … Continue reading →

Our free tool makes it easy to benchmark your school with peers Continued here: https://ift.tt/36Xayts

What connections can you make between these words? Are there any patterns of meaning or word families you notice? Could you even detect the author who penned these words? These disembodied words… Continued here: https://ift.tt/3qwZv20