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Alternative Provision and Getting Pupils Back
I remember sitting in a sterile, windowless meeting room during a Tuesday afternoon briefing, listening to a consultant in a sharp suit explain the “transformative...
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The Complete Guide to Your First Year Teaching
If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn or browsing through expensive teacher training blogs lately, you’ve probably been bombarded with a “complete guide to starting...
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Alternative Provision and Getting Pupils Back
I remember sitting in a sterile, windowless meeting room during a Tuesday afternoon briefing, listening to a consultant in a sharp suit explain the “transformative...
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The Complete Guide to Your First Year Teaching
If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn or browsing through expensive teacher training blogs lately, you’ve probably been bombarded with a “complete guide to starting...
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Settling a Pupil Who Arrives in February
I remember sitting in a departmental meeting ten years ago, staring at a glossy, thirty-page “Induction Handbook” that had cost the school a small fortune...
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Ten Years and Good Feedback
I remember sitting in a windowless seminar room during my first year as a middle leader, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit...
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Asking Why It Is True
I spent twenty minutes yesterday watching a CPD presenter explain “elaboration” using a slick, multi-coloured slide deck and terms like cognitive scaffolding...
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Worked Examples Before Independent Practice
I remember standing at the front of a Year 10 history class on a Tuesday afternoon, watching twenty-eight sets of eyes glaze...
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How a Grade Is Actually Produced
I remember sitting in a windowless briefing room in 2014, listening to a consultant in a slim-fit suit explain the “revolutionary” mechanics...
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Explaining It to Yourself Out Loud
I remember standing at the front of a Year 9 classroom on a Tuesday afternoon, watching twenty-eight teenagers nod in unison while...
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The Complete Guide to Retrieval Practice
I was sitting in a CPD session last Tuesday—one of those sessions where the presenter uses words like ‘cognitive architecture’ while looking...
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Certainty Matters More Than Severity
I remember standing in the doorway of a Year 9 classroom during a particularly grim November afternoon, watching a trainee try to...
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The Complete Guide to Reducing Marking
I remember sitting at my kitchen table in 2014, surrounded by three different piles of Year 9 essays, staring at a lukewarm...
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Restorative Practice Alongside Consequences
I’ve sat through enough expensive, glossy CPD sessions to know that most consultants treat “restorative practice” like it’s some sort of magical,...
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A Good Explanation Uses Two Examples and a Non-example
I remember standing at the front of a Year 9 classroom on a rainy Tuesday in November, clutching a beautifully designed PowerPoint...
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Same Hours, Spread Out, Better Results
I was sitting in a middle leadership meeting three years ago, staring at a shiny new “Learning Science” toolkit that promised to...
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