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The Adult Who Notices
I’ve sat through enough Ofsted-ready presentations to know that the official handbook on how form tutors support pupils is essentially a work of high-concept fiction....
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Practising the Bit You Are Bad at
I remember sitting in a windowless training suite back in 2014, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit explained exactly how deliberate practice...
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The Adult Who Notices
I’ve sat through enough Ofsted-ready presentations to know that the official handbook on how form tutors support pupils is essentially a work of high-concept fiction....
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Practising the Bit You Are Bad at
I remember sitting in a windowless training suite back in 2014, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit explained exactly how deliberate practice...
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Teaching Outside Your Specialism
I remember sitting in a windowless departmental meeting ten years ago, staring at a glossy, twenty-page “Curriculum Implementation Guide” that promised a revolutionary way to...
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The Complete Guide to Leading a Department
If you pick up any “complete guide to leading a department” from a major educational publisher, you’ll likely find a glossy, step-by-step manual on “strategic...
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Experts Have Better Organised Knowledge, Not More
I remember sitting in a windowless training room ten years ago, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit used a...
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Objectives That Say What Pupils Will Know
I remember sitting in a windowless professional development room during my third year of middle leadership, staring at a PowerPoint slide that...
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Four Items and Then It Spills
I remember standing at the front of a Year 9 class on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, midway through what I thought was...
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A Behaviour Policy Applied the Same by Everyone
I remember sitting in a windowless meeting room in 2014, staring at a twenty-page laminated document that promised to “revolutionise student engagement...
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Who Actually Decides What Gets Taught
I remember sitting in a windowless departmental meeting back in 2014, staring at a glossy, spiral-bound document that promised a “transformative, student-centric...
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The Complete Guide to Curriculum Design
I remember sitting in a windowless departmental meeting three years ago, staring at a glossy, twenty-page binder that promised to be the...
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Learning Is a Change in Long Term Memory
I was sitting in a middle leadership seminar last Tuesday—one of those “professional development” sessions that could have been a well-constructed email—listening...
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Culture Is the Behaviour You Walk Past
I’ve sat through enough “Culture Building Workshops” to know they’re usually just expensive ways to waste a Tuesday afternoon. You know the...
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The Shape of a School Career
I remember sitting in a windowless departmental meeting ten years ago, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit explained a...
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Planning a Lesson in Fifteen Minutes
I remember sitting in a departmental meeting ten years ago, staring at a glossy, twenty-page “master template” for lesson design that promised...
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