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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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Writing Improves Through Modelled Structure
I remember sitting in a windowless training room during a Tuesday morning CPD session, watching a consultant in a crisp navy suit...
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Teaching Words Explicitly and Repeatedly
I’ve sat through enough expensive, shiny CPD sessions to know exactly what’s coming: a consultant in a slim-fit suit telling you that...
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The Timetable Is a Series of Compromises
I remember sitting in a windowless meeting room in 2014, staring at a spreadsheet that looked more like a game of Tetris...
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One Teacher and Eleven Subjects
If you look at any shiny new government white paper or a consultant’s PowerPoint, you’ll get a very polished, very expensive version...
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The Complete Guide to Revision
I was sitting in a departmental meeting three years ago, staring at a glossy, twenty-page “complete guide to revision” produced by a...
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Notes You Will Actually Use Again
I remember sitting in a training seminar back in 2014, watching a consultant with a pristine iPad demonstrate “revolutionary” digital annotation techniques...
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The Complete Guide to Homework
I remember sitting in a departmental meeting back in 2014, staring at a glossy, twenty-page document promising a “transformative” new homework policy...
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Diagnosing Why a Reader Is Stuck
I was sitting in a middle leadership meeting three years ago, staring at a glossy, twenty-page PDF about a “revolutionary multi-sensory literacy...
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Wellbeing Is Workload, Not Yoga
I was sitting in a CPD session three years ago—just before I went part-time—listening to a consultant explain how wellbeing is supported...
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Play-based Learning Is Not Unstructured
I spent twenty minutes yesterday reading a glossy, high-budget brochure about “holistic developmental frameworks” that seemed to suggest children learn best when...
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