Tom Riley
@riley-ed.bsky.social
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Maths and Economics teacher. VP. Semi-fictional cyclist and runner.
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Adam Boxer
about 1 month ago
Are predicted grades accurate? This wonderful blog from
@fftedudatalab.bsky.social
explores the question, and my takehome is that *on average* they might be, but for an individual student it's pretty much guesswork. Well worth a read.
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/12/pred...
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SouthGlosHead
about 2 months ago
NEW BLOG: OFSTED REFLECTIONS. Trying to be even handed:
southgloshead.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/w...
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What we learned about OFSTED (Part 1)
Credit: The Times Reflections on the new inspection framework: 1742 days under the lottery finger My school and I have spent 1742 days in the OFSTED window (our last inspection was Feb 2018). 1742 ā¦
https://southgloshead.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/what-we-learned-about-ofsted-part-1/
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Sam Sims
about 2 months ago
New research with
@clareroutledge.bsky.social
Funded by the Gatsby Foundation We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching
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Carl Hendrick
2 months ago
Why a generation of kids are learning to read everything except books.
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/in-defence...
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David Didau
2 months ago
NEW: Good schools make good trachers If teachers donāt always improve with experience, the problem isnāt them. Itās the environment. Schools that get better do so because they make feedback clearer, practice more deliberate, and culture more trustworthy.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
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Good schools make good teachers
What kind domains, wicked traps and school culture mean for improvement
https://open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau/p/good-schools-make-good-teachers?r=18455&utm_medium=ios
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Jo Morgan
3 months ago
New post: tasks with scaffolding
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/task...
#mathstoday
#ukmathschat
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Peps
7 months ago
Despite best intentions and significant investment, Englandās SEND system is failing too many students and their families. To fix it, we need to understand why. Mega-thread summary of my presentation at
#FestivalOfEducation
today: ā
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Sam Strickland
3 months ago
New blog on inclusion
samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/i...
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Inclusion, Inclusion, Inclusion
Letās cut through the noise. There is a lot of sabre rattling about inclusion. There are organisations, think tanks, consultants, local authorities and even educators in schools pushing an agenda tā¦
https://samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/inclusion-inclusion-inclusion/
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Adam Boxer
4 months ago
I am blogging again!!! Like many others, I've moved over to Substack for a bit of a refresh. First entry is on school improvement - where to start, and what things matter. I'm weirdly a bit nervous about it it's been so long šš
open.substack.com/pub/adamboxe...
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School Improvement Starts Here: Behaviour, Participation, and Memory
All schools can improve, but it's often hard to know where to start. In most contexts, we can begin by asking three simple questions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamboxer/p/school-improvement-starts-here-behaviour?r=2ssneg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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TeacherDevelopmentTrust
4 months ago
What makes the teaching of teachers unique? And how might establishing it as a discipline help with the development of consistent frameworks? Read our New Report exploring Didagogy: The Discipline of Teaching Teachers
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Didagogy: Exploring the Discipline of Teaching Teachers | 2025
This report introduces didagogy as a discipline - a way of naming and initiating discussion around teacher learning.
https://tdtrust.org/research/didagogy-the-discipline-of-teaching-teachers/
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Matthew Evans
4 months ago
New today!
open.substack.com/pub/matthewe...
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Principles of Inclusion
How should we think about additional needs in a mainstream school?
https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewevanseducation/p/principles-of-inclusion?r=1dksrm&utm_medium=ios
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Ed Conway
4 months ago
Anyone fancy ten-plus minutes of non-emotive charts on what's really going on with immigration in the UK? Well, either way, here you goš
youtu.be/zTs3PDEkB2w?...
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UK immigration: What the numbers really show
YouTube video by Sky News
https://youtu.be/zTs3PDEkB2w?si=eYEXObwYJOsBrYha
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Nimish Lad
5 months ago
ā ļøNew Post: Attention ā ļø "What we attend to, we amplify." Attention is an element of school leadership. Are we considering the attention of school leaders? How often is this spread across multiple areas? Read by thoughts below:
researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/08/17/l...
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Leadership as an Attentional Practice
Attention as a Leadership Act in School Improvement School improvement is often framed around structures: improvement plans, strategic goals, and systems of accountability. However, beneath these fā¦
https://researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/08/17/leadership-as-an-attentional-practice/
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Iāll be line managing the English faculty for the first time in September. If you have any books or blogs that you recommend, please send a link my way!
6 months ago
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David Didau
8 months ago
It's Your Time Your'e Wasting: Coaching or ker-CHING?
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
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It's Your Time Your'e Wasting: Coaching or ker-CHING?
This weekās episode of Itās Your Time Youāre Wasting with me and Martin Robinson is on coaching.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau/p/its-your-time-youre-wasting-coaching?r=18455&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Adam Robbins
9 months ago
New Blog
#Edusky
This one is about a topic close to my heart: Supporting the planning and delivery of effective CPD sessions
adam-robbins.com/2025/04/22/u...
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Unlocking Teacher Development: CPD session checklist
Over the last two years I have spent a lot less time blogging and a lot more time thinking about CPD. Iāve noticed that often when CPD goes bad it misses many of the EEFās mechanisms foā¦
https://adam-robbins.com/2025/04/22/unlocking-teacher-development-cpd-session-checklist/
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Tom Sherrington
9 months ago
Does subject knowledge matter more than teaching techniques? That is a terrible question.
teacherhead.com/2025/04/20/d...
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Does subject knowledge matter more than teaching techniques? That is a terrible question.
Earlier this week I got sucked into a stupid ādebateā about subject knowledge after making some comments on X and replying to some other posts. It seemed to me that various people ̵ā¦
https://teacherhead.com/2025/04/20/does-subject-knowledge-matter-more-than-teaching-techniques-that-is-a-terrible-question/
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SouthGlosHead
9 months ago
NEW BLOG: Leading with focus.
#edusky
#Headteachers
#schoolimprovement
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social
@mrarobbins.bsky.social
@headteacherchat.bsky.social
@teacherhead.bsky.social
@teachertapp.bsky.social
@keziah70.bsky.social
southgloshead.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/l...
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Leading with focus
There are some days where I as a leader absolutely smash it, endlessly ticking off those big and important jobs on the āto doā list. I am strategic. I am purposeful. There are other dayā¦
https://southgloshead.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/leading-with-focus/
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George Eaton
10 months ago
The average UK worker is paying a lower effective tax rate than their US equivalent (19%). Great stat via
@tomcalver.bsky.social
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If you havenāt read it yet, this really is an absolutely top tier T+L book
10 months ago
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Jo Morgan
10 months ago
New! My 188th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. š
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/03/5-ma...
Hat tips to follow.
#MathsToday
#Mathsky
#UKMathsChat
#iteachmath
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Jonathan Mountstevens
10 months ago
I don't generally go nuts for learning from leaders in other domains, but I would strongly recommend Gareth Southgate's Dimbleby Lecture. I found what he said about creating the right culture spot on and quite moving. He brings together when so many are keen to divide.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture - Sir Gareth Southgate
Former England football manager Sir Gareth Southgate reflects on his personal journey as a leader and the importance of belief and resilience.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00293l5/the-richard-dimbleby-lecture-sir-gareth-southgate
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Becky Francis
10 months ago
The next stage of the Curriculum and Assessment Review will look to create a more inclusive and fair system, address subject-specific challenges, and assess available pathways beyond GCSEs. Find out more ā”ļø
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Curriculum and Assessment Review: interim report
An independent review of the curriculum and assessment system in England, with statistical analysis.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/curriculum-and-assessment-review-interim-report
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Jack Worth
10 months ago
NFER's 2025 annual report on the teacher labour market is out today - Postgrad ITT recruitment remains persistently poor - Teacher leaving rates have not improved since pre-Covid - Teacher shortages are having impacts on pupils Read here š
www.nfer.ac.uk/publications...
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Teacher Labour Market in England Annual Report 2025
NFER's annual Teacher Labour Market report shows that Juneās Spending Review is the Governmentās last chance to enact the policy changes needed to hit its 6,500 new teacher manifesto pledge.
https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/teacher-labour-market-in-england-annual-report-2025/
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Very much looking forward to this.
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11 months ago
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Great response.
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11 months ago
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Sam Sims
11 months ago
Why do teachers in some schools keep getting better for longer? We are developing a new measure of teacher workplace social capital to find out:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...
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Why do teachers in some schools keep getting better for longer? | UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO)
UCL Homepage
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/02/27/why-do-teachers-in-some-schools-keep-getting-better-for-longer/
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Heather Fearn
11 months ago
New blog! āThe Teachersā knowledge that has no nameā. What should we call this knowledge?
heatherfblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/t...
With special thanks to
@michaelfordham.bsky.social
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Love this
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11 months ago
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Pritesh Raichura
11 months ago
*New post!* Choral response & 'I Say You Say' are two techniques I use with high frequency during my explanations. Although they seem simple, there is a lot of thinking behind them.
bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/c...
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Choral Response and āI Say You Sayā
The longer a teacher talks for, the more likely it is the number of pupils paying attention decreases. The trick to sustaining attention is to ask pupils questions and to expect 100% participation ā¦
https://bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/choral-response-and-i-say-you-say/
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Peps
12 months ago
16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks: (all open source š) ā
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@carousel-learning.bsky.social
Hi guys. Any news on when we can expect to see Google SSO with Carousel?
12 months ago
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Christopher Such
12 months ago
Forgive the quote-post, but this idea comes up often enough that it makes sense for me to write a stand-alone thread on here that addresses this (probably) inaccurate extrapolation of cognitive load theory. So here's a thread on why asking pupils to follow as a teacher reads probably is fine. >>
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A perfect intersection.
12 months ago
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Jo Morgan
12 months ago
Hat tips! š© Thanks to
@ecrmaths.bsky.social
@riley-ed.bsky.social
@mrlevmaths.bsky.social
@transum.bsky.social
@draustinmaths.com
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Very much looking forward to the results of this one
@teachertapp.bsky.social
12 months ago
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Jo Morgan
12 months ago
New! My 185th gems post. Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. š
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/01/5-ma...
#mathstoday
#ukmathschat
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Knocked this together for Y11 today for sketching quadratics and they knocked it out of the park
#mathstoday
ifthesewallscouldspeakblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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https://ifthesewallscouldspeakblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/sketching-quadratics.pdf
12 months ago
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Peps
12 months ago
šØšØ NEW TODAY For the last 18 months, I've been working on a top secret documentary to capture & deconstruct some of best teaching in UK. Why We Made It & How To Access It (For Free): ā
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQ0...
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(Why And How) We Made A Documentary Unpacking Great Teaching
YouTube video by Peps Mccrea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQ0UdJy8co
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Luke Tryl
12 months ago
š§µThis from
@jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
links to probably biggest thing I've changed my mind on in last 5 years: the merits of working (or study) from home. Initially in post pandemic rows on it I tended to think loud critics of WFH were opening another culture war front & many did frame it that way!
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Ben Ward
about 1 year ago
Well this is very excitingā¦
steplab.co/watch
The chance to watch and learn from some amazing teachers: āGreat Teaching, Unpackedā - a Steplab documentary
@pepsmccrea.bsky.social
@joshpd.bsky.social
@steplab.bsky.social
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Steplab Videos | Watch Great Teaching, Unpacked
Browse videos produced by the Steplab team.
https://steplab.co/watch
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Alex Quigley
about 1 year ago
My new
@tesmagazine.bsky.social
column on 'Why making reading easier may be a bad choice'. Looking forward to all those AI created extracts, lovely and easy graphic summaries, or 'Shakespeare made easy'? Perhaps think again.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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Why making reading easier may be a bad choice
There are myriad ways to simplify reading, from AI summaries to shortened sentences, but we may be making life hard for pupils in the long run, writes Alex Quigley
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/why-making-reading-easier-may-be-bad-choice
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This is a really great episode
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about 1 year ago
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Cassie Young
about 1 year ago
New blog: āMaking inclusion a reality, not a rhetoricā
moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/01/maki...
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'Making inclusion a reality, not a rhetoric'
We all love a good speech, donāt we? A room full of nodding heads, a leader passionately declaring their commitment to inclusion and how e...
https://moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/01/making-inclusion-reality-not-rhetoric.html?m=1
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Did some graph transformations today (OCR quirk: no function notation). Used these two beauties
#mathstoday
donsteward.blogspot.com/2012/12/tran...
drive.google.com/file/d/1Twqz...
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translating y = x squared
ideas and resources for mathematics teachers of 10 to 16 year olds
https://donsteward.blogspot.com/2012/12/translating-y-x-squared.html?m=1
about 1 year ago
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Does anyone have any experience using the Sparx Maths Curriculum? Asking for a friend
sparxmathscurriculum.com/overview
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Sparx Maths Curriculum
Sparx Maths Curriculum - An intelligently sequenced 5 year maths curriculum for Y7 to Y11. Free for any school to use.
https://sparxmathscurriculum.com/overview
about 1 year ago
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There should have been more for this
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about 1 year ago
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Adam Boxer
about 1 year ago
It was my turn at work to do Thought For The Day and normally I think of my own but today I just read out every word of this banger of a blog from Tom Starkey
stackofmarking.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/q...
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Quiet
Hayden is kicking off again. With a clockwork regularity heās decided heās not going to do his work and instead is shouting across the room to a boy he likes to shout at when he doesn&#ā¦
https://stackofmarking.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/quiet/
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Iāve been wanting to try a different approach to teaching percentages for ages. Itās been in my head a while, but hasnāt become reality (yet).
about 1 year ago
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