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...

NEW BLOG: OFSTED REFLECTIONS. Trying to be even handed: southgloshead.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/w...

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

Why a generation of kids are learning to read everything except books. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/in-defence...

NEW: Good schools make good trachers If teachers don’t always improve with experience, the problem isn’t them. It’s 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...

New post: tasks with scaffolding www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/task... #mathstoday #ukmathschat

Despite best intentions and significant investment, England’s 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: ↓

New blog on inclusion samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/i...

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 😭😭 open.substack.com/pub/adamboxe...

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

New today! open.substack.com/pub/matthewe...

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 go👇 youtu.be/zTs3PDEkB2w?...

⚠️New Post: Attention ⚠️ "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...

I’ll 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!

It's Your Time Your'e Wasting: Coaching or ker-CHING? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

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...

Does subject knowledge matter more than teaching techniques? That is a terrible question. teacherhead.com/2025/04/20/d...

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... Pls share.

The average UK worker is paying a lower effective tax rate than their US equivalent (19%). Great stat via @tomcalver.bsky.social.

If you haven’t read it yet, this really is an absolutely top tier T+L book

New! My 188th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/03/5-ma... Hat tips to follow. #MathsToday #Mathsky #UKMathsChat #iteachmath

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...

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 ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/p...

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 👇 www.nfer.ac.uk/publications...

Very much looking forward to this.

Great response.

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...

New blog! ‘The Teachers’ knowledge that has no name’. What should we call this knowledge? heatherfblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/t... With special thanks to @michaelfordham.bsky.social

Love this

*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...

16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks: (all open source 🔓) ↓

@carousel-learning.bsky.social Hi guys. Any news on when we can expect to see Google SSO with Carousel?

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. >>

A perfect intersection.

Hat tips! 🎩 Thanks to @ecrmaths.bsky.social @riley-ed.bsky.social @mrlevmaths.bsky.social @transum.bsky.social @draustinmaths.com

Very much looking forward to the results of this one @teachertapp.bsky.social

New! My 185th gems post. Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/01/5-ma... #mathstoday #ukmathschat

Knocked this together for Y11 today for sketching quadratics and they knocked it out of the park #mathstoday ifthesewallscouldspeakblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

🚨🚨 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): ↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQ0...

🧵This 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!

Well this is very exciting… steplab.co/watch The chance to watch and learn from some amazing teachers: ‘Great Teaching, Unpacked’ - a Steplab documentary @pepsmccrea.bsky.social @joshpd.bsky.social @steplab.bsky.social

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...

This is a really great episode

New blog: ‘Making inclusion a reality, not a rhetoric’ moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/01/maki...

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...

Does anyone have any experience using the Sparx Maths Curriculum? Asking for a friend sparxmathscurriculum.com/overview

There should have been more for this

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...

I’ve been wanting to try a different approach to teaching percentages for ages. It’s been in my head a while, but hasn’t become reality (yet).