Visualising The Science Of Writing: The Writing Map Explained writing4pleasure.com/2025/02/27/v...

The DfE’s Writing Framework offers a statement that deserves to be on every staffroom wall: “Transcription is not writing.”

Writing Off Children’s Potential: Why England’s Writing Early Learning Goal Must Be Reformed 👇 writing4pleasure.com/2026/03/24/w...

Today's must read. After decades trying to teach reading as a set of generic “skills”, Willingham & Hirsch remind us reading comprehension depends on what you know. If a child can't understand a text, it's often not a skills deficit, it's a knowledge deficit www.educationnext.org/rediscoverin...

Kindness in school leadership ‘can often be misread as weakness or a lack of rigour’, says international principal Joanna Povall – but it’s actually an incredibly powerful strategy

Free writing CPD materials – covering all aspects of writing teaching 👇🤩 writing4pleasure.com/free-writing...

If research-led, collaborative teachers’ professional learning and development is your thing, join us at the re-launch of the #CLR online network at 6pm (UK time) on March 24th www.collaborative-lesson-research.uk #LessonStudy #CPD #CPDL

#LessonStudy #CollaborativeLessonResearch #CLR #CPD #ProfessionalLearning #CPDL 👀👇👉 www.collaborative-lesson-research.uk

If you’re interested in robust, collaborative CPDL that promotes teacher agency, expertise & professional dialogue, and can contribute to a collaborative professional culture in your school, join us at the next CLR online network meeting - 24th March: www.collaborative-lesson-research.uk

Collaborative Lesson Research (CLR - or Lesson Study) provides valuable opportunities for teachers to put research evidence into classroom practice in a safe, supported space, and to evaluate and reflect on its impact, together. www.collaborative-lesson-research.uk

Collaborative Lesson Research (CLR - or Lesson Study) provides valuable opportunities for teachers to put research evidence into classroom practice in a safe, supported space, and to evaluate and reflect on its impact, together. www.collaborative-lesson-research.uk

‘Secondary literacy: Why fluency matters for every subject’ by Amy Ford at Derby Research School researchschool.org.uk/derby/news/s...

Monthly round-up of the latest research on the science of learning: carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-monthl...

💡 NEW 3Rs newsletter This edition includes: - a blog on ‘writing by hand’ - a book review on ‘Metacognition and Study Skills: A Guide for Teachers’ - research on attendance, what teachers notice with marking, and spelling in English primary schools alexquigley.co.uk/the-3rs-read...

How should teachers use books to inspire and guide EYFS pupils in creating their own non-fiction texts? writing4pleasure.com/2024/11/13/h...

‘How to share books with children to help them love reading’ I think shared reading, both at home and in the classroom, may be one of the most important human acts. More, more, more is better. theconversation.com/how-to-share...

This @tesmagazine.bsky.social is excellent from Debra Myhill on writing. Lots to think about if thinking about writing is your thing.

The cognitive offload is when you use technology to save you from mental effort. It is mostly brilliant, and it is the source of productivity improvements, economic growth & innovation. However, it might also be making us stupid. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-we-liv...

When knowledge compounds, advantages grow - that’s the ‘Rich-Get-Richer’ Effect. Discover what it means for your students → https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/the-rich-get-richer-effect/

*** NEW POST *** With the Curriculum and Assessment Review on its way, Zoe and I take a look at the common mistakes that schools make with the curriculum - and how great schools get it right. This also the focus of Part 1 of our forthcoming book How Do They Do It? www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

New evidence from France: RCT's showed that students taught using explicit instruction performed better than those who were taught with socio-constructivist teaching. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Research evidence can act as a school’s ‘north star’, writes the EEF’s co-CEO, who shares key findings to help teachers and leaders focus on the ‘best bets’ for making a difference to pupils

NEW BLOG: Why Johnny can't and won't write: writing4pleasure.com/2025/08/17/w...

Julian Grenier recommends seven books that share powerful research on early years provision and, crucially, offer practical steps for putting evidence into action

It's the summer holidays, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Simply **repost** this post for your chance to win. I will pick a winner on Sunday 17th August. Good luck!

“Knowledge is hard won but easily lost. Cherish your books , your learning and your understanding. And above all cherish your libraries. They are places that scare people who don’t want us to think for ourselves.” Natalie Haynes on Radio 4

**New blog** - It's been a while so reposts hugely appreciated. primarycolour.home.blog/2025/08/01/t...

Yes! This 👇👀👇Children need to read a lot, every day, in school, if they are to become fluent readers. Hurrah!

Stay ahead in education's changing landscape 📚 Join our mailing list for research-backed insights that empower your classroom decisions and strengthen your expertise. Because your voice matters in shaping education.https://dotdigital-pages.pulse.ly/ncdtap8z6h

Our own @jonnyuttley.bsky.social writing about this important and transformative policy: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

The Department for Education has published ‘The Writing Framework’. It will be of interest for leaders & teachers in primary looking to improve writing standards and refine their practice (but it’ll be of interest to many secondary school colleagues too). Find it here: lnkd.in/gkBw-QHJ

The Writing Framework has just been published, and I'm very pleased to have been part of the sector panel which helped produce this important document. I'm optimistic that the framework will help leaders to further develop the teaching of writing in their schools. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Useful summary writing4pleasure.com/wp-content/u... of DfE’s new Writing Framework from Writing for Pleasure Centre writing4pleasure.com

🚨NEW POST 🚨 'Reading every day matters' Reading every day builds the brain of a young child. Reading every day is vital to school success. Reading every day can help rehabilitate people in prison. alexquigley.co.uk/reading-ever...

@aeathorne.bsky.social this is great! youtu.be/W2k1s_mlj6U #LessonStudy

My Favourite Things is real good, don't sleep on it

SU&SD recommends My Favourite Things - "For my money the best game on this list" Lets-a-go! Might be a good time to grab a copy from our website as we've only got a few hundred left and no reprint on the way because of orange man.

Explaining the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report - from my visit to Starbank School, Birmingham

The Misunderstood Art of Scaffolding carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-misund...

I’ve been digging into the quality of EHCPs, plans that parents are dragged through court sometimes to obtain, and that are bankrupting councils What’s actually in them? Are they good quality? Personalised? Include interventions backed by evidence? Are they fully funded? The answer often is no

🚨BANGING NEW EXPERIMENTAL STUDY on effective teacher development just dropped. Quick summary: ↓

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...

Retrieval Practice: Free One Pager Guide by @carlhendrick.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

With vaccination under attack worth reading this, which I think is the most understated powerful thing Roald Dahl ever wrote.

Fantastic review for #Koyoband from @louderthanwar ☺️ louderthanwar.com/koyo-the-cas...

𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 Without those foundations in the early years, a child’s future success in education and life are at risk. My new blog for @theeef.bsky.social ⤵️ educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/early-years/...

My new 3Rs newsletter is live. It includes a review of a brilliant book on the science of storytelling, research on teacher/pupil diversity, student motivation, a new Steplab documentary, and more. [Quick, free sign-up] alexquigley.co.uk/the-3rs-read...

This is probably the most important book that any primary teacher or leader will read. I know that’s a big statement & I don’t make it lightly. There is nothing more important than getting every child reading fluently. This book provides a clear framework to make that happen.

My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday. Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>

'There’s a challenge here for us…how do we create school cultures where everybody feels that they belong?' @leoracruddas.bsky.social talks about the onus on leaders to foster a culture of belonging, particularly for pupils with SEND