Chapter 40 of The Second Summer of Love Let’s get it on… open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

All children deserve good teaching. Some need it more than most. If support replaces thinking, it isn’t support. Our aim must be independence. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

“All students - especially the most vulnerable - deserve far more than vague optimism.”

All children deserve good teaching. Some need it more than most. If support replaces thinking, it isn’t support. Our aim must be independence. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Chapter 39 of The Sevond Summer of Love… open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

NEW Overconfident by Design How confidence drives action , distorts judgement and fuels learning open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

NEW Overconfident by Design How confidence drives action , distorts judgement and fuels learning open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Out there on the horizon, out beyond the neon lights Chapter 38 of The Second Summer of Love Plans are afoot... open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Deeply honoured that @didau.bsky.social shared my latest research on the 'Do Now' with his audience. Thank you, David, for the thoughtful engagement and for helping get these findings into the hands of more educators. substack.com/@daviddidau/...

Students don't struggle to write well because they lack talent or effort but because we demand essays before they've mastered sentences. My new book, Writing Fitness, sets out a different model open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

I've not bought an edu book for a while (too much of the same old), but this is one I'm really looking forward to. I've used David's writing advice in various guises over the years and in the last 6 months for myself going back into proper essay construction. #EduSky

Students don't struggle to write well because they lack talent or effort but because we demand essays before they've mastered sentences. My new book, Writing Fitness, sets out a different model open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Next chapter of Second Sumer of Love Brum is getting too hot for the gang… open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Feedback can make lessons look slick or it can make learning more durable. It can’t do both at once. When feedback is immediate, performance improves but understanding often doesn’t. When we delay, reduce & summarise students are forced to think, judge & remember. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

🚨 8 DAYS TO GO 🚨 Today's post for the upcoming Leading Secondary English @bloomsburyed.bsky.social is from Ch7 - Assessing using curriculum related expectations. I am hugely indebted to @didau.bsky.social for this chapter. His work on KS3 assessment is SEMINAL. More to come...

Feedback can make lessons look slick or it can make learning more durable. It can’t do both at once. When feedback is immediate, performance improves but understanding often doesn’t. When we delay, reduce & summarise students are forced to think, judge & remember. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

New chapter of The Second Summer of Love… open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

There is so much to know and do when it comes to literacy, but my new book offers every teacher strong foundations. It addresses reading, writing, talk, vocabulary, literacy assessment, and literacy & SEND. 'Literacy Essentials for Every Teacher' Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Literacy-Ess...

Looking forward to this with the Barrow heads ⬇️ It’ll be our third trip to researchED Birmingham and we always have great time 😊

I’m going to be teaching a live lesson to FDA students at this. Come along and ask questions

New post - going back to the basics: Why cognitive science matters for teachers? open.substack.com/pub/efratfur...

I find it wild that if you’re verbally abusive to a police officer or a nurse you can be prosecuted, but we are saying that when it happens to teachers it’s not even appropriate to send a child home.

#FridayFive is nostalgic. 1. It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine). REM. 2. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades. Timbuk 3. 3. My Hometown. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. 4. The Polaroid Song. Allo Darlin’. 5. Old Friends/Bookends. Simon and Garfunkel.

Thoughts on this mess. 🧵👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ANNOUNCING Sharon Gillet and Kristin Bourne Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-b...

NEW Betwixt and between- Learning in liminal space open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

Chapter 34 is here. All feeling a bit shady at the Synergy office … open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

The Learning Pyramid stats were new to me. I'd never thought about them all being exact multiples of 10 🤔

Not everything that feels supportive actually helps. Coloured paper and invented retention rates tell a bigger story about why bad ideas persist in schools. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

Not everything that feels supportive actually helps. Coloured paper and invented retention rates tell a bigger story about why bad ideas persist in schools. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

We’re teaching children to see struggle as signs of mental ill health. In doing so, schools risk becoming traumagenic. What if suffering is a sane response to adversity, not a condition to be treated? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Ambiguous announcement: is it the student and colleagues who get access to Copilot, or Copilot that gets access to the students and colleagues?

Chapter 31. The Sun Rising. Post rave bliss. open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

We’re teaching children to see struggle as signs of mental ill health. In doing so, schools risk becoming traumagenic. What if suffering is a sane response to adversity, not a condition to be treated? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

NEW The freedom trap open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

NEW The freedom trap open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Chapter 29: Here you do, way too fast - the gang approach the rave open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

NEW Why some stress is good for us open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Chapter 28 let’s make lots of money open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Chapter 27 open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

Behaviour changes only when people see several socially close others doing the same thing. Weak ties create visibility. Strong ties create safety. Confusing the two is why so many change efforts fail. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Behaviour changes only when people see several socially close others doing the same thing. Weak ties create visibility. Strong ties create safety. Confusing the two is why so many change efforts fail. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Chapter 26 of SSOL - the gang turn up at a steam fair. Hilarity ensures open.substack.com/pub/secondsu...

NEW Herd immunity and the limits of peer influence Herd immunity works until the system keeps re-infecting itself. Why a few influential students can tip norms and why no seed group survives adult inconsistency 👇 open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Your tolerances not your values set your culture. On norms, status and why what we permit matters more than what we proclaim 👇 open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Substack from @didau.bsky.social on culture. daviddidau.substack.com/p/culture-ea... You know your culture is real when it’s inconvenient and you do it anyway. If you make excuses or exceptions then it’s not culture, not values, just bluster.

Your tolerances not your values set your culture. On norms, status and why what we permit matters more than what we proclaim 👇 open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

We obsess over how to teach reading and forget to ask why. If literature trains attention, judgement and endurance, perhaps we should be more concerned with selecting books, that have the power to enrich, making time to read them, and stop over-explaining. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...