Thrilled to be speaking at the Third Festival of Education, Thailand. As in previous years, I’ll be presenting on the Great Teaching Strand with @evidencebased.education, but I’m also very honoured to be presenting with the legendary Tom Sherrington on mastering techniques and inclusion.

Interrupt your regular, scheduled educhat, for some football related news… www.nytimes.com/athletic/632... What Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold would bring to Real Madrid

Re-reading this. For those who claim that the techniques in this book are motivated by a desire for coercive control or are “literally tyranny”, I would encourage you to read the preface and explore Lemov’s motives for yourself, even if you read no further #Edusky

Here's a 15 second teaser for #CoachingWalkthrus. It's a beautiful piece of work. Such a joy to have the opportunity to work with @mattteachcoach.bsky.social and @olicav.bsky.social on this book. You will want a copy! Out in September we hope.

He loves to start confrontation and then backs down at the first sign of pushback. Standard behaviour for bullies. nyti.ms/4jHJ2ms?fbcl...

For a number of reasons, I’ve haven’t read much this academic year, so I’m excited to dig into these… #EduSky

Interesting task design discussion:

Inclusion Week 2025 - “Firework” in Makaton youtu.be/qiHxoZjQmoc?... STA is such a special place to be ❤️🤍💙💛💚

My day at school today. Literally got the “Captain, my Captain” treatment from my Y13s in our last lesson, a lovely speech, and beautiful note and gift. Then, an earthquake 🥴 Still here at our Primary site with hundreds of kids.

#SundayCPD Really important Expert-led Talk Webinar on Leading Inclusion as part of Best Practice Network’s NPQSL #Edusky

NEW webinar: Key Stage 3: The Wasted Years or The Ambitious Years? Ofsted’s KS3 The Wasted Years? of 2015 found that provision at KS3 wasn’t as ambitious as it could be: /1

Excellent summary of the first meeting of the expert working party, which I’m thrilled to be a part of.

"Her mantras throughout the review have been 'evidence-led', 'evolution not revolution', and 'social justice'. In person one of her most frequently used words is 'nuance'."

🚨free COACHING webinar! 📆 27th March ⏰ 4-5pm ❓How to prepare for coaching using mapping 🎫 Now expanded number of tickets! @SCottinghatt 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-fo...

Food for thought

Episode 4 of A Zoom with a View, a running series with Chris Jordan (of the Leading, Language, and Literature podcast) is out now. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1JFm... #Edusky

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

Excited to be here in Abu Dhabi for the NAE Regional Conference #Edusky

Awesome residential week with 100 year 8s

www.tes.com/magazine/new... What I’m hearing here is that in their “Big Listen” is that they’ve not listened to teachers’ and leaders’ concerns about separating curriculum, teaching, and outcomes at all…

About 8 years ago, @siobhanleahy50 and I prepared a Quick Reference Guide for Embedding Formative Assessment. It's now out of print, so the copyright has reverted to us, and we are free to share it with anyone who wants it: bit.ly/EFAQRG (pdf).

collider.com/tomorrow-and... “The Thai Black Mirror Stands On Its Own, Mostly”

Enjoying the first online 'F2F' Event as part of the NPQSL with the Best Practice Network #Edusky

Professional Performance Monitoring; a middle path. "Helping every teacher to be even better than they already are should be the number one priority in every school and college" Blog by Stuart Kime ✍️ Read it here 👇

We are recruiting for August 2025. Vacancies for Maths, English, Science (Chemistry specialists + KS3 Science with Biology), Economics, PE, and Technology, as well as HS Director of Sport, Head of Careers and Higher Education, and Head of Business: careers.nordangliaeducation.com/search/

Well, this is exciting! @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of our book - How to Teach Psychology: An evidence-informed approach Available for pre-order now! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953/

www.languagemagazine.com/2024/11/22/b... #langsky

12 years ago I taught a firecracker of a girl. She was smart, funny and good at English. She didn’t have the best time at school. Today I saw her again in the audience of a keynote speech I was giving. Reader, she’s an English teacher. I couldn’t have been prouder of her.

🚨NEW VID🚨 Alignment: The Secret Sauce of Effective Schooling? KEY MOMENTS 0:51 → The emerging evidence 2:11 → Interview w Dr Jen Barker & Jon Gilbert 5:40 → The role of codification 9:41 → Alignment vs autonomy 11:06 → Getting started www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-1B...

🌟 Insights of the night 🌟 @chrispassey.bsky.social @sdaud.bsky.social 👏🏼 👏🏼

"Curriculum development is about developing your people, your teachers, and your teams." This is an excellent read (and a great debut post!)

That's a fair observation, but my point was that 'employers want something else' is not, in itself, a suitable justification for ripping things up. Employers know little (if anything) about designing effective approaches to the curriculum, assessment and accounability, nor would I expect them to.

Nearly 200 followers and so much positive feedback! Thank you #EduSky! Please keep sharing, subscribing and getting ready for our first scenario chat! Subscribe here: getrealleadershiphub.substack.com

I have added a a couple more but still plenty of room so nominations welcome! #EduSky go.bsky.app/MGCr691

Really interesting reading #edubloguk #edusky @mr-n-wood.bsky.social @saysmiss.bsky.social

How do senior leaders effectively balance whole-school priorities with the unique needs of individual subjects? @catherinepriggs.bsky.social: catherinepriggseducation.substack.com/p/5-we-need-... Thanks, @marymyatt.bsky.social, for sharing this.

My first blog post - all feedback welcome (but be gentle to a first timer 😉) On curriculum and teams… my thinking heavily influenced by @samgibbs.bsky.social @saysmiss.bsky.social @samcrome.bsky.social and @lekhasharma.bsky.social leadingfromthefrontoftheclass.blog/2024/11/23/i...

CPD Report Roundup 2024 | Teacher Development Trust https://buff.ly/3BnU27j < @InformedEdu.bsky.social has been putting the professional into professional development for teachers for many years - here is David's summary of the best of 2024

One of the things which has struck me about the interviews @Sam_LGibbs and I have been doing for our book has been that many of the 100+ teachers we've interviewed, who've served 20+ years are career teachers...a thread 🧵

We’ve had our first edudebate. It’s true; it’s happening. Bluesky has actually replaced Twitter!

💭 “How can we help educators in using evidence-informed practices with children who may require more support than their peers?” The EEF's Lauren Grocott and Nichola Hesslewood of Wingate Nursery School discuss how we can help to develop young children’s thinking. Read more: eef.li/pV7v6K

Truth and sound advice from @samcrome.bsky.social: “look after each other in this busy term, so that we can fulfil our purpose, manage our workloads effectively, & increase our belonging & professional joy at being part of something effective & bigger than ourselves” samcrome.com/2024/11/13/h...

🚨New substack for teachers and coaches: Closing the knowing-deciding-doing gap… Coaching to improve decision making + action Including video of @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social coaching + the link to the Cognitive Coaching webinar! open.substack.com/pub/cognitiv...

This is exceptional @xpateducator.bsky.social 👏🏻 bravo

Just reposting this. Second year of a brand new school. Vietnam is a gorgeous country. Sixth Form opening next year.

I agree. The love of reading is values led. We don't insist that of anything else and reading is seen as one of the key 'virtues'. We can't make pupils into mini versions of us. Their world is not ours

How do I set up the 📌 feed on here?