NEW FREE POST How I use Artificial Intelligence for planning We need to get off the hamster wheel fillingthepail.substack.com/p/how-i-use-...

NEW CURIOS Free preview asks what’s wrong with ‘compliance’ fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT researchED Ballarat on 14 March was close to selling out with the waiting list about to kick in BUT We've had a bit of a think and come up with a solution where we can fit more people in. NORTH of 450, here we come! Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-b...

NEW FREE POST Years later, 'metacognition and self-regulation' is still not a thing And what this means for the Education Endowment Foundation's Toolkit fillingthepail.substack.com/p/years-late...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses maths, Ontario and @nsachdeva.bsky.social fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Deakin University to run workshops in an unproven approach for all trainee teachers The Berry Street Education Model and trauma-informed practice fillingthepail.substack.com/p/deakin-uni...

NEW CURIOS Free section includes some DISGUSTED teacher trainers. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Was a teacher disciplined and labelled a potential extremist for showing a video of Trump's inauguration? We will never know for sure but it raises some interesting questions fillingthepail.substack.com/p/was-a-teac...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses a perhaps unlikely advocate for school choice fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Savage's ghosts The jilted generations fillingthepail.substack.com/p/savages-gh...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses ‘flexible’ approaches to reading instruction fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Mossbourne and natural justice Why it matters fillingthepail.substack.com/p/mossbourne...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses Sir Alan Wood’s review of Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

ANNOUNCING Katie Roberts-Hull Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-b...

NEW FREE POST Why Dean Ashenden is wrong about NAPLAN And why these flawed assessments are worth building on fillingthepail.substack.com/p/why-dean-a...

NEW CURIOS In the free section, I address the release of NAPLAN standardised assessment data in Australia and whether News Corp are very naughty for drawing up league tables. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the existence of thinking skills fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

David Didau and Carl Hendrick announced as keynote speakers at researchED Ballarat on 14 March 2026 Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-b...

NEW FREE POST Why teacher training is not evidence-based A case in point fillingthepail.substack.com/p/why-teache...

NEW CURIOS In the free section I discuss an editorial about maths education in Bloomberg fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW POST Is explicit teaching new? The argument comes full circle fillingthepail.substack.com/p/is-explici...

NEW CURIOS Free preview discusses a planned education neuroscience research centre fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching #5 Explicit teaching is demotivating fillingthepail.substack.com/p/five-argum...

NEW CURIOS In the free preview, I unpack the unscholarly folly of comparing English apples with Dutch oranges. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST The journalist, the federation and the policy of 'isolation' Exclusive Investigation fillingthepail.substack.com/p/the-journa...

NEW CURIOS Free preview includes some helpful words of advice from an academic to AERO fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Something changed A day at the Australian School Improvement Summit fillingthepail.substack.com/p/something-...

NEW CURIOS Free preview section includes a brave intervention and some potential legal action fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching #4 Explicit teaching takes no account of student differences fillingthepail.substack.com/p/five-argum...

NEW CURIOS Free section includes a Southern Surge and some cognitive overload fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Freddie deBoer’s act of intellectual fraud fillingthepail.substack.com/p/freddie-de...

NEW FREE POST Part three of my series on arguments against explicit teaching fillingthepail.substack.com/p/five-argum...

ANNOUNCING Brendan Lee

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses an instructional hierarchy and a demon headteacher fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

ANNOUNCING Bruno Reddy

ANNOUNCING Rebecca Birch

ANNOUNCING Natalie Wexler and Pamela Snow Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-a...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the work of Roland Fryer fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

ANNOUNCING Natalie Wexler and Pamela Snow Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-a...

NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching #2 Creativity and other higher order skills fillingthepail.substack.com/p/five-argum...

"I utterly reject this depressing idea of science education". I agree. It is also depressing to see the hubris inherent in this attitude.

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the suggestion that the goal of science education should be to develop ‘informed agency’ fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching #1 Rote memorisation versus deeper understanding fillingthepail.substack.com/p/five-argum...

NEW CURIOS Free preview includes a discussion of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the implications for free speech. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW CURIOS In the free preview, I discuss Australia’s proposed Teaching and Learning Commission. I also tackle discovery learning in California, the mechanism behind spaced practice and more. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

Come and join me at the upcoming ResearchED Sydney conference. NOV 1st. Grab your ticket

researchED Sydney is go! What better way to spend Saturday 1 November fillingthepail.substack.com/p/researched...

NEW FREE POST Behaviourism the Bogeyman Consequences are a fact of social life fillingthepail.substack.com/p/behaviouri...

NEW CURIOS Everything you need to know about education right now and includes a free preview section. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST No, teaching is not always political That's just a pose fillingthepail.substack.com/p/no-teachin...