Thank you again to our brilliant Chair, Professor Lord Tarassenko CBE, to our co-leads Dr Helen Drury and David Monis Weston, and to all of our fantastic Executive Group. Their experience and insight has been truly invaluable. And this is not the end! More from Maths Horizons will be coming...

You can read the full report here: www.mathshorizons.uk/reports

We shared our 7 recommendations in the House of Lords in May, and we are delighted to be able to share the full report today.

Since September 2024, we have heard from hundreds of experts through interviews and consultation feedback, as well as roundtable discussions and school visits, as well as conducting large-scale polling through Public First.

Today, Maths Horizons publishes our full report about the future of maths curriculum and assessment in England, and features in the Sunday Times here: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Interested in hearing what David Monis-Weston had to say on AI 🤖 and teacher development in his recent lecture? Watch the introduction below, then visit https://tdtrust.org/cpd-hub/ and create a free account to view the whole thing.

The recording of the 2025 David Monis-Weston Lecture is now live on our website! Read Gareth Conyard's introduction to the event below, then create a free account to watch the full lecture

With schools operating in a difficult environment for recruitment and retention, it is so important to do appraisals well. This article from Kathryn Morgan and our CEO, Gareth Conyard, explores a better way forward.

🧮 'Our new report finds a surprising consensus: the curriculum is overcrowded and assessment doesn’t always reflect what matters' @mathshorizons.bsky.social leads - @informededucation.com and Dr Helen Drury schoolsweek.co.uk/the-maths-cu...

What a great post for science teachers to use.

Today, Maths Horizons is delighted to be publishing our report about the future of maths curriculum and assessment in England. Our launch event at the House of Lords later today will present the following seven recommendations: (🧵1/7)

This means everything to me. I’m only alive today due the miracles of medical science and my donor’s (and donor’s family) unbelievable generosity to donate a liver to me in 2009 to cure a rare disease. #WorldLiverDay organdonation.nhs.uk

Really interesting article from @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social on the recent Supreme Court ruling. Solidarity to all my trans friends, family and everyone else on a tough week for you. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What if we’re asking the wrong question about ChatGPT in education? @thebandb.bsky.social on questions raised in my new article (with Dragan Gasevich, Hendrik Drachsler, and lead author @hassenrueb.bsky.social about #ChatGPT in education. #EduSky theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/04/14/w...

🧑‍💻 EdTech Experts needed! A leading platform is compiling a list of education innovations originating/established in the UK to celebrate their inventors with historical markers. Could you contribute? Full credit will be given. Please reply if you can help! #histech #research

The education sector is being urged to 'get involved' as the government launches a call for evidence as part of its national professional qualification (NPQ) framework review

And it obscures the real scandal - which is the totally inadequate child services support for kids post exclusion, the disaster of CAMHS, and the shocking lack of AP places (and in many places AP quality). Schools have a right to exclude - but excluded kids still have a right to an education.

“the greatest risk of this AI technological wave is that we heed the siren calls to remove things from the curriculum if “AI can do it” - this feels precisely the opposite of the right approach.”

💻 The AI revolution in education will rest on solid teaching of knowledge and adapting to a new way of looking at metacognitive skills, argues @informededucation.com

If you work in general FE or a 6th form college, there's an exciting opportunity to join a new evidence partnership with the @theeef.bsky.social. Join this exciting work to support evidence use in 16 to 19 settings. Find out more here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/eef-ope...

➡️ How do we modify education to prepare for a world where more jobs will require fluent use of AI tools? ➡️How do we modify the way we plan and teach to make use of AI tools? @informededucation.com offers some answers ⬇️ www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

My new piece today on how we can teach for an increasingly AI world, out today.

Great to see @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social now here on @bsky.app 👏

A statement from Heads Roundtable: headteachersroundtable.wordpress.com

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Stricter school phone policies significantly reduce screen time Our polling with @moreincommonuk.bsky.social for the @neunion.bsky.social shows students in schools where smartphones are completely banned use their devices nearly 50% less in a typical day than those in schools with no restrictions.

Delighted to be part of this new board.

This report on AI and tech in maths teaching from @informededucation.com is well-worth a read. Refreshing to see such a wide-ranging, balanced view of the potential and challenges of tech in education, especially around e.g. school capacity. cdn.sanity.io/files/uiql8s...

Teachers always seem to like this poem for some reason :) #Ofsted #poem #poetry #kidlituk

This is (part of the many) bookshelves at my in-laws’ house when they had my father-in-law’s 90th party. All the books by family members proudly on display. @informededucation.com we need to catch Kathy Weston up 😁

I drew this cartoon 7 years ago. Still feels relevant…

We are delighted to have published our Interim Report for the Maths Horizons Project today: www.mathshorizons.uk/interim-report This report reflects on some of what we have learned so far through an extensive range of contributors. We would love to hear your thoughts on the findings!

Had a play with DeepSeek R1 this morning. It generated perhaps the most hallucination-filled, incorrect answers I think I've seen from an LLM so far. Almost fascinatingly wrong - i.e. interesting ideas that haven't been invented yet. Suffice to say, I'm not yet impressed.

"Great professional development inspires & motivates teachers, helping them to have a positive impact on young people’s behaviour & learning." But what should we avoid? Revisiting this: The Seven Deadly Sins of Teacher Development, by @informededucation.com: tdtrust.org/2024/09/05/s...

I’m delighted to be on this expert group to explore changes to NPQ frameworks. #NPQreview

Fascinating EdTech Insiders podcast interview with Dr David Yeager on how EdTech can respond to the science of motivating young people. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Im sorry but there’s a new standard now if we are talking about acting range.

2022: Today we're looking at C Johnson's blog on creating a culture of collaboration  https://tdtrust.org/2022/03/17/cpd-building-a-culture-of-collaboration-that-sticks/  We also celebrated our 10th anniversary & published a report on creating the foundations for effective climate change education.

I still talk about this work all the time. Professional agency around professional development is demonstrably important for job satisfaction - we need to make sure that the future of CPD gives teachers and school leaders that agency.

What a photograph.

2018: Today's blog is a guest post from Mark McCourt on subject-specific CPD for Maths Teachers https://tdtrust.org/2018/02/27/how-to-teach-mathematics/ In 2018, we also launched 2 CPD Excellence hubs in Suffolk, and David Monis-Weston and Bridget Clay released their book, Unleashing Great Teaching

2016 - Today's blog from the archive is on how making the time to engage with student's parents can have an impact on their learning 👪 https://tdtrust.org/2016/10/18/engaging-parents/  2016 was also the year that the DofE announced new standards for teacher’s professional development.

Such a genuinely brilliant course.

LLMs benefit from explicit instruction, too!

A CEO leader once said they didn’t like awards because they eschewed the attention. I had to point out: it wasn’t about them. Most communities don’t often win things or get invites to black tie dinners. Trophies DO mean a lot. As does being in the local paper (yes, still). Spread the joy!

You should nominate them! It’s all here, v easy: www.teachingawards.com/2025-overview/ There’s award categories for whole teams, making a difference, and unsung heroes all of which would cover the sorts of roles you’re on about.

🆕 - Latest evaluation for @theeef.bsky.social and the HG Foundation finds KS3 Science teachers using #ChatGPT can reduce their lesson planning time by over 30%. Find out more at bit.ly/4gvfUx3

Interesting new analysis of international 2015 TIMSS data finds no evidence of harm or benefit of setting v mixed ability teaching, including for children from socioeconomic disadvantage.