*NEW BLOG POST* A new post from me and @lambhearttea.bsky.social on I, We, You theeducationalimposters.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/i...

NEW BLOG: Stop Designing ‘Relevant’ Curricula for the Poor www.emaths.co.uk/blog/general...

Our open access (free!) book 'Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival' by Nuno Crato, Dylan William, John Hattie, @timsurma.bsky.social, Elizabeth Rata and more with a foreword by ED Hirsch, Jr. is now available! #EduSky link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

You can't use one assessment for multiple purposes - it gets pulled out of shape. That's what happened to GCSEs when they were used for all kinds of purposes they weren't designed for. Things are a bit better at secondary now - but what about primary?

‘Effective leadership in teaching and learning is about creating a framework that provides direction while recognising and nurturing subject specificity.’

If you are interested in the current state of Ofsted's school inspection programme then this short blog from Adrian Gray, former SHMI, requires a steady nerve. Remember, this is the same Framework. Some might say it's to be expected but it isn't equitable. www.linkedin.com/posts/adrian...

Those who live and breathe curriculum and assessment by teaching every day have a deep and unique understanding of what’s going well and what needs to improve. If that’s you, please do share your precious insights through the call for evidence. consult.education.gov.uk/curriculum-a...

I've created a starter pack of education accounts too - let me know if you'd like me to add you.

The new Ofsted proposals being discussed at the moment are concerning, particularly the separation of curriculum and instruction. Here are some thoughts 🧵⬇️

‘The quality of teaching cannot be considered intelligently without reference to the content being taught, because that is why teaching exists and without something to teach there can be no teaching.’

A lot of discussion lately about the reasons for the decline of Eng Lit A-level. Are the Gove curriculum & exam reforms to blame? I don't think so, because the decline of Eng Lit / the humanities more broadly is a global trend. More here.

I've also started a UK education policy starter pack, anyone who would like to be added let me know 😊 go.bsky.app/PHBkF8y

Ofsted proposes assessing schools on 10 areas of performance. www.ft.com/content/37d8...

It's here! The Headteacher Starter Pack. Want a whole lot of headteachers on your timeline? Here's the starter pack for you. Includes deputy heads and assistant heads, heads of school and retired colleagues. Experience, wisdom, compassion, connection & beauty all in one package. go.bsky.app/9jJ5dKQ

I wrote this partly in response to a tendency of some SLT to read classrooms in generic ways, & so not to notice when generic pedagogies weigh so heavily on a subject that its curriculum can't breathe. 6 yrs on, it's still an issue #CurriculumandAssessmentReview my.chartered.college/impact_artic...

Can’t look at assessment without unpicking curriculum.

Slides for my #rED24 talk ‘Why you need feedback more than you think you do’ are here: profcoe.net/talks

With the big #rED24 event this weekend, I’d love to know: What is the edu research that most changed your practice, how you think about education, and/or that you come back to most often? I have few that I always return to but would love to know others’! #EduNerdChat #EduSky #UKEdu

‘parents who choose a “good” secondary school for their child will not leave with appreciably better outcomes than a parent who selects an “inadequate” school. The one exception to this is an Outstanding judgment, which does predict future academic outcomes’

Professor Emerita Mary M. Kennedy, who sadly died last year, has had a huge impact on my understanding of teaching, research and policy. I’ve been revisiting her work for a project and thought I’d share some of her gems (18), which are open access 🔓 Strap yourself in…🤓

🚨Review of Edu-Research in 2023/24 → 11 standout papers → 5 emerging themes → My finding/sharing process (this is my first crack at a vid—would love any feedback, esp how it could be better next time) www.youtube.com/watch?v=egdN...

If you are or you work with (new) middle leader(s) this year, I've written this rather candid summary for you! www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/a-blog-... #UKEd #EduBlogUK #EduSky

‘But if this diverts all the talent within the system away from leading actual schools directly, then we have a problem.’

Really important new study: what learning strategies do successful students use? www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-l...

How does your school capture and share the important knowledge and practice that drives improvement? Great blog from @saysmiss.bsky.social

‘history, just like other subjects, is unique. Assessment should act as a lamp to illuminate its features rather than as a hammer to eliminate all that is subject-specific in the interests of a whole-school policy.’

I wrote something about mark reviews (you may know these as re-marks) which summarises what I think every year when I read social media, but never say. sallythorne.com/2024/08/25/m... TLDR: if you put in bulk review requests, consider spending the money on interventions instead. #edusky

Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here! primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...

Hard agree with this approach to CPD. Sustainable motivation and improvement rarely comes from listening to external speakers but from work in teams to discuss, plan, co-construct and sense-make.

MATs do seem to currently favour "an MAT model", don't they. If they want to move towards cohesion, I think the best you can do is a "viable principles" model. I think @isaacmoore7.bsky.social and @musingsofadr.bsky.social do this. E.g. "Retrieval Practice" as principle but not precise activity.

⭐New post⭐ Should management impose precise activities on teachers? Probably not. Here's why according to enactive cogsci. #EduSky #UKEd #Cogscisci cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...

‘Schools and organisations can avoid knowledge loss from specific domains by building in time and the infrastructure to capture knowledge in a meaningful way.’

Heads of maths - what are the key indicators that you're looking for over whether your tiering strategy has succeeded/failed? I have my ideas but interested to know what others are looking at. #mathschat

Well, it is an underrepresentation and the stats on progression are certainly concerning. Hard to argue there isn't a significant disparity and a significant issue, I would suggest.

Seeing a few threads about this. Training day CPD is inevitable. What makes it a positive experience? What works well?

NEW: Some more things we’ve learned about the 2024 GCSE results We present some very early Key Stage 4 headline statistics, including Attainment 8, collected from 1,200 secondary schools. ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2024/08/some...

JCQ National #GCSEresults 2024 www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/u...

All exam boards - GCSE grade boundaries, results statistics, reviews of marking etc in one place ⬇️ Updated as released. docs.google.com/document/d/1... #GCSEResults #GCSEResultsDay

A helpful reminder from @tesmagazine.bsky.social of the disruption to learning that this year’s cohort have experienced since the pandemic.

Excellent blog on reading a complex text (using a geography example) to exemplify a helpful disciplinary literacy approach by @jdurran.bsky.social jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...

For all its shortcomings & limitations, there’s some impressive power in using AI to summarise and interpret. I gave Claude.AI a complex, dense table about “exam progression matrices” and asked it to interpret. Here’s the impressive thing that happened next. www.informededucation.com/analysing-ed...

Enjoyed this post from Harry. What makes teacher professional development effective? A successful approach: 1 Instils insight 2 Motivates teachers to change 3 Teaches teaching techniques 4 Embeds change into classroom practice improvingteaching.co.uk/2024/05/12/w...

Hi #EduSky gang! Just a reminder that *all* profits/royalties from my book get donated to charity, forever. I've got a shop on my blog where you get a *45% DISCOUNT* AND more money goes towards charity! unpackingeducation.wixsite.com/home/book

NEW BLOG: Teach Everything Correctly First Time www.emaths.co.uk/blog/mathema...

NEW POST: GCSE Jeopardy and the Difficulty with Second Chances rebeccaallen.co.uk/2024/08/18/g...

This is brilliant, as always!

It appears target grades are a topic of discussion right now. Time to reshare the seminal insight from @fftedudatalab.bsky.social “More children get to the ‘right’ place in the ‘wrong’ way, than get to the ‘right’ place in the ‘right’ way!” ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The science of learning: a conceptual framework How might we think of the related elements and how they work together in a systematic way? 🧵