🎉New Blog Post 🎉 Creating a culture of curiosity in schools. Practical ideas to build a curious culture in schools. Reflected on this after going through my EdD work and came up with these ideas as I went. researchtoclassroom.com/so/98PZggWwE... #EduSky #EduBlogUK #teacher #academicsky

New today. open.substack.com/pub/matthewe...

What I find baffling is the almost total blindness to the fact that children have their own reasons and motivations for doing or not doing things. It's not just about capacities.

On the other hand. If only people learnt more about the law of requisite variety: there are no simple solutions for complex problems. We don't have 5 basic things that will magically solve all our reading problems.

Here is something inspired by @musingsofadr.bsky.social's post from last week about great leadership. #UKEd #EduSky open.substack.com/pub/stevenke...

🚨New Post🚨 Cohesion has been a common feature of many effective teams I've worked in, however cohesion is dynamic, and not constant. As Grossman et al. (2022) discuss in their paper, cohesion can mean many things. Check out my post in cohesion below: researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/28/c...

I haven't written anything for a while... Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty #UKEd #EduSky musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...

📢 NEW BLOG POST 📢 Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to a colleague present at the CreativeEdTrust National Conference on the role of courage in leadership. Read my reflections, including on a paper by Peter Bregman below 👇🏽 researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/25/r...

Absolutely chuffed that my blog from yesterday has sparked this piece by @musingsofadr.bsky.social. Dan does a much better job at bringing in ideas around this than I did and I especially like the idea that the role of leadership is to reduce uncertainty in an organisation. #UKEd #EduSky

I haven't written anything for a while... Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty #UKEd #EduSky musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...

New Blog: Sensemaking in Schools. Written whist reflecting on @eleanorbernardes.bsky.social's presentation at @belmasoffice.bsky.social. www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/sensema...

New blog post ↴ ▸Decoupling lower & upper secondary curricula #UKEd #EduSky #EduBlogUK #SciTeachUK cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...

I suppose this is the take really, set what fits your context but there should be much more research into this to help make leaders make the right decisions

As publication day approaches, a for @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I to give thanks to all of the fabulous educators and researchers whose work has inspired, informed and shaped the book www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953 🧵 ... and feel free to tag people if missed I've that they're on Bluesky!

New blog post ↓ Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson? #UKEd #EduSky #iTeachBio #SciTeachUK

Conference⤵️ Secondary Science Festival (including #chatbiology speakers): Attendees get a free copy of "Difference Maker" 👌 #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio

New post⤵️ ▸The fad's purpose is what it does◂ ...and not what its authors thought it would do Educational fads seen through systems theory (AKA cybernetics). Please share (tough for bloggers recently) #UKEd #EduSky #EruditePedagogy #Cybernetics cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...

Absolutely delighted by this impartial review of my book published in the journal, School Science Review (open access): www.ase.org.uk/system/files... #EduSky #UKEd #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio

→New blog post: ◂How I teach ultrafiltration and selective reabsorption in the kidney▸ Through co-construction of meaning in diagrams and dialogue – without slides, activities, lecturing, or discovering. cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol... #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio #EduSky #EduBlogUK

An impartial review of the book "Difference Maker" from Learning & the Brain. Check it out⤵️ www.learningandthebrain.com/blog/differe... #EduSky #UKEd #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio #EduSci

This week in Becoming Literary, I'm wading into the knowledge v. skills debate to frame how I teach interpretation. Take a look at how I support my students' efforts to read the word & the world! #literacies #edusky #academicsky trevoraleo.substack.com/p/on-teachin...

This is the point for me. Here's a bunch of stuff that has been proven to work. Here's why it works. This is how it works. Now go try it and make it yours. It is one of the core principles I used when building the @literacyengine.bsky.social model for whole class modelled reading.

I think this is the difference for me too. Beliefs, shaped by prior experience, are the thing that connects to the Ladder of Inference and (my ever favourite) model of teacher dev. These differences are where the same PD input is personalised (even if we don't see it) so it's important to recognise.

Showing them practices ≠ mandating how they use them. That’s why it’s key to NOT frame those conventions as rules chiseled into tablets. They can/should be remixed, subverted, etc. but in ways that do so consciously. Less about good/bad & more about HOW/WHY they use/reject/remix those conventions.

New post is live! This week I’m diving into how I frame and teach interpretation to my Ss. Turns out I have a lot to say, so I had to split it into two posts. #literacies #academicsky #edusky #eruditepedagogy open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

New blog post: The distinction between content and metacontent is key to develop curricula and teaching for long-term learning. cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol... #UKEd #EduBlogUK #SciTeachUK #EruditePedagogy #EduSky

Enacting Systems Theory: I've been designing a new Y8 (12-13 year old) biology curriculum. Here's a stock & flow model I've designed for teaching seed dispersal. It took a few iterations to get there, thanks to help from @musingsofadr.bsky.social @mrbates.bsky.social #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio #EduSci

This is an important response to the Mossbourne story. No school is any one thing which is a problem for attack articles because in implying it's a universal awful experience for everyone they'll inevitably upset people. www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

To mark four years of #TDaPE, we’re revisiting the most impactful questions from our "top four" episodes. @suchmo83.bsky.social, @mralmonded.bsky.social and I explore multiplication, struggling readers and more... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/05tc... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Is the pendulum swinging towards centralisation in education? The discourse around MATS appears to be centralisation of teaching behaviour, assessment, across many schools.

Should firms be centralised? Should divisions of an org have complete or zero autonomy? The answer according to Stafford Beer is that neither extreme works. But there are people who fight about this due to their own ambition. This rings true in education discourse too. #EruditePedagogy

A useful & revealing insight that frames parental dissatisfaction in much less normative manner. Well worth a read especially given outcomes sought, are largely determined by accountability measures of the government, and approaches adopted are often functions of budgetary constraints/local offer

Yeah it's time for proper restriction of smart phones for kids. Even a ban. We have enough evidence they're dreadful for us and worse for children. Let's get on with it now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This model I designed went down quite well with my IB biology classes. It took two lessons to co-enact. #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio

***New Blog Post*** Don't hate the player, hate the game. Why the system, and not schools, is the problem. First post in a long while looking at values and school choice. Inspired by the discussions about P8 day... #UKED #EduBlogUK #Edusky musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/d...

I don't disagree with any of this, but in practice a lot of the public debates on education are about what is best for other people's children

A lot of sense in this blog (Unsurprising from the brilliant Dan Rosen). Perhaps, systemic agreement on a diversity of school approaches and outcomes is where we need to move.

Excellent article.

Great blog here that really sticks the landing.

#UkEd #Edusky Great post from Dan. Depressingly, I can't imagine that the cost of having enough schools of sufficient variety, particularly in less urban areas, is something any political party will be able to get electoral consent for (given other parties would oppose)

Interesting post applying principles from systems theory to schools. Create a school with enough variety to offer, or create a variety of schools to meet the demands of society's wishes?

***New Blog Post*** Don't hate the player, hate the game. Why the system, and not schools, is the problem. First post in a long while looking at values and school choice. Inspired by the discussions about P8 day... #UKED #EduBlogUK #Edusky musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/d...

New blog post: ⭐Knowledge doesn't equal understanding⭐ cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol... #UKEd #EduBlogUK #EruditePedagogy #Cogscisci #SciTeachUK

We need to think deeply about Christian is saying here. This isn’t about dismissing cogsci. If we genuinely believe our students understand & learn what we teach in the absence of recalling knowledge later on, then there must be something else to consider with regards to understanding.

I recently read @cmooreanderson.bsky.social excellent book 'Difference Maker.' I am not a Biology teacher...indeed I achieved an impressive DD in dual award Science back in the 90s. But as a systems leader in ITT and PD, there was loads of takeaways. A 🧵below👇

What's the purpose of rehearsal in lessons? I think a vital distinction needs to be made: blog post ⤵️ #EduBlogUK #UKEd #SciTeachUK cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...

Systems theory gave us: 🟢The Law of Requisite Variety. A regulator of a system (teacher) must have as much variety of options (skills, knowledge, actions) as the variety of possibilities that emerge from the system (class). It's the antithesis of the "silver bullet" approaches. #EruditePedagogy

Does bullying have to be repetitive? I don't think it does: bernardandrews.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/d...

New blog post Why Ofsted should not separate teaching from curriculum occamshairdryer.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/a...

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.