I’ve started writing again to help me think better. My blog is now on Substack - first posts are up - starting with why research needs to help us think, not just identify strategies open.substack.com/pub/mrjohnja... You can subscribe at substack.com/@mrjohnjacks... I’d love to hear your thoughts.

🆕 Introducing the Inclusive Teaching Framework – a new resource which sets out essential knowledge to help teachers understand and meet a wider range of pupils’ needs in mainstream schools. Find out what it is and why we’ve created it ⬇️🧵 (1/7)

I’ve started writing again to help me think better. My blog is now on Substack - first posts are up - starting with why research needs to help us think, not just identify strategies open.substack.com/pub/mrjohnja... You can subscribe at substack.com/@mrjohnjacks... I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I've been writing again to help my thinking! I'm also moving it over from my old blog to Substack - you can subscribe here: substack.com/@mrjohnjackson First up: why we need evidence-informed principles to guide decision-making, not only evidence-informed strategies. substack.com/@mrjohnjacks...

I've been writing again to help my thinking! I'm also moving it over from my old blog to Substack - you can subscribe here: substack.com/@mrjohnjackson First up: why we need evidence-informed principles to guide decision-making, not only evidence-informed strategies. substack.com/@mrjohnjacks...

Time to repost this: #UKEd #EduSky

This is, obviously, a triumph for UK education policy (national and local), integration and social cohesion. It tells you everything you need to know about the likes of Robert Jenrick, Matt Goodwin, Neil O'Brien and David Goodhart that they regard this as a dangerous threat to our culture.

This, like the rest of the book, sums up what being in school is like and feels like - in a way nothing else I’ve read about education does. Such enjoyable writing.

Have you ever heard of academic press? New blog! peerreviewededucationblog.com/2025/06/14/t...

I’ve got two tickets for @brighteyesband.bsky.social in Leeds tomorrow but can’t make it ☹️ tickets on resale (face value as that’s all see tickets allows) here, seller reference JJ www.seetickets.com/rd/event/bri...

Over the last couple of months I have been watching - Expertly designed and led PD - With out-of-field maths teachers 'growing' their identity as mathematician, - Become even better at teaching students who need maths teachers the most. So important that these programmes externally evaluated. (1/n)

If you fancy some Sunday reading while you wait for the rain to pass, take a look at my most recent blog about the importance of subject knowledge in maths teaching and some ideas about how to develop it. showingmyworkingout.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/p...

Don’t understand why @theguardian.com is reporting the increase in FSM eligibility (a pretty universally positive bit of news) as being about taxing dead pensioners, or why it’s only number 2 on my homepage behind some Trump awfulness.

I've finally got back to writing about how I think about maths teaching. This time: what I think it means to know the maths you are teaching, and why it's important. showingmyworkingout.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/p... I'd love any thoughts, especially if you disagree! #uked #UKMathsChat

Great fun talking about a paper from one of the most important maths education researchers

Talking about *mental models*? Make sure you know what you mean. It’s a popular term often used loosely. They aren’t just bits of knowledge. They’re situation-sensitive tools for thinking. This post took 2yrs to write! ☕️Grab a coffee and have a read bit.ly/3EXhJWs

Results day in person is so important for signposting those students who haven’t got the results they expected to the right organisations so they don’t miss out on courses/opportunities. Not convinced this is a good idea. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stephen is one of the very few national journalists/commentators who cares about and actually understands education. This nails the exclusions issue, uses the word correctly, and has a Simpsons joke. Thanks @stephenkb.bsky.social

The fact that left wing, right wing, straight, LGBTQ+, gender critical, teachers, non teachers, RSE specialists, non RSE specialists & many groups who generally do not agree, all agree that showing Adolescence in schools is a really bad idea should tell the government something!

Why can no goal sometimes be the best goal? A blog I wrote for the EEF exploring how, counterintuitively, we can sometimes support pupil attention by being *less* directive: researchschool.org.uk/news/why-som...

New post! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/is-it-natu...

'Teachers should not be having to choose between a decent pension & decent pay. It should be obvious that they are entitled to both, & it is crucial for the future of the education system that this is the case.' @pepediiasio.bsky.social cited in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Why not start your week listening to Emma Lindley-Thompson and I talking to @kieran-m-ed.bsky.social about how concreteness fading can improve learning in maths? open.spotify.com/episode/0kaO... A pleasure to talk to Kieran about part of our 'Expert Edit' again. Download here: tinyurl.com/39cnspa5

The SW investigation might be the most important one they've ever run. It's an incredible piece of work and the results are truly shocking. Everyone should read it.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

(0/13) A 🧵 about helping children you care about to learn maths. And you don't even have to be a mathematician, or even "good" at #maths, to do it. You just have to model resilience and positivity towards what they're doing, and to avoid reinforcing negative tropes. Here's how:

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...

A selection of questions from Orlando Gough’s #AlevelMaths text book, published 1987. Thread

How confusing are Ofsted’s new grades? Come do our quiz to find out HT @michaelt1979.bsky.social

Loved reading this - especially the clear link between the strategy - 'what if' questions - and the purpose - helping a teacher mentally simulate the classroom.

I wrote a blog. It’s been a while! Inspired by @head-teach.bsky.social’s blog ‘Lighthouses & Sirens’ educontrarianblog.com/2025/02/02/l... It’s full of dangerous opinions & ideas that may well run amok as soon as you click the link. Caution advised 😊 watermanlearning.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/w...

My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday. Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>

Why not start your week listening to Emma Lindley-Thompson and I talking to @kieran-m-ed.bsky.social about how interleaved practice can improve learning in maths? creators.spotify.com/pod/show/kie... Download our 'Expert Edit' summary here: tinyurl.com/39cnspa5

🧵This from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social links to probably biggest thing I've changed my mind on in last 5 years: the merits of working (or study) from home. Initially in post pandemic rows on it I tended to think loud critics of WFH were opening another culture war front & many did frame it that way!

Really excited to have recorded my first appearance on a podcast! Emma Lindley-Thompson and I will be guests on Thinking Deeply about Primary Education talking about our Expert Edit: Helping pupils learn maths. Download here: tinyurl.com/39cnspa5 Thank you @kieran-m-ed.bsky.social for having us!

#NEWBLOG #edusky An Ode to Theory #cst . Key Ideas 1)We need ideas that challenge how we think. 2)The central role of the thoughtful practitioners&leaders in our sector- we must get better at mobilising their expertise. Read below. cstuk.org.uk/news-publica...

Thanks for sharing these

#UkEd #Edusky #EduBlogUk This is a cracking post from Claire: considering the realities of day to day & year on year school leadership & the wider system. Thanks @clairestoneman.bsky.social

Teachers in the most affluent schools report higher levels of maths attainment and more positive attitudes towards maths than teachers in the most deprived schools. (1/7)

🚨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...

Wise words from Sarah as always!

One of the things that keeps me going back to Twitter is that I get fairly regular DMs on there asking me for advice about reading. Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason. Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.

One of my favourite bits of #maths #history is, in 1557, Robert Recorde (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) gets so fed up repeating the same thing over and over again that, in order... "to avoid the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to" ... he just gives up and invents the equals sign: = 🏛️🎓

I seem to have a quite a few new followers so I'll re-share a few things I've written (and hopefully galvanise myself into writing something new!). Welcome!

Parish notice www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

Expert Edit: Helping pupils learn maths. My colleague Emma Lindley-Thompson and I have been working on an 'Expert Edit' for Ambition Institute. It's finally ready! > Excerpts from research into maths teaching and learning > Reflective questions Download here: tinyurl.com/39cnspa5 #UKEd #UKMathsChat

Still a lot of work to do both in getting it right from above but also getting people to understand sometimes it is not about what you will use tomorrow but changing thinking snd learning. If people are already switched off . . .