We are delighted to share that Research England has appointed @domwyse.bsky.social as Chair of the Education Unit of Assessment. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

The concerns in @domwyse.bsky.social's blog chime with those we raised after the publication of the interim report into the curriculum review. Links to both here www.bera.ac.uk/blog/evoluti... englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...

Putting children's agency at the centre of school life can improve their engagement with learning, finds research in a new book from @domwyse.bsky.social and Yana Manyukhina @hhcp-ucl.bsky.social. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

🚨 Just published! Explore the balance between educational standards and children's agency in this newly released open access book by Yana Manyukhina and @domwyse.bsky.social. Insights drawn from a comprehensive 40-month study across UK schools. www.routledge.com/Childrens-Ag...

📝 'Evolution or business as usual? The interim report for England’s national curriculum review'. Read below this new blog post by @domwyse.bsky.social for @beranews.bsky.social: www.bera.ac.uk/blog/evoluti...

I’d say yes, for the size of the peas. Depends on variety. I love a pea me!

Are you a Headteacher, Special Education Need Coordinator, Literacy Lead/Coordinator, teacher or teaching assistant, with some experience in supporting children with reading difficulties? We'd appreciate it if you would take a moment to complete this survey. qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

We want to start spotlighting articles, both from our current issues and from the archive, that showcase how empowering and emancipatory practices can transform teaching. We begin with this 'Research in Action' piece from our latest special issue: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...

Today is an important day! Together with esteemed colleagues, we launch the International Arts and Imagination Network (IAIN). I think Sir Ken is listening, I just found this ❤️

And more about our three year research project on children’s agency in the curriculum at our hybrid seminar and book launch June 24th. Stellar line up of speakers.

This is why the BBC is unique. I discover folk singer John Martyn through an incredible emotional programme on Radio 4 this morning centred on his most well known song May You Never.

🔔 Hybrid seminar and book launch (24 June): 'Children's Agency in the National Curriculum: The Promise of Structured Freedom'. Join the speakers at this event to discuss how children's voices and choices shape their learning. @domwyse.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Looking forward to teaching on the BA ECE next year!

🎙️ Our Founding Director @domwyse.bsky.social spoke about child agency on the Primary Podcast of Ireland’s National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). 🔗 bit.ly/41KyrRs

🔔 Hybrid seminar and book launch (24 June): 'Children's Agency in the National Curriculum: The Promise of Structured Freedom'. Join the speakers at this event to discuss how children's voices and choices shape their learning. @domwyse.bsky.social @markrpriestley.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/3RpbVrf

Just imagine … the review of England’s national curriculum puts children’s and young people’s agency at the heart of the curriculum. You don’t think this is possible? Go and have a look at Ireland that has always out performed England.

Really happy to see this article about our wonderful Write from the Beginning project @flissj.bsky.social @doctorchungie.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @elresearchsch.bsky.social www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...

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Finished adolescence last night. I’m traumatised. Stunning. Disturbing.

I’m going to talk about agency as a fundamental value in education.

All the more important given very little mention of children’s rights and agency so far in England’s national curriculum review.

Join us on campus for our Teacher Training Open Event on 24 April 2025, 4-7pm. Explore our range of PGCEs in Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Further Education and speak with our Admissions and Funding teams. #UCLGraduateOpenEvents Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/open-day...

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Thanks very much Shelly. We are getting lots of interest from teachers, organisations, and policy makers. Really hope this will continue to grow.

Why do teachers do what they do, and what does it mean for children? 📚 Welcome to tonight's #IOELectures, with @alicebradbury.bsky.social speaking on the challenges facing early years and primary education.

Please join @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social and me, plus our respondents Dr Lara Choksey and Mehrunissa Shah for the @ucl-ias.bsky.social launch of Beyond the Secret Garden. March 17th. Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Delighted to see the work done by @domwyse.bsky.social and @alicebradbury.bsky.social on the teaching of reading and writing featured in BERA’s 50@50. This is a portrait of 50 years of educational research through 50 landmark studies.

England’s national curriculum is being reviewed. Do you think the review will recommend changes that are urgently needed for primary schools?

I think everyone who works in a primary school accepts that the curriculum is overloaded. We simply can't squeeze in everything that we're supposed to. However, there are two things that we must ensure take place each day: class storytime and independent reading. They're far too important to drop.

"All schools should be given more freedom over the curriculum" says Dominic Wyse (@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social). He adds that a new national curriculum should be more evidence-based and offer teachers autonomy to "innovate" when they teach. theconversation.com/england-plan...

Arts and Minds launch today at Tate Modern! Let’s save the arts in education.

🖋️"All schools should be given more freedom over the curriculum, and particularly over teaching methods." Professor @domwyse.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social calls for a recommended curriculum that schools are not bound by law to follow in The Conversation. tinyurl.com/5d6j4zu8

"I would argue that all schools should be given more freedom over the curriculum, and particularly over teaching methods", writes our Founding Director @domwyse.bsky.social for @theconversation.com. Read more: theconversation.com/england-plan...

theconversation.com/england-plan... Will the decades of increasing prescriptivism be stopped?

Every child in England will be affected by the decisions the government makes in relation to the national curriculum.

🔔 New book launch event: Join @alicebradbury.bsky.social and Sharon Vince to celebrate the publication of 'Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries: The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis'. For more info and to register: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

🔔 New book launch event: Join @alicebradbury.bsky.social and Sharon Vince to celebrate the publication of 'Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries: The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis'. For more info and to register: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Great letter,readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph.bsky.social re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @englishassociation.bsky.social @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Katherine Baxter @clarelees.bsky.social @gailmarshall.bsky.social @andrewmacrae.bsky.social

When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure. The PM's inclusion of #earlyyears in today's milestones is welcome, but the fact is the pressure to increase EYFS profile results will fall on schools, who do the assessment. And teacher asst is more sensitive to outside pressures.

📎 The journal Education 3-13 invites submissions for a special issue about the future of national curricula. Check out the link below for more details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Last week I tried out a long narrative poem on grandson 2 (nearly 3)- a possible picture book with no pictures yet. He listened intently. Hooray! 'Did you like that?' 'No'. 'Do you want it again?' 'No.' Dejection! Today... 'Can I have that poem again?' And then again and again and again! Elation!