Happy New Year, you lovely people!!

It's genuinely very good; very short and very useful. It's had a big influence in how I plan curriculum.

I still must get my copy signed by the illustrious author!

Re-reading this cracker in preparation for an INSET session I'm leading in January.

I had lots of fun at #rEDCam25 on Saturday. What was super lovely (and unexpected!) was some delegates tell me how much they like my writing because I tackle thorny edu issues very respectfully, and support teacher voices. It meant a lot. Thank you 🙏

The points @msjasminemn.bsky.social makes in the body of the article are important. Rhetoric around immigration has now moved against not only illegal immigration, but legal immigration. schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my...

Whenever I read an article like this about reducing exclusions, I want a chance to hear from teachers in the school. The ones actually dealing with the behaviours in the classroom. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Great day at #rED25 and delighted to present my first session after many years of lurking in the audience! Some excellent new ideas for 6th form teaching from a session on the research behind independent learning from @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and @mikehobbiss.bsky.social

Anybody on here do Edexcel IGCSE biology, chemistry, or physics?

One of my favourite results today was for a student who only got one grade 4+ today. It was in maths and it was testament to incredible hard work from her and a number of SEND staff who supported her. Success looks different for different folks. That was one of the best grades earned today.

I know I say this every year, but with results day on the horizon, please remember that for some kids grade 1-3 is a huge achievement. It represents years of hard work and determination. It’s not a fail. It is a GCSE qualification that they can and should be celebrated for.

⚠️New Post: Attention ⚠️ "What we attend to, we amplify." Attention is an element of school leadership. Are we considering the attention of school leaders? How often is this spread across multiple areas? Read by thoughts below: researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/08/17/l...

schools like mine directly. We wouldn’t recruit an ECT via an agency but we could probably squeeze a humanities ECT in for September given our growth. Reach out if you are interested - we are a great place to work and you would be joining a school on the up. reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/...

My core job is teaching English but my TLR impacts every area of our school. I'm proud of the work in those areas and been lucky to lead a fabulous team. EAL improvement: Sept: 8% of school as Band A, new to English May: (inc 3 pupils that arrived in MARCH): 0.66% Band À And literacy! See image.

A Level results will be known by school leaders tomorrow. Lots of school leaders and teachers are anxiously waiting. There are lots of people that work in education in various roles, but if you are not directly responsible for results, then you don’t really understand what I’m talking about.

My summer captured in four pictures!!

Apparently this is called #aurafarming

The obligatory ‘I have been to the leaning tower of Pisa and done the pose’ pictures….well, my son tried to do the pose 😁

Florence is too beautiful. I just don’t feel like I want to leave. History, Art, culture and lovely people. The Firenze Duomo is so unreal in terms of its beauty and size….what a work of art

Was in Paris for 2 days and thought taxi drivers were reckless. I’m in Rome now and my god, my taxi driver was something else. I’m here until Aug 2nd and I’m off to Florence.

📣 NEW BLOG 📣 Teaching the limited capacity brain. A visual guide and model hobbolog.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/t...

"Our results suggest that word reading and spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to reading than to spelling." Open article from the great Rebecca Treiman and colleagues. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m now on Substack as @isaacmoore. Are you on there? Please subscribe.

Lets celebrate one week and over a hundred copies sold of Unlocking Teacher Development by sharing another review! This one is by @steplab.bsky.social legend @joshpd.bsky.social!

#Edusky #UkEd Interesting article. Could link up well with schema theory. Sleep helps stitch memories into cognitive maps, according to new neuroscience breakthrough share.google/kCMDDG9of7nq...

I was so pleased to receive this feedback from @lambhearttea.bsky.social

This is a great post. Collaboration, not compliance. @samgibbs.bsky.social is doing some incredible work in her trust. Love the idea of double loop learning, I talk about this a lot at work. We need to engage with the beliefs that sit under the actions people take.

The new approach to School 21 seems to be to run it like a normal school, but to rebrand common approaches used perfectly well in other schools. And so ends another radical rethinking of how to run a secondary school, not with a bang but with a whimper. Until the next one comes along...

After some reflection, I’d take a full day of PPA at home every week.

I wonder how this matches with the Ofsted ratings of schools. Do schools rated RI do book scrutiny/more book scrutiny?

Would you like to work with me? If you’re a primary leader and want to develop literacy across the curriculum, I’m working with a small number of schools. If this is you send me a message

Looking forward to reading. Hope you are well.

Bill reminding us that it is our responsibility to teach *all* our pupils well - this will support those that (for whatever reason) find school harder to access than the person sat next to them This is a really powerful talk - Bill isn't pulling any punches @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social #CogSciSci

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

Really excited about presenting this series for @histassoc.bsky.social – starting this Wednesday, 4 June, 4pm. In the first webinar, @jacobolivey.bsky.social and I will explain why we think children don't need to 'do history' to learn history. Recordings will be available. Link below! 🔗👇

I knew it!!

New Blog Ahead of @drgarethbates.bsky.social #CogSciSci talk on retrieval practice here is a blog about my take on the most effective arguments for my approach to quizzes at the start of lessons adam-robbins.com/2025/05/26/a...

The loss of teacher autonomy over the past decade threatens not only our pupils' education but also the future of the profession, warns @samgibbs.bsky.social

My piece in @tesmagazine.bsky.social today.

The dangerous myth of a universal pedagogy. nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/the-proble...

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

There have been 1,038,405 unique downloads of @Ofstednews subject research reviews and subject reports. In school, we learn through subjects and we improve the quality of children's education by improving that subject teaching. This is the reality these numbers speak to. Enormous demand!

I’ve used a Freedom of Information request to find out how many unique downloads there have been of the @Ofstednews subject Research Reviews and Subject Reports. How many downloads do you think there have been of these subject docs?

Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions? @jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars. Link below! 👇

Interesting article #Edusky #UkEd www.forbes.com/sites/maryjo...

‘There is no need to wait for the system to change. There is no need to wait for permission. The children in our classrooms are not waiting. Let us lead inclusion, together’ Another banging blog from Cassie! moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/04/part...

I like this argument very much.

Back to work tomorrow. Best Easter holiday I’ve had in years. Didn’t do anything amazing but I stopped and rested. I enjoyed the sun when it was out, ate well and slept well.