EXCITING OPPORTUNITY We are looking for teachers to help us with a Top Secret AI project. It will take 35 minutes only, and it should be pretty interesting! If you teach science, geography, DT, English or psychology (KS5) and can help out click 👇 forms.gle/c1gvLrz7Cfah...

Should every removal necessitate a restorative and phone call? Is "annotating a text" a good teaching strategy? Should we give students test results? Why is @amymayforrester.bsky.social's bed broken? All this and more!! Tune in and share if you can 🙏🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/7L27...

📢 Do you want to work at Carousel Learning alongside @joshuaperry.bsky.social , @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and a truly stellar team? Of course you do! We're hiring for a School Partnership Executive to help schools find and benefit from our retrieval practice platform and CPD suite... 1/2

NEW EPISODE with @head-teach.bsky.social exploring all things leadership: How has being a school leader changed over time? What unique pressures are school leaders facing at the moment? Fascinating episode from a genuine expert Tune in and share 🙏🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/4rko...

NEW EPISODE with @head-teach.bsky.social exploring all things leadership: How has being a school leader changed over time? What unique pressures are school leaders facing at the moment? Fascinating episode from a genuine expert Tune in and share 🙏🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/4rko...

NEW BLOG! A core questions curriculum for A-Level psychology hobbolog.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/a... @theatp.bsky.social @efptateachpsych.bsky.social @atpscot.bsky.social #UkEd Featuring @carousel-learning.bsky.social @adamboxereducation.bsky.social Tom Millichamp @paulclinepsy.bsky.social

Spot on. Once worked somewhere that had a QA process where we had to review a class set of books & produce a little bar chart to 'rate' the teacher on things like frequency of marking, how often students responded to feedback etc. We spent more time doing that than any actual marking...🤯

New post: Are book looks a waste of time? For some, they are a meaningless scourge. For others, they are a vital accountability lever that provides insight into the lived curriculum. Read on for more, and please share if you can! carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/are-book-l...

No they're not, but they always need to be triangulated. On their own they can be misleading and lead to false conclusions about the quality of provision. But, conversely, you can't make a proper judgement without looking in books. Is my opinion.

PREACH.

Remember to see the full picture when you check the students' books in a lesson.

New post: Are book looks a waste of time? For some, they are a meaningless scourge. For others, they are a vital accountability lever that provides insight into the lived curriculum. Read on for more, and please share if you can! carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/are-book-l...

NEW EPISODE "When is it too early to remove a student? If someone comes in and they are misbehaving, I feel bad about removing them that early..." All this and more! Tune in and share 👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/4vv1...

NEW EPISODE "When is it too early to remove a student? If someone comes in and they are misbehaving, I feel bad about removing them that early..." All this and more! Tune in and share 👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/4vv1...

🚨12 DAYS TO GO🚨 Today's post for the upcoming Leading Secondary English @bloomsburyed.bsky.social is a soundbite I heard from @adamboxereducation.bsky.social about TTA: Do We Do What We Say We Do? This thinking influenced everything that went into this - authentic, concrete examples throughout!

NEW EPISODE - question time! Effective lesson starts Images of students on social media and AI dangers Asking questions at random Support for supply teachers All this and more! Tune in and share if you can 🙏🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/1gWI...

This was all great, but the chat near the end about CPD in schools was particularly interesting. If you're already doing something that works, making that better is a more efficient way to improve teaching than introducing something new.

NEW EPISODE This week, we are joined by the OG and GOAT of education podcasting 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁CRAIG BARTON!! Craig knows so much about great teaching, it was a privilege to interview him: open.spotify.com/episode/7dzR...

NEW EPISODE This week, we are joined by the OG and GOAT of education podcasting 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁CRAIG BARTON!! Craig knows so much about great teaching, it was a privilege to interview him: open.spotify.com/episode/7dzR...

Very valid point well said! We have a very high tolerance for poor behaviour

I liked this blog by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social but also felt we shouldn’t beat ourselves up too much if we were a bit slow to remove a child for very human reasons. Teachers are human after all! (If the systems don’t work, that’s a more serious issue). open.substack.com/pub/carousel...

Can I add a justification 5? It's not why we get into the profession. No teacher signs up for this because they want to hand out detentions. It takes years to fully understand the necessity of it(?)

New post! On removing students from lessons, and the pain and angst it brings. Please share if you can :) open.substack.com/pub/carousel...

"you can't belong to chaos" Lots of thought provoking points raised in this week's episode. Always worth a listen 😁

NEW EPISODE!! This week we are joined by education legend @tombennett71 to discuss all things behaviour. Don't miss out, it's a cracker :) Tune in and share if you can! open.spotify.com/episode/3Wa4...

The road rage/social media comparison at the end of this podcast has, for some reason, felt mind blowing. Such a strong yet obvious similarity

This was a really fun conversation, where we spoke about some of my favourite recommendations from the CAR, some of the risks that still exist, how it was received by the profession, and whether teachers and leaders are as interested in curriculum as the were a decade ago. And more!

Instructional coaching is at the core of the ECTP, so we loved this thoughtful blog by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social asking is instructional coaching all it's cracked up to be, and what are the common barriers to its successful implementation?

Another superb guest! Well worth a listen.

NEW EPISODE This week, we we're back and joined by friend of the show @jonhutchinson.bsky.social to discuss the curriculum and assessment review, whether anybody should care anymore, social media, discourse polarisation AND MORE Tune in and share if you can! open.spotify.com/episode/2PnW...

NEW EPISODE This week, we we're back and joined by friend of the show @jonhutchinson.bsky.social to discuss the curriculum and assessment review, whether anybody should care anymore, social media, discourse polarisation AND MORE Tune in and share if you can! open.spotify.com/episode/2PnW...

I think lots of your criticisms (accurately) apply to CPD in schools generally so maybe ppl are broadly in agreement with you? (Shock horror) On a separate note, I have worked in multiple schs with coaching and unless you're a trainee or working with one, you *never* got any extra time.

Interesting observation on this blog: It's had just as many, if not more, views in the same time period as previous entries. It's had FAR less engagement in terms of likes and shares. Thoughts as to why? I have two theories...

I approached this blog by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social with a fair degree of scepticism because I think coaching is an effective way to make lasting change but he certainly raises many real difficulties in implementing it well. open.substack.com/pub/carousel...

The Greatest Do Now Ever™️ This is the story of how one teacher set out to create the greatest Do Now Ever, and he changed my teaching for the better. Please share if you can 🙏 carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-greate...

I just wrote this for a project I am working on and it basically sums up the last 4 years of my life working in school improvement

This is terrible

I don't mean this as a criticism of anyone else but personally I can't imagine how I'd do consultancy if I wasn't in school most of the time. Stuff changes so fast. E g the recent exponential increase in complaints is using up so much bandwidth. It's important to know stuff like this.

In medicine, law, engineering etc, are there people who arent practising doctors, lawyers, engineers writing books and giving keynotes about how it's done? Punditry by non practitioners seems fine in sports, which is fundamentally entertainment. But is it in education?

My advice to people generally is: stop asking people about their plans to start/extend their family. It’s innocent, enthusiastic, curiosity but you’re not there to pick up the pieces when one of the people asked is inconsolable when you’ve left because they’re actively trying with no luck.

Many of you may know that we recently had our third child. You probably don't know that we struggled with secondary infertility and went through IVF. Very grateful to @jewishchron.bsky.social for publishing my reflections on something we don't talk about enough. www.thejc.com/community/in...

Wie Hausaufgaben, Wiederholungsübungen und Verantwortlichkeit Hand in Hand gehen können: #BlueLZ @adamboxereducation.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/carousel...

Is it a spoiler if I mention that The Greatest Do Now Ever is also a way to set cheat-proo, high-compliance homework @adamboxereducation.bsky.social?

The Greatest Do Now Ever™️ This is the story of how one teacher set out to create the greatest Do Now Ever, and he changed my teaching for the better. Please share if you can 🙏 carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-greate...

I feel like I say this every week but it was just another great and fascinating episode. @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and @amymayforrester.bsky.social - congratulations on a great term of podcasts! (PS - can you get Liz English on this platform. Loads I would like to ask her!)

What do you get if you cross a turnaround school with a startup school? Yup - a whole load of problems. But Liz English is actually doing it, and leading one of the most fascinating and successful schools in the country. TUNE IN + SHARE open.spotify.com/episode/3Atp...

Absolutely brilliant episode to end the term! I looked at applying for Houstone when they were looking for starting staff, wasn't the right time to move though, now we've moved to Derby instead :)

What do you get if you cross a turnaround school with a startup school? Yup - a whole load of problems. But Liz English is actually doing it, and leading one of the most fascinating and successful schools in the country. TUNE IN + SHARE open.spotify.com/episode/3Atp...

Lovely new review of ‘How to Teach Psychology’ on Goodreads www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps... @paulclinepsy.bsky.social @hlearningpd.bsky.social Still time to treat that special #Psychology teacher (or even English teacher, based on this review) in your life before Xmas! #UKEd #Edusky