🚨 We're thrilled to announce that New Line Learning Academy will be hosting researchED Kent 2025! 🎓✨ Join us for a day packed with research, pedagogy, refreshments, and connect with passionate educators. 🍎👥 📲 Book online now at researchED.futureschoolstrust.com #researchED #EducationMatters

Come and work with Lucy Crehan, Sam Freedman, Patrick Wall, and I at the Centre for Education Systems and help us transform the quality of international evidence available to education policy makers. Please share! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

In the light of the brilliant @schoolsweek.bsky.social investigation today here's piece by me on the question as to whether SEND identification and intervention is useful. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/i...

“As it turns out, the science of unlearning is just as complicated as the science of learning.”

On the subject of ‘fun / disadvantage / attendance’, we have written about these issues in depth in this report on attendance in rural and coastal communities (esp pages 30-35): www.onecornwall.co.uk/_site/data/p...

Here is her paper in full: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

It’s here! Our new open access book on curriculum written by Tim Surma, @paulkirschner.bsky.social, @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, @timsurma.bsky.social, Nuno Crato, Elizabeth Rata, John Hattie, Claudio Van Hees, Michiel Wils, Jasper Nijlunsing and me. Download it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New Post Attention Contagion in the Lecture Hall Are inattentive behaviors contagious in the classroom? If so, how do they impact students? theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/12/18/a... #edusky

You are cordially invited to join the community conversation for school leaders, based on scenario #2. Link below. Open to all! ✉️ Please repost and share widely. getrealleadershiphub.substack.com/p/scenario-2...

Huge role at Ark advertised here. Come join us as Head of Assessment. arkcareersweb.eploy.net/vacancies/34...

Scenarios to spark discussion about all things school leadership from some very good brains: @lekhasharma.bsky.social @nimishlad.bsky.social check out the VERY FIRST one and subscribe for more!

There’s been a big surge of new followers on here! A short intro: 📕 I’m a mission-focussed secondary school reading specialist. 📗 I have post-grad qualifications in special education. 📘 I’ve designed a powerful intervention based on DI & PT. 📙 Advocating for explicit SOR instruction. Alfie 🐩

Orthographic mapping is the cognitive process by which readers associate phonemes with their corresponding graphemes so words can be stored for immediate “on-sight” retrieval (Ehri, 2014). www.ldatschool.ca/orthographic...

🚨Review of Edu-Research in 2023/24 → 11 standout papers → 5 emerging themes → My finding/sharing process (this is my first crack at a vid—would love any feedback, esp how it could be better next time) www.youtube.com/watch?v=egdN...

Epic thread with relevant reading recommendations.

This is by far the most popular post on the blog site: www.thereadingape.com/single-post/...

Don't leave me alone in my confessional. Come share your curriculum sins. @clairestoneman.bsky.social @ensermark.bsky.social teachreal.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...

I think Jonathan has expressed clearly a lot of concerns we may have about the Ofsted proposals. Would be a troubling step back.

Välkommen till researchED Scandinavia i Haninge den 15 mars 2025! Imponerande talarlista! Ett 40-tal sessioner att välja mellan. Du bygger ditt eget program på plats. Läs mer och boka din plats (550kr inkl lunch & gofika) här www.haninge.se/researched/

Can you help me share some great news? The @histassoc.bsky.social Subject Leader Development Programme has been given a Teach Secondary CPD award: we were Highly Commended! We have now trained nearly SIX HUNDRED Subject Leaders of History, both in post and aspiring to the role. 1/

We have been analysing results from our partner schools to show how struggling readers can catch up completely – and quickly. Read about them here in our blog “Can Struggling Readers Catch Up Quickly? Completely?” wp.me/p4hKgx-8je (3 min read). #EduSky #UKEd #EduBlogUK

So many incredible announcements f9r @researchedmk.bsky.social yesterday, and we're spoiling you with even more today! Stay tuned for further excitement, and grab your discounted tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched...

Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made a short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map. youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?...

NEW! One-pager from the excellent session by @DrokHilly at @researchED on Sat. My key takeaways of her session on DD and SRL. It also showcases the excellent work taking place at the formative action school. RP if you would like a free HQ copy. @tombennett71.bsky.social @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social

**NEW** ResED National 24: 'Spiralling Curriculum' Slides perspected.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/r... 🖐️ My slides are now available to download. Thanks to everyone who came to my talk; also to @tombennett71.bsky.social and @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social for making such an inspiring movement in education.

*** New Blog*** Prompted by this weekends #rEd2024 and follow-up conversations on here. Thanks to @pepsmccrea.bsky.social @evidencebasededu.bsky.social, @collegeofteaching.bsky.social and @carolaj.bsky.social plus many others 🙂 teachreal.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/w...

Great #rED24 reflection thread from Jo here. 😍 Lets have some more of these, please. #UKEd #Edusky

We are all obligated to set high expectations. But how do we actually do it? Blog with some concrete ideas 👇👇

8 days to go! We are exhibiting at researchED on the 7th of September. Come meet us at our stand and grab your free resources. See you there! More information here 👉 https://buff.ly/3XajC8y

So my big news is that Patrice Bain, Kurt Engelmann, and Robert Pondiscio will join me in the panel after my webinar on explicit teaching! It’s free! Whether you’re a parent or an educator, we can all agree we need to improve instruction in this country. educationrickshaw.com/2024/08/28/r...

An amazingly forensic and thoughtful piece on ‘oracies’ by @claresealy.bsky.social One to save and revisit multiple times.

Been back from France over a week now and really missing this… The air. The sense of space. Perhaps showing my age but starting to think about moving out of London.

Couldn’t agree more. Anyone who has grappled with assessment and assessment policy will recognise the challenges and errors made in the recent past. Post 2 is particularly resonating. The other challenge is trying to discuss these things with teams and SLT to move things along. Much resistance.

This morning I’m reading about vocabulary challenges in GCSE exams. I wrote this on ‘Why teaching academic vocabulary matters’: alexquigley.co.uk/why-teaching...

If we’re serious about school improvement, we need to know how deliberate success is - has it happened on purpose? Or was it a happy accident. Read more about my thoughts here ⬇️ as I prepare for my new Trust-wide role… mrho11and.wixsite.com/educated-thi...

📚 NEW BLOG 📚 Educational research can help inform teaching practice. But what if it goes counter to your own experience? To explore this, we recruited the help and wisdom of Translate the Brain's Andrew Watson. Here's what we discussed 👇 www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/r...

Katie is one of the best thinkers and communicators on the topic of home ed out there. If you’re not already following, it’s well worth it. Will constantly make you think.

#edusky do your magic here. I’d love to know this has gone to a good home.

Teaching a child to read ensures they can participate in all life has to offer. Not being able to read well is a huge hindrance - imagine not being able to read the instructions on a medicine bottle, an email, a formal letter . . . Illiteracy is a solvable problem, with the will to do so.

I’m second that - great book by @mrarobbins.bsky.social

And @ssat.bsky.social are hosting a free online briefing about improving school attendance. Governors very welcome. www.ssatuk.co.uk/event/attend...

Reflective supervision for school leaders. A blogpost ahead of last year's ResearchED conference. wp.me/p2Hxfu-1tm This year, I'll be updating the session in light of more recent evidence. Having supported a number of HTs this past year, this is still a drum that needs banging.

Wonderful piece here. Wish my youngest had been given solid foundations from the get-go to build on. I wouldn’t have had to reteach fractions, percentages, ratio, equations etc endlessly as a non-specialist mum and he might have persevered with it instead of feeling so powerless.

One more from the archives: why mapping is better than weighing. educontrarianblog.com/2021/12/04/g... This one seemed to strike a chord.

This was a really thought-provoking post.

A Model for Great Teaching. The fantastic evidence review from @evidencebasededu.bsky.social is really helpful for professional learning, development, dialogue & thinking about the key dimensions & elements of teaching & learning. Find out more here evidencebased.education/great-teachi...

It's the summer, so if you fancy a bit of cogsci reading then here's my list: tinyurl.com/yc3mwx6e If you've got any other suggestions let me know! #EduSky #ITeachPhysics #cogsci #cogscisci

You don’t need to be a science teacher to benefit from the wisdom, insights and advice of the #cogscisci team. Fantastic to see them being reassembled in #Edusky

Research - Based Strategies that All Teachers Should Know Download your free copy now 👇 hubs.la/Q02H2yQW0 #EduSky