If you were tasked with designing a fully inclusive curriculum, where would you start? What is absolutely key? Please repost for coverage. #send

"A test should act as a mirror, not a trapdoor." Brilliant post highlighting how assessment so often goes wrong. Lots of really helpful subject-specific examples!

At lightening speed (for me), I've written up my talk from ResearchED this month. Can AI help with formative assessment? profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/can-ai-hel...

New Blog Post - Do you follow? Most of the training we do in schools is how to develop leadership (think NPQs), but how well do you follow? researchtoclassroom.com/so/1fPbSABNQ... Any typos just prove I'm not AI 🙃

'The oversimplification trap' "When it comes to students in the classroom, we can simplify an explanation of a concept into PPT where complex phrases become glossy icons. Books can become short booklets. Subjects become revision guides." alexquigley.co.uk/the-oversimp...

New Blog Building on the legend of Graham Nuttall: The hidden lives of teachers. May be of interest to people who have read blogs on Nuttall or fans of Sarah Cottinghatt and Co’s Cognitive Coaching. adam-robbins.com/2025/09/17/t...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

“wisdom which will encourage you to think more deeply about learning, rather than just creating ‘lessons’.” Such lovely recent feedback for www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps... This was exactly what @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I were hoping to achieve. #UKEd #Edusky

Have student's attention spans been decimated by digital technologies? In @educationnext.bsky.social I look at the data and conclude that's not the problem. www.educationnext.org/pay-attentio...

New: We keep trying to teach grit as if it were something students can just learn. Instead, if we make progress visible students will persist. Swap pep talks for clear modelling, sequenced practice & precise feedback. Teach the subject well & resilience will follow open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

How can we improve our ‘Do Nows’? open.substack.com/pub/shaunall...

⚡️New Blog Post!⚡️ ‘From Teacher to Leader’ - slides from my session at #rED2025 joneslearnuk.blogspot.com/2025/09/from...

Session 3: @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and @mikehobbiss.bsky.social on developing independent learners (hint - independence starts with scaffolding). Lots of actionable strategies for helping students actually *do* the things they kinda know will be helpful.

Another brilliant day at #rED25 Lots to think about as always, and wonderful to reconnect with some lovely people. A massive thank you to those who came to see @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I talk

A great day at ResearchEd #REd25. Superb sessions @profcoe.bsky.social @joejt.bsky.social @profbeckyallen.bsky.social @johntomsett.bsky.social. Fun presenting with @paulclinepsy.bsky.social as ever. New contacts made, friendships rekindled, and ambitious schemes hatched. Enriching and invigorating

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

Looking forward to another great day at rED#25 on Saturday - session timetable, as ever, making it hard to choose! If you'd like to hear how @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I have tried to taken an evidence-informed approach to developing independent learners, come and see us in M20 for session 3!

Lots of new stuff on The Psychologist this week www.bps.org.uk/psychologist

🧠 ResearchEd National this Saturday! My session is straight after lunch in Room M07: 🎓 14.00-14.40 | Session 5: Consistency Is Killing Us: Reclaiming teacher professionalism and agency through PD at scale Leaders, teacher educators, professional development leads and mentors - see you there!

Looking forward to another great day at rED#25 on Saturday - session timetable, as ever, making it hard to choose! If you'd like to hear how @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I have tried to taken an evidence-informed approach to developing independent learners, come and see us in M20 for session 3!

Room K08, session 1 at ResearchEd on Saturday - join me to investigate what the data, from official sources and from parents, says on the question “Are SEND needs driving an increase in children being home educated?”

Interested in how to use 'mainstream' edu research to support pupils with SEND? Session 2 M28 #rED25 😎

Right. I've entered a half marathon (for the first time in my life!) on 12th October and am raising money for Cancer UK. If you'd like to donate great, if not, please share the link :) fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/davids-...

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: In confusion the French erase end of sentence? (7) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/5b0e7...

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Recreates ‘Pop Art’ scene. (8) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/e8404...

Been working on this Minute Cryptic a while. Not sure it fully works, but the visual is… quite something. Charlie Chaplain’s first waterski ended in ocean melodrama. (7) Lemme know what you think and share if you like it. www.minutecryptic.com/custom/7a165...

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Do something to portray charged particle. (6) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/5e4fe...

Great to see @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and my book on the @johncattedu.bsky.social stand at @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025 www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps...

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

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Ditch in road, is car damaged? (7) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/2fd61...

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Inferior spills the beans in absence of superior leader. (7) What do you think of this one? www.minutecryptic.com/custom/3264e...

Reviews are so important. If you've bought this brilliant book please take 5 mins to review it.

New on 100% Assessment with @head-teach.bsky.social: The Discrimination Dilemma - Deciding when 69% really means better than 65%. As always, subscribe for weekly updates. 100assessment.substack.com/p/the-discri...

*NEW* Alfie Kohn calls Cognitive Load Theory a “pseudo-scientific smokescreen.” A 2025 fMRI study shows cognitive load lights up your brain’s attention + control networks exactly as CLT predicts. Is it dogma or is it biology? open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

After a weekend break, I'm back with some more. I think this one is quite hard, but I'm not sure! I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Jolly postman, quasi nightmare panic, he sent last letters muddled up. (6) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/71dce...

If anyone has read a copy of 'How to Teach Psychology' from @johncattedu.bsky.social, then @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I would be hugely grateful if you would leave a review, either on amazon www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953, goodreads www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... or anywhere else! Thanks! 🙏🙏

Today’s 2nd #EducationFest Cognitive Science Strand talk? Adaptive Teaching with one of our absolute favourite people, Jade Pearce!!

I’m happy to announce that my article about the collective work of @theatp.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-dartp.bsky.social @edpsy.bsky.social @efptateachpsych.bsky.social @t-fun.bsky.social and SCoPESC has been published in @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

First up on our Cognitive Science Strand, we have the wonderful Alex Fairlamb speaking on The Scaffolding Effect 🪜

Day 2 of Festival of Education! 🎪📚 Lots more Chartered College members speaking today! Support your colleagues from 9:30am today. Full agenda can be found here: https://educationfest.pulse.ly/bqbotbwvta #FestivalOfEducation

It’s a full house as Claire Badger wraps up #EducationFest Day 1 at the Cognitive Science Strand 🌅 Revealing to us the secrets of Retrieval Practice… But Better!

Despite best intentions and significant investment, England’s SEND system is failing too many students and their families. To fix it, we need to understand why. Mega-thread summary of my presentation at #FestivalOfEducation today: ↓

A great first day at #EducationFest @educationfest.bsky.social 3 'general' takeaways for anyone coming tomorrow... 1) Set off early - traffic in was insane! 2) Plan to go to talks near each other 3) Don't do your wristband too tight Will try to do a 'proper' thread on content at some point!

It was fun, but hard, picking just 10 great books to inspire you to teach psychology (apart from our own, of course!). What do you think of our choices?

A lovely chance for @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I to write for @psychmag.bsky.social 10 books which have most influenced us as #psychology teachers... Do you agree with our choices? #UKEd #Edusky (Includes obligatory reference to #HTTP www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953) @johncattedu.bsky.social

🚨🚨 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨 Introducing InnerTapp. An exciting new partnership (or as @missmc.bsky.social calls it ‘collab’) with us @innerdrive.bsky.social and @teachertapp.bsky.social InnerTapp: What Teachers Know, What Studies Show www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/introdu...

Just looking through day 1 programme for EdFest tomorrow. Even with a few filters to narrow it down I reckon I need to be in at least 3 places at once for several sessions! Who else is coming? #EducationFest @educationfest.bsky.social

And here's my offering for today: I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Alternate fizzy, even better than cola. (7) Give it your best shot! www.minutecryptic.com/custom/ecaa5...

An old post in which I argued instead of messing around with COVID Catch Up Funds we should have just air conditioned schools. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2021/06/09/c...

How do we make sure homework is still valuable when AI can 'do it for them?' Excellent post from @drcastelino.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...?