Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...

Back in November 2010 I was invited to go down to London to lead a research seminar at the DfE on the reading for pleasure promotion...

The following piece by Ben Wilkinson and Sonja Bredgaard was published on The Guardian's teacher blog back in 2012. Interest in reading...

The second passport we produced, the blue one, was conceived as a more primary-orientated version of the original green passport. The...

1. The green passport was the first one in the series. Indeed, when I wrote it I thought it would be the only one but then when my...

It occurred to me recently that, although Rooted in Reading has now been around for over a decade, there are still many teachers out...

Listening recently to Andy Hargreaves talking about professional capital on YouTube , I was struck by his definition of the third element...

I am updating this blog, which dates from July 2018, in January 2022. The issues it highlights have been considerably exacerbated by...

A couple of years ago I wrote my first blog with this title, which, if you are interested, you can read here. My thesis in that post was...

Photo credit – Suffolk Maths http://www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/1growthmindset.htm You will have seen many diagrams by now explaining...

So, after not posting anything for several months, I now plan to start on a series of posts outlining the setting-up, training stages and...

On Thursday 16 July we will be holding a launch party and press event for Personal Best at LA Mare de Carteret High School, Guernsey at 9...

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend a morning listening to David Didau talking about literacy. Like all good inset, this...

I have nothing against reading – I am a massive supporter of reading. It can have a very positive impact on many aspects of people’s...

In this article, Tom Bennett presents a strongly worded attack on the notion that creativity is not currently being effectively taught in...

When I was growing up I was taught to look for the explanation of all human qualities, actions and phenomena in the environment in which...

Reading Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby, which examines what new research into the way children’s minds work and develop tells us...