Literacy, meaning making and social and cultural capital: six thoughts
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend a morning listening to David Didau talking about literacy. Like all good inset, this...
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Feb 22, 20152 min read
Professional Capital and TIFF – Thoughts on Chapter 5 Part 2 of Hargreaves and Fullan
Hargreaves and Fullan now move on to the final part of their professional capital equation, DC – decisional capital as in PC = F (HC, SC,...
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steve246253
Jan 27, 20153 min read
Thoughts on chapter 5 of Hargreaves’ and Fullan’s Professional Capital
Teaching is complicated. Learners’ needs are multifarious and educational systems and qualifications frameworks are complex and...
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Jan 5, 20153 min read
The Strategic Sequence
When I was working with English departments across Lincolnshire we were regularly asked to conduct departmental reviews. Following time...
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Dec 23, 20142 min read
Analogue Learning: an introduction
Firstly, let’s be very clear from the start, this is not an attack on digital learning. I am as intrigued by gadgets and new bits of...
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steve246253
Nov 23, 20142 min read
Should we abandon reading for pleasure?
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...
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Nov 1, 20144 min read
Investing in Capability and Commitment – reflections on Chapter 4 of “Professional Capit
The authors start this chapter by listing the 5 Cs which are required in order for teachers to be able to teach like a pro. These are...
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steve246253
Oct 25, 20145 min read
Creative Accounting – a response to Tom Bennett’s TES article 10 October 2014
In this article, Tom Bennett presents a strongly worded attack on the notion that creativity is not currently being effectively taught in...
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steve246253
Oct 11, 20143 min read
Stereotypes of Teaching – thoughts on chapter 3 of Professional Capital by Hargreaves and Full
This chapter attacks, with considerable vigour, many of the sacred cows of school improvement. Books with titles like Teach like a...
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steve246253
Oct 4, 20143 min read
Competing Views of Teaching – thoughts on chapter 2 of Professional Capital by Hargreaves and
This chapter extends the dichotomy established in chapter 1 between the business capital view of teaching and the professional capital...
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steve246253
Sep 28, 20142 min read
A Capital Idea – thoughts on Chapter 1 of Professional Capital by Hargreaves and Fullan
As an Education Development Officer working with secondary schools I am, of course, very interested in this book, subtitled Transforming...
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steve246253
May 4, 20143 min read
Environmental Givens: Researching reading and Growth Mindset
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...
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steve246253
Jan 18, 20143 min read
Reading – the third component
Reading Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby, which examines what new research into the way children’s minds work and develop tells us...
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steve246253
Jan 11, 20143 min read
Evolution, the developing brain and the power of reading
Alison Gopnik wrote The Philosophical Baby back in 2009 and I think that in it she tells us many things about the development of...
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steve246253
Jan 4, 20144 min read
Readicide – schools and reading
Kelly Gallagher’s 2009 book Readicide is subtitled How schools are killing reading and what you can do about it. This gives a very clear...
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Jun 1, 20131 min read
Using Flow to encourage reading for pleasure
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May 31, 20133 min read
FLOW and reading for pleasure
Reading is a creative activity as a number of researchers have pointed out. Holden, in Creative Reading (2004) makes the case that...
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Apr 28, 20138 min read
Becoming a Reading school – Ofsted case study
Kirk Hallam Community, Technology and Sports College, Derbyshire has embraced Rooted in Reading as a central plank of its whole school...
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steve246253
Apr 14, 20133 min read
Question Fans
My ex-colleague, @JaninLincoln first came up with the idea of the Question Fan about 3 years ago. She put together a set of question...
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Apr 7, 20131 min read
Effective Revision Strategies
Effective Revision Strategies.
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Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in Reading
Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
Joe Wicks, Functional Fluency and teacher observation
This blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...
The 15 Rooted in Reading Principles
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...
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