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May 20, 20152 min read

Co-constructing revision approaches with learners using SRSD

With this in mind I have decided on a slightly different approach to the revision sessions I will be running in Guernsey secondary...

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Apr 17, 20153 min read

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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Professional Capital and TIFF – Thoughts on Chapter 5 Part 2 of Hargreaves and Fullan

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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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Thoughts on chapter 5 of Hargreaves’ and Fullan’s Professional Capital

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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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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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Investing in Capability and Commitment – reflections on Chapter 4 of “Professional Capit

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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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Creative Accounting – a response to Tom Bennett’s TES article 10 October 2014

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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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Stereotypes of Teaching – thoughts on chapter 3 of Professional Capital by Hargreaves and Full

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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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Competing Views of Teaching – thoughts on chapter 2 of Professional Capital by Hargreaves and

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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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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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Environmental Givens: Researching reading and Growth Mindset

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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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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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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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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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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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Introducing the Functionally Fluent School Leadership programme

In the recent Teacher Wellbeing Survey conducted by the NASUWT, 86% of teachers surveyed said that their job had had a negative impact...

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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...

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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...

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