Blog of the Week Phil Stock – Universal provision: The Teacher is the Intervention More from Director of Greenshaw Research School Phil Stock on his school’s Graduated Response. Evidenc…

Part two: Looking at what the new guidance means for schools

Some reflections from training programmes we have led this year.

Research School Associate Fahim Rahman uses his own experience to reflect on the impact of pupil premium strategies

What do we need to focus on if we are going to ask better questions in our classrooms?

This blog is the first of a two part series looking into recommendations 1 and 2 of the updated EEF report on TA deployment.

Shy pupils can easily, often unnoticed, slide to the sides of lessons. Supporting such pupils, who are nervous to talk with their peers or in front of the class, can be a tricky business but also vita...

Blog of the Week Matthew Evans – Adaptive teaching: in search of conceptual clarity Brilliant thinking and writing from Matthew here around adaptive teaching and what it really means for teac…

Fluency instruction isn’t just beneficial for younger students: It can go a long way in supporting reading at KS3 and KS4, too.

Blog of the Week David Windle – Entropy, attendance and implementation An interesting perspective on the EEF’s implementation guidance, here is one quote to get you started: “Unle…

Computer science teacher David Scott explains and explores AI in education.

Challenging our own presumptions is the key to tackling educational disadvantage

Blog of the Week Blake Harvard – Easy Application of Interleaving in the Classroom Blake neatly summarises a research paper on interleaving and why (it might) be worth us adding it to our reg…

Blog of the Week Inner Drive – Boosting participation: Wait times and question types Inner Drive summarise the latest findings from new questioning research and its implications for type of q…

Continuing our ​‘Self-Regulation at a Distance’ series, the maths team have produced a series of short videos for students.

This post explores a seven step approach to tackling educational disadvantage

Multi-purpose manipulatives!

Blog of the Week Claire Stoneman – Don’t make the thing, the Thing I think this blog chimes really well with the engage and unite cross-cutting behaviours from the new implementation guidance…

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Chris Runeckles discusses the importance of language in making high expectations a reality

An exploration of the role teacher self-efficacy may have in establishing classroom routines.

Blog of the Week Inner Drive – Teaching Unpacked: What do great teachers see? Only a short blog and not on a new study, but very interesting nonetheless. I’m always thinking about teach…

Blog of the Week Kat Howard – School Improvement | Steady Work A great articulation from Kat about the importance of strategic thinking and a dogged focus when driving school improvement. Class Tea…

Durrington Director Chris Runeckles explains how his school frames routines for driving the thinking of students.

Blog of the Week Simon Botten – We need to talk about SEND Dominating the national conversation with good reason, SEND is something we are all thinking about at the moment. Simon helps us to …

The saved time did not come at the expense of quality, independent evaluation finds

This blog has been brewing for a while. Pretty much a year in fact. The genesis was my visit to the brilliant Forest Gate Community School in November 2023. Several things stuck with with me follow…

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