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Kate Wall

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Professor of Education Strathclyde Institute of Education Professional learning, primary/EY, democratic ed, voice, visual methods & pedagogies for thinking. #StrathSTL #StrathEdD #StrathEduPGR

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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: pathways to evidence. Your question should give clues to the type of evidence that you will be collecting. For example, if you say learner perspectives then I would expect evidence of learner voice in some way. /1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: pathways to evidence. Your question should give clues to the type of evidence that you will be collecting. For example, if you say learner perspectives then I would expect evidence of learner voice in some way. /1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@uogcfte.bsky.social Strathclyde Research Hub for Innovative Pedagogy is excited to announce an expert seminar series running from October to March There's something for everyone with themes in STEM/ maths, literacy and collaboration/dialogue @strath-ioe.bsky.social
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Be patient. Have you got your enquiry question sorted yet? If you have well done, but if you haven't don't panic. Its not a problem. It will come. Keep tuning in and thinking about what would be useful to find out/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Be patient. Have you got your enquiry question sorted yet? If you have well done, but if you haven't don't panic. Its not a problem. It will come. Keep tuning in and thinking about what would be useful to find out/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: what would success look like? As you plan your enquiry then a useful thought activity can be considering what would be a successful outcome of your enquiry. What will you know that you otherwise wouldn't?/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And here is the AI created visual of this week's #PractitionerEnquiryTotW. Enjoy
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: what would success look like? As you plan your enquiry then a useful thought activity can be considering what would be a successful outcome of your enquiry. What will you know that you otherwise wouldn't?/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have been playing with AI, would the attached visuals, or similar, be a useful addition to my regular #PractitionerEnquiryTotW post? All my words, just made fancy...
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have been playing with AI, would the attached visuals, or similar, be a useful addition to my regular #PractitionerEnquiryTotW post? All my words, just made fancy...
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Reality check. Teachers are ambitious: we want to solve everything for everyone right now. That's not going to be possible within one cycle of enquiry, if ever. So keep world domination tendencies under scrutiny/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Reality check. Teachers are ambitious: we want to solve everything for everyone right now. That's not going to be possible within one cycle of enquiry, if ever. So keep world domination tendencies under scrutiny/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: 2 types of questions. Prevailing messages about research seem to push teachers to think that they have to target what happens if questions - I make a change, do an evaluation, measure impact, (quasi-) experimental/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: 2 types of questions. Prevailing messages about research seem to push teachers to think that they have to target what happens if questions - I make a change, do an evaluation, measure impact, (quasi-) experimental/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: what would Dolly do? It had to be. Dolly Parton's legacy will be many things, but in this small corner of the world we have Dolly's rule: practitioner enquiry and prof learning should try to fit into the 9 to 5 /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: what would Dolly do? It had to be. Dolly Parton's legacy will be many things, but in this small corner of the world we have Dolly's rule: practitioner enquiry and prof learning should try to fit into the 9 to 5 /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: getting inspiration. Last week I focused on children's need being central to enquiry encouraging patience as this emerges. Inspiration has to come from children in front of you but how can you bolster this?/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: getting inspiration. Last week I focused on children's need being central to enquiry encouraging patience as this emerges. Inspiration has to come from children in front of you but how can you bolster this?/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Are you a Scottish teacher starting practitioner enquiry? If so, I've recorded 3 free short videos available on cfte-online.gla.ac.uk What is enquiry Developing a question Thinking about evidence Just register and follow tabs to Strathclyde Research Hub for Innovative Pedagogy
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: And we are back! The new school year is starting for many in Scotland (you might feel my frazzle at getting my son out the house on time today), but I hope you are feeling refreshed and ready to go🧵/1 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: And we are back! The new school year is starting for many in Scotland (you might feel my frazzle at getting my son out the house on time today), but I hope you are feeling refreshed and ready to go🧵/1 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
2 days to go until applications close for the part time EdD at @strath-ioe.bsky.social to start this September. Go on, you know you want to! To find out more drop me an email.
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Holidays are for holidaying. Schools are finishing up in Scotland so this is my regular end of term reminder that enquiry is about practice, if you're not engaged in practice (on holiday) you can't do enquiry/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Holidays are for holidaying. Schools are finishing up in Scotland so this is my regular end of term reminder that enquiry is about practice, if you're not engaged in practice (on holiday) you can't do enquiry/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: enquiry videos. I have just recorded an intro to practitioner enquiry and 3 bitesize (30 min) sessions: one on process, questions and evidence. They're all available to view on cfte-online.gla.ac.uk /1 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: enquiry videos. I have just recorded an intro to practitioner enquiry and 3 bitesize (30 min) sessions: one on process, questions and evidence. They're all available to view on cfte-online.gla.ac.uk /1 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Centre for Teaching Excellence @uogcfte.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Next week at CfTE! Explore upcoming sessions and new content below.
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Its just opinion. When sharing enquiry then there is no clear line distinguishing between what is opinion and what is 'truth'/ evidence based (despite opinion being a critique regularly thrown at enquiry outcomes)/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The part time #StrathEdD is open for applications to start in September. We even have 2 scholarships to cover 50% fees. The course is designed to fit around full time work and the vibrant postgrad community is supportive and motivating. @strath-ioe.bsky.social www.strath.ac.uk/courses/rese...
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Doctorate of Education (EdD) | University of Strathclyde
Study an EdD Education at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Full/part-time options available. City centre campus.
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The part time #StrathEdD is open for applications to start in September. We even have 2 scholarships to cover 50% fees. The course is designed to fit around full time work and the vibrant postgrad community is supportive and motivating. @strath-ioe.bsky.social www.strath.ac.uk/courses/rese...
strath.ac.uk
Doctorate of Education (EdD) | University of Strathclyde
Study an EdD Education at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Full/part-time options available. City centre campus.
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: practicing what you preach. All teachers should be doing practitioner enquiry and integral to that is to share process and outcomes. However this dialogue needs to be modelled if its going to lead to learning/1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: practicing what you preach. All teachers should be doing practitioner enquiry and integral to that is to share process and outcomes. However this dialogue needs to be modelled if its going to lead to learning/1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: just a small part of a difficult jigsaw. Enquiry is not about solving education, if that is at all possible. It is about getting a small peice of clarity into the complex, ever changing jigsaw of your practice/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This #PractitionerEnquiryTotW goes out to #StrathPGDE who heard me say the word jigsaw far too many times yesterday as part of their course conference, this is me developing my thoughts a bit more (with hopefully greater clarity) modelling an enquiry based process...
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: just a small part of a difficult jigsaw. Enquiry is not about solving education, if that is at all possible. It is about getting a small peice of clarity into the complex, ever changing jigsaw of your practice/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Being a successful failure. It is very likely that an enquiry won't go to plan, sometimes it all works out perfectly and sometimes it goes horribly wrong. Whatever the scenario you will have learning to share /1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Being a successful failure. It is very likely that an enquiry won't go to plan, sometimes it all works out perfectly and sometimes it goes horribly wrong. Whatever the scenario you will have learning to share /1 🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: academic poster or bust! Sharing your enquiry doesn't have to be quite so formal (although some might like this). The expectation of a write up or academic poster is over rated and puts pressure on teachers/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: academic poster or bust! Sharing your enquiry doesn't have to be quite so formal (although some might like this). The expectation of a write up or academic poster is over rated and puts pressure on teachers/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: sharing evidence. As you draw your enquiry to a close and get ready to share, choosing what to share and how to share it is important. Any outcomes should be securely connected to evidence. How do you show this?/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: sharing evidence. As you draw your enquiry to a close and get ready to share, choosing what to share and how to share it is important. Any outcomes should be securely connected to evidence. How do you show this?/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: answering your question. This might seem an obvious one, but its probably been a while since you last looked at it, you may have got distracted, things change, so making sure you link back is important./1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: answering your question. This might seem an obvious one, but its probably been a while since you last looked at it, you may have got distracted, things change, so making sure you link back is important./1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: connection. We have 4 principles of a practitioner enquiry community: autonomy, disturbance, dialogue and connection. I am going to focus on that last one this week as too often I see disconnected enquiries/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hope you had a relaxed Easter with lots of time for loved ones and not doing a lot. As promised, #PractitionerEnquiryTotW has returned with the new term. If you have any topics you would like me to cover in the coming weeks, then let me know.
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: connection. We have 4 principles of a practitioner enquiry community: autonomy, disturbance, dialogue and connection. I am going to focus on that last one this week as too often I see disconnected enquiries/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: connected to practice. Practitioner enquiry is an approach targeting professional learning and therefore making connections into practice and the needs of learners is essential and a defining characteristic/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: connected to practice. Practitioner enquiry is an approach targeting professional learning and therefore making connections into practice and the needs of learners is essential and a defining characteristic/1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Practitoner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Dolly's rule. Many people who have listened to me speak have taken away the key message that practitioner enquiry needs to happen in the 9-5, but how flexible is this to teachers' busy lives and working schedules? /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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Kate Wall @katewall.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Practitoner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Dolly's rule. Many people who have listened to me speak have taken away the key message that practitioner enquiry needs to happen in the 9-5, but how flexible is this to teachers' busy lives and working schedules? /1🧵 #PractitionerEnquiryTotW
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