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A few years ago, in the Golden Era of Edu-Twitter, Berny Andrews and I suggested the Department of Education needed a team of philosophers. We were only half joking. Very often the success or failu…

How can we support a more regular and relevant approach to teacher development?

My reasoning for writing this blog is to champion the cause and case of subject knowledge. Some will question why. Some will cite but that’s so obvious isn’t it or shout out but of course subject k…

ALT: two men sitting at a table with a candle and a napkin

The challenge of overcoming the myth of competition, so we can build something better for everyone.

Or a book review of Johann Hari's 'Stolen Focus'

Their keen noses are helping researchers document the diversity of fungi living underneath Pacific Northwest forests

Can neuroscience add anything to our understanding of the classroom? And what should teachers make of it? Efrat Furst looks into how this lens might prove useful in the future.  [...]Read More...

How we carried on exploiting sperm whales long after the conventional wisdom said we'd stopped. Forgotten Material #1

Try to solve our Superbugs-themed 'Wordle' in as few attempts as possible. Each guess must be a valid 5-letter word. Hit the enter button to submit your guess! After each round, the colour of the ti...

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Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if violence is normal.

Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…

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Does knowledge = understanding? This simple equation suggests that the extent of a person's understanding is purely equal to the extent of their knowledge. Proponents of this claim suggest that it gro...

Publishing a book - a memoir, a love story, and a tale of hope and recovery

Publishing a book

On my travels, I speak to hundreds if not thousands of experienced teachers and school leaders and there’s a common conversation in an, “all roads lead to Rome” way, that always seems to crop up in…