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No.1 ☝️ education blog in UK 🇬🇧 Implementing research-led CPD 🔬resources & strategy for teachers into schools & colleges. Trusted by 20+ million people 💥
United Kingdom
Joined August 2010
✈️🚗🚂 Throughout 2025, I have reached around 60 schools and colleges for teacher training (for the first time, not reaching Wales). That's two schools every week during the academic calendar. Always learning, sharing and supporting teachers. ☎️ Get in touch for all things
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No. 13 - unlucky for some. My new book title is now public, and this is the final cover. What’s inside? I review MRI scans and compare them with what teachers do in the classroom, verbally or non-verbally, to understand how they light up parts of the brain. Why? It might
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🇬🇧 The UK School Population is DECLINING ↘️ https://t.co/kNG0pdUAMk The current system in England is complicated, given the fragmentation across councils, MATs and the Department for Education. A coherent process is needed for making decisions on school closures/places. We
The projected number of children in our schools across the four nations of the UK continues to decline. We know what this means, pre-COVID and pre-AI. We will see more school closures, and more schools switcht o online teaching as budgets are stretched further, and we
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I fear for those schools switching to AI delivery already. It’s further acknowledgement of the recruitment crisis - taking away the responsibility of the DfE/government to resolve it. 🚨 AI lesson delivery is not the solution.
Teaching cannot be replicated on the internet or through a screen. School is about relationships and community - that is why members at the Valley school are striking to safeguard education and ensure a qualified teacher in every classroom. #SaveEducation
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Finished my last CPD job of 2025, with the brilliant @sigmatrust ! Will be working with all the #maths teachers from across the trust in the spring term. We will be lifting the bonnet 🚗 on adaptive teaching, and diving deeper into formative assessment. #GuideToQuestioning
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🤔 How long until we see a social media ban for under 16s here in the UK?
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Spotted earlier today ☀️ Teaching feels like a holiday rather than work 🏖️ for some teachers who've upgraded to #MarkPlanTeach
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No. 5 🖐️ Does classroom design really improve behaviour and learning? https://t.co/0UETvYpoMK
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Discover how classroom design and behaviour management work together to support learning, backed by research and CPD strategies for teachers.
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No. 4 🖖 Are your schemes of work built for teaching or for learning? https://t.co/i6sskUbZPf
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Cognitive science strategies to improve schemes of work, build retention and deepen understanding across the curriculum.
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No. 3 ✌️ ☝️ Is ‘live marking’ truly reducing the burden of written marking in our classrooms? https://t.co/9TJ2fkrBZ8
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Explore the effectiveness of live marking and how structured verbal feedback can transform classroom dynamics and reduce teacher workload. %
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No. 2 ✌️ Is behaviour in English schools really improving, or just better reported? See what the latest data suggests. https://t.co/Vy7f2ioWu5
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Explore new DfE data on behaviour in English schools. Understand disruption trends, teacher confidence and mobile phone policy.
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Top-5 blogs this term? 🤔 No. 1 ☝️ Live marking is a good start — but it’s not enough. It's so old-school. https://t.co/nPEZxBAWzH
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Move beyond live marking: discover structured, scalable feedback strategies to improve teaching, reduce workload, and aid student progress.
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For teachers who DID have a 2-week October half-term earlier this term, did it make a difference to: Your wellbeing? Student behaviour? Student outcomes? Parental engagement? The countdown to the end of term? https://t.co/EVVg7njfei
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Should schools extend October half-term? Explore teacher wellbeing, pupil outcomes, and school calendar reform with policy references.
🚀 NEW BLOG 🤔 Should all English schools extend the October half-term to two weeks? 🟢 https://t.co/VTqGnsxGWp 🗣️ exploring the impact of a two-week half-term on teacher wellbeing, recruitment and pupil outcomes. What might change if schools rebalanced the calendar?
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🚀 NEW RESOURCE 🤔 Is a classroom visualiser worth having? 🗣️ There are lots of visualisers available - which one are you lucky enough to use? 🔗 Download https://t.co/o8aD5bbegA 🏆 Sign up for a FREE trial; access this! https://t.co/bK2lolTnsX
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It's been a busy autumn term supporting teachers, schools and colleges. 18 locations 🇬🇧🚗 56 schools 🏫 ~2,500 teachers 👥 No job is too big or small. Get in touch for a pedagogical upgrade! https://t.co/uqYWqj9r1k Map: https://t.co/B1jOH4tZJe
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🚀 The 5-Minute Research-Informed Appraisal Plan
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📚✨ Looking to refresh your curriculum planning for the new year? Our Building an Interconnected Curriculum webinar is perfect for deep thinking during the December wind-down. 💡 Practical insights to connect curriculum, pedagogy & assessment Wrap up the term with
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NEW 💥 Teacher Workload is Improving! But, we are still haemorrhaging 40,000 teachers, every year. The 2025 report offers a glimmer of progress, not a turning point. ❌ If leaders want retention to improve, they must shift from workload management to workload removal.
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