TDRE Boss Blog: Teachers Love Learning Too

TDRE Boss Blog: Teachers Love Learning Too: Should it come as a surprise that teachers love to learn?  “Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, b...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Purple Praise: a spoon full of sugar helps the mar...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Purple Praise: a spoon full of sugar helps the mar...: A couple of months ago a new student in a year called me over to his desk. I had recently marked a piece of work. He said, ‘Where’s the ...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Is it time to call time on Hattie and the signific...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Is it time to call time on Hattie and the signific...: If you are an evidence-based practitioner, school-research lead or headteacher and interested in being able to interpret effect sizes, then...

School Data Updates: The 5 Golden Rules of tracking

School Data Updates: The 5 Golden Rules of tracking: As increasing numbers of schools question the effectiveness of their incumbent systems and begin to look at alternatives that may better mee...

TDRE Boss Blog: "The Best That You Can Do" - Y11's Golden Mean

TDRE Boss Blog: "The Best That You Can Do" - Y11's Golden Mean: Jim Bianco  is a US-based  singer-songwriter who is sadly  little known in the UK;  I'm a big fan. I had a YouTube playlist on as I...

The Baron: Banning tag and rugby tackling is stopping boys be...

The Baron: Banning tag and rugby tackling is stopping boys be...: A recent diktat issued by an over-cautious primary head  prohibiting the playing of ‘tag’ at break time  came hot on the heels of an open l...

TDRE Boss Blog: A Great Week - Thank You!

TDRE Boss Blog: A Great Week - Thank You!: The last week has been surreal. Great, humbling, but odd. It began on Tuesday with the arrival of the proof of my textbook. This ...

TDRE Boss Blog: #TMLondon - The Aftermath

TDRE Boss Blog: #TMLondon - The Aftermath: It is a great privilege for me to be involved in #TMLondon. For the second time, I have been working behind the scenes organising sponso...

TDRE Boss Blog: Y11 Survival: Me or Them?

TDRE Boss Blog: Y11 Survival: Me or Them?: Surviving the last few weeks as a Head of Year 11 is tougher than I thought. I'm in my second year as a HoY taking the cohort up f...

TDRE Boss Blog: Mr Tony Ward RIP

TDRE Boss Blog: Mr Tony Ward RIP: On Tuesday 22nd March, I was contacted by various former colleagues asking for prayers for Tony Ward, Head of Geography at my former sc...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Fads, faddism and the evidence-based practitioner

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Fads, faddism and the evidence-based practitioner: If you are an evidence-based practitioner, school research lead or headteacher and interested in evidence-based educational change, then thi...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Educational Excellence Everywhere and a curriculum...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Educational Excellence Everywhere and a curriculum...: If you are a school-research lead, evidence-based teacher or head-teacher interested in the implications of the recent White Paper for creat...

ManYana Ltd: Thinking about: - Posters

ManYana Ltd: Thinking about: - Posters: Thinking about: When you set an activity, or tell a story, or show a video to help a child learn one of the inevitable consequences is ...

The Baron: We must halt the relentless march of the Thought P...

The Baron: We must halt the relentless march of the Thought P...: I was recently interviewed for a  Channel 4  documentary on the gradual erosion of freedom of speech in modern Britain – to be aired this s...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: My thoughts on everything

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: My thoughts on everything: On the 31st of July 2012, I published my first ever blog and close to four years later I am still finding things to write about. In total I ...