Evidence Based Educational Leadership: New - Why do certain practices reach the classroom...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: New - Why do certain practices reach the classroom...: If you are interested in how educational research and ideas reach the classroom, then this post is for you.  Based on Jack Schneider's...

TDRE Boss Blog: How Do You Pick An Exam Spec?

TDRE Boss Blog: How Do You Pick An Exam Spec?: "I just want a change so I am moving from Edexcel to AQA." "WJEC is just easier. I'm changing to that." &qu...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Why the delusional voodoo of grading lesson observ...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Why the delusional voodoo of grading lesson observ...: Despite the impassioned words of headteachers, such as Tom Sherrington and John Tomset t on the reliability and validity of graded l...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Why ‘no’ is a swearword in teaching and Twitter te...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Why ‘no’ is a swearword in teaching and Twitter te...: On Twitter there has been a furore over two opposing ideas in teaching. There has, to be honest, been a lot of disagreements. Like the t...

School Data Updates: A Brief History of the Primary Future: Part 1

School Data Updates: A Brief History of the Primary Future: Part 1: The pace of change over the past 2 years has been extraordinary, bewildering and probably unprecedented. Reforms to assessment and accounta...

TDRE Boss Blog: #Nurture1516 - A Professional 6 & 6

TDRE Boss Blog: #Nurture1516 - A Professional 6 & 6: My personal life has been dominated by the arrival of my first child, Tommy. He arrived in October, but we had spent from mid-January kn...

TDRE Boss Blog: My Top 5 Posts of 2015

TDRE Boss Blog: My Top 5 Posts of 2015: 2015 was a full year of professional blogging for me. Some posts seem to get quite wide readership and were shared by some of the '...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Evidence-informed practice : Some common misconcep...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Evidence-informed practice : Some common misconcep...: In my recent blog post for BERA  I identified three of the most common misconceptions about evidence-based/informed practice.  In this pos...

Evidence Based EFL: 2015 roundup

Evidence Based EFL: 2015 roundup: So 2015 comes to an end. And what a busy year it's been!  Last year the blog hit 100,000 views and recently it passed 200,000 which w...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Vocabulary: The Knowledge Awakens

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Vocabulary: The Knowledge Awakens: My family and I talk and talk. There are very few times in the day when we don’t talk. The conversation ranges from probing questions abou...