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...

PsychBrief: That's not quite right... Stereotype threat

PsychBrief: That's not quite right... Stereotype threat: Don't you just love being wrong? Of course you don't, no one does. But there is a grim satisfaction in no longer believing something...