Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The school research champion: Are we asking them t...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The school research champion: Are we asking them t...: Are we asking the school research leads/champions to do mission impossible?   Over the last two years I have had the privilege of meeting c...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Time to take off the cotton wool gloves on special...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Time to take off the cotton wool gloves on special...: I am very public and honest about being a father to a child with a disability. As a teacher, it provides with an interesting perspective o...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The school research lead and coaching - Is there a...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The school research lead and coaching - Is there a...: Recently on #SLTChat there was an extended exchange of tweets on what does effective coaching look like.    However, just as any neophyte e...

TDRE Boss Blog: Jesus Was An Only Son

TDRE Boss Blog: Jesus Was An Only Son: "One of the first things that is shocking when you have a kid is that suddenly there is this thing inside you... that says there i...

Phonics and Books: Phonics teaching- argument? What argument?

Phonics and Books: Phonics teaching- argument? What argument?: I'm always slightly baffled by the incredibly ferocity of the arguments over synthetic phonics teaching.  There is no real argument; syn...

TDRE Boss Blog: GCSE RS: Extended Writings Questions

TDRE Boss Blog: GCSE RS: Extended Writings Questions: "We are all teachers of literacy" (Every English teacher / literacy coordinator, ever!) Many RE teachers have been panick...

TDRE Boss Blog: Portsmouth 2017 with Jonathan Doyle

TDRE Boss Blog: Portsmouth 2017 with Jonathan Doyle: Jonathan and me via  Jonathan's Twitter I was fortunate to be invited to Portsmouth Diocese during a week of talks by Jonathan Doyl...