Just 3 more sleeps!

I am excited to learn from my fellow educators including Nate Joseph, and literacy giants such as Daniel Willingham and Carl Hendrick, at this weekend’s researchED Canada conference!

Interested in learning about the #ScienceOfWriting ? Join me Saturday afternoon to…

Well #thicktrunktuesday was a lot more wholesome than I had feared.

I personally like dabbling in the dark arts of behaviorism, but it’s simply not true that Zig was a behaviorist. This is well known by anyone who has read the surrounding literature… he believed that children construct their own inferences when presented with examples. Nat'l Institute DI

Listened to Tom Bennett OBE ‘s podcast hosted by Brendan Lee today & one thing that struck me - strong practice can look different in different contexts, but poor practice tends to look the same - with the same results.

learnwithlee.net/kft-tombennett/

Alfie Kohn That is a spectacular distortion. To be an effective DI teacher takes incredible skill.

I think that Dylan Wiliam never spoke a truer word for Welsh schools. We still can make #CfW much better. We were promised it was organic and evolving. Now with the new government in place is the time for making the argument. Collectively and personally. Courage! Speak!

I have decided that I am prepared to be the next leader of Scotland, should the clan chiefs agree.

AUSTRALIA- NEW DATES ADDED. Delighted I'll be training face-to-face this May!
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Please listen to this excellent speech from Lucy Crehan - so much of this resonates with my experience of working on Opening Minds for the RSA in the early noughties. Lucy makes a compelling argument for ways in which the curriculum for wales can move forward 👏👏👏

'This is not about isolated facts. In fact I'm arguing for the opposite. Isolated facts are what you end up with if you don't deliberately plan a curriculum around progression and knowledge.'👏 So much brilliance in this talk from Lucy. A must-watch ⬇️

Indeed.

It is one of the reasons why neurodiverse kids do so well at Michaela.

The clarity, order, structure and rules benefit them greatly.

Traditional teaching and discipline level out the playing field for these kids.

Ppl who argue against this are ideologues.

Delighted to be giving a series of three connected lectures at The University of Notre dame Australia. It's sure to prove uncontroversial!

Get tickets using the link below.

8 May Fremantle
The Dark Ages: historical and current myths in school behaviour.

14 May Sydney
The…

BREAKING: Using mathematics helps people improve mathematics skills.

Delighted to be giving a series of three connected lectures at The University of Notre dame Australia. It's sure to prove uncontroversial!

Get tickets using the link below.

8 May Fremantle
The Dark Ages: historical and current myths in school behaviour.

14 May Sydney
The…

Lucky, lucky Australians!

'If only every person in Scotland could be afforded the opportunity of being first minister for just one day,' Humza Yousaf says, in a bold bid to write the jokes for us.

Enormously frustrating listening to curriculum discussions on Start The Week on Radio 4 about Physics. The complaint is that GCSE physics is the same as when the people discussing the issue studied the subject — but that is *exactly what you’d expect*.

Fancy powering up your questioning? Well Bruce Robertson is speaking at researchED Aberdeen on exactly that topic, so your luck is in! #rEDAberdeen

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