Writing
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Everything published since 2018, by strand, series and year.
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Promoted for the Wrong Thing
Somebody is a very good teacher, so we make them a leader. Then we assess them on their subject data and never check the thing we…
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The Leadership Nobody Looks At
Twenty or thirty people are leading something in your school today. Subject leaders, the office, site managers, the SENCo. Inspection judges the head and the senior…
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Education: Extinct. The Overhead Projector
Hot dust and warm plastic. Acetate pens that squeaked. A bulb that always went mid-lesson and a spare that was never where it should be. The…
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Education: Extinct. The Literacy Hour
Fifteen minutes whole class. Fifteen at sentence level. Twenty in groups. Ten for the plenary. If those numbers mean something to you, you were trained on…
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Education: Extinct. Learning Styles
I’ve stood in a school hall with fifty colleagues, fingers pressed to my collarbone, switching my brain on. Nobody laughed. Day three of Education: Extinct is…
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Education: Extinct. The Computer Trolley
All this week I’m digging up the bits of school that have quietly gone extinct in a single working lifetime. Today I’m going back to being…