I’ve come across various feedback policies during my time as a teacher and teacher educator. I’ve noticed there were a variety of...

The original title of this blog was going to be "why are students so bad at learning?" But I felt this was unfair - students are no...

One of the strategies I explore in my book is interleaving. In part 1 we set the scene for how my thinking around interleaving has...

One of the strategies I explore in my book is interleaving. I first came across interleaving through the Master's programme from Ambition...

As a trainee I spent hours observing teachers and getting ideas from colleagues/lecturers/twitter about how to make lessons “fun” and so...

A recent twitter exchange around poor uses of evidence got me thinking about when "evidence" can actually do more harm than good. As can...

How do we apply the lessons from the cycle of planned failure to specific teaching strategies, so that we can work to improve outcomes...

Why can solutions often fail to solve the problems we're attempting to address, why do they end up causing new problems that we hadn't...

As part of my induction in my new role at Ambition Institute, we looked at this paper from Cambridge Assessment. One phrase that stood...

I wrote the below blog for Greenshaw Research School just after the return to school date was announced, thinking ahead to what we as...

"Evidence is important, of course, but what is more important is that we need to build teacher expertise and professionalism so that...

After umming and ahhing for many many months, I've finally taken the plunge and started this blog. I was recently fortunate enough to...