Skip to: Articles Podcasts Blogs Articles Measuring what matters: Redefining data’s role in schools - Chartered College of Teaching In this article, Jen Curran and I explore common assessment practices in schools and what some of the pitfalls are with those, before suggesting alternative approaches for teachers and leaders. Rethinking curriculum development: The risks of driving standardisation at scale, and alternative approaches to building teacher professionalism - Charter

In a break from my normal teaching & learning content, I wanted to share some reflections more personal to me but that I still think are applicable to teachers and schools, particularly when working with young people or colleagues of colour or who don't have stereotypically Anglo-European names. A few years ago, I experienced a number of occasions of people misspelling my name. This was not new to me, unfortunately it has happened regularly throughout my life, but this time

A few months ago, I got the chance to catch up with Mary Myatt and talk all things assessment (well, as much as you can fit into about 45...

Earlier this month, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the 'Racial Equity Network Dinner 2025' in Birmingham. It was a great...

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...