This post is based on my part of a conference talk with Marcello Giovanelli at ResearchEd Warrington in April 2022 based on the work we have been doing for our…
I think we’ve lost the way with dual coding. Something isn’t working. Lethal mutations have taken hold of our practice in many places and I think that we’ve lost sight…
This probably won’t be interesting to most people, but on the off-chance that you are feeling like this, I hope this blog makes you realise that you aren’t the only…
I haven’t written a new original blog of my own in a while, and have been promising to write something on literacy for months. My role of late has become…
This is an extract from The Metacognition Handbook which was published by John Catt Edu in June 2021. Very often, we show students how to create a successful piece of work, but…
This is an extract from The Metacognition Handbook, which is available on Amazon here. I have found that one of the greatest challenges in leading teaching and learning is the…
Alison Lister Ali Lister is an Associate Assistant Principal at an inner city Leeds secondary academy serving an area of high deprivation. She leads English as well as Literacy Across…
Leila PlantLeila is the head of a high performing English department at an urban school in Manchester. By valuing what is truly important in the English classroom: enquiry, culture, creativity, reading,…
