A blog since 2011 — thinking out loud about professional learning, school improvement, and what AI means for classrooms.
I’m continuing my lessons from Neuroscience theme again in this post. In the fascinating article Humour, analogy, and metaphor, Randy Garner explains that scientific studies have consistently shown…
The UK’s Royal Society released a brilliant summary of the key lessons for educators from modern neuroscience called Brainwaves 2. This had some amazing findings, which I’ll return…
I just read a fascinating article that had been tweeted by @gcourous – “Finding fascinating goals”. This great article contains a little gem: “Habitual complainers usually have more…
We know that a great teacher can make a huge difference to a class, and the whole debate today focuses on the way to get more great teachers,…
A few weeks ago I blogged that government needs to engage with long-term outcomes in education, similar to the long-term survival statistics that we see in the health…
Have you ever wanted to know: Do my students do better in my subject than their others, or worse? What subjects are my students good at, and which…
What’s the first thing you would do if I gave everyone at your school a list of all classes and their value-added? I suspect that most of you,…
I had a fascinating conversation this evening with Professor Philip Woods, chair in educational policy, leadership and democracy at the University of Hertfordshire, and Charles Weston, Director of…
First of all, pop quiz. Which well-known educator has 7,212 Twitter followers and follows 5? Can you find a more extreme example? Education is a rather tribal affair.…
I’m going to risk being controversial but the avalanche of commentary in the last few days has really made me think. Since Michael Gove announced the new slimmed-down…