In the recent Teacher Wellbeing Survey conducted by the NASUWT, 86% of teachers surveyed said that their job had had a negative impact...

Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...

This blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...

Back in November 2010 I was invited to go down to London to lead a research seminar at the DfE on the reading for pleasure promotion...

The following piece by Ben Wilkinson and Sonja Bredgaard was published on The Guardian's teacher blog back in 2012. Interest in reading...

The second passport we produced, the blue one, was conceived as a more primary-orientated version of the original green passport. The...

1. The green passport was the first one in the series. Indeed, when I wrote it I thought it would be the only one but then when my...

It occurred to me recently that, although Rooted in Reading has now been around for over a decade, there are still many teachers out...

Listening recently to Andy Hargreaves talking about professional capital on YouTube , I was struck by his definition of the third element...

I am updating this blog, which dates from July 2018, in January 2022. The issues it highlights have been considerably exacerbated by...

Education is an exchange, but not a monetary one in most circumstances. Instead of exchanging money, a symbolic representation of labour...

The Rooted in Reading Award passport was originally designed to be reading’s equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The tasks are...

A couple of years ago I wrote my first blog with this title, which, if you are interested, you can read here. My thesis in that post was...

Below is a series of quotations from key documents about the importance of reading for pleasure. My comments in italics suggest ways in...

Yesterday, Rob Shadbolt, Head of Wood Green School, Witney, Oxfordshire, hosted the first ever National Baccalaureate workshop....

Last month I spoke about medium term planning at the Priory Ruskin Academy Super Teachmeet (see poster here) so I thought I might...

Source: Personal Best and the 5 key features of Growth Mindset: making it real

Photo credit – Suffolk Maths http://www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/1growthmindset.htm You will have seen many diagrams by now explaining...

So, after not posting anything for several months, I now plan to start on a series of posts outlining the setting-up, training stages and...

On Thursday 16 July we will be holding a launch party and press event for Personal Best at LA Mare de Carteret High School, Guernsey at 9...