School improvement

Rooted in Reading: 10 things you need to know about the original green passport

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...

Learning and Trust – thoughts from research

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

1st National Baccalaureate workshop

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

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...

Co-constructing revision approaches with learners using SRSD

With this in mind I have decided on a slightly different approach to the revision sessions I will be running in Guernsey secondary...

Literacy, meaning making and social and cultural capital: six thoughts

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend a morning listening to David Didau talking about literacy. Like all good inset, this...

Professional Capital and TIFF – Thoughts on Chapter 5 Part 2 of Hargreaves and Fullan

Hargreaves and Fullan now move on to the final part of their professional capital equation, DC – decisional capital as in PC = F (HC, SC,...

Thoughts on chapter 5 of Hargreaves’ and Fullan’s Professional Capital

Teaching is complicated. Learners’ needs are multifarious and educational systems and qualifications frameworks are complex and...

Joe Wicks, Functional Fluency and teacher observation

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

The 15 Rooted in Reading Principles

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...

How we became a school that reads

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