At a federation conference INSET day; hearing keynote from @trythisteaching.bsky.social via Zoom - wish you were here in person!
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How to use exam results to improve teaching and learning As heads of department get to work analysing the summer’s GCSE and A-level results, Mark Enser offers his advice for making the process productive, rather than tedious

'Exam analysis can provide powerful insights into what really matters: how we teach, what we teach and how we develop our teams': @ensermark.bsky.social offers top tips to make the process work for you

7 books to boost teacher CPD When done well, CPD is the engine of school transformation, write Sam Gibbs and Tracy Goodyear, who share recommended reading to help lead in this area

Reads for CPD leads, as recommended by myself and @missgoodyear.bsky.social and including @greeborunner.bsky.social @keziah70.bsky.social and other brilliant writers: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Adaptive teaching guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms One of the most pressing priorities in schools right now is ensuring every pupil can access the full ambition of the National Curriculum, no...

New Blog!

"Adaptive Teaching Guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms"

Practical, teacher-led tools to make inclusion part of everyday practice, not an afterthought.

Read the blog here: moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ne...

Feeling Our Way Through Professional Development “Professional development that neglects how teachers feel, risks becoming professional erosion.” Teaching is Emotional Work We often speak of teaching in terms of strategies, outcomes, and standard…

Feeling Our Way Through Professional Development

Some reflections on a paper on the role of emotions in PD.

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Developing Great Teaching INSET This Deliver It Yourself (DIY!) INSET session is based on the ‘Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review’ and the ‘Model for Great Teaching’.

Fully resourced INSET session based on the ‘Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review’ and ‘Model for Great Teaching’.

💻PowerPoint slides
🛣️Structured activities
🗒️Digital materials
👩💻Delivery notes

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What Happened to the Kamikaze Pilots Who Returned? Desperate times called for desperate measures for Japan at the end of 1944. The Americans were sweeping through the Pacific, winning battle after battle. They were destroying Japanese warships in the ...

One for anyone teaching the poem Tissue

www.historydefined.net/kamikaze-pil...

Lesson feedback: don’t send it, don’t give it – co-construct it. Otherwise, it won’t be worth it. A big part of my work is around supporting schools to develop effective professional development programmes. I encounter a wide range of approaches to this but schools are always on a journey, look…

Lesson feedback: don't send it, don't give it - co-construct it. Otherwise, it won't be worth it. teacherhead.com/2024/01/28/l...

Means of Participation: Low Effort – High Impact One of the biggest perks of being an instructional coach is getting to visit so many lessons. I get to work with so many amazing teachers, it’s a genuine pleasure to see so much great practice! Aft…

**NEW POST** Means of Participation: Low Effort, High Impact. References the great work of @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @priteshraichura.bsky.social and @douglemov.bsky.social selectiveblogging.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/m...

🏗️ SCAFFOLDING LEARNING! This NEW A3 poster unpacks the art of scaffolding—a precise, adaptive process that supports students ☝️upward, not lowering expectations👇downward. Inspired by the great work of @carlhendrick.substack.com & @innerdrive.bsky.social

Here are some revision lessons on language and literature I’ve made for the 2025 run up to exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! Help yourselves 👍🏻

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Being sofa bound with a cough this weekend can only mean good things for my resource bank! This and some AIC Act 2 quotation drills coming soon! #edusky #teamenglish #kinglear #eduwales #wjec #alevel #englishlit

English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith

Today: our first Shakespeare webinar. Join us online, free, to work through the entire canon of plays and poems over 41 sessions. See out the 47th presidency with us 👇 www.english.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...

🧵How do you motivate pupils to read outside of school? At Reach Academy Hanworth Park, we are committed to building a culture where reading regularly is the norm.

Short thread on how we do this #EduSky

Designing the perfect assessment system, part 3 There are no solutions, only trade-offs

Part 3 of our series on the perfect assessment system.

Featuring examples of the type of exam question I dislike the most: short written responses that are hard to mark reliably & don't inspire deeper thought.

Also featuring bonus analogies with VAR!

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...

Eye-witness accounts from the late C16th on life in London and the experience of visiting the theatre that guide students towards producing a piece of creative writing www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/a-visit... 🎭

The Long Game My new book The Long Game: Sustaining a Successful Career in Teaching is out at the end of December. It’s published by Routledge and it’s got a foreword by Peps Mccrea. I want…

*The Long Game*

I've written a book on making teaching sustainable

It's got:
- A new framing of problems and solutions
- Lots of interviews with teachers making teaching manageable
- Research on some of the best bets

Out 31st Dec

More info:

curriculumteamleader.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/t...

NEW RESOURCE - Session 2 of my ‘Essay Series’ resources now uploaded. This one focuses on constructing the first point of an essay out of a thesis statement. As always, use/chuck/change! More to come soon. @teamenglish1.bsky.social

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Thanks for this Stuart. Super useful! Looking forward to the rest of the series 📌

Here’s an after school revision session on thesis statements, the first in an ‘essay series’, designed to break down the components of a written response so students master each part. More to come soon. Thanks to @FaridaMili for her AIC thesis statement included!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...

This a such a fresh but totally common sense take on the way forward with leading T&L. The curriculum is the driver... always!

Hugely appreciated, thank you 👍

Would you mind sharing the process Donal? I am planning on doing just this in our department meeting in a couple of weeks and it would helpful to know how you approach it.

An insightful array of voices, setting out how and why an English degree can lead to a diverse range of roles. Well worth a share with students!

Case studies | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

Share these great case studies with your GCSE students, wondering about taking an English A Level, and your A Level students weighing up whether to do an English degree: englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/

And should any of you want the recipe, here it is! www.nigella.com/recipes/vega...

⏰New blog post: We need to talk about… the dos and don’ts of leading teaching and learning school-wide⏰

Leading teaching and learning at a senior level comes with unique challenges. How do you balance whole-school priorities with the individual needs of each subject?

Sentence-level instruction: Our viewpoint DOWNLOAD THIS ARTICLE “We are all of us, of school age and older, in the sentences game. Sentences are our writing commons, the shared ground where every writer walks. A poet works with them, but s…

Sentence-level instruction: Our viewpoint

writing4pleasure.com/2023/09/29/s...

Resources for Teachers | Writing resources for teachers | University of Exeter

Here's a link to Myhill et al's work & resources at Exeter University: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

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