Webinar: From Performance Management to Professional Growth

Join @profcoe.bsky.social to explore how school leaders can use the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review (2020) to drive genuine professional growth.

This session will run twice on the day to suit different time zones (link in comments

Such a relief!

We have a new team member

Dr Rachel Conlon has joined us as our new Research Statistician & Data Analyst and will be working with Professor @profcoe.bsky.social and the team behind the Great Teaching Toolkit, helping us carry out research into teachers' professional development and learning.

@profcoe.bsky.social and Raj Chande at #REd25 There are a *small* number of teachers who we can currently say are statistically (with 95% confidence) better or worse than average for student results… but even the ‘best’ teachers have individual classes who have negative progress, and vice versa!

ProfCoe Assessment Evaluation Evidence

Slides from my #rED25 talk are available at profcoe.net/talks

I really enjoyed presenting at the Nurturing Great Teaching Conference with @evidencebased.education in Yorkshire. Terrific keynotes from @profcoe.bsky.social & @profkime.bsky.social. I’m really pleased delegates found the ‘What can senior leaders do to support middle leaders?’ sessions so useful 😊

I think this is the clearest and most authoritative explanation of attention and working memory I have seen. I'm not usually a fan of these diagrams, but the depth of explanation here is very rich.
Is the choice of red/green (which many people can't discriminate) a deliberate metaphor?

After good conversations with @eleanorrrlouise.bsky.social and @rlrossi64.bsky.social I now think the root EHCP problem is:

There are too many and lots shouldn't need them.

Some do need them and will drown if they are taken away.

We can't tell the difference between the two groups.

Decoupling lower & upper secondary curricula This is because a principal end-goal of KS4 is a grade. But in KS3, the principal goal should be an invitation into the reality constructed by a subject's members.

New blog post ↴

▸Decoupling lower & upper secondary curricula

#UKEd #EduSky #EduBlogUK #SciTeachUK

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Work with EBE: Research Statistician and Data Analyst EBE is looking for a Teaching and Learning Advisor to come and join the team behind our exciting Great Teaching Toolkit project.

Join our team

We're looking for a Research Statistician/Data Analyst to join our Research, Development and Education Team

✔️ Working (or worked) in education?
✔️ Keen to collaborate with a great team?
✔️ Want to support thousands of teachers to develop practice?

More info here

This doc reviews the main ones: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5afee5...

Work with EBE: Research Statistician and Data Analyst EBE is looking for a Teaching and Learning Advisor to come and join the team behind our exciting Great Teaching Toolkit project.

We are looking for a Research Statistician and Data Analyst, working with me and the @evidencebased.education team.
evidencebased.education/work-with-eb...

... building trust with parents. Responsibility for that falls on all members of the school community, but especially school leaders - one of the reasons this is such a tough job.

Thanks for the question, Naz. I agree this is a problem and you won't be surprised to hear there is no simple solution! But we see behaviour as highly dependent on establishing a culture in the school (as set out in our 'Behaviour and Culture Programme - part of the GTT), which includes ... (cont.)

Should management mandate precise teaching activities? Probably not. Often, people seem to discuss schools as centres for optimising students' learning and teachers' teaching. However, I want to share a distinction I perceive: schools aren't optimisation centres but de...

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Why primary CPD needs primary expertise – avoiding “Secondary Lite” Primary and avoiding “Secondary Lite” CPD. I led a session last week where the schools in attendance were focusing on primary pedagogy and the need for specific approaches across the developmental …

My latest blog around why primary CPD needs experienced primary voices.
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Huge thanks to our panellists @pepediiasio.bsky.social @profcoe.bsky.social @mp4stratford.bsky.social @munirawilson.bsky.social @jonnyuttley.bsky.social, our chair @natalieperera.bsky.social and to @ascl-uk.bsky.social
for partnering with us for this crucial discussion.

@profcoe.bsky.social says he likes the explicit mention of inclusion, focus on PD and requirement to share best practice in the proposed system.

BUT is concerned about the validity of judgements.

The consequences are disproportionate to the amount of control schools have in influencing judgements.

Thanks to our panel with @edupolicyinst.bsky.social at #LDConf for a lively discussion examining Ofsted’s plans for report cards. @pepediiasio.bsky.social, @mp4stratford.bsky.social, @munirawilson.bsky.social, @jonnyuttley.bsky.social, @natalieperera.bsky.social, and @profcoe.bsky.social.

Bruce combines a deep understanding of the underlying research evidence, a close familiarity with everyday classroom practice, and the ability to distil what is actionable into concise, clear language. This combination is, to use his own words, genuinely powerful.”
- @profcoe.bsky.social

🎉DISCO North: Newcastle Upon Tyne, 21st March🧑‍💻
Our panel will be joined by @profcoe.bsky.social presenting 'How good are the Commercial Assessments used by Primary Schools?'

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'We' here is Mike Adkins & Natallia Yakavets @uniofnottingham.bsky.social + @philippacordingley.bsky.social & Bart Crisp at CUREE! Thanks also to Georgina Hudson. Huge thanks to Dale Hill & team at WELL & to the schools & leaders who contributed.

@profcoe.bsky.social @jonathansharples.bsky.social

Teacher Magazine just posted this article, 'The power of 'pruning' – how one school is doing less to achieve more'. It's a great example of #ThePruningPrinciple at work. https://buff.ly/4jEnmIy

The Great Teaching Toolkit: Are you ready for it? Is your school ready for the Great Teaching Toolkit? Find out how this unique CPD offering can support your school's development.

The Great Teaching Toolkit: Are you ready for it?

Although the GTT is available to all, not every school is ready for it – and that’s ok. But how do you know if your school’s culture, philosophy, and priorities make the Toolkit a good fit for you now?

Find out here 👇

Generative AI and the Future of Artisan Teaching I delivered this talk at researchED London in early September 2024. After recording the session, I used ChatGPT to transform my ramblings into a written post, which still required significant editi…

This is an interesting take on ot all

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What the Research Actually Says with Rob Coe, Mind the Gap, Ep.71 (S4,E8) YouTube video by Mind the Gap with Jon & Emma

I just watched the @teacherhead.bsky.social and @emmaturner75.bsky.social Mind the Gap episode 71 with @profcoe.bsky.social. It's a really interesting discussion and a highlight from 2024 youtu.be/8C2Gsl2vwtg?... #EduSky #Evidenceinpractice #Podcast

OpenSAFELY in a nutshell YouTube video by Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

If you've been wondering where I went: my team in Oxford (60 of us!) build beautiful tools for NHS data. We help researchers work on the whole nation's GP records while protecting - provably - everyone's privacy. It's big potatoes!

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@andrewwatsonttb.bsky.social writes about important stuff in a clear, accessible and entertaining way. Here he is on why students don't like thinking hard, and what we might do about it:

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#edusky #CogSciSci