📢 Announcing - Beyond the Numbers 2025! Exam board neutral CPD in partnership with @aqaeducation.bsky.social

🎙 Neil Sheldon, Anna Berry, Greg Thomas @gcarp567.bsky.social @mrmattock.bsky.social @naveenfrizvi.bsky.social @teachsolutions.bsky.social

🎟 Book now: completemaths.com/community/be...

The most boring (but important) reasons that centralised planning fails This post is about the common pitfalls in departments who use centralised planning. It discusses the issues and offers solutions.

The recent TIMSS report highlighted the issue of teacher workload

Centralised planning goes some way to addresses this, and benefits students as well

Departments don't always get it right though

Here are common reasons why, and what to do about it

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#EduSky

School Leaders: Cultivate, Don’t Innovate A post addressing the need for leaders to go out and visit other schools. To find best practice and bring it back to their setting instead of feeling the burden of finding new solutions to old prob…

School Leaders: Cultivate, Don't Innovate

A new blog on the time school leaders waste trying to find new solutions to old problems... and what they should do instead

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Finish Strong This blog gives advice for all the things teachers should and should not be doing in that run up to exam season

The Dos and Don'ts of Exam Prep

Advice to teachers covering common misconceptions and best practice around those final weeks you have with a class before their terminal exam

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Looking forward to what is always a great day

My #MathsConf37 workshops:

1 - David McEwan
2 - @joausten.bsky.social
3 - @mrmattock.bsky.social
4 - @teachsolutions.bsky.social
5 - @amercermaths.bsky.social

@lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf37

📢 Another brilliant #MathsConf37 workshop announcement!

🤔📚 WTF is a MTP? 🤯

This one will be led by @teachsolutions.bsky.social

👉 Find out more and grab your ticket here:
completemaths.com/community/ma...

#MathsConf37 - A Complete Mathematics Event Our 37th Mathematics Teaching Conference. Network and learn with hundreds of mathematics teachers and leaders from primary, secondary & FE.

Hello 👋 What better way to join the maths education community here than with some exciting news?

#MathsConf37 is just 5 weeks away! Book all three upcoming MathsConfs in one go – and enjoy a huge £25 discount when booking as a bundle!

👉 Get your tickets now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mathsconf3...

Teaching Mixed Attainment Maths at KS3 Advice on how mixed attainment maths at KS3 can work

I'm surprised how strong the backlash is to this. It's a huge "yes, but..." from me

Here's how I got it working well in Y7-9 as HoD (we got P8 scores >1.5, so it's tried and tested)

Proceed with caution though

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Documents Big and little but all important. A collection of documents I’ve made that I regularly refer to or guide my thinking. If there’s anything I’ve referenced in blogs which isn’…

Q: How do you improve T&L at scale?

That is what I'm going to be answering at @researchedmk.bsky.social this Sat

It's going to be relevant to anyone working on this problem at a MAT or whole-school level

Spoiler: the T&L Framework found here will be referenced shorturl.at/U5TJU

See you there!!

My #MathsConf36 choices:

1- Gill Shearsby Fox and Charlie Harber
2- Ian Davies
3- @mathsjem.bsky.social
4- Guy Carpenter
5- @teachsolutions.bsky.social

Join me at #MathsConf36, tickets here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf36

(Apologies if folks are on Bluesky and I haven't found you)

Rethinking Results Day: A Guide for School Improvement We're used to thinking about winners are losers, and this summer of sport has been no different. But how can this lens be a used productively when thinking about results day?

🚨NEW BLOG🚨

With the summer of sport coming to an end and results
days around the corner, what place does "winning" have in a school setting?

Rethinking Results Day: A Guide for School Improvement

My first NEW BLOG on this platform - let me know what you think

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Yes please 🙋‍♂️

Starting Strong Some tips on how to plan and deliver that first lesson. Most likely appropriate for settings where great behaviour and compliance is not a guarantee.

This place is amazing. Sometimes the grass IS greener!

Its been like moving from a bad cover lesson to a disruption-free classroom. I've read so much great stuff already!

As the start of term approaches, here are tips on nailing that first lesson with a new class

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Haha, yeah

I've tried to push it a few times to see if more people bite, but alas

Maybe I need to call it "top 5 things to make you the perfect teacher" and just trick people into reading it

Yeah, it's the catchy titles and tips/resources that can be used tomorrow that always seem to do well

Nice to write something a little less tangible every now and then though

Thanks for getting this thread started, some absolute gems!!

Hollywood has an Education Problem I know what great teaching looks like, so how come movies can still make me feel so guilty?

One of mine is weirdly one my least read/liked blogs ever

Can't put my finger on why I liked writing it so much or why nobody else wanted to read it

teachsolutions.uk/2023/06/04/d...

Behavioural Economics – An Untapped Goldmine for Education? An exploration of what behavioural economics may be able to offer education; not in contrast to cognitive science, but complimentary to it.

Let's get this Bluesky thing going then

CogSci has codified aspects of education in the past few years and has undoubtedly been useful

However, it can never be all-encompassing due to its focus on the individual instead of the group

Enter: Behavioural Economics

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