CT is what I teach, coding is just the tool. When I teach I never jump into programming first.

Making quality purposeful resources show students you care and raises expectations. If your resources look rubbish how can you expect students to work to a higher standard? I spent an inordinate amount of time in my KS4 resources. What a difference they have made.

The solution is of you do not get a teaching role or role within a school with in 4 years then you have to pay it back.

Do you have links to the EEF research?

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Dear tech gurus. Please can we have an alternative to Facebook. I want to see what my friends are doing not pointless posts that I don’t want to see!

Just my thoughts but it is worth noting before anyone gives a speech - they will plan it, write it out and then speak it. Sometimes the written opportunities are not evidence but helping students process their thoughts before they speak them...

This is not good. Exclusions happen for a reason.

Difficult to explain-its set up as evidence based. Each part we QA is linked to evidence. The whole faculty is involved. The focus is on students learning rather than focus on the teacher. Then we write an action plan using coaching to further support the learning, it doubles as CPD as all involved

I have developed a method of using my faculty quality assessment to have elements of CPD for the teachers in the faculty.

The discourse over twitter & leaving vs staying is getting truly goofy in some directions.

Twitter is not a *place* ffs. Twitter without the people is nothing. We have 100% of the power over whether twitter has value or not.

When we leave, we're not ceding ground? We're taking the ground with us.

If you’re not familiar with the Research Schools network, the following accounts are well worth a follow.

Schools sharing evidence-informed practice through blogs, clips from the classroom, and more.

What is a lesson study…I would be interested to hear about it

Next old blog post. This one tries to unpick some of the problems with quality assurance in schools. It also kicks off a series where I explore some aspects of QA in more depth and make suggestions about how to do things better. #EduSky #UKEd #UKTeaching occamshairdryer.wordpress.com/2021/11/27/w...