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The school leadership bubble
Sep 24, 2018 |
Category: leadership
Some years ago the English faculty I led was subject to a week-long leadership review. Knowing that every member of the department was to be observed and that we would be expected to showcase loads of...
What if everything you knew about mindsets and resilience was wrong?
Sep 24, 2018 |
Category: Featured
Here are the slides I use for my talk at researchED Malmö:
What if everything you know about mindsets and resilience is wrong? from David Didau
The following is the English text of an article I wro...
Why do some children struggle with reading?
Sep 20, 2018 |
Category: literacy
[caption id="attachment_66637" align="alignleft" width="300"] Janet and bloody John![/caption]When I was about 7, my primary school teacher told my parents that I would probably never learn to read. A...
Born stupid
Sep 15, 2018 |
Category: Featured
If I've learned anything over the last year or so it's that intelligence - whatever we believe that to be[1] - is not innate. Whilst it seems hard to deny that some of our potential for becoming intel...
A manifesto for closing the advantage gap: my slides from researchED18
Sep 09, 2018 |
Category: Featured
The talk I gave a this year's researchED national conference was, I'm afraid to say, shameless promotion for my new book, Making Kids Cleverer. Each of the slides represents an incredibly brief potted...
What's your ambition for children?
Sep 07, 2018 |
Category: Featured
Today I listened to Paul Smith, CEO of Future Academies, talk about his ambition for the young people who attend the schools in his Trust. He said he wanted them to be able to go to a 'nice' restauran...
Do children need to love their teachers?
Jul 09, 2018 |
Category: Featured
Yesterday, I wrote a post explaining that important as the quality of teaching in a school is, there are other, more important things on which to concentrate. In response, Katharine Birbalsingh, head...
Teaching matters, but there are more important things to get right
Jul 08, 2018 |
Category: Featured
As John Tomsett says in his latest blog, "It is generally accepted that the quality of teaching is the most influential factor in determining the rate at which pupils make progress in their learning –...
The best books I've read so far this year...
Jun 12, 2018 |
Category: Featured
I normally round up my favourite reads at the end of the year but I've read so many really excellent books so far this year that I decided to put them out there now. Who knows? Maybe you'll consider p...
Why English is not a 'skills based' subject
Apr 27, 2018 |
Category: Featured
The idea that English is a skills based subject has become axiomatic. Most English teachers of my acquaintance accept it unquestioningly, as did I until a few years ago. How do we know English is skil...
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