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The problem with grades: Are they worth keeping?

Nov 15, 2020 | Category: myths

Grades are so much a part of the educational landscape that it's hard to imagine what schools would be like without them. In the debate over whether or not we should retain exams this year, no one is...

#grades #10 Things Schools Get Wrong #David Botts #Jared Cooney Horvath

Making analogies in English

Nov 14, 2020 | Category: English

… languages recognized, not as the means of contemporary communication but as investments in thought and records of perceptions and analogical understandings; literatures recognized as the contemplati...

#Making Meaning in English

Accountability

Nov 07, 2020 | Category: leadership

The following is a summary of Chapter 4 of my new book, Intelligent Accountability. What stops us from taking the risk and trusting teachers is, in part, the very real fear that some will cut corner...

#intelligent accountability #Lerner & Tetlock

Trust

Nov 03, 2020 | Category: leadership

The following is taken from chapter 3 of my new book, Intelligent Accountability. Confucius believed that three things were needed for a ruler to govern: weapons, food and trust. If a ruler is unabl...

#intelligent accountability #Onora O'Neill

The surplus model of school improvement

Nov 02, 2020 | Category: leadership

In chapter 2 of Intelligent Accountability I suggest that schools can operate either a surplus or deficit model of school improvement. Schools often seem to be run on a deficit model whereby any defic...

#surplus model #intelligent accountability

Why we need to embrace ignorance and learn to love uncertainty

Nov 01, 2020 | Category: leadership

The opening chapter of my book Intelligent Accountability is an attempt to clear the way of objections and obstacles in order to create the conditions for teachers to thrive. As such, I argue that sch...

#intelligent accountability

Curriculum related expectations: using the curriculum as a progression model

Oct 27, 2020 | Category: assessment

One of the barriers to using the curriculum as a progression model is that there is too little understanding of what this might mean. It sounds great but a bit mysterious. I've spoken to a number of p...

#age related expectations #curriculum as a progression model

Intelligent Accountability: An overview

Oct 24, 2020 | Category: leadership

My new book, Intelligent Accountability: Creating the conditions for teachers to thrive is out now.The argument I make is that while accountability is wholly necessary for teachers to thrive it is too...

#Intelligen Accountability

How to read creatively: noticing in English

Oct 03, 2020 | Category: English

#English #Literature #Reading #Michael Oakeshott #Andrew Bennett #Nicholas Royce #Ralph Waldo Emerson

Are knowledge organisers flawed?

Sep 20, 2020 | Category: psychology

Like many others, I got quite excited about the idea of organising the knowledge students needed to learn on a single page when I first encountered it on Joe Krby's blog. As Joe said, a knowledge orga...

#memory #schema #knowledge organisers #Oliver Caviglioli