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OAT English curriculum project

Feb 26, 2023 | Category: English

Since January 2020 I've been working for Omiston Academies Trust as their Senior Lead for English. Over that time I and the amazing team of lead practitioners I lead have created what we think is a fa...

#English #curriculum

Where we're getting curriculum wrong Part 2: Powerful knowledge

Dec 12, 2019 | Category: curriculum

In part 1 of this blog series I discussed the importance of cultural capital, where we might be getting it wrong, what it consists of, and how to resolve the problem of 'dead white men'. Where we're...

#curriculum #Michael Young #powerful knowledge

A broad and balanced approach to English teaching and the curriculum

Jun 29, 2018 | Category: English

Having launched a stream of invective against the use of 'balance' as a weasel word in my last post, I want to offer a more nuanced take on what I think balance ought to mean.I see the purpose of a cu...

#curriculum #instruction #powerful knowledge #Richard Clark

Should we learn to love our shackles?

Sep 12, 2015 | Category: leadership

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." Albert Camus There's already been some pretty scathing reactions to the master plan to introduce a common curriculum and assessment system into U...

#Dylan Wiliam #assessment #curriculum #Dame Sally Coates

One step beyond - assessing what we value

Apr 05, 2014 | Category: assessment

Hey you, don't teach that. Teach this! Do we always teach what we value? it seems to me that when push comes to shove, we end up teaching what is assessed. The urgency of accountability results, inexo...

#Alex Quigley #Belmont Community School #curriculum #Daisy Chistodoulou #Phil Bagstock