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What I learned in my visit to King Solomon Academy Part 2 - The Lemov lecture

Sep 12, 2014 | Category: Featured

When I reported my observations about King Solomon Academy, a number of commentators pointed out the similarities to some of the Charter Schools in the US. Any similarity is the Charter model, particu...

#Teach First #Doug Lemov #KIPP #Policy Exchange #King Solomon Academy #Zenaida Tan

A reblog: Teachers: show your working

Aug 02, 2014 | Category: literacy

I know it's pretty cheap to reblog a post which sings your praises (and to be fair, I don't do it much) but this evaluation of a session on The Secret of Literacy I gave at Teach First's Impact Confer...

#Teach First #Maslow

The times they are a changin': how can we improve the PGCE?

Oct 27, 2013 | Category: Featured

Back in the dim and distant mists of time when I embarked on my Post-graduate Certificate in Education, there was no other way to train as a teacher. Much of my training was interesting and I largely...

#Teach First #Joe Kirby #Doug Lemov #PCK #PGCE #School Direct

Building evidence into education

Mar 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_3070" align="alignleft" width="300"] Does he look happy?[/caption]Today I got to rub shoulders with the great and the good at Bethnal Green Academy (second most improved school...

#Ben Goldacre #Teach First #evidence based education #randomised trials

Why do so many teachers leave teaching?

Feb 27, 2013 | Category: Featured

Apparently 50% of teachers leave the profession within their first 5 years.I've heard this statistic bandied about for quite a while, and while you can argue the exact figure back and forth a bit (s...

#Michael Gove #NQT #Teach First