Very proud wife, mother and dedicated history teacher. AHT for T&L, CPD fanatic, AQA moderator/adviser for the NEA. ECT/School direct mentor. Loving learning!!
Kilsby, England
Joined June 2013
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Empowering learners: Using VESPA to frame student autonomy towards teaching and learning : My College @CharteredColl @PrincethorpeCol
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... excellent overview, accessible and useful, thank you @Tom_Needham_
An a summary here:
itsalearningcurve.education/…
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🗣️ ORACY! This edition, I break down oracy: what it actually is, why it matters, and exactly how to build purposeful talk into your classroom. Plus, it includes a FREE planning tool.
newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
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It's about Direct Instruction not direct instruction? as in...
itsalearningcurve.education/…
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NEW POST: The Untold Story of Bloom's Taxonomy and the Pyramid That Never Was.
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🤖 Made with AI
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Exploring confusion around modelling: "I do, we do, you do" vs "Guided and Independent Practice" teacherhead.com/2025/11/21/e… via @teacherhead
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LOVE the annotated forgetting curve diagram from @Doug_Lemov!
teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
... and wondering if it would be a fun resources if you're teaching them how learning happens...
itsalearningcurve.education/…
They work out how to make it 'even better'?
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NEW: Powerful habit changes for more inclusive teaching. teacherhead.com/2026/09/24/p… via @teacherhead
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Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/1D7…
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What a BRILLIANT book to complete the In Action series! Thanks @Tom_Needham for bringing DI to us with clarity, insight,+practical ideas to use tomorrow!
Sincerely hope every school's (C)PD library has this EXCELLENT set - thanks @teacherhead!
Summary:
itsalearningcurve.education/…
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💡 NEW POST💡
‘Trapped teens: The bedroom generation’
“Schools can do a lot, but they cannot compensate for society.”
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When is struggle too much?
We’ve become far too fond of telling students that struggle is good for them. Well, Sisyphus struggled for eternity and never got anywhere.
Difficulty is only desirable when it makes future success more likely. So how do we know when productive struggle becomes pointless failure?
Strap in to find out:
daviddidau.substack.com/p/wh…
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What students can do in a lesson isn’t the same as what they’ve learned.
Learning is what survives forgetting and changes how we see the world. If we want evidence of learning, we need to look elsewhere and later.
daviddidau.substack.com/p/el…
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💪 This week’s DistillED unpacks how to start the new school year strong and why the routines you establish in the opening weeks can pay off all year. Includes a FREE one-pager pack with six practical guides to help you put it into practice.
newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
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Great article from @dylanwiliam about:
"Better evidence leads to better decisions, and better decisions lead to better learning."
...by hearing from every student.
arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au…
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Everyone must be thinking to be learning - but what are they thinking *with*? teacherhead.com/2025/10/29/e… via @teacherhead
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Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction remain one of the most reliable, evidence-informed frameworks for improving classroom practice, because they align so closely with how learning happens. In this edition of DistillED, I bring the full series together into one clear, practical guide.
newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
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Agreed principles; common routines: These are the ladders to better teaching. teacherhead.com/2026/06/20/a… via @teacherhead
