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Leading Literacy… And Purposeful Professional Development

Closing the Reading Gap, Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized, Writing Gap / / 5 minutes of reading

This short blog series is targeted at literacy leaders – either Literacy Coordinators, Reading Leads, or Curriculum Deputies – with a key role in leading literacy to ensure that pupils access the curriculum and succeed in meeting the academic demands of school.  Picture the scene: it is the first school day of the new year […]

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Thinking Hard…and Why We Avoid It

The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized / / 9 minutes of reading

In his excellent 2013 paper, called ‘Improving Education: A Triumph of Hope Over Experience’, Professor Rob Coe defines the secret of learning: “Learning happens when people have to think hard.” With refreshing honesty, Professor Coe goes on to describe his wise aphorism as “over-simplistic, vague and not original”. Now, despite this self-critical statement being  partially true,

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