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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

    We are ‘Doing Curriculum’ – so what are we stopping?

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  • Uncategorized / February 22, 2020

    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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  • Uncategorized / May 4, 2019

    On the RISE

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  • Uncategorized / January 20, 2019

    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Resources / October 20, 2018

    Vocabulary Clinic

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / October 20, 2018

    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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Flipping Fronted Adverbials

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley18/01/20212 Comments

Do you know your fronted adverbials from your prepositional phrases? As another week of home schooling commences, many parents, and teachers, are faced with tricky questions about grammar. It inspires feisty debate …

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Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy

In Closing the Reading Gap, Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley16/01/20215 Comments

When I started teaching nearly two decades ago, I was a teacher of reading, writing, vocabulary, academic talk, and more. The problem was that I could do reading and writing, but I …

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A Munificent Assemblage of Verbiage (Or ‘Working Words into Writing’)

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley05/12/20201 Comment

What connections can you make between these words? Are there any patterns of meaning or word families you notice? Could you even detect the author who penned these words? These disembodied words …

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The curriculum challenge…renewed

In The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley12/07/2020Leave a Comment

People have gone relatively quiet about the ‘c’ word… curriculum. Whilst schools grapple with the challenges of having all pupils safely attend school, then everything has to be considered anew. The careful …

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The Hidden Lives of Learners and Me

In The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley05/07/20201 Comment

When I was growing up I sought out books that mirrored my world. I can name the narratives that walked me through my tortured teens, or those books that helped me attempt …

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5 Successful Study Strategies

In The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley28/06/20201 Comment

‘It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it ‘t ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it ‘t ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you …

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Remote Learning and Making Plans

In The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley20/06/20201 Comment

The reality of the Covid pandemic has seen millions of pupils thrust into a position remote home learning. A stark truth is that pupils learn most when they are in the classroom. …

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6 Excellent Etymologies

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley07/06/20202 Comments

When you explore the history and roots of a word – the etymology – you draw upon a rich story that can unlock understanding for our pupils in science, maths, geography, and …

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The Surprising Secret of School Improvement

In The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley31/05/2020Leave a Comment

“In education, the only way to improve is to stop people doing good things, to give them time to do even better things.” Dylan Wiliam It appears like a trite piece of …

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Closing the Reading Gap: ResearchED Home

In Closing the Reading Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley22/05/2020Leave a Comment

On the 22nd of May, I had the great pleasure to join the researchEd Home gang to talk ‘Closing the Reading Gap (in the time of Coronavirus)’. A couple of years ago, …

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All of a sudden, the concept made perfect sense. Excitedly, he shared the post for others to read. Before long, the fuss subsided. Decidedly unimpressed, the children just got on with it. https://twitter.com/HuntingEnglish/status/1351221431296733193

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'Flipping Fronted Adverbials'

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@HuntingEnglish @C_Hendrick This is my pertinent post about how NOT to encourage the use of dictionaries... https://johntomsett.com/2018/07/13/this-much-i-know-about-an-inept-attempt-to-improve-students-literacy-skills/

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  • Flipping Fronted Adverbials 18/01/2021
  • Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy 16/01/2021
  • A Munificent Assemblage of Verbiage (Or ‘Working Words into Writing’) 05/12/2020
  • Academic Vocabulary and Schema Building 07/11/2020
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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I write this blog in a personal capacity.

After fifteen years in the classroom, I now support the cause of education from the other side the school gates. For most of the week I work for the EEF, as National Content Manager, supporting teachers and school leaders to access research evidence.

Additionally, I write edubooks and offer consultancy. Also, I am very lucky to have a column for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), after fifteen years as an English teacher and school leader. The focus of my work is supporting school improvement and making research  evidence accessible and useable for teachers and school leaders.

I write books for Routledge, including the bestseller, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. Currently, I am a columnist for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine. I am a ResearchED Trustee & a member of the Chartered College of Teaching Impact Journal board.

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