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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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The Power of (Pushy?) Parents

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley18/09/20182 Comments

Family comes first. With a heady mix of love and selfishness, ambition and hope, parents guard and support their children. It is no real surprise then to read in the latest Sutton …

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When Incoherence and Compliance Trump Curriculum 

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley05/05/20185 Comments

How do children learn best? It is a complex question isn’t it. It is striking that as teachers we may be knee-deep in our pupils learning for most of the working week …

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The Makings of Metacognition

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley28/04/20185 Comments

In a couple of weeks, year 6 pupils will be sitting down to SATs examinations and in secondary schools, A Level and GCSE exams will start in earnest. Teachers everywhere are concentrating …

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Unwrapping the Mystery of Metacognition

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley27/04/20181 Comment

Today the Education Endowment Foundation has released their latest guidance report on ‘Metacognition and Self-regulation‘. I have been delighted to be one of the co-writers of this exciting report, alongside Eleanor Stringer …

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The Problem with Pleasing Parents

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley10/03/20187 Comments

Every teacher and school leader wants to please the parents of their school children. And quite right too. From a warm conversation at parents evening, to a celebratory phone call, it can …

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How to Write an Edu-book – Part 2

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley04/03/20184 Comments

In ‘How to Write an Edu-book – Part 1‘, I had the huge pleasure of sharing with everyone the approaches to writing an edu-book from two of the best edu-book writers around, …

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How to Write an Edu-book – Part 1

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley03/03/20182 Comments

I often hear the comment “I don’t know how you write books and do the day job“. And well, I usually agree and stumble over some comments about being very tired, but …

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Girls, Girls, Girls – Peer Effects in the Classroom

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley18/02/20182 Comments

(Image sourced via Pixabay.com)   Finding the answer to school improvement troubles us all, and yet, sometimes the answers are sitting there at their desks looking straight at us. In short, having …

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How could a text message transform literacy?

In Closing the Reading Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley10/02/20181 Comment

Just over five million adults in England are functionally illiterate, with the literacy skills equivalent to an eleven year old. Not only that, around half of the adults in prison are illiterate …

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Why can’t boys be…Well, more like girls?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley28/01/20183 Comments

[This blog first appeared on the Huntington Research School website. Take a look HERE and sign up for our monthly newsletter HERE, so that you get access to the brilliant blogs of our …

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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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