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    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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

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Memory for Learning: 10 Top Tips

In The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley01/10/20165 Comments

We can all imagine our own personal hell of terminal exams, stacked on top of one another, with acres of knowledge to remember. It is the stuff of sleepless nights, for teachers and …

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In the US, there‘s been an interesting debate around the teaching of social studies (more commonly known as the humanities here) & its importance to knowledge & the related importance of this to reading development. A recent study by The Fordham Institute (@educationgadfly) /1

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This week's top edu bloggers are @HuntingEnglish, @actionheroteach, @davidwillows and @teacherhead, as chosen by @jon_hutchinson_
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/jon-hutchinsons-blogs-of-the-week-21-september-2020/

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*New Blog Post* How reinforcing one word is improving the essays my students write.
https://theeducationalimposters.wordpress.com/2020/09/26/the-power-of-a-word-admittedly/

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the EEF, supporting teachers to access research evidence. After over fifteen years in the classroom, I now support from outside the school gates.

I write edubooks and 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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