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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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    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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When Prophecies Fail and Evidence Backfires

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley18/03/2017Leave a Comment

“A man with conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him your facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic …

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Research evidence or Professional Judgement?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley01/03/20174 Comments

So, what works? It is a question teachers ask every day of the week. Whether it is ‘does this mastery stuff in maths work then?‘, or ‘what should I get my students …

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Screaming Dolls and Scaring ‘Em Straight

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley10/09/20161 Comment

(Image credit: Kyle Flood – Creative Commons License – ‘Waah!’) Nothing prepares you to be a parent. Nothing. No parenting class gives you every answer to the mystery, particularly in the haze …

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Should We Bring Back Grammar Schools?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley08/08/201611 Comments

Just under a quarter of a century ago, I failed the 11+. I’ll admit, the experience was less than cataclysmic for my skinny pre-teen self. I remember being asked by my school …

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The New Teachers’ Professional Development Standard

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley12/07/20166 Comments

As Christiano Ronaldo stares lovingly at his reflection in the European Football Championship trophy, we may do well to reflect on the most interesting story of the tournament. Of course, it was …

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Don’t Be April Fooled!

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It is the first of April – an apt excuse for headline japes and other media jests. Only, as I scroll through my Twitter feed on any given day, I could be …

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Breaking Beyond Our Old Ideas

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley05/03/2016Leave a Comment

  “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify … into every corner of our minds.” John Maynard Keynes    Knowledge is power, …

Uncategorized / February 13, 2016

Just Don’t Call It Research!

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Growth Mindset – More Evidence

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley13/06/201513 Comments

If you are a school teacher and you haven’t heard of Carol Dweck’s ubiquitous growth and fixed mindset concept then… quite frankly, where the hell have you been for the past few years? No …

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Teachers – ‘Read…Refine…Reflect…Repeat’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley08/08/20144 Comments

A short reading list for your reflection and refinement.   There is a apocryphal tale, attributed often to Abraham Lincoln, though it almost certainly predates America itself, about the value of ‘sharpening your axe‘. …

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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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