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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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General Election ’17: An Education Policy Overview

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley07/05/20173 Comments

The run up to a general election often trots out the good, the bad, and the ugly, of education policy. We know that what sells to the voter on the doorstep often …

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ResearchEd York 2016 – Get Your Tickets!

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley27/01/20161 Comment

It is coming back… after the success of ResearchEd York at Huntington School back in 2013, we are delighted to welcome ResearchEd back on Saturday the 9th of July, 2016. We are …

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ResearchEd York 2016 is Coming…

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley12/12/20151 Comment

  Back in May 2014, the first northern ResearchEd event was held in York, at Huntington School. In the interim, ResearchEd has hopped across the pond to New York (still not as …

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The ‘OFSTED Matthew Effect’

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley26/09/201511 Comments

  The rich get rich, the poor get poorer. This biblical aphorism is a universal truism. Whether it is a comment about the recent banking crisis, or an explanation for the phenomenon …

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NTEN ResearchEd York – Teachers Doing It For Themselves

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley04/05/20147 Comments

  I look on the NTEN ResearchEd conference at Huntington School yesterday with a glowing pride. Is there a little confirmation bias attending my feelings? Yes. And who the hell cares! It …

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School Improvement with Accountable Autonomy

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley14/02/2014Leave a Comment

Trust or fear? Carrot or stick? Autonomy or accountability? These dividing lines will feel very familiar to many teachers. Everyone who has been in education for a few years can share horror …

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One-to-one Feedback & Testing What Works

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley17/10/201311 Comments

Feedback has always been all the rage! In all my years of teaching I think I know instinctively the things that make the difference to learning. Once such tipping points of learning …

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Opening The Door On Our ‘Craft Knowledge’

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley19/07/20132 Comments

My last post of the school year is a resolution for the school year ahead. There is no special philosophy, research or expensive equipment required. It is a simple focus on ‘opening …

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Many congratulations to the 10 schools in our Research Schools Network - @rs_network - selected as Teaching School Hubs to provide high-quality professional development to teachers and leaders at all stages of their career, as well as helping build up trainee teachers. https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/1359573001596006413

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Just attended @GreenshawR webinar with Timothy Shanahan on disciplinary literacy. His blog is amazing! Full of great literacy resources: https://shanahanonliteracy.com/blog
Thanks so much to @readingshanahan for some really insightful ideas #disciplinaryliteracy📚

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Great thread on good grammar teaching from @ClareFeeneyUK - with crucial insights into applied grammar in different subject domains.

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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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