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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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  • Education Politics and Polemics, Educational Research / September 18, 2018

    The Power of (Pushy?) Parents

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / May 13, 2018

    Spelling: Avoiding Ignorance and Negligence

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  • Metacognition & Modelling / April 28, 2018

    The Makings of Metacognition

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  • Metacognition & Modelling / April 27, 2018

    Unwrapping the Mystery of Metacognition

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 19, 2018

    Why Closing the Word Gap Matters

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NTEN ResearchEd York – Teachers Doing It For Themselves

In Debates and Polemics, Evidence in Education 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 …

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Becoming a Better Teacher by ‘Deliberate Practice’

In Productivity, Teacher Improvement and Coaching by Alex Quigley03/03/201322 Comments

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Bruce Lee When I was a young …

Alex Quigley

I am Director of Huntington Research School, York. I am also a Research School Developer for the EEF, supporting research schools in the north of England.

When I am not doing research school work, I can be found teaching English as well writing edubooks and articles for TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

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  • More than Just ‘Word Walls’ 20/10/2018
  • The Power of (Pushy?) Parents 18/09/2018
  • Spelling: Avoiding Ignorance and Negligence 13/05/2018
  • When Incoherence and Compliance Trump Curriculum  05/05/2018

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ResearchEd Rome - off the starting block with @tombennett71 @DavidDidau and @MaryMyatt ... more incredible names to come. Great professional dev and a weekend in beautiful Rome...could it get any better. Tickets released in Feb at 30 Euro.

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Why does vocabulary matter? New blog by @DamsonEd on the importance of vocabulary as a building block for helping young children to communicate effectively and for school performance more widely: https://t.co/M3qHDm5fX5

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40+ schools attended our twilight on parental engagement today - lots of interest in our texting parents and attendance letters trials at @Head_stmarys - with implementation tips shared by @ListenLeadLearn 👍

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Alex Quigley

I am a Senior Associate 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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