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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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    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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    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 ‘OFSTED Uncertainty Principle’ and Holding Steady

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  “I learnt this little performance trick in only twenty minutes!” “Outstanding!” My school is awaiting the imminent visit of OFSTED. No matter how sensible everyone wants to be regarding the matter, …

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profsimonbSimon Burgess@profsimonb·

@HuntingEnglish We found the biases to be less strong when teachers encountered a particular group a lot.

For example, in schools with high numbers of pupils from a particular ethnic group, teachers had lower biases with respect to that group than teachers who rarely met them.

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benjrooneyBen Rooney@benjrooney·

This is completely brilliant. Always wanted #rED sessions to be put online. https://twitter.com/shaun_allison/status/1246350461965303809

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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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