Before the summer, Huntington School applied for one of the Department for Education (DfE) grants to become a pilot EEF Research School. It was no understatement to say we were, alongside our partner …
The Research Says…
(Image via Vanderbilt Edu) “The research says…” is something I have heard uttered many times in the last couple of years and I do so myself too. With healthy skepticism, I have …
Causation and Correlation in Education
(Comic via http://xkcd.com/552/) I have had an interesting fortnight in my role as a school leader and Research-lead. In this job, you get to share a lot of teacher training materials and the …
Why I Hate Highlighters!
As an English teacher I am surely granted the eternal power of an exaggeration fueled headline every once in a while. Ok – so perhaps highlighters aren’t the biggest problem in education, …
The Problem with Journal Access for Teachers
I have a dream of a teaching profession that has a potent profession voice and that is truly self-improving. It would be so laden with prestige that politicians wouldn’t even dare to …
The Devil’s Advocate
One unique facet of my education and upbringing was that I went to an all-male Catholic school led by Christian brothers. I learnt all the usual subject disciplines (with an attendant incapacity …
Is Research Evidence in Education the Answer?
“After 30 years of doing such work, I have concluded that classroom teaching…is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced, and frightening activity that our species …
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