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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 19, 2018

    Why Closing the Word Gap Matters

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 15, 2018

    Vocabulary Knowledge and the ‘Frayer Model’

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 14, 2018

    Literacy is dead…long live ‘disciplinary literacy’!

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 11, 2018

    6 Useful Vocabulary Websites

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 8, 2018

    Vocabulary Development Reading List

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 7, 2018

    Closing the Vocabulary Gap Resources

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 7, 2018

    7 Strategies to Explore Unfamiliar Vocabulary

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Focusing on Failure

In Confident Leadership by Alex Quigley07/06/20141 Comment

[Insert inspirational quote about failure here] I fail therefore I succeed. Failure is the pathway to success. Learn to fail – learn to succeed. The internet is awash with aphorisms …

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Teacher Burnout

In Confident Body, The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley08/03/20146 Comments

Last week the Department for Education released their research on teacher workload. With little fanfare, it noted that teachers were working on average over fifty hours a week. Let’s not …

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Can Chip and Dan Heath Help Improve Your School?

In Confident Leadership, The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley22/01/20141 Comment

Elephants, riders and paths…just more management and consultant jargon surely? We have a class to teach – a department to run – a school to improve. Let’s leave all that …

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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  • Vocabulary Development Reading List 08/04/2018

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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 as writing edubooks and articles for 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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