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Fergal Roche

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15 February 2018 If teachers could learn from each other more, maybe teaching could be a lifelong profession – not a four-year sacrifice

02 February 2018 Get it right, and teaching is life-transforming and exciting. Get it wrong, and stress takes over

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Dr Gary Jones

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10 August 2017 Can school leaders rely on Kotter's change management model?

09 February 2018 How to run a journal club in your school: top tips from research

23 March 2018 Do academy chief executives need to be education experts?

11 May 2018 Could coaching your teaching teams do more harm than good? It depends on what kind of manager you are…

22 April 2017 You don't need a school research champion, you need a team of champions – and here's how to build one

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Elizabeth Aubrey

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13 April 2017 Why won't schools listen to the experts about reducing workload?

02 May 2017 Testing times ...

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Tom Middlehurst

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29 March 2017 Dear Justine, it’s not just about school funding and selective education – the way you ignore teachers is the real travesty

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Dominic Traynor

Dom Traynor is a former teacher and now chief executive of A Tale Unfolds.

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23 February 2017 EdTech could transform teaching and learning, but only if teachers – not companies and developers – own it

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Can school leaders rely on Kotter's change management model?

Expert Insights

A few weeks ago I wrote about the need for school leaders to be appropriately critical of educational and management gurus. One such guru is John Kotter, whose name is often found on lists of the worl...

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A beginner’s guide to Professor Larry Cuban

Beginners' guides

Where does he work? Cuban is a professor of education at Stanford University. He began his career as a high school social studies teacher, working up to district superintendent and finally univer...

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Expert advice for NQTs on using research in the classroom

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Evidence-based practice is important for teachers at all stages in their career. We all want the approaches and innovations we use to be the ones that have the greatest impact on our young people – an...

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A beginner’s guide to: Professor Robert A Bjork

Beginners' guides

What is he best known for: Being an internationally renowned expert on learning, memory and forgetting – his research focuses on the implications the science of learning has for education. Quick facts...

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10 things I learned as a lazy NQT

Tales from the frontline

I was a lazy newly-qualified teacher (NQT). While there were negative aspects to that, there were some definite positives too. I eased myself into teaching, churning out a steady run of "satisfactory"...

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A beginner’s guide to: Professor Barak Rosenshine

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Best known for: Rosenshine's research has contributed significantly to understanding the effectiveness of various instructional methods, which culminated in his identification of 10 principles of...

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A beginner's guide to Professor John Hattie

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Don't miss Professor @john_hattie of #VisibleLearning fame during a webinar entitled 'Collective Efficacy or Individual Ineffectiveness - part of the #sparkingconversations series with #BTSSparkUS and...

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Dr Gary Jones

Can school leaders rely on Kotter's change management model?

Expert Insights

A few weeks ago I wrote about the need for school leaders to be appropriately critical of educational and management gurus. One such guru is John Kotter, whose name is often found on lists of the worl...

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