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Deborah Eyre

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16 June 2016 Why challenging high performers is important … and what we can do

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Tom Welch

Tom Welch is former head of research at SSAT.

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12 April 2016 The 'Impact' of my research

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EdCentral Team

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19 July 2018 A beginner’s guide to: Professor Barak Rosenshine

07 November 2016 Six behaviours teachers should praise to help pupils build a growth mindset

08 September 2016 A beginner's guide to Professor John Hattie

17 November 2016 A beginner’s guide to Doug Lemov

27 September 2016 A beginner’s guide to: Professor Carol Dweck

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Guest Teacher

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18 February 2017 The pride, the workload and toilet breaks: my life after teaching

25 May 2018 Dear students, thank you for being so wonderful that I forget about the stress and enjoy my career

22 December 2017 11 life lessons for students

28 May 2017 10 things I learned as a lazy NQT

29 April 2017 Too many school governors just don’t put the effort in

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Kate Hodge

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06 September 2017 Easy as ABC (or CPD) – a beginner's guide to education acronyms

31 May 2018 Five top tips to help headteachers and governors work effectively together

16 January 2017 ‘Diversity is dire in education’ – the grassroots campaign bringing change to the face of school leadership

07 October 2017 Research round-up: exploring the attainment gap in science

18 April 2018 From CVs to interview lessons: 9 top tips for applying for teaching jobs as an NQT

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

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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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Maths: finding the fix to our problems

Research Matters

We are not good at Maths in this country. In the latest PISA results (2012), England ranked 24th in the maths tables. This equates to a three year achievement lag between the performance of our ...

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Five top tips to help headteachers and governors work effectively together

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School governance has changed in recent years. Gone are the days of light-touch oversight with a good dose of jolliness; governing boards are now expected to be more business-like rigorous,...

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Gearing up for the new careers guidance strategy

Research Matters

With the Department for Education about to publish a comprehensive careers strategy (expected post referendum), articulating the careers provision responsibilities of each and every school from primar...

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Five failsafe ways to help your students develop a growth mindset

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Byline: Bradley Busch What impresses you more, natural ability or hard work? A lot of people in education and sport claim to value the importance of graft, but research suggests we could secretly hold...

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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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Six behaviours teachers should praise to help pupils build a growth mindset

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Byline: Bradley Busch Ask someone about growth mindset, and the majority of people will be able to tell you that it is different from a fixed mindset. We've blogged previously about the best way to ca...

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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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