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

28 May 2017 10 things I learned as a lazy NQT

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

09 June 2017 Teachers, stop using collective punishment – it makes you look weak and lazy

19 March 2017 In with the old and new: we need the arrogant NQT and the experienced head of department in the same staffroom

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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

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

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

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

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Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren

Gabriel Heller Sahlgren is a PhD student at LSE and Political Science and Director of Research Centre for the Study of Market Reform in Education (CMRE).

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10 June 2016 The London Challenge

05 May 2019 An introduction to the economics of school choice

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Patrick Watson

Patrick Watson is Managing Director of Montrose Public Affairs Consultants and EdCentral's resident policy and research expert.

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04 January 2017 Do you know your free schools from your academies? Here’s our guide to secondary schools in England

06 October 2016 Progess 8 and Attainment 8: an overview

08 February 2017 Facilitating subjects are more important than ever – but what are they?

09 January 2017 The importance of teaching knowledge (not just skills)

27 September 2016 EBacc overview

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Louise Holmes

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22 November 2016 My story, and why I founded EdCentral ...

01 March 2018 World Book Day 2018: top tweets from schools and teachers

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Classroom fad or fix? Taking a closer look at learning styles

Classroom fad or fiction

Confession time: when I was a new teacher, I got my year 11 form group to do a learning styles test to help with their revision. While they answered the questionnaire, I did it too and discovered tha...

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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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‘We’ve cut everything’: governors discuss the school funding crisis

Expert Insights

Ever-decreasing budgets, a new national funding formula (NFF) and reports of headteachers asking parents to plug holes in finances – schools in the UK are feeling the pinch. This leaves many governor...

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Are we really raising aspirations?

Tales from the frontline

In schools we assume a lot we probably shouldn't. One of the most damaging of these assumptions is that disadvantaged children want the sort of lives their teachers have but just don't know how to get...

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

Expert Insights

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 Barak Rosenshine

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Beginners' guides

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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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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A beginner's guide to Professor John Hattie

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Hattie has been Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, since March 2011. Prior to that he was Project Director of asTTle and Professor of E...

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