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On Your Marks: Timely Feedback
How do we decide on the timeliness of feedback?
Research School Network: Blog Posts
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Latest blogs from our Research Schools
Supporting disadvantaged learners through consistency, clear routines and high expectations
The role that high expectations, routines, consistency and strong relationships in supporting disadvantaged learners.
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Leadership in the early years: using evidence-based tools to support quality improvement
Fliss James and Siobhan Campbell talk about how use of evaluation tools such as ITERS‑3 can support effective implementation.
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Cornwall Research School Podcast Ep.3
Episode 3: SEND with Emilie Warren
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Let’s read it again: the power of storytime replays
Matthew Courtney considers the benefits of reading aloud and revisiting texts in EYFS and KS1, ahead of this week’s webinar.
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Schemas, Prior Knowledge and Action Movies
Why we had to end the Die Hard quiz
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Explicit Vocabulary Teaching: What Now?
Embedding newly-learnt vocabulary: what the Vocabulary in Action poster could look like in practice.
Building a Sense of Belonging
A Yorkshire and Humber Research School Blog Series
Monitoring to Improve Not Prove
Monitoring a range of implementation outcomes to support effective implementation
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Does it really work? Judging the Impact of Interventions
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Leading with Purpose
Insights on Effective School Leadership
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Fading Guidance for Greater Independence
Known as “fading guidance,” this strategy moves students toward greater independence…
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Live Modelling with Think-Aloud
Live modelling, or “thinking out loud” as you demonstrate, helps students see an expert’s approach to a task in real time.
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Mechanisms of Effective Professional Development
The more mechanisms a PD programme has, the greater the impact on pupil attainment.
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Using Worked Examples to Reduce Cognitive Overload
When students encounter new material, especially if they’re new to a topic, it’s easy for them to feel overwhelmed.
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Stories make us stay
John Rodgers emphasises the importance of knowing your pupils and their families to understand disadvantage in your school.
Leading Reading and Disciplinary Literacy
Parental Engagement in Early Reading
Early Years Series
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Empowering Teaching Assistants: A Research-Informed Approach to SEND Support and Professional Development
Exploring the importance of teaching assistant development in enhancing SEND provision in schools.
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The power of positive relationships: creating a sense of belonging in the early years.
How fostering meaningful connections lays the foundation for lifelong learning.
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I’m sorry but stop apologising for SEND!
Empowering SEND students as a teacher with Single Sided Deafness (SSD)
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Creating a Culture That Connects
Overcoming the Challenges of Keeping Everyone on Board
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Engage in History
Focusing on the behaviour of ‘Engage’ during Implementation of changes to the History curriculum has created ‘buy-in’ from staff
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Department professional development – how to ensure it’s effective
Sarah Murray considers how subject leaders can set and do what can make a difference when it comes to department PD.
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Why it’s important to engage people in planning
How the ‘engage’ concept from the implementation guidance might inform your approach to planning
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I See My Voice: Capturing pupil perspectives
Bridging the gap between the lived experience and the children’s ability to recall.
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The Power of Belonging: how it shapes our behaviour and how you can build and support this in your school
A sense of belonging can boost behaviour, focus on studies, and improve relationships with peers and teachers
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What are the ingredients needed to bring about effective, sustainable change in school?
Claire Savory, CEO of a multi-academy Trust of 11 primary schools, shares her guidance on effective change management.
Brick by Brick: Constructing Knowledge in Professional Development
Build on what teachers already know.
Addressing disadvantage in our coastal community: St Clare’s Catholic Primary School
A headteacher and Pupil Premium lead outline how they are leading and implementing an impactful strategy to address disadvantage
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Building belonging in small schools
As a small school Head Teacher, Mari Palmer talks about the sense of ‘belonging’ in her school
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Strategies for Autism from the Living Room to the Classroom
Blog written by Claire
Curriculum Design in Primary Science – Part Two
In the follow-up to her first blog Jody Chan delves deeper in the construction of primary science curriculum
Overcoming overload
How can leaders ensure their professional development programmes don’t place excessive cognitive demands on teachers?
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Ready to learn?
Implementation of a school-wide approach to embedding routines and developing pupils’ learning behaviours
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Family Dining: Community, Belonging and Connection
Why lunchtime at Dixons Music Primary is not just about eating
Network-wide blogs
These blogs have been written on behalf of the wider Research Schools Network rather than an individual Research School
Deliberate Practice at The Two Counties Trust
Reflections on Reflecting: Considering how to support teachers to meaningfully reflect on professional development
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Blog: The updated Early Years Toolkit: A welcome addition for the early years sector
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Blog: Let’s Talk Maths
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Blog: Using picture books to promote high-quality conversations in maths: the ShREC Approach
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Blog: Pulling out ‘The Bricks’: Deconstructing the House of Reading
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Blog: Changing vocabulary between primary and secondary school
Marcus Jones is Literacy Lead at Huntington Research School
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Blog: Establishing the Regular Melodic Rhythm of School Life
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Blog: Routines for relationships – three conversations
Hannah Heron explores the importance of routines for relationships
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Blog: Metacognition
Kathryn Kilbride explores metacognition and self-regulation
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The importance of oracy in maths
Tracey Adams, Assistant Director of St Matthew’s Research School, explores the benefits of prioritising oracy in maths teaching.
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Using metacognitive strategies to improve pupils’ mathematical problem-solving
Alastair Gittner of the Hallam Teaching School Alliance, explores how metacognitive thinking can support pupils’ problem-solving