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Assessing and Addressing Needs, the Importance of Understanding Before Action.
How school leaders can diagnose pupils’ needs to inform effective planning for socio-economically disadvantaged students
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Latest blogs from our Research Schools
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The Weight of School Leadership: When “Getting it Right” Keeps You Up at Night
Our Evidence Lead in Education, Gemma Alldritt, reflects on the many different facets of school leadership
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Understanding the ocean of disadvantage
Jenn Sills and Marc Rowland explore the lived experience of disadvantage and how we can support in schools
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Where has Learning about Leadership gone wrong?
Adam Lewis – Assistant Headteacher for Culture and Ethos at Sewell Park Academy
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Collective problems demand collective action: Developing a borough-wide approach to implementation
The North London Alliance team explore how collective problems demand collective action
Leading with Purpose, Compassion, and a Focus on Early Years
Dr Polly Crowther, Headteacher of Cobham Primary shares her reflections as she embarks on her new role as headteacher.
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Secondment opportunity as Director of North Yorkshire Coast Research School
2 term secondment from Easter to Summer 0.4FTE
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Dare To Do Fewer Things Better!
Evaluating the impact of current practice using the EEF ‘A School’s Guide to Implementation’ Guidance Report
Leading Learning – how to dovetail implementation and evaluation to develop reading fluency
Tailor implementation in response to enablers and barriers
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Implementation is a Team Sport
How an implementation team can support effective implementation
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Addressing disadvantage: attendance to school, attendance to learning.
Mar Rowland Podcast
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To lead is to collaborate: putting implementation into practice
By Lauren Fabian-Miller, Science and Reading Lead at a two-form primary school in central Bristol
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Small Schools and their Community
As a small School Head Teacher, our Research School Director looks at Adopting Behaviours that drive Effective Implementation
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Next Temporary Better: School Leadership in a Complex System
Viewing school leadership through the lens of complex adaptive systems
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
Thirty Four Years in Education/School Leadership!
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Leadership and Attendance
EAL: The Equitable Classroom
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Bouncing Back: Leading Professional Development for Whole School Improvement at Hermitage Academy
By Alicia McKenna, Director of Training and Research
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Purposeful, Playful Practice
Watch our clip from the classroom which shows the role games can play in supporting children’s mathematical development.
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Strategic Planning for Effective Literacy Transition from KS2 to KS3
The transition from KS2 to KS3 is a pivotal stage in a student’s academic journey, particularly when it comes to literacy.
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What do teachers really want and how do we make them stay?
The Essential School Leadership Characteristics that Foster Teacher Retention
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What does it mean to take part in an EEF trial?
How one school implemented an EEF subsidised programme to support their Year 7 pupils’ literacy
Empowering Every Student: How Effective Teacher Development Elevates Opportunities for All
By Sarah-Louise Johnston, Director of Essex Research School
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Why improving school attendance is ‘everyone’s business’.
What school leaders should know about improving attendance.
Improving the Attendance of Secondary SEND Learners
Working collaboratively with students and families to raise attendance
Delivering and sustaining change beyond the honeymoon phase
A short blog looking at my personal key leadership takeaways from the deliver and sustain parts of the EEF Implementation report
Making evaluation part of implementation planning; not an afterthought (part2)
Evaluating CPD through implementation behaviours
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Putting sentence craft at the heart of writing lessons
By David Windle, Director, London South Research School at Charles Dickens
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Attendance: the importance of September
Why a strong start to the year is so important for attendance
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Effective implementation: The people at the heart of subject leadership
Hydeh Fayaz, at St Matthew’s Research School, discusses using effective implementation principles to enhance subject areas.
Supporting Leaders to manage change using effective implementation
By Niki Kaiser, Becky Layfield, Kate Bonney and Adam Rivett
Developing staff capability, opportunity and motivation through effective PD.
In this final blog, Stella Jones examines how effective PD improves staff capability, opportunity and motivation in teaching.
Leveraging the COM‑B model in educational leadership
In this 2nd blog in the series, Stella Jones discusses using the COM‑B model to enhance leadership, motivation, and growth.
Exceptional leaders: building teams, culture and lifelong learning
In this 1st blog of a 3‑part series, Research School Director, Stella Jones, explores leadership, culture and lifelong learning.
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Reflecting on your implementation climate
Looking back to move forward
Leadership of Pupil Premium
Network-wide blogs
These blogs have been written on behalf of the wider Research Schools Network rather than an individual Research School
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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
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Making the most of metacognition
Chris Runeckles explains how teachers can use metacognition to their advantage in teaching and learning.
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Supporting pupils with SEND during testing times
The EEF’s Gary Aubin explains how the ‘Five-a-day’ approach can support high quality teaching and exam preparation.