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Playing Chess Without a Board
How to stop pupils from losing their place
Research School Network: Blog Posts
Blog Posts
before: 2019-01-01
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after: 2017-12-31
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Blogs
Latest blogs from our Research Schools
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Making Research Real Series – episode 3
A Schools Guide to Implementation with Charlotte Orpin-Wright and Will Smith
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Making Research Real Series – episode 4
A Schools Guide to Implementation with Claire Savory
Implementing Vocabulary Instruction
James Crane discusses the complexities of leading literacy and how to use the implementation guidance to support the process.
EEF Implementation Guidance: It’s a Journey
By Victoria Begley, Assistant Headteacher, Dulwich Hamlet Junior School
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From Visibility to Authentic Representation
Developing an Inclusive Classroom for All
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The mundanity of excellence
How do we maintain consistency over intensity when making change in our schools?
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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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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 (audio version available)
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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
Network-wide blogs
These blogs have been written on behalf of the wider Research Schools Network rather than an individual Research School
Evidence in action
Improving Secondary Science
First reports from the IEE innovation evaluation grants published
The first two reports from projects funded by the IEE Innovation Evaluation Grants have now been published
EEF Blog: Grouping pupils by attainment – what does the evidence say?
Danielle Mason, Head of Research at the Education Endowment Foundation, unpacks the evidence on grouping pupils by attainment.
Improving communication, language and literacy in the early years
Eileen Allpress, Director of Ipswich Research School, introduces the EEF’s Preparing for Literacy guidance report
Has a solution to retention been found?
A one-year professional development programme for early career teachers teaching in KS1
Making sense of metacognition
Alex Quigley, Director of Huntington Research School, explores how schools can use the latest guidance report from the EEF.
Is context king in school improvement?
There are more similarities between schools than there are differences
Putting evidence to work in your classroom
EEF publishes its long-awaited guide to implementation for schools
Research Schools to gather for national meeting
Research Schools gather together to reflect on the first term of this academic year
New Research School appointed
Highfield Nursery School will become the Research School for the Ipswich region.