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The Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-term Memory
Our long-term memory has potentially infinite capacity – so how can we use it to support working memory?
Research School Network: Blog Posts
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Latest blogs from our Research Schools
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How to write your 2024/25 Pupil Premium strategy with engagement in mind
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How one school is rewriting their writing curriculum
A leadership case study.
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What’s your priority?
It takes bravery, but might de-pluralising priorities be the best path for leaders and teachers?
The Unfinished Business of Effective Implementation
The Zeigarnik effect, cognitive closure and the ongoing nature of effective implementation
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Implementing Change in an Inner City Secondary
Emma Walkley-Williams discusses implementing reading fluency in an inner city secondary school
The importance of early reading in addressing disadvantage
video 1: July ’24: The importance of early reading in addressing disadvantage
Pupil Premium Strategy Statement, Where to start?
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Clips from the Classroom – new video resources for schools
Time to Talk
The crucial role of developing Oracy in Primary Education
Durrington Professional Development Twilights 2024 ‑25
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Implementation across multiple schools: Start with the adults to ensure success for children
Making meaningful, lasting changes to practice in your school
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Embracing Complexity: Why Schools Are Complex Adaptive Systems
Schools are comprised of various interacting components. Understanding CAS is helpful for effective implementation in schools.
Gareth Southgate: an implementation case study
The delivery phase as part of a flexible implementation process
SHINE funding for Fixing Fluency
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It’s the Implementation that counts!
What the primary concern of implementation might be.
Strong systems: the unsung heroes of effective implementation.
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People Power! Getting to the Heart of Effective Implementation
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Care to share it with the class Podcast
Susie Fraser, Rebekah Hawthornthwaite & Elliot Costas-Walker
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This Is Me: Promoting an inclusive environment for ALL by hearing what isn’t said
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Implementation Introduction
John Rodgers, Director of Cornwall RS gives a brief intro to the new EEF guidance report on implementation in schools.
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It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it…and that’s what gets results!
The value of engaging and empowering colleagues whilst driving the successful implementation of a trust-wide phonics strategy.
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We’re talking about feedback! Blog 3!
Recommendation 3: Plan for how the pupils will receive and use feedback.
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Top research-driven strategies for teaching students to read and write like scientists
Guest blogger, Emily Giubertoni, author of Secondary Science in Action. (due for release soon), shares strategies which work!
Thinking Teaching – How can we drive the thought in our classrooms?
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Implementation in Small Schools
Key considerations for small schools implementing educational strategies using EEF’s implementation guidance report.
Data, Algorithms and Harmony
A sixth form college perspective
Uniting Leadership and Shared Values at The Pinnacle Learning Trust
Building collaborative excellence in Primary education
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
Our Research School website quotes an African proverb: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
Practitioner Enquiry Within a Specialist Setting.
A journey into practitioner enquiry at Ivy House School, a 2 – 19 special school in Derby City.
The Importance of Evaluation
In her second blog focusing on the implementation process, Stella Jones highlights the significant role that evaluation plays
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Implementation: every step we take…
Hannah, Helen and Kat explore the process of developing federation-wide ‘Teaching and Learning Principles’
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Carefully considering contextual factors when implementing change
And what might happen if they are not. By Will Smith, Deputy Director of Somerset Research School
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‘Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast’ Is developing culture enough when implementing change?
Why is it that certain groups add up to be greater than the sum of their parts, while others add up to be less?
Reading for Pleasure
Elusive, tantalising-yet teachable (Part 1)
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Engaging change with Metacognition
David Fawcett, Assistant Headteacher at The Romsey School, reflects on using the EEF ‘A Schools Guide to Implementation’…
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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How to write your 2024/25 Pupil Premium strategy with engagement in mind
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How one school is rewriting their writing curriculum
A leadership case study.
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Clips from the Classroom – new video resources for schools
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Implementation across multiple schools: Start with the adults to ensure success for children
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Implementation: United we stand, divided we fall
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‘Think it through Thursdays’: Supporting pupil attendance through staff communications
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Vital Vocabulary: putting research evidence to work
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Implementation matters: leadership learning on NPQ programmes and putting evidence into practice in schools
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Promoting pupil progress with learning behaviours
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Right Time, Right Place: proactive approaches to support social emotional learning
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Fluency Five – supporting reading comprehension
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