Parental Engagement – building a positive relationship post-16
A focus on working with parents to support children’s learning
Research School Network: Blog Posts
Blog Posts
before: 2021-01-01
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after: 2019-12-31
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Blogs
Latest blogs from our Research Schools
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Implementing Oracy – Context and Behaviours
The second in the series of three blogs focusing on oracy from our Evidence Advocate, John Marsh.
Updated Pupil Premium Guide
Today the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published its updated Guide to the Pupil Premium and accompanying resources.
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PedTech V EdTech
A look at the distinction between the two and a closer focus on the 6 essentials to know about PedTech!
Bitesize Video Explanation Series
Receive a video into your inbox each half term explaining an evidence informed strategy & how it can be applied in the classroom
Clips from the Classroom Videos
Modelling a Mathematical Strategy
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Empathy – How to meet parents halfway
The first in a series of blogs focusing on improving parental engagement to behaviour written by guest blogger, Jenefer Walker.
Fostering Executive Function Skills in Early Years
A focus on creating challenge and promoting talk about learning
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Leadership and Implementation: Reflections on an Evolution
Jess Hutchison shares her thoughts on leadership
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Make Good Behaviour your New Norm: A Practical Guide
ELE Danny Barthorpe explains why the first few days into a new term is crucial for setting behaviour standards
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We Can Help You Tackle Disadvantage
Join eight leading PP experts at our full day conference this October
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What Educators Need to Know about the Social Model of Disability
From medical model to social model
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Supporting system leaders (HT, Trust leads, LA leads etc.) to engage meaningfully with research
Staffordshire Research School shares some approaches for engaging and supporting educational leaders with research.
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Children’s wellbeing matters most
School matters. Learning matters. But what matters most is the emotional wellbeing of all our children.
School Leadership – Communicate the Vision
Chris Runeckles writes the first in a series of blogs connecting the EEF’s implementation guidance with leadership at Durrington
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Making Research Real Series
Episode 2: A Schools Guide to Implementation with Charlotte Chessel and Charlotte Caldwell, ELE’s for Hampshire RS
Leading a culture where disadvantaged students can thrive
Written by Susie Fraser with contributions from Sue Watmough & John Rowlands
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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?
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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
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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Keep up, not catch up
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Making use of maths manipulatives
Seizing upon SEL with Structured Talk
Talk matters
Returning to the science classroom
Tackling a Mass of Scientific Misconceptions
Seeking input from pupils, parents and specialist professionals: how do schools make it work?
Effective Learning Behaviours: identifying the struggles
When we use the word behaviour we can quickly assume that it relates to strategies to manage misbehaviour in the classroom.
Challenging misconceptions in science
Applying the Evidence to School Closures
Stories and guidance from across the Research Schools Network
Planning social and emotional learning when children return to school
