'If not this, then what?' Read about how 2 English departments decided to approach our research questions and the changes they made as a result. Keep in mind that they still had to meet whole school demands for data & reporting, as I'm sure most of you will! Katie EMC Anmika Salter

Latest blog by EMCResearch Lucy Hinchliffe Katie EMC Anmika Salter challenges dominant 'end-point' approach to assessment + offers a compelling alternative Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation James Durran Carol Atherton Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Farrah Serroukh Charlotte Hacking Geoff Barton englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/rethinkin…

English and media teachers - please help this important UCL @uniofoxford project on teaching and learning about the British Empire by taking part in this national survey about your experiences and perspectives. And please retweet widely! @natefeed English & Media Ctr English Association

Another amazing blog from English & Media Ctr Assessment Project team, on feedback, marking & really making a difference to students' work, rather than going through the motions just to prove to SLT that you're doing something. The teacher voices on what's changed are fascinating.

The latest in our blog series maybe hasn't had as much attention as the others - the early ones establishing the problems with assessment in English had lots and lots of readers. This is the trickier stuff now: after you've identified the issues, what do you do then? 1/

The more I see cogsci strategies enacted at scale on subject English, the less convinced I become. Language development + literary thinking are too complex to be contained by reductive 'scientific' processes

Great line up, including Lucy Hinchliffe Anmika Salter Katie EMC presenting on their assessment project LATE London Teachers 📚✏️ londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthcom…

Here's the latest blog from our research + projects team, exploring the value of talk in formative assessment Lucy Hinchliffe Katie EMC Anmika Salter englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/rethinkin…

Looking for an inspirational day that will help you to inspire your students? This event is perfect for English teachers, literacy coordinators + librarians. Meet + learn from poets, novelists + teachers! englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/7a5a54…

I'm fed up with seeing 'reducing cognitive load', developing 'automaticity', 'mastery', teaching 'the basics' or 'the foundations', being applied willy-nilly to all subjects & every element of subjects as a kind of mantra or self-evident truth. There may be times when these...1/

Very excited for this - a culmination of our work over the past two academic years! Going to be an interesting day, come along if you can!

Hurray for this! Perceptive call for policymakers to reevaluate English. With shout outs to Carol Atherton & Charlotte Hacking CLPE theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Such a treat for me to go back to my old school and watch some lessons with Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation !

2 years has flown by! I have learnt so much and so enjoyed having EMC next to my name…

Bumper bag of giveaways for teachers attending EMC Reading + Writing for Pleasure conference on Friday. Thanks to Penguin Books #LitinColour

What a fun day to be involved with!

Please get involved in my friend's research if you are a member of school staff who works with refugee or asylum-seeking students. Poster attached!

What an absolute joy to have shadowed the The Carnegies with this bonkers group of Y8s Fortismere School. Sent them off to 5th period full of sugar and excitement after watching the Award ceremony. Congrats to Tia Fisher (only here for a bit) and @JosephACoelho

Such an interesting blog by my colleague Anmika Salter on her English & Media Ctr project on approaches to diversity & anti-racism in English classrooms. The brilliantly reflective teachers insightfully explore the possibilities, impact & also the challenges. englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/approache…

We're out for lunch in a moment to say goodbye to Anmika Salter + Katie EMC who've worked at EMC 2 days a week for 2yrs. Thanks to both for incredible work, enthusiasm + commitment! Your memory lives on in the legacy of the assessment project! englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/re-thinki…