New EEF guidance on the ‘Deployment of Teaching Assistants’ has gone live today. Take a look here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evid…

🫀 CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING! This new guide dives into the heartbeat of responsive teaching. CFU is crucial for making the invisible visible and capturing data needed to adapt teaching in real time. 🌱 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy here:

Ridiculously early sneak peek. Posting mainly for my own motivation.

Tackling disadvantage in schools? Rob Carpenter (Rob Carpenter ) shared key insights & resources ASCL 's conference on addressing disadvantage in education. Read Rob's blog where he shares summary thoughts on how schools are defying the odds. inspirepartnership.my.canva.site/rob-carpenter-…

It's now May, so I am giving away my monthly class set of a book from my bookshop A New Chapter - Children's Bookstore. Simply retweet to win, and please bear me in mind when buying books!

Cornwall at its very best ☀️

🚨🚨NEW PAPER ON INCLUSIVE TEACHING ...that I've been working (pretty intensely) on for the last few months. Details below: ↓

‼️IMPORTANT - The draft KCSIE statutory guidance has just been published by Department for Education. Link to the guidance below: gov.uk/government/pub… #safeguarding #KCSIE #KCSIE2025 #DSL #SchoolLeadership #SchoolLeaders #edutwitter

Spent the day finalising our T&L Playbook for next year. Core techniques are a mix of Teach Like a Champion and Walkthrus strategies. The playbook details the what, how, when and why of each, with videos from Steplab for teachers to explore in labs and with their coaches. 🤓

Hey, Grok , who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was please.

🎉Steplab Summer Reads #2 Win Responsive Teaching by Harry Fletcher-Wood + Steplab bundle! Harry is our Director of Training & a globally experienced teacher/researcher. The book tackles 6 core classroom challenges with practical strategies. ✅ Follow ❤️ Like 🔁 Share Winner Fri!

We're seeking a Cover Teacher for Penryn Primary Academy to work 1.0 FTE across all phases, including ARB, on a fixed term basis until August 2026. For full information, and to apply, please visit aspireacademytrust.org/188/current-va…

Mitigating the impact of low family income - focus on those things we can control. Hope this can act as a useful starting point for discussion in school. Thanks to Cathy Potter for inputs and refinement. Effective implementation underpins everything.

*** NEW POST *** “Disadvantage” in education is so often reduced to money or test scores. But what we’re really talking about is class — and the barriers, visible and hidden, that still hold pupils back. Powerful piece by Zoe Enser 🐉 👇 teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/edu…

There is an update to the EEF Pupil Premium guide, now in digital form, with lots of super input from Research Schools Network colleagues. Congratulations to Kirsten Mould in pulling it all together. I hope school and system leaders find it useful. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/using-pupil-pr…

Hi. Just to clarify. There's no evidence to say 50% of Pupil Premium must be spent on teaching, 25% on targeted support & 25% on wider approaches. Those figures are a guide. Financial spending (& time spent on implementation) should be guided by pupil need, staff need & evidence.

Ofsted inspections using the new toolkit begin this week. No more subject deep dives — just a broader, “shallow paddle” across the school. Here’s what leaders need to know, and how to prepare: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p/p… #Ofsted #Edutwitter #SLT #SchoolLeadership

NEW BLOG: OFSTED REFLECTIONS: southgloshead.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/wha…

NEW BLOG: Top Tips for managing a new OFSTED inspection. Teachers Talk Radio headteachering.uk/2026/01/01/how…

Introducing: Arbor’s new Ofsted Inspection Companion. Using the The Key’s trusted guidance, Arbor automatically builds your school’s inspection-day pack, pulling live data from your Arbor MIS and putting it into context. Find out more: hubs.li/Q044mFgs0