Great opportunity to come and work with us! English Teacher at Durrington High School (1 year fixed term from September 2024) - Durrington Multi Academy Trust dmat.education/vacancy/englis…

🚨New book announcement!🚨 I'm thrilled to announce that my new book, The Behaviour Whisperer, is available for pre-order at tinyurl.com/4knm6wmm Struggling with classroom behaviour? Coaching inexperienced teachers? Keen to fine tune aspects of your behaviour management? >

The difference just one person can make x.com/visualfeastwan…

En route to the Somme battlefields. I am enjoying this by Andy Tharby. From storytelling to analogies and metaphors, this book has it all to support teachers in becoming better explainers.

I am going to be running training on leading a successful English Department on 6th December in London. Would be lovely to see you there. keynoteeducational.co.uk/product/leadin…

A brilliant start to our partnership with Brighton & Hove City Council and Brighton & Hove schools. Together to engage & unite around challenges and aims - with Chris Runeckles, James Crane, Andy Tharby Day 1: Literacy - the key to social equity Durrington Research School

Reminding you of this

Written 10 years ago this week … and I’m still grappling with this stuff! English teaching and the problem with knowledge reflectingenglish.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/eng… via Andy Tharby

Key principles taken from 'Make Every Lesson Count'

Too true

Why we gossip! There are two prevalent theories about how human language might have developed. The writer Yuval Noah Harari refers to these as ‘the gossip theory’ and the ‘there-is-a-lion-near-the-river theory’. Storytelling is at the heart of both theories. The first theory

Thanks Harry - I’d totally forgotten about this!

We are looking to recruit a music teacher for September 2025. Please share! dmat.education/vacancy/teache…

We dared. We dreamt. WE DID IT!!! 🏆

So this happens when you win things in the internet era. Who knew?

NEW - with a hat tip to Andy Tharby - what do we mean by challenge? open.substack.com/pub/shaunallis…

Very excited about this. Pragmatism over dogma - my kind of thing

'How do we ensure reading in schools is purposeful?' by James Crane A helpful blog - with a focused school example - of deliberate reading routines. This can be particularly useful for secondary schools who can leave reading instruction to chance. classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/how…