Reflecting on the end of a fantastic academic year AppletonAcademy. It’s been a year of real professional development - incredibly grateful for the expertise afforded by Andy Griffith - bring on 22/23

Very important article in the wake of behaviour in schools becoming the latest political football - all students benefit from classrooms with clear expectations and boundaries which are consistently enforced, *especially* those who don’t have these things elsewhere in their lives

Science of learning TL;DR ➡️ Remembering stuff is good. ➡️ To think, you need stuff to think with. ➡️ If you have stuff in your long-term memory you can think about stuff much more deeply. ➡️ Retrieving stuff from your long-term memory helps it stay there. ➡️ Retrieval doesn’t

🗑️ 10 things schools can bin off (IMO) because every little helps: Asking teachers to log behaviour incidents - get someone to come round to classrooms with a laptop and do the recording of incidents dictation style rather than asking a teacher to log into software and click

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘Adaptive teaching and the power of Anticipation’ “It’s clear that anticipating where learning will be likely to break down for the pupils is one of the key prerequisites for successful adaptative teaching” alexquigley.co.uk/adaptive-teach…

Exactly this. We now have so many great examples of schools that provide cultures that are safe, calm, dignified, and where children (esp disadvantaged children) do fantastically. By now it’s largely only ideological biases that keep the carpers carping

Rows or groups? Which seating arrangement is best for student behavior and learning? Let's see what some research indicates: theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/10/10/cla…

Great day at the NPQLT conference today. Excited to get stuck into this and see the impact!

Not enough is made around the cognitive distractions caused by group seatings

We never do group work at Michaela. For this very reason. Less work, less efficient, often just a waste of time.