If a company tells you that they can diagnose pupils' individual barriers to reading development via question-level analysis of a standardised comprehension assessment (computer-based or otherwise), they are almost certainly selling you snake oil. 🧵🪡

People who like olives are absolutely taking the piss!!!!

Dons don’t deserve to play finals

This.

“If anything, the science of learning raises the bar for professional practice. It demands that we critically examine what we do and why we do it, not in opposition to professionalism, but in service of it.”

Had the privilege of learning from 𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 today. Retrieved learnings around learning science and had reassurance we’ve implemented the key ingredients for improvement. Reassured we’re on the right track and feeling energised to continue to lead these areas.

Should Reading Be Taught Whole Class or Small Group? shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/should-re…

**New blog** - It's been a while so retweets hugely appreciated. The Most Common Reason Why Children Don't Become Fluent Readers... And What We Can Do About It ⬇️⬇️⬇️

“What I really don’t get is the argument that teachers are at once so very skilled at creating lesson resources, but that we might walk blindly into unthinking reliance on a PowerPoint, or worse, be brainwashed into teaching explicitly” 👏 rebeccabirch.substack.com/p/on-high-qual…

The idea that reading comprehension is a set of generic “find the main idea” skills has been so damaging. Excellent stuff from Christopher Such

Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading educationnext.org/helping-kids-s…

Tom Bennett OBE I loved what the late Richard DuFour said about this. He said that he had seen many definitions of professionalism, but none of them included allowing the teacher to do what the heck they pleased...