“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” ― Harry S. Truman

RoUgH'nReAdY summary of my presentation at ResearchEd National Conference #rED24 ↓

Uh, Heathrow, have you considered making the airport more engaging or relevant, so the passengers wouldn’t need to threaten anyone?

English and Latin have a hidden connection that no one notices. If a word begins with ‘f’ in English, it begins with ‘p’ in Latin. Take the word “father.” The Latin for father is “pater” — with a ‘p.’ And that’s just the beginning. It’s crazy, but here’s how it works… 🧵

I. AM. EXCITED.

***TEACHING AND LEARNING*** Thread 🧵 To improve the use of teaching and learning techniques in the classroom we need to define them “this is how we do it here” and make it common practice across the school. When implementing T&L techniques their success relies on this

What a course. Worth staying up until 23:00 two nights running. So much to get stuck into, really relit my data fire… #iibwab

Is written feedback a waste of time? New study finds 1 in 5 students completely ignore feedback, while nearly half of those who did try to act on the feedback, don't improve at all. 🧵⬇️

🔥 15 hottest edu-research papers from the last 15 weeks: (all open source 🔓) ↓

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1) Is revising the evening before an exam a pointless act of panicked cramming? No. It's an excellent idea. A thread 🧵

Adam is the best person out there for MWB training. And he’s still in the classroom so his PD is super authentic. Book.

✍ NEW POST ✍ The big one. Leadership handbook 6.0 is here! mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/lea… Over 270 slides covering a wide range of educational and leadership research and insights. And it's free!

New study: A single 10-minute retrieval practice activity significantly improved final exam performance compared to a review session. But there's a lot more to this study 🧵⬇️

🔥 16 hottest education related research papers from the last 8 weeks: (all open source 🔓) ↓

Teaching is complex, the giving and receiving of feedback is emotional work, and everyone brings their own mental models to the table. The result is predictable: conversations that feel aligned in the moment diverge as soon as people walk out of the room.

Over the last 6 years, I have been compiling the most useful concepts that I have read about and curated them along with tools and frameworks that I have designed in to the #LeadershipHandbook. Version 6.0 is free to download here. mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/lea… 1/4