I focus on how to improve the culture, curriculum and teaching in schools.
What do we most need to know to teach and lead well?
- Cognitive science crash course
- Staff culture crash course
- Student culture crash course
- Curriculum crash course
- Assessment crash course
What can we learn from cognitive and behavioural science?
- Teachers lead the scientific revolution in education
- Cognitive science
- Cognitive psychology
- Why students forget
- Long-term memory
- Science of learning
- Science of memory
- Three applications of cognitive science
- Moral psychology
- Science of habits
- Science of sleep
- Science of self-control
- Cognitive science & learning
- Cheat codes to intelligence
How can we create great school leadership?
- Overstretch: why and how to say no
- Strategy: a 2,500 year-old history
- Knowledge-led strategy
- Great staff culture
- Honest upward feedback
- Taking feedback well
- The wicked problem of learning
- Implementation as learning: 24 questions
How can we create a great student culture?
- Ethos
- Self-discipline
- Willpower
- Behaviour
- Gratitude
- High standards, high support
- Encouragement
- Stoicism
- Bootcamp
- Detail
- Enduring display
- Motivation and instruction
- Motivation and emotion
- Motivation and mindset anchoring
- Motivation and peer pressure
How can we create great curricula?
- Curriculum design
- Knowledge improves teaching
- Which knowledge?
- The skills-knowledge debate
- Double helix
- Unit planning
- Unit evaluation
- Multiple choice questions
- Multiple choice design
- My assessment mistakes
How can we create a great teaching culture?
- The clock and the compass: rethinking teaching
- Knowledge lessons
- Effective instruction
- Practice
- Renewable resources
- Knowledge organisers
- A 5 year revision plan
- Mnemonics
- Marking is a hornet
- CPD
- Initial Teacher Training
How can we create great staff culture?
- Butterflies
- Overstretch: how and why to say no
- Great staff culture
- Vibrancy
- SEX
- Research
- Cognitive biases
- Cognitive traps
- Leadership
- 7 levers
- End graded observations
- Formative-only observations
- The number one shift in education I hope to see in my lifetime
How can we improve assessment?
- Four core insights
- Why didn’t AfL work?
- How is assessment shackling schools?
- Unshackling: assessment as subject-specific progression
- Life after levels: where SLT fear to tread
- Who’ll create a mastery assessment system?
- Three Assessment Mistakes
- Why MCQs?
- How to design MCQs
How can we teach English well?
- Is knowledge pointless in English?
- Why teaching skills without knowledge doesn’t work
- How knowledge is being detached from skills in English
- The double helix: how knowledge is vital for skills in English
- Reclaiming rhetoric
- The beauty of annotating
- The essay emporium: crowdsourcing English essay titles
- Macbeth
- Theatre
What can we learn from great thinkers?
- Daniel Willingham
- Siegfried Engelmann
- E.D. Hirsch
- Michel Thomas
- Daisy Christodoulou
- Matthew Evans
- Katharine Birbalsingh
- Tom Bennett
- Luke Sparkes
- History of Education
- McKinsey
- Teach First
- Shakespeare’s Schooling
- Moonwalking with Einstein
What can we learn from great schools?
- King’s Wimbledon
- A knowledge-led school
- Tradition & Innovation
- Dixons Trinity
- Schools succeeding against the odds
What can we learn from new teachers and supply teachers?
- Disruption of teaching
- It’s your time you’re wasting
- I’m a teacher, get me out of here
- Hands up! Experiences of a new teacher
- Supply teaching in England
- Experiences of a supply teacher: On The Edge
How are teachers using social media?
Joe Kirby 