Nice way to start the long weekend. Time to wind down.

Correcting mock English papers - pointless waste of time.

Alternative - return the papers with colour coding and no grades

Students use the marking schemes and worked examples to identify gaps and current grade boundaries.

The focus is on formative development, not just a grade.

Time efficient!

The Review: New Domains of Educational Leadership Leora Cruddas has pulled off a tour de force in reshaping educational purpose after the pandemic

📖 'New Domains of Educational Leadership is set to become a seminal piece in reshaping our shared philosophy of education after the pandemic'

@moremorrow.bsky.social reviews @leoracruddas.bsky.social's new book

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The Art and Science of Innovation This book addresses how innovation is generated in transdisciplinary work and learning, focusing on the interface between art, science and technology.

EERA and Springer Publications' book series "Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research": VOLUME 7: "The Art and Science of Innovation: Transdisciplinary Work, Learning and Transgression." Author: Lorraine White-Hancock

Unforgettable Lessons with the Science of Learning! Our Science of Learning course digs into the interesting and sometimes counterintuitive findings from this field in recent years and provides a forum for sharing useful tips.

How do students learn? Our Science of Learning #TLCcourse explores research on attention, memory & brain processes. Discover insights from researchers, debunk neuromyths & apply evidence-based strategies.
🗓Feb3-28 #MicroCredentialled #PDPlan #FacultyPD

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Interested in writing for our EduResearch Matters Blog?

We accept a wide range of posts, from responses to policies, conversational pieces about your own research, opinion pieces, reflections on your own practice.

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Transdisciplinary Teaching in Inclusive Schools This book offers opportunities for better understanding teachers’ unique challenges when planning teaching sessions for learners with special needs.

EERA and Springer Publications' book series "Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research": VOLUME 8: "Transdisciplinary Teaching in Inclusive Schools: Promoting Transdisciplinary Education for Learners with Special Needs". Author: Heidi Flavian

Teaching and learning: Principles or policies? Explore how school policies support teachers, staff, students, and parents in understanding school requirements and procedures.

Teaching and learning: Principles or policies?

"...schools have some flexibility and autonomy to set teaching and learning policies. Should school leaders consider implementing such policies?"

NEW blog by Kate Jones

Read it here 👇

Six Quick Things on Leadership for Sustainability | Independent Thinking

Want to know more about Leadership for Sustainability in schools? Here are Six Quick Things www.independentthinking.co.uk/resources/si...

📝 Want to boost your teaching skills? Dive deep into ASSESSMENT TIME! explore impactful assessment strategies to boost student achievement. 📊✨

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AI in education: SWOT analysis for T&L and student development. Key steps to undetake this school-based research? #edchatie @aiteachingguru.bsky.social

Curriculum Mapping - What is it? Why do it? How do you support the expression of the lived curriculum? How to you capture and evaluate the enacted curriculum? Do we just as Biesta states 'measure what we value'? #edchatie

[9] Debunking myths in education with Dr. Paul Kirschner KeyLIME+ (Key Lessons and Innovations in Medical Education) · Episode

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Junior Cycle Reform. Apart from short courses, L2LP/L1LP, and CBAs, nearly ten years since the JC Framework, is the learning experience for students different than the previous curriculum? If fear the SEC exam still dominates and CBAs and the JCPA have little traction. #edchatie

Do Not Obey in Advance Happy New Year! Let's all take a deep breath, because 2025 going to be a weird one. "Do not obey in advance," historian Timothy Snyder cautions. "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given...

It's worth a read. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/do-not-obey-...

Good news: AI won't take your job. Bad news: you can't ignore it Research suggests the reality of AI in the workplace is more complex than either complete job displacement or simple augmentation

AI in schools - major CPD underpinned by a clear strategy is required. Think of what things will be like foe our current 12 Yr olds in six years time! Great article via link - #edchatie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Eclipses, supermoons & meteor showers to look out for in 2025 You'll see some celestial wonders in the skies above you throughout the next 12 months

Look up! Kevin Nolan @tudublin.bsky.social previews the eclipses, supermoons, meteor showers and other celestrial wonders you can expect to see in Irish skies in 2025 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Dr. Maged Abdallah on LinkedIn: assessment As we step into 2025, I am delighted to share a project that I have been working on for quite some time: "Understanding Assessment Types: A Complete Guide for…

Good resource to review the scope and purpose of the assessments used in departments and whole school. Usually the only people aware of the assessment landscape are the students. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-mag...

In our AI and tech obsessed workd, we need to encourage young people to take the time to look and see the world in a way that can 'catch the heart off guard and blow it open.' #edchatie #edchat
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Kurt Vonnegut's letter to the future YouTube video by Letters Live

Letter to the future - worth 6 mins of your time

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Well done. I am really keen to access this book. I am researching ESD in Secondary Education, with the focus on integrated learning.

Education for Environmental Sustainability Drawing extensively on contemporary research and empirical evidence, including that from the UK, Europe, Australia and Brazil, this book sets out the key ideas,…

Thrilled that 15 May 2025 is my #book publication day! I explore #education for #environmental #sustainability in the context of #teacher #education drawing on research to consider ideas, concepts & approaches to support EfES in varied contexts & settings www.bloomsbury.com/uk/education...

I was thinking of trying to do the same myself.

Time well spent looking at these posts to underpin approaches to action identified areas for consolidation and/or intervention (depending what is outlined from your evaluations to support your SIP)

Learning for sustainability - Publications Office of the EU The EU Working Group on Learning for Sustainability is currently exploring how policy action can assist in the development and introduction of school curricula and appropriate pedagogies to improve op...

What acronym is most valued in education: AI, STEM, GCE or ESD?

It is interesting to look at the education from the supra theoretical to the nano classroom experience.

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The tyranny of the progression statement The assessment approach that never dies

Our 4 most popular Substacks this year, in reverse order.

4. The tyranny of the progression statement.

Progression statements are the global manifestation of a skills-based curriculum. They don't work & waste time.

There are better alternatives. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/the-tyrann...

AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that. The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.

"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search"

This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!

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Are you using education research ethically? Evidence-informed practice is a priority in schools, but applying researchers' findings properly requires careful thought, says Megan Dixon

‘If we want to use research, we must honour researchers and their work’: Tes columnist @damsoned.bsky.social on the importance of using education research ethically

Henry Miller’s 11 Commandments of Writing and His Daily Creative Routine “When you can’t create you can work.”

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