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Data: a silver lining

It was inevitable: the school closures were going to present more than a few challenges for children, parents and teachers. The challenges, however, are not insurmountable. Covid-19 may be impacting us in all walks of life, but it is also bringing...

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What do teachers want?

Fundamentally, teachers want to do the best by their students. The ideal end-goal is to be able to send our students out into the world armed with...

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Maths is for life…not just for Christmas

Have you written your Christmas list yet? What if the educational community had a stocking? What presents would we want to wake up to?

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5 top tips for NQTs to crack assessment

Your first year of teaching presents you with a wealth of challenges. How do you manage behaviour? How do you cope with the workload? How can you do...

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Measuring Progress in Education

At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, we (as the Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring, CEM, now Cambridge...

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10 ESSENTIAL READS to improve reading comprehension

How many of us, I wonder, in our first year of teaching came across that small child who was always reading, always carrying big thick books and...

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Losing track of your data?

Under the 2018 Ofsted framework, inspectors were advised to “ignore all tracking data” and from September 2019 Ofsted’s goal was to view performance...

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Celebrating World Teachers Day

‘Teaching is far and away the most important of all professions. Teachers make more difference to more people’s lives, in a way that more people feel...

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Signs of progress: what can we learn from results?

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” - Benjamin Franklin.

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Spotlight on Research – getting to grips with what’s available

“We need to make sure that research findings get into the hands of teachers in ways that are most likely to have an impact. We know how challenging...

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