Good ideas can fail quite easily without careful leadership In our last two posts, here and here,...
Low Fidelity
Without fidelity, we can’t expect reliable outcomes – and crucially, we won’t know what went...
High Fidelity?
Education does not have an evidence problem – it has an implementation problem. In recent years...
Thinking and Reading
The well-known statement, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” is attributed to...
How to Build Independent Learners
The adage, ‘everything works somewhere and nothing works everywhere’ can result in teachers...
Papering over the Reading Gap
What does the adoption of a ‘visual stress’ approach to reading difficulties tell us about the...
How to get long-term benefit from your tutoring funding
Lockdown has undoubtedly set back many children’s education, but without doubt the most seriously...
Speed Wobbles
Teachers of any subject will be familiar with the student who struggles to work their way through...
Barriers to Success – The Bridge Over the Reading Gap revisited (Part 6)
Following up the long list of questions from our researched Home presentation on 30 April 2020, we...
Assessment – The Bridge Over the Reading Gap revisited (Part 1)
Following up the long list of questions from our researched Home presentation on 30 April 2020, we...
When ‘near enough’ is not good enough
There is a tremendous amount of potential in education research. Sadly, this potential is largely...
Sympathy is no substitute for effective teaching
Why being sympathetic doesn’t cut it as a reading teacher The first rule of effective teaching of...