We are privileged to work with some very smart, kind and caring people. Recently we asked for...
Is teaching children to read really ‘rocket science’?
Some people resist this description of the knowledge that teachers need. Not so long ago, the...
Learning to Read – what started going right?
Eighteen months ago, a parent shared her struggles to help her child, who was having reading...
Change for the Better
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...
Finding the Right Partner
Successful collaboration is all about ‘fit’ Thinking Reading is mission-driven, not sales-driven....
Ofsted and literacy – a two-edged sword?
Many readers of this blog will know that we have been working for some years to raise the...
Thinking and Reading
The well-known statement, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” is attributed to...
Am I to Blame?
Following our last post about whether schools should be holding parents accountable for children’s...
Whose Responsibility?
It came as a shock to see a letter in the Sunday Times demanding that parents be held to account...
Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51 – review
This week I watched a documentary called “Jay Blades: learning to read at 51”. The experience was...