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Opening the closed circle: why being wrong helps us find out what's right
Falsifiability, pseudoscience and why "it works for me" is a pedagogical dead end
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Good teaching is not a special measure
Why the principles that support children with special educational needs are the foundations of effective teaching for all
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Overconfident by design
How overconfidence drives action, distorts judgement, and fuels learning
Feb 11
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Couch to 5k Writing
From sentence structure to essay mastery
Feb 7
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The Feedback Continuum: why reducing feedback helps students learn
Paul Kirschner recently published this post on reducing feedback.
Feb 4
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The myth of teaching children to 'read for pleasure'
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The Dual Coding Delusion
Nov 1, 2025
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When retrieval practice goes wrong
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Are schools traumagenic?
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When retrieval practice goes wrong
Three rules for effective retrieval practice
Jan 31
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Betwixt and between: learning in liminal space
Why flexible understanding emerges slowly, unevenly, and at the cost of what we thought we knew
Jan 28
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The enduring appeal of edu-nonsense
How pseudoscience, placebo interventions and invented statistics continue to shape classroom practice despite decades of contrary evidence
Jan 24
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Are schools traumagenic?
What teachers need to know about restoring students' confidence, agency and sense of meaning in a traumagenic society
Jan 17
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The Freedom Trap
What we get wrong when we talk about freedom, choice and autonomy in schools
Jan 14
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Repost: Rave New World: An exploration of space and place in The Second Summer of Love
A repost of Claire Stoneman's essay on my novel
Jan 12
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From distress to eustress: why some stress is good for you
Three principles for teachers to think effectively about how to optimise stress levels in the classroom
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