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Merry Christmas from Educational Psychology Services for Schools
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Merry Christmas from Educational Psychology Services for Schools
The key to successfully using FASE will be carefully matching the excerpt to be read to the individual child- and not putting children in a position where they dread being called upon.
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Science of Reading Classroom (@scienceofreadingclassroom)
Lately, there's been a lot of talk in the SoR world about the value of reading full novels as a class. One major obstacle: teaching full books isn't easy. Student reading levels vary dramatically in…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The key to successfully using FASE will be carefully matching the excerpt to be read to the individual child- and not putting children in a position where they dread being called upon.
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There is a debate about the best way to teach reading. However, irrespective of which pedegogy informs practice, joy in reading is a must!
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Science of Reading Classroom (@scienceofreadingclassroom)
The next time someone claims that “the science of reading” is joyless, please share this piece!!!
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December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There is a debate about the best way to teach reading. However, irrespective of which pedegogy informs practice, joy in reading is a must!
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Loving this tip (and that it has a reference 😇)
🍎 Tuesday Teaching Tip (T3): Strengthen learning with retrieval!
Swap re-reading for quick recall. Try a 2-min brain dump, a no-stakes quiz, or ask students to "explain without notes." These simple routines help students pull knowledge from memory and build strong, more durable learning.
Swap re-reading for quick recall. Try a 2-min brain dump, a no-stakes quiz, or ask students to "explain without notes." These simple routines help students pull knowledge from memory and build strong, more durable learning.
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Loving this tip (and that it has a reference 😇)
Becoming poverty informed...it's a must. However- surely this means we need material change?
Seasonal #poverty in #schools: As temperatures drop & financial pressures on families rise, how can schools respond with compassion & purpose? Drawing on the C.A.R.E. principles Sean Harris – @thatpovertyguy.bsky.social – shares practical ways for schools to become poverty-informed:
Seasonal hardship: How schools can help families with the cost of winter - SecEd
The cost of winter puts pressure on families living in poverty but there are practical ways that schools can support
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December 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Becoming poverty informed...it's a must. However- surely this means we need material change?
Certainly girls' attainment seems to raise social consternation- perhaps this blog has good ideas about why. "The problem isn’t girls’ gains—it’s a competitive culture that equates boys’ worth with dominance over other boys and offers no workable script for competing with girls as peers."
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
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December 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Certainly girls' attainment seems to raise social consternation- perhaps this blog has good ideas about why. "The problem isn’t girls’ gains—it’s a competitive culture that equates boys’ worth with dominance over other boys and offers no workable script for competing with girls as peers."
Three great strategies for reading whole books in class, from the Science of Reading Classroom blog.
How to Read Whole Books In Class
Lately, a debate has taken over the science of reading community: should we read whole books in ELA class? While this might seem like a no-brainer to the general populace (uh, of course we should, the...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Three great strategies for reading whole books in class, from the Science of Reading Classroom blog.
Great blog on metacognitive routines and how they can be used to support learning.
The Power of Quiet Engagement in the Classroom
In many classrooms, we mistake noise and activity for real learning.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great blog on metacognitive routines and how they can be used to support learning.
Enjoying this blog on teaching modern foreign languages (and I bet the activities work equally well for teaching English language too).
Writing in Colours
If you can afford coloured pens (and stop the rest of the department using them for colouring in), then writing in colours can be a great w...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Enjoying this blog on teaching modern foreign languages (and I bet the activities work equally well for teaching English language too).
Deficit thinking is often too abstract to help move understanding on, yet specific enough to build barriers to the belief it is possible.
David Didau (@daviddidau)
On designing effective assessment
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November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Deficit thinking is often too abstract to help move understanding on, yet specific enough to build barriers to the belief it is possible.
The ever-present difficuly of the 'spend to save' paradox.
Superb analysis from @warrencarratt.bsky.social that tells schools leaders what they need to know about the fallout from the Budget regarding SEND.
"Reforms will all require, in the short term, more funding, not less, if we are to turn this system into one our country can be proud of"
"Reforms will all require, in the short term, more funding, not less, if we are to turn this system into one our country can be proud of"
The Budget was light on detail on plans for SEND, but presented critical questions for school leaders. Trust leader @warrencarratt.bsky.social looks to provide some answers
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The ever-present difficuly of the 'spend to save' paradox.
However, from an Educational Psychology point of view, meaningul changes to support the child, family and school can be made without waiting for diagnostic assessments. Indeed, even when these have happened, EPs are often needed to 'translate' the findings into actions schools can take 🤔
SEND area inspection reports show that Long waits for assessments, diagnosis and health services have been repeatedly highlighted for areas found to have systemic failings in special educational needs provision. My analysis for @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Ofsted SEND inspections: key failings revealed
Tes analysis highlights the main findings in SEND inspection reports for the areas found to have systemic or widespread failings this year
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November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
However, from an Educational Psychology point of view, meaningul changes to support the child, family and school can be made without waiting for diagnostic assessments. Indeed, even when these have happened, EPs are often needed to 'translate' the findings into actions schools can take 🤔
Just because "awe & wonder" should be on the curriculum...
Huge discovery - how little we understand about the #biodiversity that we are fast-trashing
"Key parts of the eukaryotic story remain hidden in places we rarely explore."
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"Key parts of the eukaryotic story remain hidden in places we rarely explore."
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Newly Discovered Organism Could Represent a Whole New Branch in The Tree of Life
It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Just because "awe & wonder" should be on the curriculum...
Useful analysis of the SEND crisis "Contrary to headlines about SEND doubling since 2010, the overall percentage of children with SEND has not dramatically risen. What has gone up is the proportion of those children designated as needing an EHCP for support."
Are EHCPs really driving the SEND crisis?
Education, health and care plans have been blamed for an unsustainable rise in special educational needs in schools, but would scrapping or limiting these plans fix the problem?
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November 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Useful analysis of the SEND crisis "Contrary to headlines about SEND doubling since 2010, the overall percentage of children with SEND has not dramatically risen. What has gone up is the proportion of those children designated as needing an EHCP for support."
The curriculum is always designed to meet the needs that can be envisioned for the current workforce. It's therefore always at least decade behind where the world will be when pupils finish their studies.
IOE academics weigh in on the Curriculum and Assessment Review, a 🧵
"Cooperation, more than competition, will secure young people’s futures... knowledge without the capacity to bring about change is a fast-devaluing currency" says @ruperthigham.bsky.social
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"Cooperation, more than competition, will secure young people’s futures... knowledge without the capacity to bring about change is a fast-devaluing currency" says @ruperthigham.bsky.social
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England’s curriculum review needs to be more radical | Letters
Letters: Dr Rupert Higham, Caroline Norbury and Colin Richards on recommendations in the Francis report
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November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The curriculum is always designed to meet the needs that can be envisioned for the current workforce. It's therefore always at least decade behind where the world will be when pupils finish their studies.
Schools are a reflection of dominant interests in society- both "caused by" and a "response to" social norms.
To me, the biggest problem with this article is that it equates ADHD and autism with being "unwell." That's ableist, and it undermines the author's argument (which I agree with) that schools' narrow criteria for what is "normal" contributes to psych diagnoses for students.
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Schools are a reflection of dominant interests in society- both "caused by" and a "response to" social norms.
Now this study seems rich in potential for educators...but too removed from classrroom realities, as it stands...
Why do some self-regulated learning interventions seem to benefit less competent students more than their competent peers, but others seem to benefit only the already competent students? Well...(1/2)
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Now this study seems rich in potential for educators...but too removed from classrroom realities, as it stands...
This blog is about an American state, but the question remains: How much influence do teacher voices have at the table?
Teacher Voices Can Improve Policy–If We Listen
When it comes to education policymaking at the state level, lots of cooks are typically in the kitchen: legislators, state board members, education department officials, union representatives, nonprof...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This blog is about an American state, but the question remains: How much influence do teacher voices have at the table?
Nice blog on the effective use of whiteboards to ensure effective teaching. open.substack.com/pub/lstam/p/...
Mini Whiteboards
Knowledge-Building for Teachers Series
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November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Nice blog on the effective use of whiteboards to ensure effective teaching. open.substack.com/pub/lstam/p/...
Loving this blog on getting the most from peer interaction in class.
Turn and Talk: A Small Move That Changes the Room
Hi Champions,
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November 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Loving this blog on getting the most from peer interaction in class.
Interesting information about developing phonics instruction. English has a 'deep orthography' which means that compared to other European languages, contextual teaching of phonics makes a lot of sense.
Harriett Janetos (@harriettjanetos)
Spectacularly helpful! These are the questions being posed right now in Wales as Dominic Wyse (The Balancing Act) pushes the Literacy Panel to adopt contextualized phonics instruction where orthograph...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Interesting information about developing phonics instruction. English has a 'deep orthography' which means that compared to other European languages, contextual teaching of phonics makes a lot of sense.
Great blog on what would call 'mediated learning'- and what I know I look for when I observe in class.
Mini-Whiteboards: A Long-Overdue Rant (and Love Letter)
A Slice of Primary Leadership
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November 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Great blog on what would call 'mediated learning'- and what I know I look for when I observe in class.
What a shame that this just seems to be Scotland! Looks really interesting.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What a shame that this just seems to be Scotland! Looks really interesting.
Practical strategies for inclusion - based on our own Dr Gibb's original research and teaching practice. www.edpsychschool.com/post/buildin...
Building inclusive schools: Practical strategies that make inclusion work
Creating genuinely inclusive schools is no longer an optional aspiration; it is a core educational responsibility and one endorsed by the UK government. Yet, many teachers and leaders know from experi...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Practical strategies for inclusion - based on our own Dr Gibb's original research and teaching practice. www.edpsychschool.com/post/buildin...
