Joshua Perry
@joshuaperry.bsky.social
School assessment entrepeneur with a MAT background. Co-founder of Carousel Learning (retrieval practice) & Smartgrade (standardised assessment). Occasional writer of massively geeky data-heavy blogs about school MIS: https://bringmoredata.blogspot.com
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I approached this blog by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social with a fair degree of scepticism because I think coaching is an effective way to make lasting change but he certainly raises many real difficulties in implementing it well.
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Questioning Coaching
Instructional Coaching is the current Big Thing in teacher development. But is it all it's cracked up to be, and what are the common barriers to its successful implementation?
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January 5, 2026 at 11:33 AM
I approached this blog by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social with a fair degree of scepticism because I think coaching is an effective way to make lasting change but he certainly raises many real difficulties in implementing it well.
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Thanks BBC for helping us all to join the dots here.
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Thanks BBC for helping us all to join the dots here.
Is it a spoiler if I mention that The Greatest Do Now Ever is also a way to set cheat-proo, high-compliance homework @adamboxereducation.bsky.social?
The Greatest Do Now Ever™️
This is the story of how one teacher set out to create the greatest Do Now Ever, and he changed my teaching for the better.
Please share if you can 🙏
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This is the story of how one teacher set out to create the greatest Do Now Ever, and he changed my teaching for the better.
Please share if you can 🙏
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-greate...
December 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Is it a spoiler if I mention that The Greatest Do Now Ever is also a way to set cheat-proo, high-compliance homework @adamboxereducation.bsky.social?
Super blog from @scientistsinthemaking.com on retrieval practice from a US science teachers's perspective, building on @carlhendrick.substack.com's excellent recent post on lethal mutations.
scientistsinthemaking.substack.com/p/the-dos-an...
scientistsinthemaking.substack.com/p/the-dos-an...
The Dos and Don'ts of Retrieval Practice: A Teacher's Perspective
A response to Carl Hendrick's article “The Lethal Mutation of Retrieval Practice.”
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December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Super blog from @scientistsinthemaking.com on retrieval practice from a US science teachers's perspective, building on @carlhendrick.substack.com's excellent recent post on lethal mutations.
scientistsinthemaking.substack.com/p/the-dos-an...
scientistsinthemaking.substack.com/p/the-dos-an...
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I feel like I say this every week but it was just another great and fascinating episode. @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and @amymayforrester.bsky.social - congratulations on a great term of podcasts!
(PS - can you get Liz English on this platform. Loads I would like to ask her!)
(PS - can you get Liz English on this platform. Loads I would like to ask her!)
What do you get if you cross a turnaround school with a startup school?
Yup - a whole load of problems.
But Liz English is actually doing it, and leading one of the most fascinating and successful schools in the country.
TUNE IN + SHARE
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Yup - a whole load of problems.
But Liz English is actually doing it, and leading one of the most fascinating and successful schools in the country.
TUNE IN + SHARE
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What do you get if you cross a startup with a turnaround? With guest Liz English
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December 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I feel like I say this every week but it was just another great and fascinating episode. @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and @amymayforrester.bsky.social - congratulations on a great term of podcasts!
(PS - can you get Liz English on this platform. Loads I would like to ask her!)
(PS - can you get Liz English on this platform. Loads I would like to ask her!)
“Selecting an answer from a multiple-choice array is a pale shadow of producing that answer from memory.”
And other gems on how (not) to build an education app from @carlhendrick.substack.com
And other gems on how (not) to build an education app from @carlhendrick.substack.com
Why Most Education Apps Fail carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-most-e...
December 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Selecting an answer from a multiple-choice array is a pale shadow of producing that answer from memory.”
And other gems on how (not) to build an education app from @carlhendrick.substack.com
And other gems on how (not) to build an education app from @carlhendrick.substack.com
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What do you get if you cross a turnaround school with a startup school?
Yup - a whole load of problems.
But Liz English is actually doing it, and leading one of the most fascinating and successful schools in the country.
TUNE IN + SHARE
open.spotify.com/episode/3Atp...
Yup - a whole load of problems.
But Liz English is actually doing it, and leading one of the most fascinating and successful schools in the country.
TUNE IN + SHARE
open.spotify.com/episode/3Atp...
What do you get if you cross a startup with a turnaround? With guest Liz English
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
What do you get if you cross a turnaround school with a startup school?
Yup - a whole load of problems.
But Liz English is actually doing it, and leading one of the most fascinating and successful schools in the country.
TUNE IN + SHARE
open.spotify.com/episode/3Atp...
Yup - a whole load of problems.
But Liz English is actually doing it, and leading one of the most fascinating and successful schools in the country.
TUNE IN + SHARE
open.spotify.com/episode/3Atp...
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Stuck for a present idea for the special teacher in your life?
Have you thought of an individual subscription to Carousel Teaching?
Drop an email to cpd@carousel-teaching.com to find out more!
Have you thought of an individual subscription to Carousel Teaching?
Drop an email to cpd@carousel-teaching.com to find out more!
December 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Stuck for a present idea for the special teacher in your life?
Have you thought of an individual subscription to Carousel Teaching?
Drop an email to cpd@carousel-teaching.com to find out more!
Have you thought of an individual subscription to Carousel Teaching?
Drop an email to cpd@carousel-teaching.com to find out more!
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New 🚨 free Carousel Teaching course
'Beyond the Basics'
C-Scores • feedback • retrieval culture • analytics
Now available to all users in the CPD tab.
'Beyond the Basics'
C-Scores • feedback • retrieval culture • analytics
Now available to all users in the CPD tab.
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
New 🚨 free Carousel Teaching course
'Beyond the Basics'
C-Scores • feedback • retrieval culture • analytics
Now available to all users in the CPD tab.
'Beyond the Basics'
C-Scores • feedback • retrieval culture • analytics
Now available to all users in the CPD tab.
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Particularly good episode with lots of great thinking on assessment and how it can be effective. Also, I learnt a new Japanese word - kyozaikenkyu - meaning knowledge of instructional materials. If this whetted your appetite for Japanese words in an educational context….
PROFESSOR @dylanwiliam.bsky.social IN THE HOUSE
It was a real honour for me and @amymayforrester.bsky.social to interview Dylan and to talk all things schools, formative assessment, data, effective altruism and teacher improvement.
Not to be missed, please share!
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It was a real honour for me and @amymayforrester.bsky.social to interview Dylan and to talk all things schools, formative assessment, data, effective altruism and teacher improvement.
Not to be missed, please share!
open.spotify.com/episode/3Wcj...
What is formative assessment, and why should anybody care? With professor Dylan Wiliam
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December 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Particularly good episode with lots of great thinking on assessment and how it can be effective. Also, I learnt a new Japanese word - kyozaikenkyu - meaning knowledge of instructional materials. If this whetted your appetite for Japanese words in an educational context….
Measuring ed. impact is hard, but we’re proud of the methodologies and results here. It’s one school’s data, so we’re careful not to overclaim, but still, we think the correlations in the article tell us and important story.
Can we trace a link between Carousel usage and GCSE outcomes?
We analysed Carousel homework data and student results to try and find out.
Here’s what the data suggests: www.carousel-learning.com/resources/bl...
We analysed Carousel homework data and student results to try and find out.
Here’s what the data suggests: www.carousel-learning.com/resources/bl...
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Measuring ed. impact is hard, but we’re proud of the methodologies and results here. It’s one school’s data, so we’re careful not to overclaim, but still, we think the correlations in the article tell us and important story.
That’s quite some booking! Can’t wait to listen on my way home from dinner..:
How wonderful to have an episode with @dylanwiliam.bsky.social on #TheyBehaveForMe podcast with
@amymayforrester.bsky.social and
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social who did the whole interview with a tiny baby in a carrier.
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@amymayforrester.bsky.social and
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social who did the whole interview with a tiny baby in a carrier.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Wcj...
What is formative assessment, and why should anybody care? With professor Dylan Wiliam
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December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
That’s quite some booking! Can’t wait to listen on my way home from dinner..:
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NEW POST
Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time.
Please do share if you can 🙏🙏
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Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time.
Please do share if you can 🙏🙏
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-long-t...
The Long-Term Memory Problem: Why Teaching and Learning Policies Fail
Schools are very good at writing policies about in-the-moment teaching. They are much worse at strategising for long-term memory and learning.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
NEW POST
Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time.
Please do share if you can 🙏🙏
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-long-t...
Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time.
Please do share if you can 🙏🙏
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/the-long-t...
Product idea: browser extension that tracks which online shops use Evri do shipping and then blocks you from being able to buy anything from them.
December 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Product idea: browser extension that tracks which online shops use Evri do shipping and then blocks you from being able to buy anything from them.
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🚀 New 🆓 Carousel Teaching course just launched for all Carousel Learning account holders!
'Beyond the Basics: optimising your use of Carousel Learning' is now live.
Available now to all users - just log into your Carousel Learning account and click 'CPD'.
'Beyond the Basics: optimising your use of Carousel Learning' is now live.
Available now to all users - just log into your Carousel Learning account and click 'CPD'.
December 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🚀 New 🆓 Carousel Teaching course just launched for all Carousel Learning account holders!
'Beyond the Basics: optimising your use of Carousel Learning' is now live.
Available now to all users - just log into your Carousel Learning account and click 'CPD'.
'Beyond the Basics: optimising your use of Carousel Learning' is now live.
Available now to all users - just log into your Carousel Learning account and click 'CPD'.
This is @adamboxereducation.bsky.social at his finest. Fascinated to follow the thread and see if anyone disagrees with the central point.
NEW POST
On questioning, respect, and hearing the voice of every child.
Link in reply, please share if you can! 🙏🙏
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On questioning, respect, and hearing the voice of every child.
Link in reply, please share if you can! 🙏🙏
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Every student, every lesson
When we allow the loudest voices to dominate classroom conversation, we neglect to show respect and dignity to all our students, forgetting that every voice needs to be heard.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is @adamboxereducation.bsky.social at his finest. Fascinated to follow the thread and see if anyone disagrees with the central point.
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The national gap between
"What SLT think happen in their schools"
And
"What actually happens in their schools"
Is huge
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/autonomy-a...
"What SLT think happen in their schools"
And
"What actually happens in their schools"
Is huge
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/autonomy-a...
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The national gap between
"What SLT think happen in their schools"
And
"What actually happens in their schools"
Is huge
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/autonomy-a...
"What SLT think happen in their schools"
And
"What actually happens in their schools"
Is huge
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/autonomy-a...
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Retrieval practice for history
Join me for a *free* webinar exploring the common pitfalls of retrieval in history and how to avoid them.
I’ll be sharing questions from the new Carousel Edexcel History retrieval banks.
Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/retrieval-...
Join me for a *free* webinar exploring the common pitfalls of retrieval in history and how to avoid them.
I’ll be sharing questions from the new Carousel Edexcel History retrieval banks.
Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/retrieval-...
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Retrieval practice for history
Join me for a *free* webinar exploring the common pitfalls of retrieval in history and how to avoid them.
I’ll be sharing questions from the new Carousel Edexcel History retrieval banks.
Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/retrieval-...
Join me for a *free* webinar exploring the common pitfalls of retrieval in history and how to avoid them.
I’ll be sharing questions from the new Carousel Edexcel History retrieval banks.
Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/retrieval-...
Underreported key details regarding the budget pension changes as far as I can work out:
1. They don't come in until April 2029 - so time to backtrack
2. "Normal" employer/employee pension arrangments available to all aren't affected - only optional salary sacrifice.
If that's right...
1. They don't come in until April 2029 - so time to backtrack
2. "Normal" employer/employee pension arrangments available to all aren't affected - only optional salary sacrifice.
If that's right...
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Underreported key details regarding the budget pension changes as far as I can work out:
1. They don't come in until April 2029 - so time to backtrack
2. "Normal" employer/employee pension arrangments available to all aren't affected - only optional salary sacrifice.
If that's right...
1. They don't come in until April 2029 - so time to backtrack
2. "Normal" employer/employee pension arrangments available to all aren't affected - only optional salary sacrifice.
If that's right...
This is a thing we should bear in mind when considering personalised learning in education. One man’s “perfectly tailored learning content” is another man’s “bleak classroom of headphone-wearing, screen-captured antisocial individuals”.
Because I am a skinflint I have ads on Netflix and so many of them are just “why have friends when you can have a smart device?” Bleak bleak bleak.
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is a thing we should bear in mind when considering personalised learning in education. One man’s “perfectly tailored learning content” is another man’s “bleak classroom of headphone-wearing, screen-captured antisocial individuals”.
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Americans Demand New Form Of Media To Bridge Entertainment Gap While Looking From Laptop To Phone https://theonion.com/americans-demand-new-form-of-media-to-bridge-entertainm-1819576756/
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Americans Demand New Form Of Media To Bridge Entertainment Gap While Looking From Laptop To Phone https://theonion.com/americans-demand-new-form-of-media-to-bridge-entertainm-1819576756/
If you haven't found them yet, I could not recommend more highly @profbeckyallen.bsky.social's Substack on assessment. This post is particularly great - tonnes of practical thoughts that can improve anyone's assessment writing/review process.
100assessment.substack.com/p/does-your-...
100assessment.substack.com/p/does-your-...
Does Your Test Really Measure Attainment?
When summed scores mislead and how IRT helps
100assessment.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If you haven't found them yet, I could not recommend more highly @profbeckyallen.bsky.social's Substack on assessment. This post is particularly great - tonnes of practical thoughts that can improve anyone's assessment writing/review process.
100assessment.substack.com/p/does-your-...
100assessment.substack.com/p/does-your-...
Cracking blog on English homework
NEW BLOG: A question of homework in English
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-qu...
@carousel-learning.bsky.social @adamboxereducation.bsky.social
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@carousel-learning.bsky.social @adamboxereducation.bsky.social
A question of homework in English
Homework is one of those tricky things in school. The only people that seem to like it are pushy parents, who think every child should be do...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Cracking blog on English homework
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Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
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@richardselfridge.bsky.social and I will be organising some of our awesome Databusters events to look at IDSR, performance measures, and use of assessment data in schools. Watch this space for dates.
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
@richardselfridge.bsky.social and I will be organising some of our awesome Databusters events to look at IDSR, performance measures, and use of assessment data in schools. Watch this space for dates.