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‘Learning from errors: deliberate errors enhance learning’

Often a counterintuitive finding - errors and small failures are a crucial part of the learning process - we shouldn’t avoid them, but instead use them.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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My latest @tesmagazine.bsky.social column on why ‘We have to face the fact that coursework as we know it is very likely dead’.

If difficulty in detecting AI cheating means coursework is now compromised – what are the alternatives for assessment?

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
What’s next for English assessment?
In the age of AI, the days of relying on coursework as a component of A-level assessment may be numbered, writes Alex Quigley. But what are the alternatives?
www.tes.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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‘The problem with mindfulness in schools’

“In a culture that expects schools to do more and more, it is a chastening example that scaled up universal approaches cannot compensate for targeted, individual, and expert, health services.”

alexquigley.co.uk/the-problem-...
The problem with mindfulness in schools
Mindfulness is hugely popular across the world and there is a question to be asked about whether it could prove useful at scale in schools and colleges. It is clear that mental health referrals are u...
alexquigley.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Interesting study interviewing Scottish headteachers about their use of Pupil Equity Funding (equivalent of the Pupil Premium in England).

It shares perspectives on evidence use, autonomy, and the influence of local networks:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
July 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The Department for Education has published ‘The Writing Framework’.

It will be of interest for leaders & teachers in primary looking to improve writing standards and refine their practice (but it’ll be of interest to many secondary school colleagues too).

Find it here: lnkd.in/gkBw-QHJ
July 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Superb @tesmagazine.bsky.social article on the reality of the impact of EHCP tribunals on different schools:

www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
EHCP tribunals: why schools’ struggles must guide SEND reform
If the government’s plans for tackling the SEND crisis are to be successful, it has to look at the difficulties that the tribunal process is creating for schools, finds Ellen Peirson-Hagger
www.tes.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM