Assistant Head (Teaching and Learning). WalkThrus SEAsia Trainer and Consultant. NPQSL 2024. Co-host of A Zoom With A View.
Joined May 2021
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Meaning Making and The Power of Students Talking Things Through - a common missing piece. teacherhead.com/2023/12/19/m… via @teacherhead
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The DfE white paper is clear: literacy is every teacher's responsibility.
Primary leaders, ask yourselves: Is your September INSET truly preparing colleagues to deliver on this?
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📉📈 NON-EXAMPLES! The latest edition of ⚗️DistillED includes this free one-page guide.
A non-example isn’t just a random wrong answer — it’s a carefully chosen example that is missing the critical feature that defines the concept.
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Prof Sue Buckley was a remarkable academic who discovered that learning to read helped children with DS to speak.
Beware of over-using the "we all have the same cognitive architecture" phrase when applications of techniques have to vary in particular circumstances.
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In fact, the study shows that mixed ability and setting both “hurt” students with lower prior attainment, because both models involve persistent low levels of progress for those students. Ability grouping “works” in that it favours the strongest performing, like much else in ed.
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Ability grouping, with appropriately tailored curriculum, helps high-achieving students and does not hurt others.
The research has pointed this way for a century despite generations of propaganda to the contrary, but it's good to have another reminder. Ability grouping works.
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Apr 29
What primary & secondary school leaders need to know about effective writing transition
Writing transition isn’t a baton pass where primary hands over and secondary drops it. It’s a compatibility problem. Primary writing rewards expression, description and voice. Secondary writing demands clarity, explanation and disciplinary argument.
Same word. Different conceptions.
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Apr 23
Check out "Teaching WalkThrus - Big Systems Leadership"
FREE One Day Event June 4th London
Come and hear how big systems are using @WALKTHRUs_5 to shape CPD across multiple schools: MATs, Local Authorities, Partnerships. We've got examples from England and Scotland, Sweden and Australia.
Open to all - you just have to commit to attending!
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Apr 26
We talk a lot about interventions, but transition can prove crucial for pupils with SEND.
New analysis from FFT Education Datalab looks at the move from primary to secondary for pupils with SEN.
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“In fact, if we were to map Year 1 to Year 13 in terms of knowledge, concepts and skills, would we see continuous threads (age and stage expectation appropriate)? Or would we in fact see multiple different curriculums which shunt into one another like a poorly welded car.”
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Love this from @MaryMyatt. The overarching, value-laden principle. Super and inspiring.
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After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.
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I have written a free guide on responsive teaching for @UNESCO available here: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/4822…
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Apr 11
Good modelling is harder than it looks. It requires restraint, careful selection, and that teachers to think not only about what they want students to produce, but about what they want them to notice, compare and understand. Modelling - if it is done well - transforms the quality of students’ thinking and is one of the most effective drivers for mastering new concepts.
Apr 11
NEW Five principles of effective modelling open.substack.com/pub/davidd…
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Apr 11
I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about visuals generally to start & then into those in the WalkThrus.
I'll start with this by now very familiar one. By all traditional education accounts this 'humanising profile' is unnecessary. Previous boxes & arrow diagrams should...
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Shane always platforms the most thoughtful and intelligent guests so that genuinely deep thinking around education and leadership can become the norm!
💡 @RichardWh84 spent years in a brilliant school and thought he understood why it worked.
Then he moved. Turns out he'd just been living inside something he'd never actually had to build.
Super honest leadership conversation right here:.
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Apr 2
Student Talk: It matters - not only to deepen learning but because it also just does. teacherhead.com/2026/04/02/s… via @teacherhead
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