You don’t need to do more. You need to do less—better. Focus. #DoLessBetter #DeepWork #StayFocused #MakeProgress

You don’t need to do more. You need to do less — better. Cut distractions. Cut noise. Double down on what matters. #FocusedLiving #DoLessBetter #PriorityFirst #DeepWork

🧠 Brilliant start to the day with Jamie Pembroke’s 10 Things I’ve Learned About Data. @InsightHQ So much resonating. Schools = complex, “like a bowl of spaghetti” 🔍 “Less is more” aligns with our do less better mindset. 💭 Let’s ask: Is the data we’re collecting improving pupil outcomes? #Educakers #SchoolImprovement #DataInEducation #dolessbetter

We then turned to 🎥 Great Teaching Unpacked from Steplab — focusing on Participation. @Mr_Raichura Over the coming weeks, we’ll be concentrating fully on this one area of practice. 🎯 Do Less, Better — deep and deliberate @MaryMyatt We’re developing an Agreed Consistencies infographic — visual, quick-reference examples rooted in what we believe and how we teach. @MrZachG #DoLessBetter #AgreedConsistencies #GreatTeaching #BehaviourMatters #Rosenshine #Steplab #TheEducakers

Each week we share a Monday briefing (thanks to @MrAllington ) with staff, designed to keep our SDP priorities high profile, purposeful and connected to CPD. This week’s briefing linked directly to last week’s twilight so that the messages remain clear and connected. The twilight focused on one of our SDP priorities: Bread & Butter, Oysters & Champagne (inspired by @Emma_Turner75 's blog: Curriculum is a knife and fork ). Our writing lead worked with staff to unpick the essential elements of the writing/grammar framework for each year group. Alongside this, we re-visited our Review & Respond (R&R) approach for our independent writing to ensure it is informing the next @janeconsidine unit of writing. Read more about (R&R) in Anna’s blog 👉 open.substack.com/pub/theedu… It’s the small nudges and constant references that keep our SDP priorities at the forefront of everyone’s minds. #dolessbetter #educakers #curriculum #edutwitter #curriclumdesign #writing

📄 4,000 bills. Just 5% became law. CT’s legislature is drowning in paperwork while families drown in costs. @CTHouseGOP @CTHouseDems #CTPolitics #DoLessBetter

#dolessbetter keeping our SDP's concise and high profile. SDP 1: Excited to be working with @OPAL_CIC later this year to develop our play at lunchtimes as well as their resilience and risk-taking. SDP 2: Influenced by the work of @Emma_Turner75, her analogies and 'The Curriculum is a Knife and Fork'. We'll be looking at the basic skills and the desirables of our curriculum offer with a focus on writing this year. SDP 3: A focus on vocabulary and reading using the work of @Suchmo83 and his book Primary Reading Simplified in Key Stage 2 . EYFS and KS1 will be using The Power of Words by Emma Cate Stokes to underpin their work in this area. #primaryteaching #edutwitter #primaryleadership #curriculum

Clarity beats hustle. I stopped trying to do it all—and finally started finishing the right things. Here's how: tsamoudakis.com/prioritize-t… #DoLessBetter #Focus #Productivity

Really a Good Book in these times 📚 "Do what truly matters" This book won’t add tasks to your life—it’ll remove the noise. It’s not about getting more done, it’s about getting the right things done. Focus is your real flex in a distracted world. Some thread Below for those who wanna read it short 🌼 #Essentialism #GregMcKeown #Productivity #Minimalism #Focus #MentalClarity #LifeDesign #TimeManagement #Discipline #SelfImprovement #DoLessBetter #BookRecommendations #ReadMore

Ever feel like you’re constantly failing… at conflicting expectations? Be confident, but humble. Be assertive, but accommodating. Be productive, but don’t burn out. Be vulnerable, but not too emotional. Be present, but stay reachable 24/7. Modern life isn’t just fast—it’s full of stacked, contradictory paradigms. No wonder we’re exhausted. It’s not that you’re doing it wrong. It’s that the system you’re living in was designed by a committee of ghosts. 🔍 Learn how to spot the invisible scripts running your life—before they run you. #ParadigmFatigue #ModernLifeIsWeird #UnpackTheScript #MentalOverload #InvisibleRules #DoLessBetter

📚 CPD Spotlight: The In Action Series 📚 We love the In Action series and have built up quite the collection in our CPD library for staff! Clear, practical and rooted in evidence — these books make brilliant reading for busy teachers. One of our favourites? Rosenshine’s Principles in Action — the foundation for one of our SDP priorities last year, helping us strengthen teaching across the school. 👀 Which In Action book are you reading right now to get ready for the year ahead? #EduCakers #InActionSeries #TeacherCPD #RosenshineInAction #DoLessBetter #PrimaryEducation

Finally got time to dive into the @CharteredColl 's Impact journal (with the all important coffee and cake) and loved the focus on adaptive teaching—so many rich links to the work we've done on @teacherhead's Rosenshine’s Principles in Action. Adaptive teaching goes hand in hand with Rosenshine’s approach: modelling, scaffolding, deliberate practice, and high expectations—all tailored to meet the needs of every learner. It really brought into focus how our teaching is becoming more responsive and purposeful, both in individual classrooms and through our bespoke whole-school SEND model. Every teacher, a teacher of SEND. Every lesson, an opportunity to adapt. #EduTwitter #SEND #Rosenshine #AdaptiveTeaching #PrimaryEd #DoLessBetter

Do less...better. #Essentialism #DoLessBetter #FocusOverHustle

Your to-do app shouldn’t need its own to-do list. We made 2Doo to be stupidly simple. No fluff. Just focus. Oh, and it’s free. Go: 2doo.tech #DoLessBetter #Productivity #Focus

3 tasks to ditch: Invoices Inbox chaos Admin that makes you sigh dramatically Let Tasktide handle it, yeah? You’ve got bigger things to do. #Tasktide #VAHelp #SmallBizLife #DelegateIt #SolopreneurLife #DoLessBetter

I don't know where we'd be without AI at our school. It saves us as leaders a lot of time, as well as the collective hours saved by our teachers who use it to make and adapt texts/quizzes/ questions, find images, create slides, refine letters... the list is endless. As with anything, practise and experience is key. The more you use it, the better your prompts become and the better it 'knows' you. #dolessbetter

The Keys: Prioritize Quality Over Quantity Focus on doing fewer things exceptionally well, rather than trying to do everything at a mediocre level. #QualityOverQuantity #FocusOnExcellence #DoLessBetter #PrioritizeQuality #MasteryOverMediocrity #IntentionalLiving #EffortMatters

This is our Training and Development room lovingly known as 'The Greenhouse'. There are a range of great CPD books on offer including @WALKTHRUs_5 @teacherhead 's Rosenshine's Principles and @MaryMyatt's Back on Track. It's a corner of calm for any member of staff to read high quality research to develop their teaching and learning practice #AuthenticSchoolCulture #CPD #DoLessBetter

A few years ago, we created our Monday Briefing Newsletter to cut down on email overload. 📩✨ It quickly became a detailed document —useful, but still too much information! Staff feedback was clear: we needed to do less better. We needed a way to streamline without losing key messages. That’s where this brilliant template from @MrAllington came in. Thank you! We adapted it to fit with how we work at Lingfield; messages are concise with links to key documents where necessary. Now, it’s our go-to way of keeping everyone informed as communication is key. CPD is a priority for us, so every week, we include a CPD section linked to: ✅ Staff meetings ✅ INSETs ✅ SDP priorities The result? A focused, streamlined briefing that helps our team stay on top of what really matters. Do less, better. 🔥 #AuthenticSchoolCulture #DoLessBetter #TeacherCPD

🧵 Some brilliant external feedback on our school today – celebrating strengths & considering next steps! Yesterday's visit from a Surrey School Improvement Advisor left us feeling incredibly proud. Their role? To quality-assure all aspects of provision in Surrey schools. They spent time with our Leadership Team discussing the quality of education, safeguarding, and leadership & management. It’s a short window to showcase everything, but we always aim to highlight the best of what we do. The key takeaways? Plenty to celebrate! 🎉 ✅ A strong, welcoming feel across the school – it's an authentic place ✅ Staff recruitment & retention is a strength ✅ Governance is a strength ✅ Our commitment to teaching & learning is clear ✅ Specialist SEND provision is innovative & highly effective ✅ Children show excellent manners & conduct ✅ Safeguarding practices are robust ✅ Leadership is well-planned, deliberate & purposeful ✅ Priorities are focused and build on previous work And the best compliment of all: "I'd happily send my own children here." 💙 But we’re always looking to improve. Here are the next steps we’re focusing on: 🔹 Agreed consistency – If we set an expectation (e.g., a bell for attention, stopping to listen), it must be used every time, in every class. 🔹 Marginal gains – Small, deliberate improvements that add up, such as thoughtfully designed classroom resources  and strategic classroom layouts to maximise impact. These areas align with what we’re already working on, and it’s great to have external validation of our direction. Huge thanks to our staff – everything we achieve, we achieve together. 💙 #AuthenticSchoolCulture #DoLessBetter