Why Is It So Hard to Get School Assessment Right?
The complexity of balancing conflicting needs in school assessment
Our fourth post on 100% Assessment, a new Substack for anyone interested in school assessment by me and @profbeckyallen.bsky.social
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22.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Peps Mccrea
Alignment: The Secret Sauce of Effective Schooling?
🚨NEW VID🚨
Alignment: The Secret Sauce of Effective Schooling?
KEY MOMENTS
0:51 → The emerging evidence
2:11 → Interview w Dr Jen Barker & Jon Gilbert
5:40 → The role of codification
9:41 → Alignment vs autonomy
11:06 → Getting started
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-1B...
27.11.2024 20:12 — 👍 40 🔁 18 💬 8 📌 14
YouTube video by Jonathan Hutchinson
Building Belonging in Schools
📢The Building Belonging Project 📢
So happy to share a big project that I’ve been working on for the last few years with my LSX teammates.
The building belonging project features insights from world experts, as well as classroom resources.
And we’re just getting started!
youtu.be/t1suFA6BXvg?...
18.09.2024 19:30 — 👍 58 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 7
Ahh, sorry to miss this one! ☹️ Hope to follow along via tweets.
07.09.2024 09:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dear all SLT/middle leaders planning briefings/meetings/CPD for early next week… just have a lil check that what your planning:
- CAN’T be an email (even though there are tons of them in first week)
- IS objectively more important than individual teachers prep work
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30.08.2024 15:33 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Just love Pritesh’s work and approach. This is what I’ll be working on personally this year.
01.09.2024 14:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An interesting and useful summary, thanks Peps!
01.09.2024 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Peps Mccrea
Education Research: The Year In Review 2023/24
🚨Review of Edu-Research in 2023/24
→ 11 standout papers
→ 5 emerging themes
→ My finding/sharing process
(this is my first crack at a vid—would love any feedback, esp how it could be better next time)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=egdN...
01.09.2024 11:45 — 👍 68 🔁 36 💬 11 📌 7
Brilliant and effective set of top tips here for teachers young and old.
31.08.2024 06:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Brilliant and effective tips here!
31.08.2024 06:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Labour curriculum and assessment review panel named
Academy trust leaders, a SEND consultant and exams expert among those appointed
Breaking: The 12-member panel appointed to review the curriculum and assessment for the new Labour government has been named
Here's the full list...
30.08.2024 08:34 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 19
Agree 100%. Leading our first meeting of the year with a quick curriculum briefing from my TLR holders of any reminders, changes, key processes for relevant subject areas and then sign posting other relevant docs and future meetings for deeper discussion of relevant areas.Then individual dept time.
30.08.2024 21:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
History and Politics Publisher for Hachette Learning
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History teacher. 23 years in education. Husband. Father of 4 boys. Twinlife. Running. Parkrun Ultra. Oasis. MUFC. FPL. Guitar. Piano. History. Camping. Photography. Mancunian in Yorkshire. Views my own.
Head of History and Politics in West London. Will also post pictures of food.
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History Subject Development Lead @ Teach First | MA local history | former Head of History & Humanities | occasional author | forever emo |
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Historian, curator, former teacher, toddler mum.
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Director of history for Co-op Academies. Author for OUP. Spinning addict, reluctant runner, normally found on a beach. Views my own.
Head of History. Trust Curriculum Lead for History. Hodder CPD and textbooks. Here to teach really good history! Books, art, AWFC ….
Head of Humanities/SLT in Oxford. Interested in discussing, connecting and testing my thinking.
History teacher (14 yrs) / Humanities / leader / mentor / subject network - BeBoldHistory /
Head of Humanities at a new school in Reading. Interested in how students engage with historians in and out of the classroom. 📚Trying 🦋 but still on X
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History lead for Years 5-8. Passionate about primary history, Irish history, teaching empire among other things. I post photos of bread and Yorkshire puddings and I’m not sorry.
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