Greg Ashman

Curios of the week #153 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses an exciting new podcast

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Episode #1 When Will They Learn? Greg Ashman and Caiti Wade launch the 'When Will They Learn?' podcast.

NEW PODCAST
When Will They Learn?
In which Caiti Wade and I explore what’s going on in education. In the first episode, we look at Building Thinking Classrooms and teacher professionalism.
Available on your favourite podcast source.
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Scientism in the classroom What teachers need to know

NEW FREE POST Scientism in the classroom

What teachers need to know

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Curios of the week #152 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses an article claiming explicit teaching is a ‘pedagogy of poverty’

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It is going to be the biggest ever Australian researchED.
Today, we hit 540 registrations and we are still going!
Don't miss out on being a part of this movement.
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ANNOUNCING Sharon Gillet and Kristin Bourne
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ANNOUNCING Peter Sherwin
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How I use Artificial Intelligence for planning We need to get off the hamster wheel

NEW FREE POST How I use Artificial Intelligence for planning
We need to get off the hamster wheel
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Curios of the week #150 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free preview asks what’s wrong with ‘compliance’

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a woman with red hair is making a face with the words be there or be square behind her ALT: a woman with red hair is making a face with the words be there or be square behind her

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
researchED Ballarat on 14 March was close to selling out with the waiting list about to kick in
BUT
We've had a bit of a think and come up with a solution where we can fit more people in.
NORTH of 450, here we come!
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Years later, 'metacognition and self-regulation' is still not a thing And what this means for the Education Endowment Foundation's Toolkit

NEW FREE POST Years later, 'metacognition and self-regulation' is still not a thing

And what this means for the Education Endowment Foundation's Toolkit

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Curios of the week #149 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses maths, Ontario and @nsachdeva.bsky.social

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Deakin University to run workshops in an unproven approach for all trainee teachers The Berry Street Education Model and trauma-informed practice

NEW FREE POST Deakin University to run workshops in an unproven approach for all trainee teachers

The Berry Street Education Model and trauma-informed practice

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Curios of the week #148 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free section includes some DISGUSTED teacher trainers.

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Was a teacher disciplined and labelled a potential extremist for showing a video of Trump's inauguration? We will never know for sure but it raises some interesting questions

NEW FREE POST Was a teacher disciplined and labelled a potential extremist for showing a video of Trump's inauguration?
We will never know for sure but it raises some interesting questions

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Curios of the week #147 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses a perhaps unlikely advocate for school choice

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Savage's ghosts The jilted generations

NEW FREE POST Savage's ghosts
The jilted generations

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Curios of the week #146 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses ‘flexible’ approaches to reading instruction

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Mossbourne and natural justice Why it matters

NEW FREE POST Mossbourne and natural justice

Why it matters

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Curios of the week #145 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses Sir Alan Wood’s review of Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy

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ANNOUNCING Katie Roberts-Hull
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Why Dean Ashenden is wrong about NAPLAN And why these flawed assessments are worth building on

NEW FREE POST Why Dean Ashenden is wrong about NAPLAN
And why these flawed assessments are worth building on

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Curios of the week #144 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS In the free section, I address the release of NAPLAN standardised assessment data in Australia and whether News Corp are very naughty for drawing up league tables.

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Curios of the week #143 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the existence of thinking skills

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David Didau and Carl Hendrick announced as keynote speakers at researchED Ballarat on 14 March 2026
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Why teacher training is not evidence-based A case in point

NEW FREE POST Why teacher training is not evidence-based
A case in point

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Curios of the week #142 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS In the free section I discuss an editorial about maths education in Bloomberg

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Is explicit teaching new? The argument comes full circle

NEW POST Is explicit teaching new?

The argument comes full circle

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Curios of the week #141 Everything you need to know about education right now

NEW CURIOS Free preview discusses a planned education neuroscience research centre

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Five arguments against explicit teaching #5 Explicit teaching is demotivating

NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching

#5 Explicit teaching is demotivating

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