Dr Julian Grenier CBE

Supporting struggling writers The saying goes that what gets assessed gets taught. But for teachers, when it comes to the act of writing to learn, that is not always true. Students can spend thousands of hours writing in the class...

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‘Supporting struggling writers’

5 key issues:

- Troubles with transcription
- Struggling with sentence composition
- Lost in the writing process
- Writing shifts in subjects
- Writing requires ample reading.

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YouTube video by Regions Group DfE Strategic leadership of the early years in school: EEF shares the evidence

Just checked, it may be the way I’ve formatted it?

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🖥️𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹: 𝗘𝗘𝗙 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

Thanks to everyone who's got in touch asking where they can watch the recording of the webinar which I delivered for EEF. It's on the DFE's YouTube channel ⤵️

🔗https://youtu.be/sKsmj0VWG2U?si=VHTjO9aa5m8-8Jnl

Good news re: government reinstating maintenance grants for university students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Tuition fees, interest rates on student loan debt, rising accommodation costs & more, have been making uni once more the sole preserve of the already advantaged middle/upper classes.

Thought-provoking evening with Stephen Pinker and James Harding at
@theobserveruk.bsky.social

Concluding with Philip K Dick - ‘Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away’

Thanks Megan - not sure what there is for either of us to be cynical about? I don't think my post suggests competition between regions - just an observation that 9/10 of the boroughs with the most rapid fall are in London. Recognising that doesn't mean there aren't many challenges elswhere?

From @tesmagazine.bsky.social - the 10 boroughs with biggest falls in primary school numbers over last 5 years. This is hitting London really hard.

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Spectacular Rustgill mushroom on a tree stump

Spectacular Rustgill mushrooms on a tree stump

Spectacular Rustgill mushrooms in Epping Forest today

Thanks Fran - so pleased it’s useful for your students.

Early Years High 5 | LinkedIn Early years research evidence in 5 quick reads

My newsletter Early Years High 5 is out now

1 Half of children on FSM aren’t ‘school ready’
2 Teaching assistants feel undervalued
3 Age matters in EYFS data
4 What can England learn from global SEND policy?
5 Where should the next 400 Family Hubs go?
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Pleased, and a little surprised, that this book has been downloaded over 200,000 times as a free PDF.

That's just a number. What matters is how colleagues are using these ideas to make a difference for children and families. Thank you for reading, sharing and discussing.

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Why teaching academic vocabulary matters A new school year begins, full of old routines and new challenges. It is only natural to seek out novel ideas to start the year afresh, but we should be wary they are not at the expense of long-held p...

💡 "The vocabulary is more rare, the sentence structures more complex, the patterns of imagery more elaborately constructed."

'Why teaching academic vocabulary matters'

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It’s more than a worthy successor to the brilliant previous 3 volumes of diaries - definitely recommended reading.

Leading in early years shapes everything: children's care, learning and outcomes.

I'm running a free webinar for the DFE on Wednesday 24th September 4-5pm

Strategic Leadership of the early years in school: EEF shares the evidence

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Crafting Great Sentences We can take the brilliant complexity of sentences for granted. Each sentence written in the classroom is a distillation of a near-infinite number of complex moves. For pupils, practising one sent...

💡’Crafting great sentences’

“Too often, in the classroom, sentences are modelled, but pupils don’t have a strong concept of difference sentence level moves, their functions, and how to manipulate them.”

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Great teaching and targeted academic support High quality teaching - each day and each hour - is likely to prove the greatest lever for securing success in education. Not only that, but it is likely to be disproportionately beneficial to pupils ...

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‘Great teaching and targeted academic support’

“It is no doubt a good thing to focus on improving teaching. But we should chase interventions that amplify and align with high quality teaching.”

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My companion on the Central Line across London, from Bethnal Green to White City.

Like being in the company of an old friend: wise, sometimes provocative, always thoughtful and humane @chrismullinexmp.bsky.social

Putting the EYFS Curriculum into Practice

Out in November: the comprehensively revised and updated 2nd edition of Putting the EYFS Curriculum into Practice

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Is England on the right path for inclusion? In both England and the US, SEND provision suffers from poor funding, a lack of trained professionals and system overwhelm. But their responses to these challenges have been very different, with the U...

Thought provoking and insightful piece in today’s @tesmagazine.bsky.social - what can we learn from international comparisons around inclusion and SEND/Special Education?

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How it’s going? Slightly sad to see this in Boots ⤵️

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

A small hand gives a high 5 to a big hand

📣𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀

Check out the lastest edition of my free monthly newsletter on Linkedin

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thanks for highlighting this. Really interesting to read.

A great day at the @libertytrust.bsky.social online conference. Really enjoyed listening to all the Keynote speakers @nic-crossley.bsky.social,
Margaret Mullholland, Prof Des Hewitt and of course @jonsevers.bsky.social

The best bit for me were the panel discussions…. 1/3

7 books to improve your early years provision Amid a focus on raising standards in Reception, Julian Grenier shares recommended reads for teachers and leaders who want to better understand early years pedagogy and practice

We're delighted to see @juliangrenier.bsky.social recommend in @tesmagazine.bsky.social two fantastic titles from Routledge that will improve early years provision - 'Reaching the Unseen Children' and the 'Early Childhood Quality Rating Scale'

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#EarlyYears

How Pen Green Centre build trust with parents as a starting point for… The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸: 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗣𝗲𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘂𝗺

New blog from Fliss Dewsbery ⤵️

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7 books to improve your early years provision Amid a focus on raising standards in Reception, Julian Grenier shares recommended reads for teachers and leaders who want to better understand early years pedagogy and practice

📖 7 books to improve your early years provision - my latest piece for @tesmagazine.bsky.social

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7 books to improve your early years provision Julian Grenier shares recommended reads for teachers and leaders who want to better understand early years pedagogy and practice

Amid a focus on raising standards in early years, @juliangrenier.bsky.social shares his recommended reads on pedagogy and practice

It's a huge tribute to Rob and the whole team involved that this programme is working so well. It's never easy to get this level of collaboration across agencies.

This is the kind of initiative we need to make a long term difference for children's language. Skilled Early Years staff, together with families.
Yes, it takes investment, but the knock on benefits are worth it.