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Philippa

@p__hardy

Leadership Lead for Learning . TES author. English teacher.

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Green penning is not teaching. In my view, from the back, it barely gets close to closing the knowledge gaps. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that it’s less likely to work than to work Tom Sherrington

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Honest, humbling and resonant. A well deserved nod to Tom Bennett OBE and those who "take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them" Bravo Tom Sherrington

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Best stuff to do to learn? Here it is! Carl Hendrick's brilliant keynote #researchEdG ... and so important to share with Ss. It's amazing how they respond when they know WHY.

Best stuff to do to learn? Here it is! 
<a href="/C_Hendrick/">Carl Hendrick</a>'s brilliant keynote #researchEdG 

... and so important to share with Ss. It's amazing how they respond when they know WHY.
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'lessons are followed up with formal write-ups detailing ‘strengths’ and ‘areas for development’ as if those can be meaningfully established in an hour. (Sometimes, schools even grade the show-ponying but let’s not go there again this time.. ) teacherhead.com/2024/05/12/the…

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You can run CPD on metacognition and Mini-White-Boards and send out links to the latest research but if your students are not behaving and working hard you are fiddling with deckchairs.

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Superb discussion on the importance of defining what scaffolding is, by the phenomenal ⁦Rachel Ball⁩ S4E32: Rachel Ball on Scaffolded Instruction and Adaptive Teaching – Education Rickshaw educationrickshaw.com/2025/05/14/s4e…

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“In other words, they were performing knowing without actually knowing. Ghostwriting their own ignorance.” Carl Hendrick, a master wordsmith