What needs to be in place before you launch a whole-school reading initiative? The latest blog in our Building a Reading Culture series explores the Prepare stage of implementation, with practical ideas for building readiness across your school. Read more: researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Building a reading culture: getting ready for change

Before launching a reading initiative, build the conditions that help it succeed and endure.

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The EEF has released a new guide to inclusive teaching — focused on helping every pupil to participate and succeed in school. Explore the resource here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...

The impact of feedback is mediated by a number of factors. In our latest blog in the 'building a feedback culture' series, we look at trust. Trust in the intention, the message and the process. Link below.

New Clips from the Classroom: Creating a positive feedback culture Our latest addition to the Research Schools Network Clips from the Classroom showcases Dixons Trinity Chapeltown where there is such a brilliant feedback culture. researchschool.org.uk/clips-from-t...

Creating a positive feedback culture

How teachers celebrate pupil progress and address misconceptions in a warm and rigorous way.

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The EEF's 5-a-day avoids the search for SEND-specific tricks by focusing on approaches that make learning more accessible: • Explicit instruction • Cognitive and metacognitive strategies • Scaffolding • Flexible grouping • Using technology

If we want pupils to act on feedback, we need to build their self-efficacy. Bandura identified two powerful sources: Mastery experiences - succeeding ourselves Vicarious experiences - seeing people like us succeed 🔗 ⬇️

NEW FREE WEBINAR SERIES: Check. Adapt. In this 2-part series, we explore adaptive teaching in the maths classroom. Session 1: Checking for understanding 🗓️ Wed 23 Sep ⏰️ 4 - 5pm Session 2: Making adaptations 🗓️ Wed 30 Sep ⏰️ 4 - 5pm Sign up now! buff.ly/6HrHYuL

Check. Adapt: using adaptive teaching in mathematics

A 2-part webinar aimed at teachers of Key Stages 2 to 4 and maths leaders

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📹 Have you seen Clips from the Classroom? 🗓️ Every week we spotlight a clip of a school putting evidence into practice This week, North Yorkshire Coast Research School focus on formative assessment in maths in a small school. 👀 WATCH NOW: buff.ly/mMiYPZr

Feedback is the focus of the latest Bradford Research School blog series. In this post, we explore the role of self-efficacy and how pupils' beliefs about improvement can shape their response to feedback. researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Building a feedback culture: self-efficacy

How self-efficacy shapes pupils' responses to feedback and their willingness to improve.

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This looks like a really interesting session - and it's free!

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Our final free webinar this year takes place on Monday 3.45pm! Teaching etymology and morphology can help pupils deepen their vocabulary knowledge, see patterns in words, and learn new words for themselves. Join us as we turn theory into practice: researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ev...

Recommended for secondary teachers and leaders with an interest in literacy, vocabulary and oracy. An important discussion about supporting high-quality spoken language in secondary schools. York, 8 July. Great value professional learning. www.eventbrite.com/e/supporting...

Supporting Vocabulary in Secondary School: A Research & Practice Workshop

As oracy becomes a curriculum priority, how do we give students the words for high-quality talk? Join us to bridge research and practice.

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We've published the first blog in our series on feedback. One question that prompted it was this: if feedback is so important, why do pupils sometimes ignore it? The article explores motivation, self-determination theory, and the idea of 'proactive recipience'. 🔗 below

A reading culture is easier to build when there's agreement about why reading matters. Everything else grows from there. Read: Building a Reading Culture: Starting with Why? researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Building a Reading Culture: Starting with Why?

How diagnosing the real literacy problem led to a whole-school reading culture at Dixons Croxteth.

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What does the evidence suggest about improving school attendance? This resource brings together six evidence-informed themes, examples from schools, further reading, and a summary of the evidence on attendance interventions. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...

Supporting school attendance

The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

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There is no shortage of programmes available to schools. Finding those with a credible evidence base is harder. The EEF's Promising Programmes page highlights evaluated programmes that have shown promising results on pupil attainment. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and...

Promising Programmes

The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

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Implementation frameworks are often discussed under relatively stable conditions. Many schools are operating in anything but stable conditions. This blog explores how implementation principles can help when timelines are compressed. researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Implementation at Pace

Implementation at Pace

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The social model of disability encourages us to look beyond the individual and examine the barriers around them. If a pupil struggles to access learning, how much of that sits within the pupil, and how much sits within the environment we create around them? researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

What Educators Need to Know about the Social Model of Disability

From medical model to social model

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Parental engagement can sometimes become reduced to newsletters, events or reminders. The evidence points more towards learning at home. reading together talking about school helping pupils develop routines and habits around learning Read more: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...

Parental engagement

Parental engagement refers to teachers and schools involving parents in supporting their children’s academic learning.

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A lot of implementation conversations focus on launch. This piece is more about what happens later on. Where did it all go wrong? researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Where did it all go wrong? Why implementation fails and what you can…

Where did it all go wrong? Why implementation fails and what you can do about it

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A useful implementation question: Can staff explain how this approach connects to the bigger picture? Where this link is unclear, leaders may need to spend more time building coherence, helping staff understand how it fits. Read more: researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Uniting around a Bigger Picture

For successful implementation, we can unite around a bigger picture

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You can’t assume PD will transfer into practice on its own. People return to busy classrooms and competing priorities. That’s why prompts, monitoring, and repeated practice matter so much in implementation. Read the EEF PD guidance: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...

Interesting how the same study produces differing headlines. From: “Setting in maths leads to better outcomes” to “Why mixed-ability teaching is down, but not out ” The nuance is usually where the interesting stuff sits. A few reflections on the EEF evaluation: researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Finding the Signal in the Setting Debate

Exploring what the EEF grouping study reveals about headlines, interpretation, and educational evidence.

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Implementation Decisions: How can we manage the challenges? Is the approach: Simple Well-specified Well-resourced Measurable Informed by known implementation ‘pinch points’ ? researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Find evidence-backed resources, tools, and opportunities for senior leaders and teachers working in secondary schools on the EEF website here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...

NEW: Finding the Signal in the Setting Debate A closer look at the new EEF study on setting in maths - and what it tells us about interpreting educational evidence. Read the blog researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Finding the Signal in the Setting Debate

Exploring what the EEF grouping study reveals about headlines, interpretation, and educational evidence.

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Implementation Decisions: What Does the Research Suggest? Weighing up the evidence to solve your problem researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Watch this Clip from the Classroom from Unity Research School Purposeful choice and use of manipulatives and representations to scaffold pupils’ learning. researchschool.org.uk/clips-from-t...

Last week, the EEF published an evaluation into maths grouping. Two headlines: Why mixed-ability teaching is down, but not out Another progressive myth has been demolished When the same study can produce such different headlines, how do we identify the signal from the noise? 🔗 ⬇️

Implementation Decisions: Problems and Context To get implementation right, we need to start with the problem Read more: researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Effective implementation needs to consider contextual factors, behaviours and a structured but flexible process. Read more: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...