Chris Runeckles
@chrisruneckles.bsky.social
Deputy headteacher at Downlands Community School. Author, blogger, and advocate for evidence-informed practice. Bath Rugby fan.
So proud of this celebration of our fabulous teachers. Thank you to @chrisruneckles.bsky.social for putting it together classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/t...
Teaching PiPs – Bright Spots
As we head towards the end of our first year implementing our Teaching: Principles in Practice, it seems like the perfect time to celebrate the endeavours of our brilliant teachers who have been wo…
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Super high quality #EduWeeklyRoundUp today, I thoroughly recommend having a look as there is truly something for everyone this week. #BOTW goes to @mikehobbiss.bsky.social: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 6 June 2025
Blog of the Week Mike Hobbiss – Managing attention in classrooms is a social justice issue Combining cognitive science and educational disadvantage with aplomb, this blog gives us both the wh…
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To take you into half-term, here is your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with #BOTW from @philstock.bsky.social plus tons more great stuff: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 23 May 2025
Blog of the Week Phil Stock – Universal provision: The Teacher is the Intervention More from Director of Greenshaw Research School Phil Stock on his school’s Graduated Response. Evidenc…
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The #EduWeeklyRoundUp is back with 2 new from us, #BOTW from @innerdrive.bsky.social plus lots more: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 16 May 2025
Blog of the Week Inner Drive – 10 Insights from Dylan Wiliam on Formative Assessment and the Science of Learning If your thinking about how to get formative assessment right, here is a great …
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NEW BLOG Talk in the classroom can either amplify or help overcome educational disadvantage, this blog explores how: researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
Supporting disadvantaged learners through structured talk
Director Chris Runeckles discusses how structured talk can be used to tackle educational disadvantage
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A bit of a Durrington-centric #EduWeeklyRoundUp today with #BOTW going to our own brilliant leader @shaun-allison.bsky.social and two more new ones from us. classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 2 May 2025
Blog of the Week Shaun Allison – Still Looking for the Bright Spots I know. However, in my defence this is from Shaun’s own Substack not either of our blog sites. Also, it articulates h…
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The holidays combined with a 4-day week mean I may have missed a few in the #EduWeeklyRoundUp but here is what has grabbed my attention. #BOTW goes to @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and @paulclinepsy.bsky.social plus lots more: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 25 April 2025
Blog of the Week Mike Hobbis & Paul Cline – Why subjects need their own take on the ‘cogsci revolution’ This is via the TES from Mike and Paul. I really like the way they contextualise cognitiv…
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Your Easter break #EduWeeklyRoundUp is here. A new one from us, #BOTW from Matthew Evans plus loads more great stuff: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 4 April 2025
Blog of the Week Matthew Evans – Adaptive teaching: in search of conceptual clarity Brilliant thinking and writing from Matthew here around adaptive teaching and what it really means for teac…
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Very proud to be part of this team of brilliant @theeef.bsky.social Research School leaders. We hosted our first ever joint London and the South East conference today. The focus was on literacy and disadvantage and the quality of the sessions was off the scale.
On Thursday this week, I'll be delivering the first of three webinars exploring the recently updated EEF guidance on implementation and how it can be contextualised for every-day use in schools. Sign up is here: researchschool.org.uk/durrington/e...
Effective Implementation
Led by Director - Chris Runeckles
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Here's your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with some more new blogs from us, #BOTW from @davidwindle.bsky.social plus loads more great stuff: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 28 March 2025
Blog of the Week David Windle – Entropy, attendance and implementation An interesting perspective on the EEF’s implementation guidance, here is one quote to get you started: “Unle…
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After a week off, your #EduWeeklyRoundUp is back with a bang. #BOTW to @blakeharvard.bsky.social plus loads more (particularly for those with an interest in maths): classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 21 March 2025
Blog of the Week Blake Harvard – Easy Application of Interleaving in the Classroom Blake neatly summarises a research paper on interleaving and why (it might) be worth us adding it to our reg…
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Insightful discussions at our joint Research School conference with ONA & Expertisescholen Ontwikkelkracht. Elize Jong shared professional development for a group of Dutch schools & @chrisruneckles.bsky.social from @durringresearch.bsky.social discussed professional development at scale #RSN2025
😍Look at the incredible list of workshops at UnlockED: Literacy – the Key to Social Equity! 🗝️ 🎫Find out more and get your tickets here! ⬇️ www.unlock-ed.org 📍UCL East 📆2nd April 2025 📣 @benniekara.bsky.social & Jeffrey Boakye @theeef.bsky.social
Your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with 2 new from us, #BOTW from @innerdrive.bsky.social plus loads more: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 7 March 2025
Blog of the Week Inner Drive – Boosting participation: Wait times and question types Inner Drive summarise the latest findings from new questioning research and its implications for type of q…
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NEW BLOG A short one from me on how structured talk can be a useful vehicle for teaching metacognitive thinking: researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
Metacognition and structured talk
Chris Runeckles explores supporting students to articulate metacognitive thinking and purposefully direct their learning
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Here's your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with #BOTW from @pnjfoster.bsky.social and loads more. Seems a bit of a professional development theme for those interested: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 28 February 2024
Blog of the Week Pete Foster – Autonomy Traps for School Leaders This is a debate that has been rumbling for some time. What I like about Pete’s blog is how he sets out some of the pitf…
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🥰Happy Valentines / #EduWeeklyRoundUp Day. #BOTW goes to @priteshraichura.bsky.social, there are 2 new from us on feedback, plus loads more: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 14 February 2024
Blog of the Week Pritesh Raichura – Choral Response and ‘I Say You Say’ This is really good from Pritesh. Includes the why and the when as well as the how, stongly recommend you read to the e…
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Really strong #EduWeeklyRoundUp today with several that could have been #BOTW, but in the end it goes to @clairestoneman.bsky.social. Loads of great stuff in there: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 7 February 2024
Blog of the Week Claire Stoneman – Don’t make the thing, the Thing I think this blog chimes really well with the engage and unite cross-cutting behaviours from the new implementation guidance…
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It was a pleasure to be part of induction for the new DfE RISE Advisors, co-leading a session on @theeef.bsky.social implementation guidance with @chrisruneckles.bsky.social Find out more about their roles here schoolsweek.co.uk/first-20-ris...
20 RISE advisers appointed to turnaround 'stuck' schools
Government publishes names of first 20 RISE advisers to help support 'stuck' schools
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Two top blogs from @durringresearch.bsky.social deputy directors James and Ben in this week's #EduWeeklyRoundUp. #BOTW to @alexjquigley.bsky.social plus loads more good stuff: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 31 January 2024
Blog of the Week Alex Quigley – Supporting shy pupils to talk in class Developing structured talk is a focus for many schools and teachers at the moment, here Alex shares some new research fr…
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Excellent blog by Ben Crockett from @durringresearch.bsky.social on ‘My New Year’s resolution: Embrace the vocabulary of my discipline’. You don’t need to be a geography teacher to find this insightful & useful: classteaching.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/m...
My new year’s resolution – embrace the vocabulary of my discipline.
If I am perfectly honest, I am not very good at keeping to my new year resolutions – last year it was to drink less caffeine and more water at work – but honestly, I have no idea where the oversize…
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Your #EduWeeklyRoundUp in a week there's been a ton of useful stuff coming out for schools. #BOTW to @innerdrive.bsky.social plus loads more on subjects including maths, attendance, school improvement and student motivation: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 24 January 2024
Blog of the Week Inner Drive – Teaching Unpacked: What do great teachers see? Only a short blog and not on a new study, but very interesting nonetheless. I’m always thinking about teach…
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Your #EduWeeklyRoundUp is here again. This week sees #BOTW go to @saysmiss.bsky.social plus lots of other great contributions: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 17 January 2024
Blog of the Week Kat Howard – School Improvement | Steady Work A great articulation from Kat about the importance of strategic thinking and a dogged focus when driving school improvement. Class Tea…
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A short blog from me about accountable talk, exemplifying the sort of evidence-informed strategies we have been exploring in our partnership with B&H council and schools. The project is focused on addressing educational disadvantage in the city: researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
Accountable Talk
Director Chris Runeckles shares one aspect of a literacy focused partnership with Brighton and Hove schools
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a week into our new term, it’s the perfect time to reflect on how we can inspire deeper thinking in our classrooms. How can we guide students to not only solve problems but truly understand the reasoning behind them? researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
Thinking Teaching - How can we drive the thought in our classrooms?
Durrington Director Chris Runeckles explains how his school frames routines for driving the thinking of students.
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This is the first #EduWeeklyRoundUp where I found more on @bsky.app than on the old place. The tide is certainly turning... #BOTW goes to @southgloshead.bsky.social with 12 other great reads waiting for you, just one click away: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 10 January 2024
Blog of the Week Simon Botten – We need to talk about SEND Dominating the national conversation with good reason, SEND is something we are all thinking about at the moment. Simon helps us to …
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Your Christmas #EduWeeklyRoundUp is here with #BOTW from @singhamarbeerg.bsky.social, 2 new ones from Durrington and loads more: classteaching.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/%...
🎅Weekly Round-Up: 20 December 2024🤶
Blog of the Week Amarbeer Singh Gill – Bringing Cognitive Science into the Maths classroom We’ve been getting back into cognitive load theory at Durrington recently so this is a both a …
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