If anyone in #Yorkshire (or #Lancashire - it's not far over the border!) wants to see the amazing Flaming Lips and Beta Band at the Piece Hall in #Halifax on Thursday, I'm selling my tickets as I can't go anymore (gutted). Here's the link: secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/35006366D...

I’ve started writing again to help me think better. My blog is now on Substack - first posts are up - starting with why research needs to help us think, not just identify strategies open.substack.com/pub/mrjohnja... You can subscribe at substack.com/@mrjohnjacks... I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Contingency, teacher agency and evidence-informed principles to guide decision-making in the classroom.

Teachers do a lot of stuff.

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🆕 Introducing the Inclusive Teaching Framework – a new resource which sets out essential knowledge to help teachers understand and meet a wider range of pupils’ needs in mainstream schools. Find out what it is and why we’ve created it ⬇️🧵 (1/7)

I’ve started writing again to help me think better. My blog is now on Substack - first posts are up - starting with why research needs to help us think, not just identify strategies open.substack.com/pub/mrjohnja... You can subscribe at substack.com/@mrjohnjacks... I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Contingency, teacher agency and evidence-informed principles to guide decision-making in the classroom.

Teachers do a lot of stuff.

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I've been writing again to help my thinking! I'm also moving it over from my old blog to Substack - you can subscribe here: substack.com/@mrjohnjackson First up: why we need evidence-informed principles to guide decision-making, not only evidence-informed strategies. substack.com/@mrjohnjacks...

John Jackson | Substack

Teacher educator, maths teacher and school leader specialising in supporting teachers and leaders to develop their expertise. Currently writing a book about using evidence to inform decision-making in...

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I've been writing again to help my thinking! I'm also moving it over from my old blog to Substack - you can subscribe here: substack.com/@mrjohnjackson First up: why we need evidence-informed principles to guide decision-making, not only evidence-informed strategies. substack.com/@mrjohnjacks...

John Jackson | Substack

Teacher educator, maths teacher and school leader specialising in supporting teachers and leaders to develop their expertise. Currently writing a book about using evidence to inform decision-making in...

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Time to repost this: #UKEd #EduSky

Retrieval practice: the ups & downs of my experience

For years I've toiled with quiz questions in my biology courses (AKA core questions). I've used quiz questions as starter quizzes, to summarise key points of an explanation, as homework, and for cover...

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This is, obviously, a triumph for UK education policy (national and local), integration and social cohesion. It tells you everything you need to know about the likes of Robert Jenrick, Matt Goodwin, Neil O'Brien and David Goodhart that they regard this as a dangerous threat to our culture.

This, like the rest of the book, sums up what being in school is like and feels like - in a way nothing else I’ve read about education does. Such enjoyable writing.

Sammy Wright@sammywright.bsky.social · last yr.

Here’s something that didn’t make it into the final edit of Exam Nation… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Have you ever heard of academic press? New blog! peerreviewededucationblog.com/2025/06/14/t...

The big idea that’s affected how nearly all schools in England are led and run

In 1996, Roger Shouse sat down to pen an article for the journal, The Social Psychology of Education. He wanted to examine tensions between two visions of schooling. One stresses social cohesion (i…

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I’ve got two tickets for @brighteyesband.bsky.social in Leeds tomorrow but can’t make it ☹️ tickets on resale (face value as that’s all see tickets allows) here, seller reference JJ www.seetickets.com/rd/event/bri...

Over the last couple of months I have been watching - Expertly designed and led PD - With out-of-field maths teachers 'growing' their identity as mathematician, - Become even better at teaching students who need maths teachers the most. So important that these programmes externally evaluated. (1/n)

If you fancy some Sunday reading while you wait for the rain to pass, take a look at my most recent blog about the importance of subject knowledge in maths teaching and some ideas about how to develop it. showingmyworkingout.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/p...

Principles for maths teaching #4

This is the fourth in a short series of blogs attempting to summarise how I approach teaching maths through a few core principles. Principle 4: Make sure you know what you’re teaching Despite …

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Don’t understand why @theguardian.com is reporting the increase in FSM eligibility (a pretty universally positive bit of news) as being about taxing dead pensioners, or why it’s only number 2 on my homepage behind some Trump awfulness.

I've finally got back to writing about how I think about maths teaching. This time: what I think it means to know the maths you are teaching, and why it's important. showingmyworkingout.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/p... I'd love any thoughts, especially if you disagree! #uked #UKMathsChat

Principles for maths teaching #4

This is the fourth in a short series of blogs attempting to summarise how I approach teaching maths through a few core principles. Principle 4: Make sure you know what you’re teaching Despite being…

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Great fun talking about a paper from one of the most important maths education researchers

Talking about *mental models*? Make sure you know what you mean. It’s a popular term often used loosely. They aren’t just bits of knowledge. They’re situation-sensitive tools for thinking. This post took 2yrs to write! ☕️Grab a coffee and have a read bit.ly/3EXhJWs

5 things to know about mental models

Why do some teachers instinctively know which student to redirect with a glance and which one needs a quiet word at the door?

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Results day in person is so important for signposting those students who haven’t got the results they expected to the right organisations so they don’t miss out on courses/opportunities. Not convinced this is a good idea. www.bbc.com/news/article...

GCSE results day to change for thousands of students with new app

School leaders have welcomed the plans for digital exam grades, but said they would need "seamless" support.

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Stephen is one of the very few national journalists/commentators who cares about and actually understands education. This nails the exclusions issue, uses the word correctly, and has a Simpsons joke. Thanks @stephenkb.bsky.social

Miranda Green@greenmirandahere.bsky.social · last yr.

While we're on school policy problems - very good from @stephenkb.bsky.social today on exclusions - and the balance of social and individual costs on both sides - also, totally agree with him on widespread denialism about violence, threat and cost of the denialism www.ft.com/content/2881...

The fact that left wing, right wing, straight, LGBTQ+, gender critical, teachers, non teachers, RSE specialists, non RSE specialists & many groups who generally do not agree, all agree that showing Adolescence in schools is a really bad idea should tell the government something!

Why can no goal sometimes be the best goal? A blog I wrote for the EEF exploring how, counterintuitively, we can sometimes support pupil attention by being *less* directive: researchschool.org.uk/news/why-som...

Why sometimes the best goal is no goal ...

Using cognitive load theory to support maths teaching

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New post! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/is-it-natu...

"Is it nature or is it nurture?" is a damn good question

Some psychologists are confused about this

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'Teachers should not be having to choose between a decent pension & decent pay. It should be obvious that they are entitled to both, & it is crucial for the future of the education system that this is the case.' @pepediiasio.bsky.social cited in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Call for teachers to be able to trade pension benefits for higher salary

Research shows ‘significant minority’ of teachers would prioritise salary increases over retirement benefits but union warns they shouldn’t have to choose

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Why not start your week listening to Emma Lindley-Thompson and I talking to @kieran-m-ed.bsky.social about how concreteness fading can improve learning in maths? open.spotify.com/episode/0kaO... A pleasure to talk to Kieran about part of our 'Expert Edit' again. Download here: tinyurl.com/39cnspa5

The SW investigation might be the most important one they've ever run. It's an incredible piece of work and the results are truly shocking. Everyone should read it.

John Dickens@johndickenssw.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve been digging into the quality of EHCPs, plans that parents are dragged through court sometimes to obtain, and that are bankrupting councils What’s actually in them? Are they good quality? Personalised? Include interventions backed by evidence? Are they fully funded? The answer often is no

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

(0/13) A 🧵 about helping children you care about to learn maths. And you don't even have to be a mathematician, or even "good" at #maths, to do it. You just have to model resilience and positivity towards what they're doing, and to avoid reinforcing negative tropes. Here's how:

This report on AI and tech in maths teaching from @informededucation.com is well-worth a read. Refreshing to see such a wide-ranging, balanced view of the potential and challenges of tech in education, especially around e.g. school capacity. cdn.sanity.io/files/uiql8s...