Release day! The ebook & hardback are live. The first book for teachers based on *enactive* cognitive science, please consider leaving a review when you're done (it really helps). (Paperback readers: Amazon is having a glitch, so it's slightly delayed.) mybook.to/teachingmean...

🎉New Blog Post 🎉 Creating a culture of curiosity in schools. Practical ideas to build a curious culture in schools. Reflected on this after going through my EdD work and came up with these ideas as I went. researchtoclassroom.com/so/98PZggWwE... #EduSky #EduBlogUK #teacher #academicsky

New Blog Post

Creating a Culture of Curiosity

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How should we deal with school complexity?

The art of creating equilibrium in a world of possibilities and constraints

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What I find baffling is the almost total blindness to the fact that children have their own reasons and motivations for doing or not doing things. It's not just about capacities.

On the other hand. If only people learnt more about the law of requisite variety: there are no simple solutions for complex problems. We don't have 5 basic things that will magically solve all our reading problems.

Here is something inspired by @musingsofadr.bsky.social's post from last week about great leadership. #UKEd #EduSky open.substack.com/pub/stevenke...

What Faramir Can Teach Us About Real Leadership?

In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien gives us two brothers—Boromir and Faramir, both charged with defending their kingdom against a rising darkness.

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🚨New Post🚨 Cohesion has been a common feature of many effective teams I've worked in, however cohesion is dynamic, and not constant. As Grossman et al. (2022) discuss in their paper, cohesion can mean many things. Check out my post in cohesion below: researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/28/c...

I haven't written anything for a while... Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty #UKEd #EduSky musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...

What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty

Yesterday Claire Harley posted about sensemaking in schools, in which she poses some excellent reflective questions for leadership to consider, focussing on values and how they are communicated.&nb…

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📢 NEW BLOG POST 📢 Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to a colleague present at the CreativeEdTrust National Conference on the role of courage in leadership. Read my reflections, including on a paper by Peter Bregman below 👇🏽 researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/25/r...

Reflections on connection and courage in leadership

Reflections on Leadership through Peter Bregman’s Lens We often talk about what leaders do in schools; line management, accountability, vision setting. But much less often do we talk about what lea…

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Absolutely chuffed that my blog from yesterday has sparked this piece by @musingsofadr.bsky.social. Dan does a much better job at bringing in ideas around this than I did and I especially like the idea that the role of leadership is to reduce uncertainty in an organisation. #UKEd #EduSky

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I haven't written anything for a while... Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty #UKEd #EduSky musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...

I haven't written anything for a while... Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty #UKEd #EduSky musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...

What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty

Yesterday Claire Harley posted about sensemaking in schools, in which she poses some excellent reflective questions for leadership to consider, focussing on values and how they are communicated.&nb…

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New Blog: Sensemaking in Schools. Written whist reflecting on @eleanorbernardes.bsky.social's presentation at @belmasoffice.bsky.social. www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/sensema...

Sensemaking in Schools

Vision as a changing entity and the impact this has on how we work in schools

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New blog post ↴ ▸Decoupling lower & upper secondary curricula #UKEd #EduSky #EduBlogUK #SciTeachUK cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...

Decoupling lower & upper secondary curricula

This is because a principal end-goal of KS4 is a grade. But in KS3, the principal goal should be an invitation into the reality constructed by a subject's members.

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I suppose this is the take really, set what fits your context but there should be much more research into this to help make leaders make the right decisions

As publication day approaches, a for @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I to give thanks to all of the fabulous educators and researchers whose work has inspired, informed and shaped the book www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953 🧵 ... and feel free to tag people if missed I've that they're on Bluesky!

New blog post ↓ Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson? #UKEd #EduSky #iTeachBio #SciTeachUK

Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson?

When teachers step into the classroom, we never act alone. There is no “I do”. Each of our actions is a response, a small arc, in a continual loop consisting of ourselves, our tools, and our students.

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Conference⤵️ Secondary Science Festival (including #chatbiology speakers): Attendees get a free copy of "Difference Maker" 👌 #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio

New post⤵️ ▸The fad's purpose is what it does◂ ...and not what its authors thought it would do Educational fads seen through systems theory (AKA cybernetics). Please share (tough for bloggers recently) #UKEd #EduSky #EruditePedagogy #Cybernetics cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...

An (edu) fad's purpose is what it does

Not long ago a drive emerged against "fun" lessons. The push was to rid the focus on fun and return it to subject knowledge itself. Soon followed the argument that students had to accept boring lesson...

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Absolutely delighted by this impartial review of my book published in the journal, School Science Review (open access): www.ase.org.uk/system/files... #EduSky #UKEd #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio

→New blog post: ◂How I teach ultrafiltration and selective reabsorption in the kidney▸ Through co-construction of meaning in diagrams and dialogue – without slides, activities, lecturing, or discovering. cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol... #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio #EduSky #EduBlogUK

An impartial review of the book "Difference Maker" from Learning & the Brain. Check it out⤵️ www.learningandthebrain.com/blog/differe... #EduSky #UKEd #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio #EduSci

This week in Becoming Literary, I'm wading into the knowledge v. skills debate to frame how I teach interpretation. Take a look at how I support my students' efforts to read the word & the world! #literacies #edusky #academicsky trevoraleo.substack.com/p/on-teachin...

On Teaching Interpretation (Part 2)

Cultivating practices to read the word and the world

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This is the point for me. Here's a bunch of stuff that has been proven to work. Here's why it works. This is how it works. Now go try it and make it yours. It is one of the core principles I used when building the @literacyengine.bsky.social model for whole class modelled reading.

I think this is the difference for me too. Beliefs, shaped by prior experience, are the thing that connects to the Ladder of Inference and (my ever favourite) model of teacher dev. These differences are where the same PD input is personalised (even if we don't see it) so it's important to recognise.

Showing them practices ≠ mandating how they use them. That’s why it’s key to NOT frame those conventions as rules chiseled into tablets. They can/should be remixed, subverted, etc. but in ways that do so consciously. Less about good/bad & more about HOW/WHY they use/reject/remix those conventions.

New post is live! This week I’m diving into how I frame and teach interpretation to my Ss. Turns out I have a lot to say, so I had to split it into two posts. #literacies #academicsky #edusky #eruditepedagogy open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

On Teaching Interpretation (Part 1)

Tangible tools for improving students' interpretive practices

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New blog post: The distinction between content and metacontent is key to develop curricula and teaching for long-term learning. cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol... #UKEd #EduBlogUK #SciTeachUK #EruditePedagogy #EduSky

Enacting Systems Theory: I've been designing a new Y8 (12-13 year old) biology curriculum. Here's a stock & flow model I've designed for teaching seed dispersal. It took a few iterations to get there, thanks to help from @musingsofadr.bsky.social @mrbates.bsky.social #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio #EduSci

This is an important response to the Mossbourne story. No school is any one thing which is a problem for attack articles because in implying it's a universal awful experience for everyone they'll inevitably upset people. www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

Mossbourne schools can change young lives for the better

While the rules can be strict and firm, the vast majority of children are well-adjusted, happy and well-cared for

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