Teacher Toolkit

23/09/2026

A brilliant day with teachers and classroom assistants at Smithdown Primary School, Liverpool = developing curriculum planning.

A few more bits of work inbetween, and back in-person in January 2027.

23/09/2026

The key questions school leaders sometimes MISS when completing a learning walk or work scrutiny... (11m 20s) 👀 🎥

🚶 Are learning walks helping school leaders understand teaching, or...

23/09/2026

🚀 NEW

What happens when schools cannot give every teacher a coaching opportunity?

Why instructional coaching stalls in schools and how AI can help teachers scale coaching without replacing human expertise.

22/09/2026

Oh my goodness!

It's been a busy 6 weeks back to school.

1. Working with a lovely primary school in tomorrow.

2. Then jetting off to Belfast with work with St. Colman's College in ,

3. Then back to North Wales (early next week) to work with the brilliant staff at St. Brigid's School in ... Did I tell you they have an observatory in their school grounds?

22/09/2026

Webinar + Slide Deck Resource: 5 Ideas to Support Cognitive Load in Practice

In this resource, you’ll be presented with 5 ideas to help understand cognitive load, what to do and what to avoid in the classroom.

21/09/2026

Delighted to be launching a new nine-part CPD programme for 2026/27, based on my new book, The Teacher Toolkit Guide to the Science of Learning.

Nine conversations. One coherent journey—from brain to classroom. https://buff.ly/XqNGomb

21/09/2026

If teaching and learning policies recognise written marking but barely acknowledge verbal and non-verbal assessment, quality assurance will inevitably privilege the evidence it can see.

Book scrutiny can tell leaders something about students’ work, but it cannot capture every question, gesture, explanation, demonstration or responsive decision that preceded it.

Move Beyond Live Feedback - It's so Old School!

Move beyond live marking: discover structured, scalable feedback strategies to improve teaching, reduce workload, and aid student progress.

21/09/2026

Which features help pupils transfer principles from worked examples to unfamiliar problems?

This research suggests that worked examples support initial acquisition, but transfer is not automatic.

https://buff.ly/9a5ddWL

21/09/2026

Retrieval practice is most effective when it becomes part of a school's everyday culture rather than an isolated classroom activity.

Download ⬇️ How Retrieval Practice Can Fail https://buff.ly/jnzY1mG

20/09/2026

Are learning walks helping school leaders understand teaching, or encouraging judgements from a brief classroom snapshot?

🚶 Are learning walks helping school leaders understand teaching, or...