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Is your Curriculum for Wales curriculum-led teaching or learning-led teaching? Is the focus on getting through the content, or making sure pupils are making progress? We are CfW specialists, find out more www.impact.wales

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What are the 3 most effective & useful learning strategies supported by research? 🧠Retrieval practice or quizzing 📅Spaced practice ✏️Combining visuals & language Get in touch if you would like to know more about professional learning informed by research [email protected]

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NEW for 2025 - Impact Wales INSET Resources for schools Ready to Use, Research-Informed, and Practical! Are you looking for high-quality, ready-to-use INSET training for your staff? Do you want professional learning that is research-driven, practical, and easy to deliver? 1/4

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Did you know you can access INSET resources for Curriculum for Wales on our website? Sign up as a professional member for a little more than the price of a coffee and get access to all our CfW INSET resources & much more. Click here to join: www.impact.wales/imp...

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The aim of teaching is to help learners make new connections and organise connections into meaningful schema. Share the cue that will help pupils recall and organise the learning. Check out our sketchnote ⬇️Contact us for bespoke professional learning for teachers [email protected]

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Are you a teacher or leader currently working in a school in Wales? Do you want to stay up to date with education news, curriculum info & research-informed strategies for Wales? Join our private Facebook group, only for serving teachers in Wales. Scan the QR code to join.

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NEW for 2025 - Impact Wales INSET Resources for schools Ready to Use, Research-Informed, and Practical! Are you looking for high-quality, ready-to-use INSET training for your staff? Do you want professional learning that is research-driven, practical, and easy to deliver? 1/4

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Why people are wired to believe what they want. Teach your pupils to challenge their own beliefs by using the Risk Theory strategies on our sketchnote ⬇️ We provide research-informed professional learning for schools. Contact us [email protected] to find out more.

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Using a powerful analogy is a great way to simplify complex concepts for pupils. Use the steps on our sketchnote ⬇️💥 If you'd like to know how we can partner with you to provide INSET, professional learning or research-informed resources contact us [email protected]

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The aim of teaching is to help learners make new connections and organise connections into meaningful schema. Share the cue that will help pupils recall and organise the learning. Check out our sketchnote ⬇️Contact us for bespoke professional learning for teachers [email protected]

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Educational disadvantage affects how pupils think, feel about and plan their own learning. It's more than just test scores. Find out more in my new book published on April 9th. Pre-order your copy here: https://amzn.to/4gome99

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Did you know you can access INSET resources for Curriculum for Wales on our website? Sign up as a professional member for a little more than the price of a coffee and get access to all our CfW INSET resources & much more. Click here to join: www.impact.wales/imp...

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Ensuring your pupils are more resilient in their learning, research suggests, is about these four Cs. A big one is Competence. Using strategies like Sweller's expertise reversal effect can help. Your partners in professional learning - www.impact.wales

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Closing the Disadvantage Gap isn't just about providing subsidies to pupils suffering the effect of poverty, or interventions to those whose progress is falling behind, it's three layers of support. Use our egg analogy to make a difference to the pupils who need it the most! www.impact.wales

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Use my new book to understand disadvantage, what it is & the “best bets” from research to help the most vulnerable children succeed in life. It's super practical full of tasks, worked examples, reflective Qs & sketchnotes. Published April 9th, pre-order your copy: https://amzn.to/4gNTd74

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NEW for 2025 - Impact Wales INSET Resources for schools Ready to Use, Research-Informed, and Practical! Are you looking for high-quality, ready-to-use INSET training for your staff? Do you want professional learning that is research-driven, practical, and easy to deliver? 1/4

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Are you using these five high utility strategies from research in your classroom? We use research when we partner with schools for professional learning INSET. Find out more on our website www.impact.wales or contact [email protected]

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We had a brilliant day recently working with the Milford Haven cluster of schools on questioning, including the secondary, primaries and PRU. Take a look at what we did and let us know if you'd like a chat about professional learning for your cluster. www.impact.wales

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What are the 3 most effective & useful learning strategies supported by research? 🧠Retrieval practice or quizzing 📅Spaced practice ✏️Combining visuals & language Get in touch if you would like to know more about professional learning informed by research [email protected]

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NEW for 2025 - Impact Wales INSET Resources for schools Ready to Use, Research-Informed, and Practical! Are you looking for high-quality, ready-to-use INSET training for your staff? Do you want professional learning that is research-driven, practical, and easy to deliver? 1/4

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If you're feeling more than just tired, please ask for help. Don't leave it until you've reached crisis point. www.educationsupport... 08000 562 561

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NEW - I am so excited my book 'Closing the Disadvantage Gap in Schools: A Visual Workbook' is available now to pre-order! Some amazing headteachers, have said some wonderful things about it. Take a look ⬇️🙏 Pre-order your copy ready for April 9th here: https://amzn.to/3PHpKAt 1/6

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The latest episode of the Impact Podcast - "Money Matters to Schools in Wales" is out now. Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/778EJMB...

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Did you know you can access INSET resources for Curriculum for Wales on our website? Sign up as a professional member for a little more than the price of a coffee and get access to all our CfW INSET resources & much more. Click here to join: www.impact.wales/imp...

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For learning to stick, you need to keep on returning to it. The Leitner Flashcard method is a fabulous way of doing this. We provide professional learning for teachers that's research-informed and focused on impact. Contact us for more information [email protected]

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There are 4 practical tasks that all teachers need to become expert in to develop as curriculum designers: ✔️Data analysis - pupils' needs ✔️Active Learning Objectives ✔️Sequencing learning - coherence ✔️Assessment - to identify next steps [email protected]

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🎙️ On tomorrow’s Impact Podcast we’re talking money. 💷 Where does school funding come from in Wales, how is it distributed, and how is it spent? 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or on our website at impact.wales/podcasts #impactwales #education #learning #schools #teachers #teaching

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Becoming an independent learner able to monitor and regulate their own learning is a skill that can be taught. Check out our sketchnotes to get that process started with your pupils. Contact us to find out more about the professional learning we provide for schools [email protected]

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What are the education systems who have high standards doing? Take a look at our sketchnote. For more info on professional learning support & education news from Wales join our private Facebook group for teachers and leaders in Wales only: www.facebook.com/gro...

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Are you a teacher in Wales? Do you want to improve pedagogy in your classroom or school? Buy our super practical 12 Pedagogical Principles Professional Learning Pack now. Available in English and yn Gymraeg! www.impact.wales/new...

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There are 4 practical tasks that all teachers need to become expert in to develop as curriculum designers: ✔️Data analysis - pupils' needs ✔️Active Learning Objectives ✔️Sequencing learning - coherence ✔️Assessment - to identify next steps [email protected]

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Did you know we also provide resources yn Gymraeg. Go to www.impact.wales click ImpactPlus and select Welsh Medium to find out more.

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Emotional resilience is a skill that can be taught, practised and improved. Take a look at what research tells us about an approach that you can use with your pupils. Follow us for more info on research-informed strategies and professional learning for teachers and schools www.impact.wales

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