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riley-ed.bsky.social
Maths and Economics teacher. Assistant principal. Semi-fictional cyclist and runner.
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Why do teachers in some schools keep getting better for longer? We are developing a new measure of teacher workplace social capital to find out: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...

New blog! ‘The Teachers’ knowledge that has no name’. What should we call this knowledge? heatherfblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/t... With special thanks to @michaelfordham.bsky.social

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*New post!* Choral response & 'I Say You Say' are two techniques I use with high frequency during my explanations. Although they seem simple, there is a lot of thinking behind them. bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/c...

16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks: (all open source 🔓) ↓

@carousel-learning.bsky.social Hi guys. Any news on when we can expect to see Google SSO with Carousel?

Forgive the quote-post, but this idea comes up often enough that it makes sense for me to write a stand-alone thread on here that addresses this (probably) inaccurate extrapolation of cognitive load theory. So here's a thread on why asking pupils to follow as a teacher reads probably is fine. >>

A perfect intersection.

Hat tips! 🎩 Thanks to @ecrmaths.bsky.social @riley-ed.bsky.social @mrlevmaths.bsky.social @transum.bsky.social @draustinmaths.com

Very much looking forward to the results of this one @teachertapp.bsky.social

New! My 185th gems post. Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/01/5-ma... #mathstoday #ukmathschat

Knocked this together for Y11 today for sketching quadratics and they knocked it out of the park #mathstoday ifthesewallscouldspeakblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

🚨🚨 NEW TODAY For the last 18 months, I've been working on a top secret documentary to capture & deconstruct some of best teaching in UK. Why We Made It & How To Access It (For Free): ↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQ0...

🧵This from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social links to probably biggest thing I've changed my mind on in last 5 years: the merits of working (or study) from home. Initially in post pandemic rows on it I tended to think loud critics of WFH were opening another culture war front & many did frame it that way!

Well this is very exciting… steplab.co/watch The chance to watch and learn from some amazing teachers: ‘Great Teaching, Unpacked’ - a Steplab documentary @pepsmccrea.bsky.social @joshpd.bsky.social @steplab.bsky.social

My new @tesmagazine.bsky.social column on 'Why making reading easier may be a bad choice'. Looking forward to all those AI created extracts, lovely and easy graphic summaries, or 'Shakespeare made easy'? Perhaps think again. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

This is a really great episode

New blog: ‘Making inclusion a reality, not a rhetoric’ moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/01/maki...

Did some graph transformations today (OCR quirk: no function notation). Used these two beauties #mathstoday donsteward.blogspot.com/2012/12/tran... drive.google.com/file/d/1Twqz...

Does anyone have any experience using the Sparx Maths Curriculum? Asking for a friend sparxmathscurriculum.com/overview

The 2025 Economic Report of the President is now out! 🇺🇸 Each chapter has much to offer, but I'll highlight Chpt 7: The K-12 Education System: Economic Impacts and Opportunities for Innovation. Join me for an overview of U.S. K-12 Ed in 21 figures 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

There should have been more for this

It was my turn at work to do Thought For The Day and normally I think of my own but today I just read out every word of this banger of a blog from Tom Starkey stackofmarking.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/q...

I’ve been wanting to try a different approach to teaching percentages for ages. It’s been in my head a while, but hasn’t become reality (yet).

New meta-analysis: "Early numeracy does not merely serve as a steppingstone with temporary effects on foundational mathematics; instead, it likely triggers a snowballing effect, cumulatively influencing mathematics development over time" psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

It’s here! Our new open access book on curriculum written by Tim Surma, @paulkirschner.bsky.social, @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, @timsurma.bsky.social, Nuno Crato, Elizabeth Rata, John Hattie, Claudio Van Hees, Michiel Wils, Jasper Nijlunsing and me. Download it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Not sure how I feel about this.