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Prompted by the release of the UK Department for Education’s (DfE) Trust Quality Descriptions in July 2023, we have had the opportunity to reflect on how we support multi-academy trusts to meet [...]

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Teaching tips and tricks: avoiding ‘fast fashion’ professional development In an excellent blog post, Sarah Cottingham wrote about teaching ‘tips and tricks’ offered in professional development [...]

In 2021, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) released a review identifying the “characteristics of more effective professional development” (Sims et al., 2021). This led to three EFF [...]

For much of the ten years I spent as a classroom teacher, I thought that motivation came in only two flavours: extrinsic and intrinsic. I saw a binary distinction between them. Extrinsic [...]