Craig Brown

Director of Education at OAK MAT. Former maths teacher. Passionate about improving education.

[Overdale Infant School @OverdaleInfant]

Today we are thrilled to host our first @Steplab_co Hub day. We will be sharing our coaching journey with schools from across the country.

[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@OakMATrust @ojsinfo @OverdaleInfant @OadbyBrookside @ManorHighSchool @Woodland_Grange Some wonderfully creative stories today! Congratulations to all.

[Oak Trust @OakMATrust]

A big congratulations to our finalists of the 500 Words competition and a special mention to the award winners. Some wonderful stories and reflection of some true talent. Thanks to our guest readers too!
@ojsinfo
@OverdaleInfant
@OadbyBrookside
@ManorHighSchool
@Woodland_Grange

[Hawthorn Community Primary School @hawthornpri]

Fabulous day of instructional coaching training today with @Steplab_co, @OakMATrust, @EmbraceMAT, @CraigBrownEd. So good to focus on how we can develop our teachers’ expertise through powerful coaching conversations.

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

All the links from Developing Expert Teaching:

https://t.co/QJ0CRfwxT9

(as many as possible are open source 🔓)

[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@hawthornpri @OAK_CEO @OverdaleInfant @ojsinfo @OadbyBrookside @Woodland_Grange

[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@OakMATrust hosting a @Steplab_co conference today for our superb leaders and coaches. Working on ‘great coaching conversations’ with the awesome @AniaTownsend. Great to collaborate with @EmbraceMAT and @PathfinderSch schools today 👏🏻

[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@BoundlessLtd @lrts Thank you!

[Andrew Wilson @OAK_CEO]

Following the huge success of Liam Powell in building Manor High to being such a great school, we are now looking for his successor who will lead the school into its next chapter and be a leader across OAK. Are you ready for the challenge? https://t.co/i9lvzpTCpC

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

I go to a lot of schools, and everyone is focusing on metacognition or dual coding or disciplinary this or curriculum intent that. Then I go into lessons, and teachers are asking questions and students are calling out answers or tchrs are picking ones with hands up. Fix that.

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[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@MrsLisseman @Steplab_co @Josh_CPD @HFletcherWood @AniaTownsend @rs_sewell So jealous!

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

🚨 NEW: Today, we’ve launched new resources designed to support early years professionals in using evidence to their advantage:

The updated Early Years Toolkit

The Early Years Evidence store

Explore now: https://t.co/CRw6X6so8y

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[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@riley_ed Glad it wasn’t zero chance!

[Joe Kirby @joe__kirby]

Hornets, Slugs, Bees and Butterflies: the workload relief revolution

https://t.co/T5LQKCrudN

🐌a let-go-of list of 20 slugs
💥a not-to-do list of 18 hornets
🐝a keep-doing list of 10 honeybees
🦋a start-doing-list of 12 butterflies

✊ join the revolution

[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@ManorTech @ManorHighSchool Wow! Awesome achievement.

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

🚨EXCITING NEWS🚨

Today, I'm launching a weekly 5-min email for teachers who are keen to keep up-to-date with thinking and research around effective teaching.

It's called 'Evidence Snacks'. Here's the lowdown:

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[Peps @PepsMccrea]

Variation theory is a powertool for building understanding in the classroom. But many teachers have never even heard of it.

Here's what variation is and how to use it:

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[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@sally_birch @leicestermuseum That’s incredible!

[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@ATTIDeputy @HFletcherWood @nickpointer_ @JonathanGadd10 @lucyhodsonteach Awesome! Thoroughly deserved ⭐️

[Craig Brown @CraigBrownEd]

@riley_ed @deferrers @SparxMaths Wow 😯