Laura Evans

Former Head of English and Assistant Headteacher.

[Estyn @EstynHMI]

Save the date!

If you’re an Estyn peer inspector, additional inspector, lay inspector, or school improvement partner in any of these sectors, please make a note of these training dates.

Invitations to register will be sent via email in due course.

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[Laura Evans @LauEvz]

@CSC_PLSupport An inspiring agenda at the #teachingreading26 conference today! Thanks to CSC for the invite 📚📖

[Reading Horizons @ReadingHorizons]

Dr. Grant Rivera shares the bold shift his district made when approaching reading instruction.

Learn how they stopped chasing solutions and started building a system.

Check out the episode here: https://t.co/fLebl1B4lN

#ReadingInstruction #StructuredLiteracy #LiteracyLeaders

[🇬🇧 TeacherToolkit.co.uk @TeacherToolkit]

🤔 When did “adaptive teaching” become a paperwork exercise?

📌 10 adaptive teaching strategies that reduce workload: better explanation, guided practice, scaffolds that fade, and smart sequencing.

🔗 Adaptive Teaching Strategies Without Extra Work! https://t.co/QSsKObXWdG

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

NEW POST: Discover Oracy: A brilliant training day with Voice 21. https://t.co/fZNbmIPvED via @teacherhead

[Reading Horizons @ReadingHorizons]

Summer school is short. Make every week count.

Our free guide shares 5 research-based strategies to help you accelerate reading growth, target skill gaps, and build student confidence.

Download: https://t.co/Eo10m9L8WK

#SummerSchool #LiteracyLeadership #ScienceOfReading

[Vocabulary Ninja @VocabularyNinja]

🏆 Resource Reminder! Whole School SPaG System!

🥷- One of our most popular resources with teachers. 10 daily SPaG questions, for Y1 to Y6. Complete with answers! Small size, perfect for trim and stick. #spag 🧠

https://t.co/94BqoaYKn6

#edutwitter #education #teacher #teaching

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

@headie_ndeme @eduleadership And the two questions each teacher needs to ask (HT Jerome Bruner) is
1) How important is it that every student gets this?
2) How important is it that every student gets this today?

[Estyn @EstynHMI]

Challenge in maths isn’t “bigger numbers or harder questions.”

It’s about building conceptual understanding and connecting ideas.

Listen to the latest episodes of our Sgwrs podcast on the teaching of maths in schools:

https://t.co/FLaya0IhmR

#SgwrsEstyn #Maths

[Darren Leslie @dnleslie]

Strongly recommend this implementation guide for school leaders from @C_Hendrick

It cuts through the noise and shows how to turn cognitive science into day-to-day practice. Clear principles, practical tools, and a focus on what actually improves learning. A genuinely useful resource for driving high-quality teaching across a school.

https://t.co/56Rej8CIc2

[Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Podcast @literacypodcast]

Big words aren’t scary… when you know how to teach them. 💪

In our latest blog, we share flexible routines and practical tips focused on helping kids own multisyllabic word reading.

👉 Teachers, this one’s for you! Click the link to read. https://t.co/UQZ6vUQAlI

[Always Keep Learning @AlwaysKeepL]

The CALM Framework

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

Fascinating new report from the World Bank summarising the global evidence on effective reading instruction.

"A fundamental insight from reading research is that children do not learn to read naturally—reading must be explicitly taught"

https://t.co/yHDcqskM0x

[Dr. Sam Bommarito @DoctorSam7]

Many teachers are unaware of the power of repeated reading. Repeated reading effect size is larger than the effect size of phonics. Putting the two together could be a real game-changer for teachers. This blog post gives the history behind Dr. Tim Rasinski's work in this area. It is loaded with great ideas for improving reading instruction in grades 1-5. .https://t.co/I8tNns8GMr

[Jon Hutchinson @jon_hutchinson_]

This is probably the most important book that any primary teacher or leader will read.

I know that’s a big statement & I don’t make it lightly.

Reading it was bittersweet - I was so sad I didn’t have it when I started, but thrilled that the profession now does.

Game changer.

[Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @ImtaBrendan]

Prefixes and Suffixes in Maths by Ben Gordon

Yes, before you ask, you can download it here:

https://t.co/NY3mQEkViy

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🏦 There’s a bank of over 50 evidence-informed A3 guides available to download for FREE from my website. Useful for building knowledge, developing a shared understanding about learning and supporting CPD!

🙏 Support my work by tapping REPOST and collect them all here: https://t.co/Xj2XpPGvnu

[Sean Morrisey @smorrisey]

Dear university education professors,

Here are some books that should be mandatory texts in your programs. X friends, add one text that you think is essential for soon to be teachers. I'm focusing on books based on research, but model application.