Paul Atkinson

[Paul Atkinson @patkinson1610]

@BradleyKBusch @Inner_Drive Please

[Paul Atkinson @patkinson1610]

https://t.co/VmrpvYKvqg

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

If there's one video school leaders should watch about data and assessment, it's this. Tune in and share 👇🙏👇🙏

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🔄 PURPOSEFUL CIRCULATION! Most teachers circulate — but usually reactively. The research and practice suggest a different approach:

1️⃣ Break the Plane Early
As Doug Lemov recommends in TLAC... Move past the front row in the first minute. It signals presence and keeps every student accountable.

2️⃣ Use a Planned Route, Not a Zig-Zag
Expert teachers sweep the room systematically so they see more and check everyone.

3️⃣ Diagnose Precisely
A quick tracker (10 seconds per student) reveals misconceptions early — before they embed in long-term memory.

4️⃣ Feedback Should Be Actionable
Prompt → Clue → Direct. Students fix work/faulty thinking immediately, not after class.

5️⃣ Close the Loop
Revisit the students you fed back to. True formative assessment is adaptive teaching, not marking.

Circulation isn’t “walking around”. It’s a deliberate formative assessment system.

To get the full breakdown + free tracker, subscribe to ⚗️DistillED (5 minutes a week):

https://t.co/TiPSYeW9TD

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

This week’s ⚗️DistillED poll showed a clear theme: many teachers circulate, but their route often becomes inconsistent or reactive.

Other common challenges included:
🕒 Not enough time to reach everyone
🪑 Room layout limiting movement
⚠️ Circulating mainly for behaviour
🔍 Unclear what to check in students’ work

These insights highlight the need for purposeful routes and clear intentions when circulating. Read about it in the latest edition of ⚗️DistillED: https://t.co/LBnK1GNXDV

[Nathan Burns @MrMetacognition]

*NEW* Parental Guide to Metacognition

I've created a 6 page guide, specifically for parents/carers, all around the importance of metacognition, alongside almost a dozen approaches that can be incorporated at home (with examples).

Please do share and tag - free to use (please just credit my work).

Available here: https://t.co/YdanEnf8Qa

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Reading education blogs changed my life, so I want to do everything I can to share and amplify recent blogs. Here's a list of some I've really enjoyed, and I'll try and get some suggestions of quality free blogs out regularly.

Please do share and subscribe if you can - writing blogs is an intensive process and authors need encouragement or they will stop!

Claire Stoneman's characteristically beautifully written piece about the small blessings that make teaching worth it: https://t.co/JFwINfjatP

Teach Like a Champion team with some useful tips for observing lessons: https://t.co/WRCzxLF2W5

Lee Donaghy on how the most inclusive way to teach is to be clean, clear and explicit at all points: https://t.co/QgXpQw51Qy

Adam Robbins with a nifty tweak to the way you challenge poor behaviour: https://t.co/Be9gDtlky3

Shaun Allison with a slew of useful strategies for effective lesson management: https://t.co/PJRtiSSjTw

Lee Wheeler speaking my language in arguing that schools don't focus enough on retrieval practice and long term learning: https://t.co/PZRcAY4MOU

I'm posting another blog soon, and you can check out and subscribe to my account here: https://t.co/lxaU5YsSEF

Thank you to @stoneman_claire @Doug_Lemov Lee, @MrARobbins @shaun_allison Lee W (is he on X?) for writing!

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

There are over 70 one-page 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 grab them here: https://t.co/QKGJjjeiKT

[Paul Atkinson @patkinson1610]

https://t.co/YB4gB1uXu3

[Caroline Sherwood @Caroline_Alice_]

Look! 👀 Here it is! 👀

Our Line Management schedule - using @MrARobbins Middle Leadership Mastery.

The first column is our leaders are readers section. Every LM starts with this because we’re committed to developing our leaders.

The second section is running the team. We link this to our calendar so as not to miss any operational events.

The third column is about strengthening the team the HoD leads.

You’ll notice we schedule joint drop-ins because we expect the Line Manager to know the team well - led by the HoD (the expert).

The HoD has access to the whole year’s LM schedule at the start of the year; they can add anything and prepare ahead of the meeting.

🆓 Please feel free to download and edit. Or disregard! 🆓

We have one for HoY LM too - using @amymayforrester Pastoral Leadership if anyone is interested in that one.

https://t.co/B0lI8Kltbw

[Teacher's Manual @UnofficialOA]

New teachers,

Allow me to be direct:

Your biggest problem from September is going to be low level disruption.

Constant talking, interruptions, etc.

In this episode, @Strickomaster and I share strategies on how to manage it.

Get listening!

https://t.co/zmvZlc8src

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

📒 Barak Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction offers 10 evidence-based strategies that all teachers should know based on key research from cognitive science and research on master teachers. This poster outlines the lot!

👊 REPOST and grab a free HQ copy here: https://t.co/Xj2XpPGvnu

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

Rosenshine Masterclass gang -- you have mail. 9 hours of material to explore. Have fun. I certainly did.... Thanks to everyone who spent two days with me!

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🔔 These FREE one-page guides are now available to download directly from my website. Useful for PD, sparking professional conversations, and deepening understanding of evidence-informed practice—grab all four!

🙋 Equitable/Accountable Questioning
🔩 Hinge Questions
◻️ Mini-Whiteboards
❌ Poor Proxies for Learning

https://t.co/yHBoZfameE

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

📢 WHOLE CLASS FEEDBACK! This NEW one-page guide unpacks Whole Class Feedback—a high-impact, workload-friendly approach to boost pupil progress. Inspired by the book📗Feedback by @KateJones_teach and other leading edu-voices…

📥 Grab a high-quality copy in the latest edition of my 5-minute email ⚗️DistillED!

https://t.co/XLsct4uU8F

[George Coles 🏳️‍🌈 @MrColesDrama]

Can we run leadership meetings that are focused, don’t waste time and lead to action?!

Here’s how we approach SLT meetings at my school!👇

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[John Cosgrove @johncosgrove405]

Excellent (short) article from @PaulGarvey4 Ofsted still isn't listening. "The Big Listen" was actually a big exercise in obfuscation.

[Rob Chambers @RobGeog]

"You can't join the dots if you don't have any dots.." - thoroughly enjoyed the excellent webinar on "9 principles of Retrieval Practice" by @C_Hendrick and @HughesHaili on Thursday.

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🙇‍♂️ RETRIEVAL PRACTICE PRINCIPLES! This new poster is based on ‘Making Retrieval Practice Actually Work: Seven Essential Principles for Teachers to Know’ an important blog post by the excellent @C_Hendrick 🙌

Carl’s Post 👉 https://t.co/3QZ9uRxt4F

REPOST and grab a free HQ PDF here 👉 https://t.co/jxbg4hubTS