Tom Spreyer

Vice Principal, Outwood Grange Academies Trust

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

So much about learning is counterintuitive. #reDDE

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

Dumbfounded when I hear "every child learns differently."
1) They literally don't. Scientists can make generalizations about the mechanism across people.
2) If every child *did* learn differently, experience would be meaningless. A teacher would be a novice with each new child.

[Tom Spreyer @tomspreyer]

@PepsMccrea right on the nub of the problem here. Great post

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

'Means-ends conflation' is responsible for some of the biggest misconceptions (and rifts) in education.

Let's unpack it:

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[Robert Coe @ProfCoe]

Slides for my talk ‘Why you need feedback more than you think you do’ are here:
https://t.co/2oy9PBKkdY

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

Back to school & want to build a strong culture?

Here is a thread 🧵 of 5 blog posts with concrete strategies that you can implement from day 1.

1. Four Whole School Strategies to set pupils up to pay 100% attention in your lessons. 1/5
https://t.co/xY6M3tl24q

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

For any new teachers: Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Teaching https://t.co/gTWqJlV2uE

[Tom Spreyer @tomspreyer]

@mfordhamhistory I don’t think the NC stops much being taught. Limitations are more about time and availability of specialists. But interested to read others’ comments on this

[Tom Spreyer @tomspreyer]

@joel120193 @mfordhamhistory We used to run an ‘intro to political theory’ course in history at end of Y9. The basic ‘isms, collective bargaining etc. went down well.

[Tom Spreyer @tomspreyer]

@BenIrvineAuthor @BenIrvineAuthor hopefully you saw the note I left on your front door yesterday. I was passing so thought I’d try to see you. All the best,

[Tom Spreyer @tomspreyer]

@oldandrewuk {insert feedback here} delivered by email a fortnight later.

[Tom Spreyer @tomspreyer]

@oldandrewuk History teaching is all about skills. All the knowledge they’ll need can be found online.

[Joe Kirby @joe__kirby]

Four question sets for how we develop ourselves as school leaders

https://t.co/dCWblLaJYo

loads we can learn from @TomRees_77 & @barker_j

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

This term we've launched 3 exciting new projects at No More Marking.

• Comparative Judgement for Oracy
• Secondary Maths Assessment
• No More Marking Writing Progression

Scroll down for more info & links.

[Tom Spreyer @tomspreyer]

@mfordhamhistory For me, some tools are extremely easy to use badly, eg ppt., making them potentially useful but regularly unhelpful.

[Stephen Fletcher @MrFletcher1205]

A useful guide to the upcoming attendance codes.

[Joe Kirby @joe__kirby]

Problem-solving in school improvement: Viviane Robinson and the Shoulders of Giants

https://t.co/9h3nq7yjnQ

⛰️ 40 years of research
⛰️ 10 insights
⛰️ 10 mistakes I keep making
⛰️ 10 questions to ask

What can we see from the vantage point of giants' shoulders?

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

Are rewards good or bad for learning?

Well, it depends. To understand why, we need to dive into the 2 main sources of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic.

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[Peps @PepsMccrea]

Anyway, here are the 5 powerful yet unintuitive things leaders can double down on to create the conditions for accelerated development:

1. Distractions
2. Attention
3. Routines
4. Norms
5. Alignment

Let's look briefly at each...

(deep breath)

[Tom Spreyer @tomspreyer]

@misswynnetweets @OutwoodCity @DigSchoolhouse @boneloaf Wow! Well done team city!