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Early 2027, @routledgebooks publishes Evidence-Informed Teaching Practice: The Scientific Foundations and Their Practical Implementation, edited by @New_Old_Paul, @HannahBijlsma and me. In the foreword, @DTWillingham takes on the gap between research settings and real classrooms.
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As an educational effectiveness researcher (not a learning scientist) I agree with this post.
Knowing about learning doesn't make you a learning scientist, any more than knowing about medicine makes you a medical scientist. If saying this makes me a grumpy old man, so be it; I can provide ample empirical evidence to support that title. kirschnered.nl/2026/11/12/eve…
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⏲️ONE WEEK TO GO | The Behaviour of Success Conference 2026
Next Wednesday 18 November, we will welcome over 600 school leaders to explore what works in creating positive, purposeful learning environments where every child and young person can thrive.
Delegates will hear from iour and school culture, including Tom Bennett OBE, discover effective practice from Northern Ireland and beyond, and take away practical strategies back to their school.
#BehaviourOfSuccess
@tombennett71 @ProfDanielMuijs @StuartLock @BruceNextLevel
Next Wednesday 18 November, we will welcome over 600 school leaders to explore what works in creating positive, purposeful learning environments where every child and young person can thrive.
Delegates will hear from iour and school culture, including Tom Bennett OBE, discover effective practice from Northern Ireland and beyond, and take away practical strategies back to their school.
#BehaviourOfSuccess
@tombennett71 @ProfDanielMuijs @StuartLock @BruceNextLevel
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Daniel Muijs retweeted
I support TransformED and the opportunity it presents to strengthen education in Northern Ireland. Scrutiny is important, but criticism must consider the full picture and the potential for reform to improve children’s lives.
Clearer curriculum expectations and greater consistency do not compromise teacher autonomy.
Reform must be evidence-informed, ambitious and properly supported.
My latest analysis in the Belfast News Letter below 👇
Evidence over ideology!
Clearer curriculum expectations and greater consistency do not compromise teacher autonomy.
Reform must be evidence-informed, ambitious and properly supported.
My latest analysis in the Belfast News Letter below 👇
Evidence over ideology!
Curriculum 2028: A closer look at the case for reform trib.al/QyKKkCG
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Whatever the historical connotations of Stormont, there is zero evidence that having your parliament in the centre of the capital city has any impact on people's perceptions of its responsiveness.
The SDLP wants to shut down Stormont and move the Assembly to a “more appropriate and more accessible” building in Belfast city centre.
The party argues that its plan will “bring democratic decision-making closer to the people it serves”.
Read more: tinyurl.com/2knmnzym
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The latest figures for trust in Stormont are 30% trust or tend to (2024, so likely lower now). Some illustrative comparators: Westminster: 28% somewhat/very confident. Netherlands (heart of The Hague: 24.6%. Belgium (heart of Brussels): <20%.
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Good to see this overall positive response to the curriculum consultation. Clarity and progression particularly valued. Clearly more work to do in some subjects, particularly English, History and Languages.
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT | Curriculum 2028 consultation helps shape next phase of reform.
Education Minister Paul Givan has welcomed the strong public response to the Curriculum 2028 consultation, with more than 4,300 submissions received from teachers, school leaders, parents, young akeholders across Northern Ireland.
The feedback will play a key role in refining the curriculum framework, with further engagement planned over the coming months to ensure teachers remain at the heart of the reform process.
🔗 Find out more: education-ni.gov.uk/news/givan-mor…
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Daniel Muijs retweeted
How Memory Works, by @daisychristo .
Great response across different platforms to the latest episode of The Amol Rajan Connection - out now on YouTube, Spotify. Apple and Amazon.
YouTube: youtu.be/Xcyc3LQkqjY?is…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3lcmtj…
Great response across different platforms to the latest episode of The Amol Rajan Connection - out now on YouTube, Spotify. Apple and Amazon.
YouTube: youtu.be/Xcyc3LQkqjY?is…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3lcmtj…
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Education Minister Paul Givan has published a Written Ministerial Statement setting out the Department’s position on recent criticisms of Curriculum 2028 and outlining the evidence underpinning the proposed reforms.
🔗Read the full statement here: education-ni.gov.uk/publications/w…
🔗Read the full statement here: education-ni.gov.uk/publications/w…
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Daniel Muijs retweeted
Why I don't believe in scripted approaches to teaching: On Direct Instruction and direct instruction, and why the distinction matters. danielmuijs.substack.com/p/di-and-di-wh…
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Dr Gallagher is also the architect of the NI Curriculum that is being replaced, so the new curriculum is certainly going to challenge the values on which she built the 2007 curriculum. But the PISA results for NI have not shown that curriculum to be successful. Change is needed.
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Those responsible for the awful 2007 curriculum should probably take a backseat in this…
A former director of curriculum in Northern Ireland has delivered a scathing assessment of the Department of Education's plans for curriculum reform, which she believes was “pre-determined” and “rushed”.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education…
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education…
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Why I don't believe in scripted approaches to teaching: On Direct Instruction and direct instruction, and why the distinction matters. danielmuijs.substack.com/p/di-and-di-wh…
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Daniel Muijs retweeted
And oracy enthusiasts don’t often explain that effective spoken language, to argue or persuade, draws on the conventions of *written* language. This is language not commonly used in ordinary speech.
To learn to speak well requires learning the specialised language of writing.
As Sealy says: talking floats in a sea of ‘write’. primarytimery.com/2024/06/21/tal…
To learn to speak well requires learning the specialised language of writing.
As Sealy says: talking floats in a sea of ‘write’. primarytimery.com/2024/06/21/tal…
You can only speak eloquently about things you know well. Honing speaking skills is about as useful as attempting to teach reading comprehension skills: there are a small number of useful strategies, but by far the best way is to teach subject knowledge exceptionally well. 1/
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Daniel Muijs retweeted
Imagine if the Executive parties treated the Lough Neagh scandal with even half the effort which they expended on Drumcree: Crisis meetings, emergency court cases, constant pressure - even breaking the law to achieve a goal. Instead, there's simply no urgency as the lough dies.
Factory farming is killing Lough Neagh – and despite Andrew Muir’s opposition to this, he’s incentivising it. Muir is a radically different minister - yet his ‘kill them young’ scheme is squeezing out traditional farming and encouraging US-style megafarms.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…
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Ik heb hier geen woorden voor en vooral geen goede woorden. Ik heb geen hoge pet van Agora maar dit! Dankzij de verruiming van Artikel 23 zien wij steeds meer van zulke excessen met de leerling als dupe. Het is hoogste tijd om in te grijpen. parool.nl/amsterdam/leer…
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The problem with this argument is that there is no evidence for it whatsoever, and none presented in the paper. Shouting ‘skills’ and ‘the North’ is not actually a policy for growth, or anything else.
The PM is now talking about reforming the education system to power the innovation nation he wants to be world leading and prosperous. I wrote last night (how convenient 😉) about how this might infuriate a huge number of education people in England. tomforth.co.uk/educationineng…
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Kinahan to be defended by ‘human rights lawyers’. What a surprise, not. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/da…
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