Recent Articles
These are articles on literacy, school leadership, and behaviour that have appeared in a range of publications. They include my monthly column for the Times Educational Supplement.
2013
'What makes a good teacher?': TES column (TES) (11 June 2013)'Testing Times for Grammar': My latest column for the Bury Free Press (BFP) (17 May 2013)
'Knowing Stuff': My latest column for the EADT (EADT) (15 May 2013)
'Withitness' is all you need: My latest column (TES) (3 May 2013)
TES Leadership: 'Take charge in your first few weeks': My column (TES) (3 May 2013)
'Saluting Edmund Coote': My latest column (East Anglian Daily Times) (20 March 2013)
'On Character': My latest column (Bury Free Press) (15 March 2013)'Ofsted - who do you think you are?': My latest column (TES) (22 February 2013)
'Role-Models': My latest column (East Anglian Daily Times) (20 February 2013)
'Reading is for everyone': My article for World Book Day (TES) (15 February 2013)
'In Praise of Roy Samson': My latest column (Bury Free Press) (18 January 2013)
'A Monster is Hatched': My latest column (East Anglian Daily Times) (16 January 2013)
'This Too Shall Pass': New year blog (National Education Trust) (January 2013)
2012
'The Z Word': my monthly EADT column "I am, I fear, in the bad books..." (East Anglian Daily Times) (21 November 2012)
BFP column 3: "I wanted to be Noel Edmonds ..." (Bury Free Press) (16 November 2012)
'10 things I've learned about headship': 'Layered Cake' (ASCL 'Leader' Magazine) (November 2012)
TES article: Just Say No (Times Educational Supplement) (October 2012)
BFP column 1: A Question of Choice (Bury Free Press) (October 2012)
EADT column 9: Lessons from abroad (East Anglian Daily Times) (October 2012)
BFP education supplement: Education basics (Bury Free Press) (September 2012)
TES article: 'Flippancy makes exam system look even less credible' (TES) (September 2012)
TES article: 'Aim for a PB in optimism' (Times Educational Supplement) (September 2012)
TES article: 'Avast Y! Here be the booty!' (KS3 English) (Times Educational Supplement) (September 2012)
East Anglian Daily Times column (7): On boredom (East Anglian Daily Times) (August 2012)
TES article: 'Our pupils have been sacrificed to an ideology' (Times Educational Supplement) (August 2012)
East Anglian Daily Times column (6): On boredom (East Anglian Daily Times) (July 2012)
TES column: End-of-term optimism (Times Educational Supplement) (July 2012)
East Anglian Daily Times column (5): Panto season (East Anglian Daily Times) (June 2012)TES column: Proud of state school achievements (Times Educational Supplement) (June 2012)
East Anglian Daily Times (4): The lure of 'freedom' (East Anglian Daily Times) (May 2012)TES column: Credibility Matters (Times Educational Supplement) (April 2012)National Education Trust pamphlet: 'Shouldn't Ofsted be helping to improve our schools? (NET, extract only) (January 2012)
TES column: Practical jokers are the arch villains (Times Educational Supplement) (February 2012)
East Anglian Daily Times column 3: Thinking globally (EADT) (March 2012)
TES column: Carrots fail to motivate (Times Educational Supplement) (March 2012)
The Schools Network blog: On the future – learning in 2037 (The Schools Network) (March 2012)
The Use of English article: Reclaiming English (Spring 2012)
East Anglian Daily Times column (2): Birmingham East Anglian Daily Times monthly column (1): Suffolkation (April 2012)
TES column: Credibility Matters (April 2012)
2011
TES article: More shoved than nudged (Times Educational Supplement) (January 2011)
TES article: Perhaps we should scream (Times Educational Supplement) (March 2011)
TES article: Writing's on the wall if children don't read (Times Educational Supplement) (April 2011)
TES article: Reforms give me that Domesday feeling (Times Educational Supplement) (June 2011)
TES review: David Brooks The Social Animal (Times Educational Supplement) (July 2011)
TES article: What goes on behind Ofsted's back is brilliant (Times Educational Supplement) (July 2011)
TES article: There's not much wrong with our moral compass (Times Educational Supplement) (August 2011)
NET article 'The Whitehall Signal Box' (National Education Trust) (September 2011)
TES English article 'Why talk matters' (Times Educational Supplement) (September 2011)
2010
TES article on "Cutting the frontline" (February 2010)
TES article: "Whatever your subject, you're a teacher of English" (Times Educational Supplement) (March 2010)
TeachIt article on "film" (April 2010)
Quoted in an Independent article by Richard Garner on election pledges (April 2010)
TES article: The myth of parental choice (Times Educational Supplement) (April 2010)
Teachit article: Literary Heritage (May 2010)
TES book review: Doug Lemov: Teach Like a Champion(Times Educational Supplement) (May 2010)
TES article: When the government gets put into special measures (Times Educational Supplement) (May 2010)
SecEd article on whole-school literacy (June 2010)
TES article: Mr Gove, think twice before you trifle with Ofsted (Times Educational Supplement) (June 2010)
TES article: A Monopoly game in which poor people lose (Times Educational Supplement) (August 2010)
TES article: Withitness outdoes genius (Times Educational Supplement) (October 2010)
TES article: Check the small print (Times Educational Supplement) (December 2010)
Archive
2009
January 2009:
The Safeguarding Monster
February 2009:
Cover is part of the job
March 2009:
Teaching is Sexy
April 2009:
Behaviour
June 2009:
Politicians' Expenses
August 2009:
Rarely cover
September 2009:
Exam results pantomime
October 2009:
How important is Maths?
November 2009:
The Safeguarding Monster
2008
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