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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 5h

Leading Pedagogy Workshop – 20 Nov 2025, 9:30am–2pm

🔹 For middle leaders & aspiring pedagogy leads
🔹 Explore research-informed strategies
🔹 Align with Estyn expectations
🔹 Develop a departmental/school-wide improvement plan

£295 + VAT (1st) | £195 + VAT (additional)
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Leading Pedagogy Workshop -20/11/25

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 7h

Every Weds during term time we publish a podcast episode on a range of current educational topics.
You can listen to the latest and all of our previous episodes here: impact.wales/podcasts or just search 'The Impact Podcast' on whichever podcast platform you use. Simples!

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 19h

🧠 Pupils remember more when they organise what they learn. Mandler’s Organisation Theory shows categorising knowledge boosts recall + retention.

👉 Teachers: do you use sorting/organising tasks? Which work best in your classroom?

#TeachingAndLearning #CognitiveScience

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 1d

Plaid will announce plans today to improve standards of reading by introducing "a Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Plan to set national benchmarks, provide targeted support, and introduce consistent methods of tracking pupils’ progress."

This will definitely be one to watch 🧐

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

Plaid Cymru has announced a new strategy to improve literacy and numeracy across Welsh schools and address what it describes as a growing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention

Plaid Cymru sets out new education plan to improve literacy and numeracy

Plaid Cymru has announced a new strategy to improve literacy and numeracy across Welsh schools and address what it describes as a growing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention. At the party’s an...

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 1d

What are 2 well replicated and robust research-informed "best bets" for improving learning?

1️⃣ Spaced practice
2️⃣ Retrieval practice

Include them both when you use the Leitner Flashcard Method with your pupils.

Contact us for professional learning [email protected]

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 1d

...5️⃣Self-explanation

Check out our sketchnote for worked examples & ideas on how to use them.

Contact us for more professional learning informed by robust international research: [email protected]
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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 1d

In his research Dunlosky et al (2013) identified 5 of the most robust & effective learning strategies you can use with your pupils:

1️⃣Practice testing aka retrieval practice
2️⃣Distributed practice aka spaced learning
3️⃣interleaved practice
4️⃣Elaborative interrogation...
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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 2d

This is excellent reporting from Rhys on the sorry state of reading standards & guidance for schools in Wales.

It clearly shows Welsh Government saying one thing but doing another 😡 whilst children are being failed.

Rhys Williams @rhyswilliamsnews.bsky.social · 2d

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This week the Welsh government announced £8m of funding for a national centre of excellence for literacy teaching - but a year since we raised concerns over reading provision in early reading it's not clear how much has changed in practice👇
www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-10...

£8million Welsh Government Grant awarded to Centre of Excellence for Literacy at Bangor University

The Welsh Government has awarded an £8 million grant to a Bangor University research project to found CAL:ON (Canolfan Addysgu Llythrennedd: Offer tuag at Newid / Centre for the Advancement of Literac...

www.bangor.ac.uk

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 2d

The aim of teaching is to help learners make new connections and organise connections into meaningful schema. Share the cue that will help pupils recall and organise the learning.

Check out our sketchnote ⬇️Contact us for bespoke professional learning for teachers [email protected]

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 2d

Leading Pedagogy Workshop – 20 Nov 2025, 9:30am–2pm

🔹 For middle leaders & aspiring pedagogy leads
🔹 Explore research-informed strategies
🔹 Align with Estyn expectations
🔹 Develop a departmental/school-wide improvement plan

£295 + VAT (1st) | £195 + VAT (additional)
👉

Leading Pedagogy Workshop -20/11/25

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know retrieval practice, or trying to recall previously taught material, is the single most robust learning strategy supported by research?

Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention

Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️
Contact us [email protected]

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 4d

🚀 Three must-have books for every teacher!

📕The Illustrated Guide to Pedagogy - now available to pre-order - https://amzn.to/4oNZGnz
📗 Closing the Disadvantage Gap - https://amzn.to/47LBAni
📘 Power Up Your Pedagogy - https://amzn.to/4oTuLGp

Click the links to get your copies!

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 4d

Is multi-cueing, or using pictures/context ever a good way to teach children to read?
Our sketchnote uses research & a touch of common sense to debunk the myth that multi-cueing is a good idea to use alongside or instead of Systematic Synthetic Phonics. #dowhatworks

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 4d

📬 Teachers in Wales—get blogs, resources, updates & honest takes on education straight to your inbox.
Join our Impact Wales mailing list today → app.smore.com/u/impa...
#WalesEd #ImpactWales #EduNews

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 5d

Why people are wired to believe what they want.

Teach your pupils to challenge their own beliefs by using the Risk Theory strategies on our sketchnote ⬇️

We provide research-informed professional learning for schools. Contact us [email protected] to find out more.

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 5d

NEW BOOK - Available for pre-order now on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4pqSeiq

Published on November 17th!

"The book is a triumph!!" Damian Benney, Headteacher Penyrheol Comprehensive School.

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 5d

What are 2 well replicated and robust research-informed "best bets" for improving learning?

1️⃣ Spaced practice
2️⃣ Retrieval practice

Include them both when you use the Leitner Flashcard Method with your pupils.

Contact us for professional learning [email protected]

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 6d

Leading Pedagogy Workshop – 20 Nov 2025, 9:30am–2pm

🔹 For middle leaders & aspiring pedagogy leads
🔹 Explore research-informed strategies
🔹 Align with Estyn expectations
🔹 Develop a departmental/school-wide improvement plan

£295 + VAT (1st) | £195 + VAT (additional)
👉

Leading Pedagogy Workshop -20/11/25

Leading Pedagogy Workshop -20/11/25 - How to improve the quality of teaching & learning by Impact Wales

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 6d

Teaching pupils how to make new connections with what they are learning starts with the words. Use our sketchnote on building schema using vocabulary to try it out in your classroom.

Your partners in professional learning. Contact us [email protected]

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 7d

💬Do some of your pupils struggle to keep up with their peers?
💬Do some children disengage with the task before they've begun?

These are the signs of a working memory failure. Check out our sketchnote for what you can do ⬇️

Contact us for professional learning that works [email protected]

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 7d

What you teach, how you teach it and assessing whether pupils have learnt it are interlinked.

Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment are not separate ideas. All 3 are interdependent parts of the teaching and learning cycle.
Contact us for professional learning that has impact [email protected]

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 8d

We work with you to create bespoke professional learning for your teachers that makes an impact on your pupils' learning. Click the link to find out more or call us to tell us how we can help: secure.smore.com/n/c...

📲029 2167 9140
📧[email protected]

ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 8d

If you would like us to create your own bespoke sketchnote resource, whether it's for professional learning or to share information about your school improvement plan with the wider community, contact us:

📲029 2167 9140
📧[email protected]
💻www.impact.wales
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Your partners in professional learning - Impact Wales

We provide bespoke support and create user-friendly curriculum resources that allow teachers to take control of their own learning

www.impact.wales

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 8d

Here's an example of one we made for Ceredigion LA on the Bjorks' research on retrieval practice and another Curriculum for Wales resource for schools to use yn Gymraeg.
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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 8d

Did you know as well as providing research-informed professional learning for teachers and schools we also create user friendly professional learning resources?
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