Matthew Clark
@matthewclarkht.bsky.social
Senior School Improvement Officer DDAT, NPQH facilitator, Visiting Fellow Ambition Institute.
School Improvement, curriculum design, culture and character development. FCCT.
School Improvement, curriculum design, culture and character development. FCCT.
There are no silver bullets when it comes to curriculum - but we overlook our pupils’ natural creativity at our peril….
🎨 Rethinking Curriculum - Fostering Creativity 🌍
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FREE year-long course for primary teachers & leaders!
✨ Integrate creativity into planning & assessment
✨ Access OECD resources
🏫 Apply as individual school OR a group of schoolshttps://chartered.pulse.ly/ncsdwsvtns
July 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
There are no silver bullets when it comes to curriculum - but we overlook our pupils’ natural creativity at our peril….
Reposted by Matthew Clark
16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks:
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(all open source 🔓)
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February 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks:
(all open source 🔓)
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(all open source 🔓)
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Reposted by Matthew Clark
Give RE the status, coherence and rigour it needs, by ensuring all teachers of RE, primary & secondary, know what pupils have learned in earlier years and so can use and build on it. Our current system is inequitable. Countless children miss out. @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social @retoday.bsky.social
☸️ 'We need a secretary of state with the nerve to place foundational knowledge about religions and worldviews within a common framework'
RE must finally takes its place in the national curriculum
Lack of a national framework for the subject is wasteful of years of classroom time and deeply unfair
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January 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Give RE the status, coherence and rigour it needs, by ensuring all teachers of RE, primary & secondary, know what pupils have learned in earlier years and so can use and build on it. Our current system is inequitable. Countless children miss out. @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social @retoday.bsky.social
Change is coming! Time to flourish together 💪
Writing in TES today to share the vision for our new Flourishing Leaders/Flourishing Teachers Programmes launching at our national conference today 🙌
All part of re-imagining education as a career in which adults could expect to flourish. 👍 🌳 🙏
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
All part of re-imagining education as a career in which adults could expect to flourish. 👍 🌳 🙏
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Tackling teacher retention is about more than just money
The executive director of education for the Church of England explains why it has launched two courses aimed at helping teachers and leaders to flourish
www.tes.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Change is coming! Time to flourish together 💪
Reposted by Matthew Clark
This blog beautifully explains why generic t&l is v limited (beyond strong routines, behaviour management etc, but they're not teaching). We can't meaningfully judge, analyse improve, train or support teaching without being steeped in subject-specific, curricular shaping of the thing being taught.
I wrote this some months ago and have avoided posting it for some time.
Here's why I think we spend too much time worrying about pedagogy:
inthenameofrigour.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/c...
Here's why I think we spend too much time worrying about pedagogy:
inthenameofrigour.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/c...
Curricular problems, pedagogical solutions
I’ve got quite a few views on education that could be described as controversial. But there’s one view that seems to raise eyebrows more than others. I don’t think that good teach…
inthenameofrigour.wordpress.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:56 PM
This blog beautifully explains why generic t&l is v limited (beyond strong routines, behaviour management etc, but they're not teaching). We can't meaningfully judge, analyse improve, train or support teaching without being steeped in subject-specific, curricular shaping of the thing being taught.
Really struggling to understand why Kent County Council are trying to “save money” and reduce provision when for nearly a decade the provision for SLCN across the county has been too small to meet need. Government thinking on SEND can’t happen soon enough.
October 18, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Really struggling to understand why Kent County Council are trying to “save money” and reduce provision when for nearly a decade the provision for SLCN across the county has been too small to meet need. Government thinking on SEND can’t happen soon enough.
Reposted by Matthew Clark
I have lead SRP in Kent, they are a vital resource and Cassie is absolutely right about the role of the panel. It seems that everything is a barrier in Kent, even the consultation co-production groups I volunteered to be part of, have been disbanded. #SEN
October 17, 2024 at 7:55 PM
I have lead SRP in Kent, they are a vital resource and Cassie is absolutely right about the role of the panel. It seems that everything is a barrier in Kent, even the consultation co-production groups I volunteered to be part of, have been disbanded. #SEN