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Dan Rosen
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Head of Secondary, St George's British International School Düsseldorf.

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🎉New Blog Post 🎉

Creating a culture of curiosity in schools.

Practical ideas to build a curious culture in schools.

Reflected on this after going through my EdD work and came up with these ideas as I went.

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New Blog Post
Creating a Culture of Curiosity
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August 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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New today.
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How should we deal with school complexity?
The art of creating equilibrium in a world of possibilities and constraints
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August 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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What I find baffling is the almost total blindness to the fact that children have their own reasons and motivations for doing or not doing things. It's not just about capacities.
July 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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On the other hand. If only people learnt more about the law of requisite variety: there are no simple solutions for complex problems. We don't have 5 basic things that will magically solve all our reading problems.
July 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Here is something inspired by @musingsofadr.bsky.social's post from last week about great leadership.

#UKEd #EduSky

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What Faramir Can Teach Us About Real Leadership?
In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien gives us two brothers—Boromir and Faramir, both charged with defending their kingdom against a rising darkness.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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🚨New Post🚨

Cohesion has been a common feature of many effective teams I've worked in, however cohesion is dynamic, and not constant. As Grossman et al. (2022) discuss in their paper, cohesion can mean many things.

Check out my post in cohesion below:

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July 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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I haven't written anything for a while...

Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication

What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty

#UKEd #EduSky

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What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty
Yesterday Claire Harley posted about sensemaking in schools, in which she poses some excellent reflective questions for leadership to consider, focussing on values and how they are communicated.&nb…
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July 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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📢 NEW BLOG POST 📢

Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to a colleague present at the CreativeEdTrust National Conference on the role of courage in leadership.

Read my reflections, including on a paper by Peter Bregman below 👇🏽

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Reflections on connection and courage in leadership
Reflections on Leadership through Peter Bregman’s Lens We often talk about what leaders do in schools; line management, accountability, vision setting. But much less often do we talk about what lea…
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July 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Absolutely chuffed that my blog from yesterday has sparked this piece by @musingsofadr.bsky.social. Dan does a much better job at bringing in ideas around this than I did and I especially like the idea that the role of leadership is to reduce uncertainty in an organisation.

#UKEd #EduSky
July 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
musingsofadr.bsky.social
I haven't written anything for a while...

Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication

What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty

#UKEd #EduSky

musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty
Yesterday Claire Harley posted about sensemaking in schools, in which she poses some excellent reflective questions for leadership to consider, focussing on values and how they are communicated.&nb…
musingsofadr.wordpress.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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New Blog: Sensemaking in Schools.

Written whist reflecting on @eleanorbernardes.bsky.social's presentation at @belmasoffice.bsky.social.

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Sensemaking in Schools
Vision as a changing entity and the impact this has on how we work in schools
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July 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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New blog post ↴

▸Decoupling lower & upper secondary curricula

#UKEd #EduSky #EduBlogUK #SciTeachUK

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Decoupling lower & upper secondary curricula
This is because a principal end-goal of KS4 is a grade. But in KS3, the principal goal should be an invitation into the reality constructed by a subject's members.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I suppose this is the take really, set what fits your context but there should be much more research into this to help make leaders make the right decisions
May 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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As publication day approaches, a for @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I to give thanks to all of the fabulous educators and researchers whose work has inspired, informed and shaped the book

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953

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... and feel free to tag people if missed I've that they're on Bluesky!
How to Teach Psychology: An evidence-informed approach : Cline, Paul, Hobbiss, Mike: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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May 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson?

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Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson?
When teachers step into the classroom, we never act alone. There is no “I do”. Each of our actions is a response, a small arc, in a continual loop consisting of ourselves, our tools, and our students.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Conference⤵️

Secondary Science Festival (including #chatbiology speakers):

Attendees get a free copy of "Difference Maker" 👌

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April 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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▸The fad's purpose is what it does◂
...and not what its authors thought it would do

Educational fads seen through systems theory (AKA cybernetics).

Please share (tough for bloggers recently)
#UKEd #EduSky #EruditePedagogy #Cybernetics

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An (edu) fad's purpose is what it does
Not long ago a drive emerged against "fun" lessons. The push was to rid the focus on fun and return it to subject knowledge itself. Soon followed the argument that students had to accept boring lesson...
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April 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Absolutely delighted by this impartial review of my book published in the journal, School Science Review (open access):
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#EduSky #UKEd #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio
In the 20+ years that I have been teaching biology I have come across many texts that purport to transform classroom practice and improve student outcomes. However, rarely have I been so convinced by the power of a new theoretical underpinning for a pedagogical technique such as the one presented here. Moore-Anderson provides detailed discussions of systems theory, cybernetics and variation theory and their relevance to the biology classroom. Alongside the explanations, he provides concrete examples grounded in the classroom and over 40 diagrams that can be used to teach key topics. The book starts with explanations of the underpinning theories he has applied to his teaching. This can, at times, be heavy going, and although the ‘key ideas’ are highlighted it can feel like there is a lot of information to absorb. However, as the book continues the scaffolding becomes clear and the reader can see how these ideas build towards coherent classroom strategies. It may be tempting to skip the theory at the beginning of the book and jump to using the diagrams in lessons; however, to be most effective it is important to understand the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ behind these. Although this book is specifically about teaching biology, there are ideas that are relevant to teaching all science disciplines and it may have benefited from a collation of the ‘key ideas’ and ‘assumptions’ presented as they apply to teaching and learning of all sciences or all classroom settings. Overall, Moore-Anderson presents a well-reasoned and compelling argument for the application of cybernetics and variation theory to the classroom. This is not an easy read, but, in my opinion, it is a thought-provoking read and a book that biology teachers should invest time in, to consider the theories, key ideas and diagrams, and how they could apply these in their own classroom. Helen Darlington Faculty Progress Leader for Science at South Wirral High School
March 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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→New blog post:

◂How I teach ultrafiltration and selective reabsorption in the kidney▸

Through co-construction of meaning in diagrams and dialogue – without slides, activities, lecturing, or discovering.
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February 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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An impartial review of the book "Difference Maker" from Learning & the Brain.

Check it out⤵️

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Difference Maker: Enacting Systems Theory in Biology Teaching, by Christian Moore-Anderson |Education & Teacher Conferences
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January 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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This week in Becoming Literary, I'm wading into the knowledge v. skills debate to frame how I teach interpretation. Take a look at how I support my students' efforts to read the word & the world!

#literacies #edusky #academicsky

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On Teaching Interpretation (Part 2)
Cultivating practices to read the word and the world
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January 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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This is the point for me.

Here's a bunch of stuff that has been proven to work. Here's why it works. This is how it works. Now go try it and make it yours.

It is one of the core principles I used when building the @literacyengine.bsky.social model for whole class modelled reading.
January 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I think this is the difference for me too. Beliefs, shaped by prior experience, are the thing that connects to the Ladder of Inference and (my ever favourite) model of teacher dev. These differences are where the same PD input is personalised (even if we don't see it) so it's important to recognise.
Clarke and Hollingsworth's interconnected model of professional development. The change environment is shown to have four domains of change: external, practice, personal and consequence; and arrows show the relationship between reflection and enactment between each.
January 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Showing them practices ≠ mandating how they use them. That’s why it’s key to NOT frame those conventions as rules chiseled into tablets. They can/should be remixed, subverted, etc. but in ways that do so consciously. Less about good/bad & more about HOW/WHY they use/reject/remix those conventions.
December 31, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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New post is live! This week I’m diving into how I frame and teach interpretation to my Ss. Turns out I have a lot to say, so I had to split it into two posts.

#literacies #academicsky #edusky #eruditepedagogy

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On Teaching Interpretation (Part 1)
Tangible tools for improving students' interpretive practices
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December 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM