Elliot Weeks
@elliotweeks.bsky.social
Head of English @brimshamgreenschool | NPQLT
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At a federation conference INSET day; hearing keynote from @trythisteaching.bsky.social via Zoom - wish you were here in person!
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October 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
At a federation conference INSET day; hearing keynote from @trythisteaching.bsky.social via Zoom - wish you were here in person!
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'Exam analysis can provide powerful insights into what really matters: how we teach, what we teach and how we develop our teams': @ensermark.bsky.social offers top tips to make the process work for you
How to use exam results to improve teaching and learning
As heads of department get to work analysing the summer’s GCSE and A-level results, Mark Enser offers his advice for making the process productive, rather than tedious
www.tes.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
'Exam analysis can provide powerful insights into what really matters: how we teach, what we teach and how we develop our teams': @ensermark.bsky.social offers top tips to make the process work for you
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Reads for CPD leads, as recommended by myself and @missgoodyear.bsky.social and including @greeborunner.bsky.social @keziah70.bsky.social and other brilliant writers: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
7 books to boost teacher CPD
When done well, CPD is the engine of school transformation, write Sam Gibbs and Tracy Goodyear, who share recommended reading to help lead in this area
www.tes.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reads for CPD leads, as recommended by myself and @missgoodyear.bsky.social and including @greeborunner.bsky.social @keziah70.bsky.social and other brilliant writers: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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New Blog!
"Adaptive Teaching Guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms"
Practical, teacher-led tools to make inclusion part of everyday practice, not an afterthought.
Read the blog here: moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ne...
"Adaptive Teaching Guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms"
Practical, teacher-led tools to make inclusion part of everyday practice, not an afterthought.
Read the blog here: moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ne...
Adaptive teaching guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms
One of the most pressing priorities in schools right now is ensuring every pupil can access the full ambition of the National Curriculum, no...
moderncassie.blogspot.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:21 AM
New Blog!
"Adaptive Teaching Guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms"
Practical, teacher-led tools to make inclusion part of everyday practice, not an afterthought.
Read the blog here: moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ne...
"Adaptive Teaching Guides: Practical tools for equitable classrooms"
Practical, teacher-led tools to make inclusion part of everyday practice, not an afterthought.
Read the blog here: moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ne...
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Feeling Our Way Through Professional Development
Some reflections on a paper on the role of emotions in PD.
researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/17/f...
Some reflections on a paper on the role of emotions in PD.
researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/17/f...
Feeling Our Way Through Professional Development
“Professional development that neglects how teachers feel, risks becoming professional erosion.” Teaching is Emotional Work We often speak of teaching in terms of strategies, outcomes, and standard…
researcherteacher.home.blog
July 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Feeling Our Way Through Professional Development
Some reflections on a paper on the role of emotions in PD.
researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/17/f...
Some reflections on a paper on the role of emotions in PD.
researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/07/17/f...
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Fully resourced INSET session based on the ‘Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review’ and ‘Model for Great Teaching’.
💻PowerPoint slides
🛣️Structured activities
🗒️Digital materials
👩💻Delivery notes
Free access 👇
buff.ly/IFX8Uip
#UKEd #EduSky
💻PowerPoint slides
🛣️Structured activities
🗒️Digital materials
👩💻Delivery notes
Free access 👇
buff.ly/IFX8Uip
#UKEd #EduSky
Developing Great Teaching INSET
This Deliver It Yourself (DIY!) INSET session is based on the ‘Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review’ and the ‘Model for Great Teaching’.
buff.ly
July 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Fully resourced INSET session based on the ‘Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review’ and ‘Model for Great Teaching’.
💻PowerPoint slides
🛣️Structured activities
🗒️Digital materials
👩💻Delivery notes
Free access 👇
buff.ly/IFX8Uip
#UKEd #EduSky
💻PowerPoint slides
🛣️Structured activities
🗒️Digital materials
👩💻Delivery notes
Free access 👇
buff.ly/IFX8Uip
#UKEd #EduSky
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Lesson feedback: don't send it, don't give it - co-construct it. Otherwise, it won't be worth it. teacherhead.com/2024/01/28/l...
Lesson feedback: don’t send it, don’t give it – co-construct it. Otherwise, it won’t be worth it.
A big part of my work is around supporting schools to develop effective professional development programmes. I encounter a wide range of approaches to this but schools are always on a journey, look…
teacherhead.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Lesson feedback: don't send it, don't give it - co-construct it. Otherwise, it won't be worth it. teacherhead.com/2024/01/28/l...
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**NEW POST** Means of Participation: Low Effort, High Impact. References the great work of @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @priteshraichura.bsky.social and @douglemov.bsky.social selectiveblogging.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/m...
Means of Participation: Low Effort – High Impact
One of the biggest perks of being an instructional coach is getting to visit so many lessons. I get to work with so many amazing teachers, it’s a genuine pleasure to see so much great practice! Aft…
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May 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
**NEW POST** Means of Participation: Low Effort, High Impact. References the great work of @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @priteshraichura.bsky.social and @douglemov.bsky.social selectiveblogging.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/m...
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🏗️ SCAFFOLDING LEARNING! This NEW A3 poster unpacks the art of scaffolding—a precise, adaptive process that supports students ☝️upward, not lowering expectations👇downward. Inspired by the great work of @carlhendrick.substack.com & @innerdrive.bsky.social
March 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
🏗️ SCAFFOLDING LEARNING! This NEW A3 poster unpacks the art of scaffolding—a precise, adaptive process that supports students ☝️upward, not lowering expectations👇downward. Inspired by the great work of @carlhendrick.substack.com & @innerdrive.bsky.social
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Here are some revision lessons on language and literature I’ve made for the 2025 run up to exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! Help yourselves 👍🏻
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...
February 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Here are some revision lessons on language and literature I’ve made for the 2025 run up to exams. Use/chuck/change as you see fit! Help yourselves 👍🏻
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s9x6l...
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Being sofa bound with a cough this weekend can only mean good things for my resource bank! This and some AIC Act 2 quotation drills coming soon! #edusky #teamenglish #kinglear #eduwales #wjec #alevel #englishlit
January 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Being sofa bound with a cough this weekend can only mean good things for my resource bank! This and some AIC Act 2 quotation drills coming soon! #edusky #teamenglish #kinglear #eduwales #wjec #alevel #englishlit
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Today: our first Shakespeare webinar. Join us online, free, to work through the entire canon of plays and poems over 41 sessions. See out the 47th presidency with us 👇 www.english.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...
English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith
www.english.ox.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Today: our first Shakespeare webinar. Join us online, free, to work through the entire canon of plays and poems over 41 sessions. See out the 47th presidency with us 👇 www.english.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...
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🧵How do you motivate pupils to read outside of school? At Reach Academy Hanworth Park, we are committed to building a culture where reading regularly is the norm.
Short thread on how we do this #EduSky
Short thread on how we do this #EduSky
December 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM
🧵How do you motivate pupils to read outside of school? At Reach Academy Hanworth Park, we are committed to building a culture where reading regularly is the norm.
Short thread on how we do this #EduSky
Short thread on how we do this #EduSky
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Part 3 of our series on the perfect assessment system.
Featuring examples of the type of exam question I dislike the most: short written responses that are hard to mark reliably & don't inspire deeper thought.
Also featuring bonus analogies with VAR!
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...
Featuring examples of the type of exam question I dislike the most: short written responses that are hard to mark reliably & don't inspire deeper thought.
Also featuring bonus analogies with VAR!
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...
Designing the perfect assessment system, part 3
There are no solutions, only trade-offs
substack.nomoremarking.com
December 16, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Part 3 of our series on the perfect assessment system.
Featuring examples of the type of exam question I dislike the most: short written responses that are hard to mark reliably & don't inspire deeper thought.
Also featuring bonus analogies with VAR!
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...
Featuring examples of the type of exam question I dislike the most: short written responses that are hard to mark reliably & don't inspire deeper thought.
Also featuring bonus analogies with VAR!
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...
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Eye-witness accounts from the late C16th on life in London and the experience of visiting the theatre that guide students towards producing a piece of creative writing www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/a-visit... 🎭
December 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Eye-witness accounts from the late C16th on life in London and the experience of visiting the theatre that guide students towards producing a piece of creative writing www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/a-visit... 🎭
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*The Long Game*
I've written a book on making teaching sustainable
It's got:
- A new framing of problems and solutions
- Lots of interviews with teachers making teaching manageable
- Research on some of the best bets
Out 31st Dec
More info:
curriculumteamleader.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/t...
I've written a book on making teaching sustainable
It's got:
- A new framing of problems and solutions
- Lots of interviews with teachers making teaching manageable
- Research on some of the best bets
Out 31st Dec
More info:
curriculumteamleader.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/t...
The Long Game
My new book The Long Game: Sustaining a Successful Career in Teaching is out at the end of December. It’s published by Routledge and it’s got a foreword by Peps Mccrea. I want…
curriculumteamleader.wordpress.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:10 PM
*The Long Game*
I've written a book on making teaching sustainable
It's got:
- A new framing of problems and solutions
- Lots of interviews with teachers making teaching manageable
- Research on some of the best bets
Out 31st Dec
More info:
curriculumteamleader.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/t...
I've written a book on making teaching sustainable
It's got:
- A new framing of problems and solutions
- Lots of interviews with teachers making teaching manageable
- Research on some of the best bets
Out 31st Dec
More info:
curriculumteamleader.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/t...
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NEW RESOURCE - Session 2 of my ‘Essay Series’ resources now uploaded. This one focuses on constructing the first point of an essay out of a thesis statement. As always, use/chuck/change! More to come soon. @teamenglish1.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...
December 1, 2024 at 2:15 PM
NEW RESOURCE - Session 2 of my ‘Essay Series’ resources now uploaded. This one focuses on constructing the first point of an essay out of a thesis statement. As always, use/chuck/change! More to come soon. @teamenglish1.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...
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Here’s an after school revision session on thesis statements, the first in an ‘essay series’, designed to break down the components of a written response so students master each part. More to come soon. Thanks to @FaridaMili for her AIC thesis statement included!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...
Dropbox
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November 30, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Here’s an after school revision session on thesis statements, the first in an ‘essay series’, designed to break down the components of a written response so students master each part. More to come soon. Thanks to @FaridaMili for her AIC thesis statement included!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/you6q...
This a such a fresh but totally common sense take on the way forward with leading T&L. The curriculum is the driver... always!
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…
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November 30, 2024 at 11:38 PM
This a such a fresh but totally common sense take on the way forward with leading T&L. The curriculum is the driver... always!
An insightful array of voices, setting out how and why an English degree can lead to a diverse range of roles. Well worth a share with students!
Share these great case studies with your GCSE students, wondering about taking an English A Level, and your A Level students weighing up whether to do an English degree: englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/
Case studies | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 7:03 PM
An insightful array of voices, setting out how and why an English degree can lead to a diverse range of roles. Well worth a share with students!
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Share these great case studies with your GCSE students, wondering about taking an English A Level, and your A Level students weighing up whether to do an English degree: englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/
Case studies | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
November 25, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Share these great case studies with your GCSE students, wondering about taking an English A Level, and your A Level students weighing up whether to do an English degree: englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/
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And should any of you want the recipe, here it is! www.nigella.com/recipes/vega...
November 25, 2024 at 9:37 PM
And should any of you want the recipe, here it is! www.nigella.com/recipes/vega...
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⏰New blog post: We need to talk about… the dos and don’ts of leading teaching and learning school-wide⏰
Leading teaching and learning at a senior level comes with unique challenges. How do you balance whole-school priorities with the individual needs of each subject?
Leading teaching and learning at a senior level comes with unique challenges. How do you balance whole-school priorities with the individual needs of each subject?
November 22, 2024 at 8:09 AM
⏰New blog post: We need to talk about… the dos and don’ts of leading teaching and learning school-wide⏰
Leading teaching and learning at a senior level comes with unique challenges. How do you balance whole-school priorities with the individual needs of each subject?
Leading teaching and learning at a senior level comes with unique challenges. How do you balance whole-school priorities with the individual needs of each subject?
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