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  • The learning process: Part 7

    The learning process: Part 7

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part seven of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. The process of learning is the interactionContinue… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 6

    The learning process: Part 6

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part six of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. Last time I argued that, if weContinue… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 5

    The learning process: Part 5

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part five of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. If I asked you to calculate 57Continue… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 4

    The learning process: Part 4

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part four of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. In this series of articles I’m exploringContinue… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 3

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part three of a 10-part series.  Read the first part  and the second part.  Last time, I argued that theContinue… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 2

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part two of a 10-part series.  Read the first part here.  In the first part of this series onContinue… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 1

    The learning process: Part 1

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part one of a 10-part series.   What is learning? It’s a simple question, isn’t it? And surely, asContinue… Read more

  • Why I wrote Making Key Stage 3 Count

    Why I wrote Making Key Stage 3 Count

    I started writing the first edition of my book, Making Key Stage 3 Count, in the summer of 2015 – having, over the previous decade, first as a teacher then as a school leader, become increasingly convinced that pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9 got a rough deal from our education system.  But lifeContinue… Read more

  • Rise (and fall) of the robots

    Rise (and fall) of the robots

    I love technology but I’m not what you’d call an early adopter. I use technology when it can make my life easier and more efficient but, when a new gadget comes to market, I wait patiently for it to be tried and tested, and then – perhaps my biggest motivator – for it to comeContinue… Read more

  • Literacy empowers (Pt5): Teaching writing

    Literacy empowers (Pt5): Teaching writing

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in June 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can read more of my monthly columns for SecEd here.  This is the final part of a 5-part series.  Read parts one, two, three and four first. In this series I am making the caseContinue… Read more

  • Pass on the power of reading (Part Two)

    Pass on the power of reading (Part Two)

    This is an abridged version of a keynote speech Matt gave at the Closing the Literacy Gap Conference in June 2017. This is part two of two…read the first part here I ended the first of this two-part blog with the question, ‘So what can we do to help the word poor become richer?’  InContinue… Read more

  • Literacy empowers (Pt4): Teaching reading

    Literacy empowers (Pt4): Teaching reading

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in June 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can read more of my monthly columns for SecEd here.  This is part four of a 5-part series.  Read parts one, two and three first. In this five-part series on literacy across the curriculumContinue… Read more

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