Educational Psychology Services for Schools
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Follow us for information on how psychology can help your school maximise the impact of the curriculum and school provision ensuring inclusion for all children- but most especially for SEND pupils. https://www.edpsychschool.com
Great blog on metacognitive routines and how they can be used to support learning.
The Power of Quiet Engagement in the Classroom
In many classrooms, we mistake noise and activity for real learning.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great blog on metacognitive routines and how they can be used to support learning.
Enjoying this blog on teaching modern foreign languages (and I bet the activities work equally well for teaching English language too).
Writing in Colours
If you can afford coloured pens (and stop the rest of the department using them for colouring in), then writing in colours can be a great w...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Enjoying this blog on teaching modern foreign languages (and I bet the activities work equally well for teaching English language too).
Deficit thinking is often too abstract to help move understanding on, yet specific enough to build barriers to the belief it is possible.
David Didau (@daviddidau)
On designing effective assessment
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November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Deficit thinking is often too abstract to help move understanding on, yet specific enough to build barriers to the belief it is possible.
The ever-present difficuly of the 'spend to save' paradox.
Superb analysis from @warrencarratt.bsky.social that tells schools leaders what they need to know about the fallout from the Budget regarding SEND.
"Reforms will all require, in the short term, more funding, not less, if we are to turn this system into one our country can be proud of"
"Reforms will all require, in the short term, more funding, not less, if we are to turn this system into one our country can be proud of"
The Budget was light on detail on plans for SEND, but presented critical questions for school leaders. Trust leader @warrencarratt.bsky.social looks to provide some answers
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The ever-present difficuly of the 'spend to save' paradox.
However, from an Educational Psychology point of view, meaningul changes to support the child, family and school can be made without waiting for diagnostic assessments. Indeed, even when these have happened, EPs are often needed to 'translate' the findings into actions schools can take 🤔
SEND area inspection reports show that Long waits for assessments, diagnosis and health services have been repeatedly highlighted for areas found to have systemic failings in special educational needs provision. My analysis for @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Ofsted SEND inspections: key failings revealed
Tes analysis highlights the main findings in SEND inspection reports for the areas found to have systemic or widespread failings this year
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November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
However, from an Educational Psychology point of view, meaningul changes to support the child, family and school can be made without waiting for diagnostic assessments. Indeed, even when these have happened, EPs are often needed to 'translate' the findings into actions schools can take 🤔
Just because "awe & wonder" should be on the curriculum...
Huge discovery - how little we understand about the #biodiversity that we are fast-trashing
"Key parts of the eukaryotic story remain hidden in places we rarely explore."
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"Key parts of the eukaryotic story remain hidden in places we rarely explore."
www.sciencealert.com/newly-discov...
Newly Discovered Organism Could Represent a Whole New Branch in The Tree of Life
It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.
www.sciencealert.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Just because "awe & wonder" should be on the curriculum...
Useful analysis of the SEND crisis "Contrary to headlines about SEND doubling since 2010, the overall percentage of children with SEND has not dramatically risen. What has gone up is the proportion of those children designated as needing an EHCP for support."
Are EHCPs really driving the SEND crisis?
Education, health and care plans have been blamed for an unsustainable rise in special educational needs in schools, but would scrapping or limiting these plans fix the problem?
www.tes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Useful analysis of the SEND crisis "Contrary to headlines about SEND doubling since 2010, the overall percentage of children with SEND has not dramatically risen. What has gone up is the proportion of those children designated as needing an EHCP for support."
The curriculum is always designed to meet the needs that can be envisioned for the current workforce. It's therefore always at least decade behind where the world will be when pupils finish their studies.
IOE academics weigh in on the Curriculum and Assessment Review, a 🧵
"Cooperation, more than competition, will secure young people’s futures... knowledge without the capacity to bring about change is a fast-devaluing currency" says @ruperthigham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
"Cooperation, more than competition, will secure young people’s futures... knowledge without the capacity to bring about change is a fast-devaluing currency" says @ruperthigham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
England’s curriculum review needs to be more radical | Letters
Letters: Dr Rupert Higham, Caroline Norbury and Colin Richards on recommendations in the Francis report
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November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The curriculum is always designed to meet the needs that can be envisioned for the current workforce. It's therefore always at least decade behind where the world will be when pupils finish their studies.
Schools are a reflection of dominant interests in society- both "caused by" and a "response to" social norms.
To me, the biggest problem with this article is that it equates ADHD and autism with being "unwell." That's ableist, and it undermines the author's argument (which I agree with) that schools' narrow criteria for what is "normal" contributes to psych diagnoses for students.
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Schools are a reflection of dominant interests in society- both "caused by" and a "response to" social norms.
Now this study seems rich in potential for educators...but too removed from classrroom realities, as it stands...
Why do some self-regulated learning interventions seem to benefit less competent students more than their competent peers, but others seem to benefit only the already competent students? Well...(1/2)
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Now this study seems rich in potential for educators...but too removed from classrroom realities, as it stands...
This blog is about an American state, but the question remains: How much influence do teacher voices have at the table?
Teacher Voices Can Improve Policy–If We Listen
When it comes to education policymaking at the state level, lots of cooks are typically in the kitchen: legislators, state board members, education department officials, union representatives, nonprof...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This blog is about an American state, but the question remains: How much influence do teacher voices have at the table?
Nice blog on the effective use of whiteboards to ensure effective teaching. open.substack.com/pub/lstam/p/...
Mini Whiteboards
Knowledge-Building for Teachers Series
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November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Nice blog on the effective use of whiteboards to ensure effective teaching. open.substack.com/pub/lstam/p/...
Loving this blog on getting the most from peer interaction in class.
Turn and Talk: A Small Move That Changes the Room
Hi Champions,
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November 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Loving this blog on getting the most from peer interaction in class.
Interesting information about developing phonics instruction. English has a 'deep orthography' which means that compared to other European languages, contextual teaching of phonics makes a lot of sense.
Harriett Janetos (@harriettjanetos)
Spectacularly helpful! These are the questions being posed right now in Wales as Dominic Wyse (The Balancing Act) pushes the Literacy Panel to adopt contextualized phonics instruction where orthograph...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Interesting information about developing phonics instruction. English has a 'deep orthography' which means that compared to other European languages, contextual teaching of phonics makes a lot of sense.
Great blog on what would call 'mediated learning'- and what I know I look for when I observe in class.
Mini-Whiteboards: A Long-Overdue Rant (and Love Letter)
A Slice of Primary Leadership
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November 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Great blog on what would call 'mediated learning'- and what I know I look for when I observe in class.
What a shame that this just seems to be Scotland! Looks really interesting.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What a shame that this just seems to be Scotland! Looks really interesting.
Practical strategies for inclusion - based on our own Dr Gibb's original research and teaching practice. www.edpsychschool.com/post/buildin...
Building inclusive schools: Practical strategies that make inclusion work
Creating genuinely inclusive schools is no longer an optional aspiration; it is a core educational responsibility and one endorsed by the UK government. Yet, many teachers and leaders know from experi...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Practical strategies for inclusion - based on our own Dr Gibb's original research and teaching practice. www.edpsychschool.com/post/buildin...
Loving this approach to visually supporting student understanding.
I really do think that colour is helpful to identify steps in multi stage problems. But there is also scope to use it to link parts of a solution to the words in the question.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Loving this approach to visually supporting student understanding.
Schools run on unpaid overtime.
Extra enrichment isn't possible, teachers warn
The DfE is introducing enrichment benchmarks to push schools to deliver more extracurricular clubs – but research shows that teachers are already working unpaid and out of hours to deliver such activi...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Schools run on unpaid overtime.
"The pressures have been such that the wonder is not that some schools have tried to squeeze out pupils with SEND, but that so many have continued with courage and tenacity to do their very best for all." Interesting blog post here from John Cosgrove.
Why are "Some schools in England taking up to six times more special needs pupils than others"? And what can be done about it?
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SEND Reform: It’s not (just) about the money…
Another day, another article about how the cost of provision for pupils with special needs (SEND) is bankrupting the country. This morning (Friday 31st October 2025) I read in the Guardian about a …
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November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"The pressures have been such that the wonder is not that some schools have tried to squeeze out pupils with SEND, but that so many have continued with courage and tenacity to do their very best for all." Interesting blog post here from John Cosgrove.
It has seemed to me for a long time that some schools actively work to include all students- and become immensely skilled in the process.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It has seemed to me for a long time that some schools actively work to include all students- and become immensely skilled in the process.
Loving this thought experiment about the instructional link between perceived learning success & failure.
Kristopher Boulton (@kristopherboulton)
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November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Loving this thought experiment about the instructional link between perceived learning success & failure.
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🌍 A grammar school in London is to become the first state school to open a fee-paying school overseas…
First state school to open a fee-paying campus overseas
Queen Elizabeth’s School, in London, is to launch a fee-paying school in Dubai and has further plans for two more schools in India
www.tes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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"Theory-building in ed psych is messy, collaborative, & needs boldness + humility". True, certainly of any theory building in any discipline. So grateful to apply psychology in the messy, complex real world which is the only true test of any theory.
Theory-building in ed psych is messy, collaborative, & needs boldness + humility. With @krisarob.bsky.social, we show how real-world problems spark theories, why supporting deep, creative thinking matters, and why we need to support early career theorists. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Bold, Humble, Collaborative, and Virtuous: The Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology - Educational Psychology Review
Throughout 2023 and 2024, we served as co-guest editors of a topical collection in Educational Psychology Review on The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology. In th...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Theory-building in ed psych is messy, collaborative, & needs boldness + humility". True, certainly of any theory building in any discipline. So grateful to apply psychology in the messy, complex real world which is the only true test of any theory.