Ruth Ashbee
Knowledge-Based Professional Networks
A while ago I enrolled on the Historical Association’s Subject Leader Development Programme, in order to help me better understand both...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Nov 26, 2022
- 3 min
How To Think About “End Points”
The Ofsted School Inspection Handbook makes several references to “end points”. [Inspectors will look at]: the extent to which the...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Nov 20, 2022
- 5 min
Why Templates Tend To Fail, And What We Should Do Instead
Knowledge-building for school leaders As school leaders we often want to make things better. Better curriculum. Better teaching. Better...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Nov 12, 2022
- 6 min
Student Voice, Assessment Theory and an Epistemology for School Leadership
We’re all familiar now with the fact that Ofsted use talking to students or “student voice” as one of their means of finding out about a...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Dec 19, 2021
- 8 min
Professionalisation and the Schools Discourse
The ideology of professionalisation first emerged in the nineteenth century, partly as the middle classes grew and began to seek a...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Jul 3, 2021
- 7 min
Literacy, Curriculum and Teaching
Everyone agrees literacy is A Good Thing, but I’ve struggled to be able to think clearly about it. I’ve just not been able to think of...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Oct 26, 2020
- 8 min
Civics and Self: Powerful Knowledge Curriculum in PSHE and Citizenship
There is a frustration at the heart of most PSHE and citizenship curricula. These subjects so often seem to lack... something. What is...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Jul 9, 2020
- 2 min
Curricular Objects – And A Warning
Categories are useful: words denote sets, and they allow us to talk with meaning. Exploring the meaning of words can help us to think...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Jun 17, 2020
- 1 min
Different worlds
There was no doubt about the Magic this time. Down and down they rushed, first through darkness and then through a mass of vague and...
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Ruth Ashbee
- May 22, 2020
- 5 min
Booklets: 10 Principles of Production
The codification of curriculum into booklets or other documents and materials is a powerful tool for resourcing lessons and developing...
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Ruth Ashbee
- May 17, 2020
- 8 min
Booklets, Rosenshine, Teach Like A Champion, and Knowledge-Rich Curriculum
Booklets are a brilliant tool in delivering an ambitious, knowledge-rich curriculum. While a curriculum can never be reduced to booklets,...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Apr 24, 2020
- 4 min
Curriculum is for ever – but not how you think
Thinking about curriculum as a priority is relatively new for most of us, having lived through the poundland pedagogy years, and so it’s...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Feb 19, 2020
- 2 min
What does knowledge-rich mean when not all disciplines seek knowledge?
“Man lives in the meanings he is able to discern. He extends himself into that which he finds coherent and is at home there” – Michael...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Feb 11, 2020
- 4 min
Vertical, horizontal, hierarchical, cumulative, integrative, discursive
The disciplines and school subjects are different from each other in important ways, and we must understand these differences in order to...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Jan 4, 2020
- 5 min
“Why do you bang on about researchED all the time Ruth?”
If you’ve already been to a researchED conference, you’ll know that it’s not like other conferences. ResearchED is on a Saturday. A...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Nov 8, 2019
- 2 min
The more pointable-at things aren’t always the best things
First can I apologise for the inelegance of the title of this post. There wasn’t a more elegant way to say what I wanted to say. And...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Oct 18, 2019
- 12 min
Powerful Knowledge: What it is, why it’s important, and how to make it happen in your school
In his book of 1971 “Knowledge and Control”, Michael Young saw knowledge as a tool of oppression and an expression of hegemony of the...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Aug 6, 2019
- 7 min
Curriculum and Cognitive Science
What do we mean by curriculum? And why is curriculum so important? How should curriculum planning and execution be informed by cognitive...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Jul 14, 2019
- 2 min
Something is happening
People are bounding into work, buzzing about what they read on Twitter last night. People are asking “what’s the evidence for this?” And...
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Ruth Ashbee
- Jun 21, 2019
- 2 min
Old Masters
If you work in a state school, like I do, there’s a lot to make you angry when you visit a private school. Not angry at the students or...
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