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Do you dream about curriculum? I do. I dream and I can see the web of knowledge, and it’s the most beautiful thing. I can see how we...

I want to talk about curriculum and knowledge – – this is something I think about a lot! If we’re going to give our students the very...

A while ago I said that science has a unique claim to truth. I was wrong. After reading Christine Counsell’s article “Taking Curriculum...

The second subject character matrix (SCM) in the series is concerned with the structure of the knowledge of a subject. There are two...

This post is part of the “Curriculum in Science” symposium curated by Adam Boxer (@adamboxer1). Read Adam’s introduction here. Curriculum...

Attempts at thinking about curriculum across a school have often meant a push from leadership for generic models, consistency, and...

The universe is unimaginably vast, yet life is only present on one planet that we know of. Evolution has brought about the human brain;...

This blog is part 3 of the #WritingInScience symposium curated by Pritesh Raichura. Read Pritesh’s introduction here and part 2 from Ben...

There has been an outbreak of the E. coli bacterium at the Bella Sophia restaurant. The local hospital has reported that patients being...

SLOP for declarative knowledge resources here Slides here Starting with a very brief history – this time three years ago, -I liked my...

I’m lucky to work in a school that invests in freeing up teacher time for the important things. We have centralised detentions, whole...

What is the nature of school science? I ask this because I think we should know the nature of a subject before we design our teaching and...

I’ve never had a problem with “teaching to the test” as long as the test asked good things and had a good markscheme. With a few notable...