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NEW! Watch Matt talk about his book, Why School Doesn’t Work for Every Child on the Edufuturists podcast

NEW! Navigating the 2025/26 academic year

The year ahead promises complexity – but also opportunity. In this episode of the National College podcast, education journalist, author and advisor Matt Bromley joins Eleanor Adams to explore how school leaders and teachers can thrive amidst change. From balancing strategic vision with day-to-day demands, to managing workload, embedding inclusive teaching and harnessing AI, this discussion offers practical insights and aspirational thinking to help shape – not just survive – the future of education.

You can also access the podcast via the National College website.

Free webinar on the uses and misuses of AI in schools

This SecEd Webinar – hosted by Matt Bromley – offers practical advice, ideas and strategies for how secondary schools can harness the power of AI and educate students about responsible uses of AI – including AI writing tools – while maintaining academic integrity and avoiding an over-reliance on technology. Click here to watch now.

Free webinar offering tips for early career teachers

Taking place just a few weeks into the autumn term 2024, this SecEd Webinar offered practical advice and encouragement to help and support early career teachers, including wellbeing strategies, teaching tips, behaviour insights, and much more. Matt Bromley is one of the guests offering practical advice for ECTs. Click here to watch now.

Free webinar on adaptive teaching

This edition of the SecEd Webinar features a best practice discussion about how teachers can create an inclusive classroom and implement adaptive teaching, especially for our students with SEND. Hosted by Matt Bromley. Click here to watch now.

Matt Bromley and Andy Griffith in conversation with Pete Henshaw about The Working Classroom

Watch an interview with the editor of SecEd and Headteacher Update magazines, Pete Henshaw, and the authors of The Working Classroom, Matt Bromley and Andy Griffith. The authors talk about their new book, explain why they wrote it and why it is so important in the current education climate.

Matt Bromley and co-author Andy Griffith are interviewed by Ben and Steve on their Edufuturists podcast about their book, The Working Classroom

How to include the excluded

In this short clip from his opening keynote at the SEND & Inclusion Conference in London in November 2023, Matt Bromley illustrates what it feels like to be excluded from the curriculum and offers some solutions to include the excluded.

Why did you write The Working Classroom?

Pete Henshaw, editor of SecEd and Headteacher Update magazines, interviews Matt Bromley and Andy Griffith about their new book, The Working Classroom. In this short clip, Matt answers the question, ‘Why did you write The Working Classroom?’

Why is English the most important subject on the school timetable?

How can we make English more real and relatable?

Free webinar on improving the attendance of vulnerable learners

In this free webinar, Matt Bromley hosts a round table discussion about why vulnerable students often struggle to attend secondary school – and what we can do about it. Click here to watch now.

Free webinar on Ofsted’s inspection of the curriculum

In this free webinar, Matt Bromley is on the panel to offer practical ideas and techniques for effective curriculum planning through the lens of Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework. Click here to watch now.

Free webinar on developing students’ metacognition and self-regulation skills

In this free webinar, Matt Bromley hosts a round table discussion about how teachers can prepare students for future success by helping them become increasingly independent, metacognitive, motivated learners. The expert panel discuss ways teachers can ensure students become increasingly independent including by developing their metacognitive knowledge and self-regulation skills, explicitly teaching them a raft of study and research skills and helping them to develop intrinsic motivation and resilience so they can persevere when times are tough. Click here to watch now.

Top 10 tips for stimulating students’ senses to gain the attention of working memory

In this video, which is the first of 3 on converting cognitive science into classroom practice, Matt shares his top 10 tips for stimulating students’ senses to gain the active attention of working memory…

Top 10 tips for ensuring students think hard but efficiently

In this video, which is the second of 3 on converting cognitive science into classroom practice, Matt shares his top 10 tips for ensuring students are made to think hard but efficiently about curriculum content in order to encode it into their long-term memories from where it can later be retrieved and applied…

Top 10 tips for planning opportunities for students to apply prior learning

In this video, which is the third of 3 on converting cognitive science into classroom practice, Matt shares his top 10 tips for planning opportunities for students to apply prior learning in multiple contexts in order to build its retrieval and storage strength…

The top 10 features of expert teachers

In this short video, Matt shares the top 10 features of expert teachers…