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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 life Read more
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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 come Read more
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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 case Read more
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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?’ In Read more
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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 curriculum Read more
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Literacy empowers (Pt3): Teaching oracy
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 three of a 5-part series. Read parts one and two first. So far in this series, I have made Read more
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Pass on the power of reading (Part One)
This is an abridged version of a keynote speech Matt gave at the Closing the Literacy Gap Conference in June 2017. This is part one of two… Recently, I had the pleasure of giving the keynote speech at the Closing The Literacy Gap Conference, which was held at the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford. Read more
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Literacy empowers (Pt2): Why every teacher is a teacher of literacy
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. Last time I made the case for literacy as a cross-curricular concern, arguing – as did George Sampson in 1922 – that Read more
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Literacy empowers (Pt1): Why every teacher is a teacher of literacy
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. Literacy empowers. Y Kassam’s 1994 paper Who Benefits from Illiteracy? argues that: “To be literate is to gain a voice and to Read more
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Closing the literacy gap
I have the privilege of speaking at the Reading Matters ‘Closing the Literacy Gap’ conference in Bradford on 29 June. Ahead of that event, and to whet your appetite, I’d like to share some strategies for closing the gap between our word-rich and word-poor pupils so that all of them – irrespective of their starting Read more
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When is revision not revision?
This article was written for The Association of Colleges’ website to promote my workshop in London in April. I have the pleasure of delivering a workshop for AoC Create in London in April on the subject of teaching English re-sits at post-16. According to Ofsted, “Too much teaching in [post-16] English is not good Read more
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Developing classroom practice
This article was written for Creative Education to promote my speech at their national Teaching and Learning conference in March 2017. Think of something you’re good at. How did you become good at it? How do you know you’re good at it – on what evidence is your judgment based? Now think of something you’re not Read more
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