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  • The learning process: Part 2

    The learning process: Part 2

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part two of a 10-part series.  Read the first part here.  In the first part of this series on Read more

  • The learning process: Part 1

    The learning process: Part 1

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part one of a 10-part series.   What is learning? It’s a simple question, isn’t it? And surely, as Read more

  • Why I wrote Making Key Stage 3 Count

    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

  • Rise (and fall) of the robots

    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

  • Literacy empowers (Pt5): Teaching writing

    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

  • Pass on the power of reading (Part Two)

    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

  • Literacy empowers (Pt4): Teaching reading

    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

  • Literacy empowers (Pt3): Teaching oracy

    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

  • Pass on the power of reading (Part One)

    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

  • Literacy empowers (Pt2): Why every teacher is a teacher of literacy

    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

  • Literacy empowers (Pt1): Why every teacher is a teacher of literacy

    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

  • Closing the literacy gap

    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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