It’s The Leadership
It’s the leadership. You can work as hard as you like, but without good leadership, it’s almost always…
Can Struggling Readers Catch Up Quickly? Completely?
If you are worried about your students with reading problems, these case studies will give you hope. Students…
Is teaching children to read really ‘rocket science’?
Some people resist this description of the knowledge that teachers need. Not so long ago, the general attitude…
Learning to Read – what started going right?
Eighteen months ago, a parent shared her struggles to help her child, who was having reading difficulties. Here,…
Change for the Better
Good ideas can fail quite easily without careful leadership In our last two posts, here and here,…
Low Fidelity
Without fidelity, we can’t expect reliable outcomes – and crucially, we won’t know what went wrong. In…
High Fidelity?
Education does not have an evidence problem – it has an implementation problem. In recent years we’ve seen…
Finding the Right Partner
Successful collaboration is all about ‘fit’ Thinking Reading is mission-driven, not sales-driven. We partner with secondary schools to…
Ofsted and literacy – a two-edged sword?
Many readers of this blog will know that we have been working for some years to raise the…
Thinking and Reading
The well-known statement, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” is attributed to the…