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Happy Friday, Reader Ask a group of middle leaders what good feedback sounds like and you'll have a decent answer in about ten seconds. Describe the work rather than the person. Say what you saw. Then ask one of them to say it out loud to you, as if you were the teacher whose marking has slipped for three weeks and who has a lot on at home. Almost every time, there's a pause. Then an opening line that begins "I just wanted to check in about..." and never quite arrives anywhere. For a long...

Happy Friday Reader This week, i had the pleasure of working with Masters students at St. Mary’s University Belfast, guest lecturing on what makes professional development actually work. We kept coming back to a brilliant framework from the Education Endowment Foundation that breaks effective PD into 14 mechanisms across four areas. Build knowledge. Motivate staff. Develop teaching techniques. Embed practice. All sensible. All evidence-based. When I asked which mechanism is most often missing...