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Blogging Seasonal Teaching and Learning 

The Most-Read Blogs of The Year

30th December 201829th December 2018 Holly Gardner 663 Views 0 Comments #MarkPlanTeach, 2018, 5 Minute Lesson Plan, Assembly, educational fads, ICT, Marking, Parents, Research, Resilience, Revision, Top Blogs, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute What have been the most-read blogs of the year?

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Mental Health Parenting Resources 

Literacy And Life Expectancy

8th September 20187th September 2018 @TeacherToolkit 1172 Views 1 Comment Alain de Botton, Assembly, Functionally Illiterate, Gurdjieff, Hanif Kureshi, Jeanette Winterson, Life Expectancy, Literacy, Middle Class, National Literacy Trust, Nietzsche, Osho, Poverty, Sophie's World, The British Class Survey, The National Literacy Trust, Upper Class, Working Class

Reading Time: 4 minutes What are you doing to raise the profile of literacy in your everyday life?

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Resources Teaching and Learning Workload 

Top 10 Resources Of The Year

14th July 201814th July 2018 Holly Gardner 2781 Views 2 Comments #TakeAwayHmk, 5MinPlan, AfL, Assembly, displays, Interview, intray, leadership, Marking, Pose Pause Pounce Bounce, Questioning, Resources

Reading Time: 1 minute What are the most-downloaded resources of the year?

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Resources Seasonal 

CPD Picks of The Week

6th July 20187th July 2018 Holly Gardner 1174 Views 0 Comments #TTkit100Women, #TTkitPodcast, @VicGoddard, adisa the poet, Assembly, Behaviour, Dame Alison Peacock, Design Technology, Helen Skelton, Interview, Jamie Barry, Jaz Ampaw-Farr, Ofsted, Podcast, Priya Lakhani, Suella Fernandes, teacher burnout, vocabulary, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you looking for an end of term assembly, or some end of term motivation?

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Coaching Podcasts Policies 

Podcast 10: How Can School Leaders Protect Their Staff?

23rd February 201828th October 2018 Iesha Small 1690 Views 0 Comments Assembly, Claire Young, CPD, Headteacher, inspirational, new zealand rugby team, Podcast, Richard Gerver, School Speakers, Senior Leadership, The Apprentice, Training, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute Why do school leaders need to learn to protect their staff from external nonsense?

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Assemblies CPD 

CPD Picks of The Week

1st February 20181st February 2018 Holly Gardner 2259 Views 0 Comments 5 min lesson plan, Assembly, attainment gap, average, career aspirations, Damian Hinds, Differentiation, Dr Patricia M. Davies, Drawing the Future, Education and Employers, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), iPads, maverick, oracy, Primary Futures, social mobility, Take Time campaign, The Intellectual Property Office (IPO), University of Wolverhampton

Reading Time: 3 minutes Are you struggling with differentiation?

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Blogging 

The Top 10 Blogs of 2017

27th December 201723rd December 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2025 Views 1 Comment 2017, Analytics, Assembly, blogs, Coding, demoti, Differentiation, Fads, Feedback, leadership, Marking, School, SEO, teacher, Top Blogs, Twitter, Wellbeing, Workload, Writing

Reading Time: 1 minute What were the most-read blogs over the last 12 months?

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Leadership Middle Leadership 

Advice To My Senior Leadership Self

28th August 201728th August 2017 @TeacherToolkit 5455 Views 2 Comments Assembly, behaviour management, Classrooms, corridors, Data, deadlines, leadership, Lesson planning, Management, Marking, Meetings, Safeguarding, school leadership, Self-evaluation, senior leadership team, senior management team, SLT, SLTchat, Values, Vision

Reading Time: 3 minutes What advice would you give to someone who is ‘starting out’ in school leadership? 

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Psychology Staff Well Being 

Reality Check

17th February 201718th February 2017 John Dabell 2606 Views 0 Comments Assembly, Expectations, Headteacher, learning curves, maverick, nativity, real, reality, virtual

Reading Time: 3 minutes Are you for real?

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Assemblies Resources 

Empowerment Assembly

31st January 2017 @TeacherToolkit 6681 Views 0 Comments Animal Farm, Assembly, Childhood, Dr. Seuss, Empowerment, Hieroglyphics, Joe Kittinger, Lamont Carey, Library, Literacy, Lord of the Flies, National Storytelling Week, Rape of the Lock, Reading, Semiotics, The Gruffalo, The Man Who Touched The Sky, The Reading Agency

Reading Time: 2 minutes How can we empower students?

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Assemblies 

An Open Mind!

18th November 201628th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 5598 Views 3 Comments Assembly, DNA, Let's Open Our World, Nationality, Stereotype

Reading Time: 1 minute Who are you? Where do you come from? 

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Assemblies Resources 

Memories and Time

21st June 20162nd March 2017 @TeacherToolkit 6472 Views 4 Comments Assembly, Memories, Resource, Summer Holidays, Time

Reading Time: 3 minutes What will you achieve this summer?

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Assemblies Resources Students 

Resilience Assembly

3rd December 20157th October 2018 @TeacherToolkit 39531 Views 7 Comments Assembly, Kidspot, Potato, Resilience, Straw, Straw and Potato, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you emotionally, physically and mentally resilient? This is a question I ask students in an assembly.

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Assemblies Resources Students 

If Not Now, When? By @TeacherToolkit

20th March 20152nd March 2017 @TeacherToolkit 12511 Views 10 Comments Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Assembly, Barcelona Olympics, Failure, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Malcolm Gladwell, Marginal Gains, Mindset, Muhammad Ali, Resilience, Resources, Searle Brothers, Sir David Brailsford, The Forgetting Curve, Tolerance

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a blog about resilience, tolerance, failure, revision and exam motivation. I take inspiration from @DrDanNicholls‘ blog, If not now,

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Assemblies Resources Students 

We Are What We Do: The Life Of A Deputy Headteacher

26th September 201429th April 2018 @TeacherToolkit 12413 Views 11 Comments Aspirations, Assembly, Erich Fromm, Quintin Kynaston, Resilience, Resource, The 5 Minute Assembly Plan, The Life of a Deputy Headteacher, Values

Reading Time: 2 minutes This week I spoke in three key stage 3 assemblies at school.

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Assemblies Resources Teaching and Learning 

Get your #AssemblyMojo working

31st May 201417th January 2018 @TeacherToolkit 13787 Views 5 Comments Assemblies, Assembly, Education, Joe Kittinger, Presentations, School, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 5 minutes Starting out as a teacher, I was terrified at public speaking in assemblies and staff briefings. However, when starting out

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