The Riverside Journal
Notes on learning and teaching.
Writing from our staff room — on how children learn, what schooling is for, and how to prepare a child for decades we cannot yet describe. Written for parents, not for prospectuses.
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The Average Child Does Not Exist
Personalised and adaptive learning, explained without the sales pitch — what it actually means, how a school spots a gap in week two instead of at the term exam, and how to read your child's progress without ranking them against the class.
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Five Books for Parents on Education and Learning
Five books that changed how we think about teaching — on how children understand ability, how learning actually works, what school is for, what parents are for, and what the decades ahead will ask of our children.
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