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How can you measure the impact of CPD?
How can you measure the impact of CPD? If you’ve invested time, money and effort into a CPD programme, you’ll naturally want to know that it’s having a positive impact on your school’s teaching and...
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Going Beyond CPD: Vivienne Porritt
Going Beyond CPD: Vivienne Porritt As Director for School Partnerships at the UCL Institute of Education, Vivienne Porritt has extensive experience and knowledge of what makes effective professional...
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Trust is using IRIS Connect to support NQTs
Blackbird Academy Trust is using IRIS Connect to support NQTs Blackbird Academy Trust in Oxford, are using IRIS Connect as a reflective tool to help their NQTs identify areas of development for...
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IRIS Connect has moved to a new office
Introducing… …our brand new office in Brighton’s North Laines. We’ve relocated to Sovereign House, where we’re enjoying our spacious new office; a place where we can all reflect, innovate, collaborate,...
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What kind of professional development do teachers really want?
Discover CPD that teachers really want We recently asked 1000 teachers what professional development activities they would prioritise if they were in control of their CPD, and received some interesting...
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Benefits of building a shared video CPD library and how to do it
How to build a shared teacher CPD library using IRIS Connect There’s more than one reason to build a library of best practice clips in IRIS Connect, here are five of them: 5 benefits of building a...
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The New wave of Teacher Observation
The New wave of Teacher Observation Let’s not beat around the bush, teaching can be a hard game. Even for the most experienced of teachers, any classroom can throw a multitude of dilemmas at you, and...
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Professionalising the Profession
Professionalising the Profession Slides from the Sunday Times Festival of Education We had a great time this week at the Sunday Times Festival of Education and heard some really interesting opinions...
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What the new era for Ofsted inspection means for you
At a recent event in London, Ofsted announced a ‘new era’ for their inspections, with changes taking place from September. But what do these changes mean for you? Shorter inspections From September,...
View ArticleLaunching the Effective Learner Behaviours – SSAT Group
Evidence based teaching and learning brought to life IRIS Connect and SSAT collaborate to make evidence based practices accessible to teachers, any time anywhere Ground-breaking collaboration between...
View Article‘Carefully designed’ professional development
A round up of recommendations from the Developing Great Teaching review With the aim of capturing and distilling approaches to and characteristics of effective professional development, the Developing...
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IRIS Connect facilitates teacher collaboration and sharing across 5 countries
Creative Classrooms Lab project: Teacher collaboration and sharing across 5 countries The Creative Classrooms Lab project (CCL) brought together teachers and policy-makers from 8 countries to design,...
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‘My favourite teacher’– in the words of a year 10 student
‘My favourite teacher’ We recently had Saul, a year 10 student, join us in the IRIS Connect office for a week of work experience. Whilst he was here, we asked Saul about his favourite teachers and...
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John Hattie Research: What works best in education?
John Hattie Research: How can we increase the expertise of all teachers? How do we increase the expertise of all teachers? This is the key question addressed by renowned education expert John Hattie in...
View ArticleSummer holidays are here!
Summer holidays are here We hope that the last term has gone smoothly and that you are on course for a well deserved and relaxing summer holiday.. As the year comes to an end we wanted to say a huge...
View ArticleDeputy headteacher’s 4 tips for adopting video CPD
4 top tips for adopting video CPD in your school Sharing practice and seeing others teach are great opportunities for teacher progression, yet the prospect of both can be scary. 18 months on from...
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IRIS Connect launches new feature for high impact, low cost school to school...
New feature for high impact, low cost school to school collaboration Teachers and school leaders using IRIS Connect now have access to Groups, the most exciting development to date in the IRIS Connect...
View ArticleMaking feedback more effective for your students
Making feedback more effective for your students Evidence and data from The EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit demonstrates that effective feedback is low cost to implement but can have a very high...
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Ofsted’s latest inspection changes explained
Ofsted’s latest inspection changes explained Ofsted’s latest inspection changes are effective from this month, here’s a summary of everything you need to know about the 2 major changes. 1. The Common...
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9 tips for encouraging students to become independent learners
9 tips for encouraging students to become independent learners Encouraging students to be independent learners, not only has huge benefits for them, but it’s also a proven high impact, low cost way to...
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