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		<title>The Learning Spy is alive and well on Substack</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you've been missing my regular posts and wondering whether the blog is still going, I'm happy to tell you that you can subscribe to The Learning Spy over on Substack.   It would be great to see you over there. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>How do I know all students have made sense of what has been taught?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was published first on Substack. Please consider subscribing if you haven't already. In Attention, Meaning &amp; Mastery I wrote that all teachers need to answer four questions every lesson: How do all know all students are paying attention? How do I know all students have made sense of what has been taught? How do  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How do I know all students are paying attention?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Didau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is also on Substack. As a reminder, I'm planning to stop posting here in the short to medium term so I'd be really grateful if you could subscribe over there. Thanks, David In Attention, Meaning &amp; Mastery I wrote that all teachers need to answer four questions every lesson: How do all know that all  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How can we teach so that all students experience success?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Didau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A reminder that I'm shifting my output over to Substack, so it would be wonderful if you could subscribe over there. I've been reworking some older posts on this blog and publishing them there so you may recognise a few old favourites.  In Attention, Meaning &amp; Mastery I wrote that all teachers need to answer four  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Attention, meaning and mastery: The questions every teacher needs to answer every lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a loooong hiatus from blogging I've decided to give substack a try. You can subscribe here. For the next few blogs I'll also post here on the Learning Spy site but, depending on how things go, I'm intending to eventually port everything over. I hope you'll come with me. *** Training teachers how to  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s always better to know</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Didau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years I've made a habit of teaching demonstration lessons in the schools I work with in order to make it clearer how to teach effectively. One of the things that makes this useful is that I'm always teaching students I don't know and so, instead of watching a slick performance  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using hinge point questions in English</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 17:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is an extract from Bringing the English Curriculum to Life. In order to teach responsively, teachers need to be able to quickly identify misconceptions and check students’ understanding. A hinge question is a diagnostic tool deployed at a point in a lesson – the hinge – where teachers need to know whether  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How should we view the performance of the most disadvantaged students?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Didau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In spite of our best efforts, the academic performance of our most and least advantaged students stubbornly refuses to close. In fact, as a recent report from the Education Policy Institute shows, the gap seems to be getting wider. Nationally, disadvantaged students at the end of primary school were 10.3 months behind their peers  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The purpose of a system is what it does</title>
		<link>https://learningspy.co.uk/leadership/the-purpose-of-a-system-is-what-it-does/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Didau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following a recommendation from Sam Freedman, I've recently devoured Dan Davies's The Unaccountability Machine. It's an attempt to analyse 'what's gone wrong' in what we might call The West over the past decade or so through the lens of cybernetics. I know, right? If your first thought is to assume that this must have  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why bother with &#8216;turn &#038; talk&#8217;?</title>
		<link>https://learningspy.co.uk/featured/why-bother-with-turn-talk/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Didau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Beyond the notion that it's nice for students to chat, or 'do oracy,' is there any real merit in getting them to talk to each other during lessons? Recently on Twitter, Barry Smith got in touch to go over all the things he sees that regularly go wrong with 'turn &amp; talk': Kids don’t  [...]]]></description>
		
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