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I’m the Director of Education at No More Marking, a provider of online Comparative Judgement software for schools. I’m also the author of three books about education: Teachers vs Tech, Making Good Progress, and Seven Myths about Education.

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What the marathon teaches you about education
Posted on April 27, 2019
In my book Making Good Progress I developed an analogy between education and marathon running. Put simply, you wouldn’t train for a marathon by trying to run 26.2 miles in every training session. And…

Shakespeare and creative education
Posted on March 11, 2017
This essay was first published in the Spring 2016 edition of Use of English. I can remember reading Othello for the first time when I was studying A-level, and feeling slightly disappointed and cheate…

Why and how we should teach grammar
Posted on February 5, 2012
Take a look at this piece of work. This is a level 3c piece of work, taken from an Ofsted report. You can see the rest of it on page 19 of this document. From my experience of teaching English in seco…
Featured video
How to remember anything, forever
Daisy Christodoulou speaking as part of the Research Ed Home CPD series, May 2020.
This presentation gives a quick overview of spaced-repetition research, and then focusses on some practical advice about how you can integrate a spaced-repetition flashcard system into your teaching & planning.
Recent blog posts
Here are my most recent blogs

How to teach with John Stuart Mill
Posted on May 15, 2022
This was originally posted on the Lib Dem Teacher blog in 2015. Let’s imagine you want to…

Is “learning loss” the right phrase?
Posted on September 8, 2020
This post can also be found on the No More Marking blog here. Over the last few months we…

What will COVID-19 change in education? And what will stay the same?
Posted on May 28, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I ran a webinar for the Teacher Development Trust where I asked eve…

Laptops vs phones: the learning difference
Posted on May 7, 2020
Suppose you have a couple of hundred words of text that you would like your students to re…