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A significant point in time…?

By David Bailey, 4th December 2024

Every now and again comes a point in time that leads to a significant change in direction in education. The forthcoming curriculum review by the Department for Education may just be one of those times.   The current national curriculum has been in place, largely unchanged, for just over 10 years and counting. This has […]

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Slowing down speeds up intelligence – Teaching Let’s Think in an age of instant gratification

By Tom Leigh, 21st November 2024

I have been teaching Let’s Think in English (LTE) for over a decade now, and for the majority of my career this has been in Upper Key Stage 2, and Year 6 in particular.  I distinctly remember the first moment I fell in love with teaching LTE.  I was a bright eyed, energetic NQT (as […]

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Cultivating a Classroom Climate for Critical Thinking: Strategies and Insights

By Dr. Natasha Serret BA (Hons) MA PGCE SFHEA, 23rd October 2024

In the immediate wake of the unsettling reports of the riots in England this summer,  our new Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, announced that within her upcoming review of the national curriculum, there needs to be a consideration of how  “…to embed critical skills in lessons to arm our children against the disinformation, fake news and […]

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Vanguard Learning Trust

By Martina Lecky, 3rd July 2024

In 2020 a partnership was put in place between the Let’s Think Forum (LTF) and Vanguard Learning Trust (VLT), a multi-academy trust in the London Borough of Hillingdon comprising two secondary, one junior and two primary schools.  The partnership established a hub which aimed to develop teachers’ classroom practice with the Let’s Think (LT) methodology […]

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The Joy of Learning

By Alan Edmiston, 15th May 2024

For the past two years I have been on an interesting professional journey and it is one that has been characterised by great joy. So much so that I have called this reflective blog “The joy of learning”. From the outset there are three people I need to acknowledge: Mundher Adhami, my mentor and author […]

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Developing leaders of Let’s Think in schools

By Sarah Seleznyov, 18th April 2024

  What skills and knowledge do leaders need to confidently lead Let’s Think in their schools?  This is the question I asked myself when designing a Leading Let’s Think programme for three schools in England.   I came up with a long list of ideas:   These leaders need to be able to teach strong […]

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Bringing the benefits of Primary Geography to Let’s Think (2)

By Stuart Twiss, 13th March 2024

In the last blog, Bringing the benefits of Let’s Think to Primary Geography Part 1 « Let’s Think (letsthink.org.uk) we looked at the claims made by Let’s Think, how that depends, in part, on lesson structure and how, in this primary Geography project we saw, as in other Let’s Think interventions, a profound impact on […]

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Bringing the benefits of Let’s Think to Primary Geography Part 1

By Stuart Twiss, 15th February 2024

What is our claim, as the Let’s Think Forum?  It is that we can design materials and a pedagogic approach that can accelerate the cognitive development of children. We also claim that this acceleration can persist and affect broad domains of achievement, particularly if our approach is used during periods of development when children are […]

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Sticking with it: how dialogic habits take time

By Michael Walsh, 17th January 2024

  Cath Dawson from Bexley Grammar School shares her thoughts on how Let’s Think in English helps develop cognitive and dialogic habits over time. Early sessions of Let’s Think sessions can feel much more stilted and less satisfying than later sessions where the skills and practice have a deeper foundation… Having taught Let’s Think consistently […]

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How Cognitive Acceleration originated in Israel

By Laurie Smith, 14th November 2023

At this time of conflict in Israel and Gaza, with terrible loss of life on both sides and the risk of more widespread war, I thought it might be helpful to recall that Cognitive Acceleration originated in Israel – that CA is an eventual outcome from a more hopeful period of Israel’s history. It feels […]

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