1. Four themes added to our Early Years Evidence Store
We added four new themes to our Early Years Evidence Store: self-regulation and executive function, early literacy, early maths, and physical development. Each comes complete with a library of videos and practical tips, produced in collaboration with early years specialists and designed to support practice.
2. Two animations to help put cognitive science principles into action
We created two animations to help you incorporate cognitive science principles into daily teaching practice. They’re based on our cognitive science evidence review, which explores the best available research to help guide schools’ thinking around how cognitive science approaches can support teaching and learning.
3. Four podcast episodes that bring together experts on key topics
We produced four new episodes of our podcast on the themes of defining disadvantage, primary science, supporting school attendance, and using research evidence well. Each episode features experts and leaders in the sector, sharing their experiences. These episodes add to our existing podcast library, complete with 23 episodes and more than 132,000 downloads to date.
4. A guide to using research evidence
We published a new webpage and guide to help you use research evidence in education. It features a suite of new resources to support understanding of different types of research and their use in schools.
5. Six recommendations to support great primary science teaching
We published a brand-new guidance report on improving primary science teaching. The report focuses on six evidence-informed recommendations, drawn from a review of the best available international evidence and developed in consultation with a panel of expert practitioners and academics, to support teachers in maximising the impact of science provision in primary schools.
6. An updated guide to effective implementation
We published a new edition of one of our most popular guidance reports on implementation. The guide is accessed, on average 100,000 times a year! This edition unpacks how schools can implement new approaches well, emphasising the importance of a people-centred approach.
7. Tools to support attendance
By exploring overarching principles that can inform attendance strategies, we developed resources around six evidence-informed themes, including a reflection and planning tool to help school leaders consider different approaches to attendance.
8. An interactive disciplinary literacy tree
Recognising that literacy skills are both general and subject specific, we introduced “The Disciplinary Literacy Tree”. Based on the idea that ‘each subject has its own unique language, ways of knowing, doing, and communicating’, the interactive tree helps to define and exemplify disciplinary literacy by exploring the ways that different subjects communicate.
