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Highlights from CMC 2020: Diversity in children’s media, education and publishing
In this blog mini-series, Hannie gives her top takeaways from the Children’s Media Conference, including insights from the BBC, Black Lives Matter, Changemakers, Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, and the Moomins.
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Highlights from CMC 2020: Storytelling and creativity are as important as ever
In this blog mini-series, Hannie gives her top takeaways from the Children’s Media Conference, including insights from the BBC, Black Lives Matter, Changemakers, Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, and the Moomins.
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Highlights from CMC 2020: Changemakers – listening to young people
In this blog mini-series, Hannie gives her top takeaways from the Children’s Media Conference, including insights from the BBC, Black Lives Matter, Changemakers, Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, and the Moomins.
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Highlights from CMC 2020: Partnerships are key to quality education in Lockdown
In this blog mini-series, Hannie gives her top takeaways from the Children’s Media Conference, including insights from the BBC, Black Lives Matter, Changemakers, Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, and the Moomins.
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Five big questions for the new term
The government has released a huge amount of information for schools in recent weeks. Here, Steve Besley looks at five of the most recent to see what they mean.
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Will emergency funding help close the attainment gap?
Following the Department for Education’s ‘catch up’ funding announcements, John considers how these months might widen the attainment gap; and asks whether emergency funding for schools addresses the problem.
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Using agile principles to deliver a publishing project
In 2018, Amy was leading on the development of a brand new maths programme at a UK-based global education company. In this article, she explains how Oriel Square helped her use agile principles to develop, articulate and deploy new processes to deliver a key publishing project.
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Online engagement and the human element
Oriel Square Director Sam Derby reflects on a rapid period of learning and development in the world of online training and facilitation.
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Teacher Tapp data – answers in uncertain times
As the UK’s Covid-19 crisis has escalated over the past fortnight, Teacher Tapp has been uniquely placed to find out what teachers are really thinking about.
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Agile principles in practice
This short article outlines why at Oriel Square we use the manifesto and principles of agile to inform best practice in project leadership and personal effectiveness.