Greg Ashman

NEW FREE POST The argument against Sold a Story that proves why we need it Are teachers rejecting effective teaching because it’s too hard—or have we never properly shown them what it looks like? fillingthepail.substack.com/p/the-argume...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses a new paper on the nature of understanding and has a retro spidery twist. Please share. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Oracy for the masses, Latin for the elite? A Marlborough-educated peer tells us AI makes knowledge less important. His old school still teaches Latin and Greek. Meanwhile, the government wants an oracy revolution built on thin evidence. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/oracy-for-...

NEW CURIOS Free section reports on a new randomised controlled trial of phone bans fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST What even is cognitive activation? Weird PISA 2025 stuff fillingthepail.substack.com/p/what-even-...

NEW CURIOS Free section reflects on the CIS survey of teachers on the science of learning fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST England’s schools are winning. Why are the experts so grumpy? England resisted the education establishment. Scotland and Wales listened. Policymakers should pay attention to what happened next. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/englands-s...

NEW CURIOS Full of the joys of spring and everything you need to know about education. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Bringing back stupid Lucy Powell’s new Department for Hope fillingthepail.substack.com/p/bringing-b...

NEW CURIOS Free section includes my take on that Nikole Hannah-Jones article fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Beware the Sirens Why policymakers should be wary of being called onto the rocks fillingthepail.substack.com/p/beware-the...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the Alpha School controversy fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST PISA cope in the pages of tes magazine fillingthepail.substack.com/p/pisa-cope-...

NEW FREE POST The Prophet Motive Andy Hargreaves, Finland and the consequences of being wrong fillingthepail.substack.com/p/the-prophe...

NEW CURIOS Bumper PISA edition fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST A first look at PISA 2025 What do the results show fillingthepail.substack.com/p/a-first-lo...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses researchED Canberra fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Christian Bokhove’s Cognitive Load Theory schtick Misdirections and omissions fillingthepail.substack.com/p/christian-...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the bottom third of students and a big reveal. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Attacking AERO the pedantic way Analysing the latest hatchet job fillingthepail.substack.com/p/attacking-...

NEW FREE POST Careers education Starting at the beginning fillingthepail.substack.com/p/careers-ed...

NEW FREE POST Bureaucrat SLAMS the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) But is the criticism fair? fillingthepail.substack.com/p/bureaucrat...

NEW FREE POST researchED Melbourne returns Science of learning on the ninth floor fillingthepail.substack.com/p/researched...

NEW CURIOS Free section addresses the question of whether experiential learning has a place in teaching standards. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Education’s dark matter There is no evidence to inform most of what we do fillingthepail.substack.com/p/educations...

NEW CURIOS Free section includes a thought burp from Andy Burnham on vocational education and some inadvertent trolling fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Moral panic at the academy Teaching standards and a call to action fillingthepail.substack.com/p/moral-pani...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the Victorian teachers’ strike this week fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW CURIOS Free section is about AI and teaching from a lesson plan you haven’t written yourself. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Australia's natural education experiment The case of South Australia fillingthepail.substack.com/p/australias...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses a new report on science teaching fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Low floor high ceiling maths tasks are not the solution Activity-based planning and differentiated instruction fillingthepail.substack.com/p/low-floor-...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the great fidget toy controversy fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW CURIOS Free section takes a look at homework in the age of AI fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Can Rosenshine’s Principles mean anything to anyone? No, but it’s interesting to examine this claim Comments OPEN fillingthepail.substack.com/p/can-rosens...

NEW CURIOS Free section reports some stunning claims about the number of bureaucrats working in Australian education fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST I already do that The obvious and the unexamined fillingthepail.substack.com/p/i-already-...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the use of calculators in exams fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Honouring student ideas A constructivist shibboleth fillingthepail.substack.com/p/honouring-...

NEW CURIOS Free section discusses research into teaching resilience. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST When inquiry learning is malpractice We know enough to draw some red lines fillingthepail.substack.com/p/when-inqui...

NEW CURIOS In this AI special edition, the free section discusses a *really bad* proposal for Australia’s standardised tests fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST The curse of conceptual understanding A response to Bill McCallum fillingthepail.substack.com/p/the-curse-...

NEW CURIOS Free section tackles the educational equivalent of hard hats and conservative, behaviourist schooling fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW POST Conceptual understanding is a myth Transfer is a better focus fillingthepail.substack.com/p/conceptual...

First the latest When Will They Learn with @gregashman.bsky.social and Caiti Wade. Greg makes some really good points on the mobile phone ban, like does it actually need an academic impact, and they look at the NEU stating that shared resources is having a negative impact on teacher independence

NEW CURIOS Bumper section before the paywall this week that includes a discussion of performance pay for teachers and constructivist teaching. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST Is AI about to revolutionise the classroom? The Alpha School approach fillingthepail.substack.com/p/is-ai-abou...

NEW CURIOS Free section includes some conference announcements and a discussion of nuance. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...

NEW FREE POST An urgent response is needed to Artificial Intelligence in schools and colleges Don't let education become a nonsense fillingthepail.substack.com/p/an-urgent-...