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Welcome Victoria Wells, Vice Principal I'm very proud to welcome you to Cowes Enterprise College’s second CPD journal. We began the academic year developing our pedagogy with a sharp focus upon literacy and oracy. We worked with Voice21 and benefited from their Oracy Leaders Programme who gave us the insight into where the academy is on the journey to excellent oracy and we studied ways we can put oracy at the heart of the curriculum. Staff selected to pursue one of three strands after a carousel of workshops on all - embedding tier 3 vocabulary direct instruction into their teaching, developing strategies to improve student oracy or supporting reading and writing more effectively thus developing academic literacy. These projects relied upon selecting effective, research-informed strategies and using them in lessons with students to gauge the positive impact. On March 23rd 2020 this approach became impossible. We swiftly reviewed our CPD provision and moved all resources online to the CPD library. We invested in collating the best of educational research and evidence for staff to access remotely with the assistance of wealth of online articles and research reviews from the Chartered College of Teaching. We set up online collaborative spaces where staff can discuss their findings and reflect upon their practice. Staff were given a wider choice of reading broadly categorised into seven distinct areas; tackling disadvantage, high challenge and expectations, SEND, student wellbeing, cognitive science, developing literacy and oracy. Staff were encouraged, in addition to their online discussion, to complete a literature review summarising their findings on their topic. It is this work along with CPD undertaken in the first half of the academic year, you can find contained within this journal. Some staff were able to carry on with their original work and so you will find a literacy and oracy bias. It is a great pleasure to introduce this year's journal which, in March, looked unlikely to come to fruition due to school closure but with the tenacity and flexibility of all staff we were able to produce the journal you see here. I have been inspired by the deep reflection that all staff have engaged in and proud to present this journal as just the tip of the iceberg of the professional development that has taken place.

I completed a search of the journal and these are our most mentioned people and organisations, so if you want a start for your own reading these are our recommendations. Education Endowment Foundation

Robert J Marzano @robertjmarzano

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/ Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish

Chartered College of Teaching https://chartered.college/

Jo Huchinson @JoJoHutchinson Andy Tharby @atharby

Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov David Didau @DavidDidau

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