The Greatest Do Now Ever™️

This is the story of how one teacher set out to create the greatest Do Now Ever, and he changed my teaching for the better.

Dec 22 • Adam Boxer

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The Long-Term Memory Problem: Why Teaching and Learning Policies Fail

Schools are very good at writing policies about in-the-moment teaching. They are much worse at strategising for long-term memory and learning.

Dec 14 • Adam Boxer

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November 2025

Every student, every lesson

When we allow the loudest voices to dominate classroom conversation, we neglect to show respect and dignity to all our students, forgetting that every…

Nov 30 • Adam Boxer

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Autonomy, authority and anarchy: creating a better school culture

Most schools live with a quiet tension between what’s written in policy and what actually happens in lessons. Getting to grips with this tension is at…

Nov 23 • Adam Boxer

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Negotiating “non-negotiables”

School leaders might have the right to steer the conversation on what lessons should look like in their schools, but do they have the right to dictate…

Nov 2 • Adam Boxer

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October 2025

Getting worse at teaching

We talk a lot about how teachers get better at teaching, but we don’t think enough about how teachers can get worse at teaching.

Oct 23 • Adam Boxer

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The Radiologist

We can't build great teachers if we can't spot great teaching. Unless we train leaders to see beneath the surface, feedback will remain blind.

Oct 12 • Adam Boxer

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September 2025

School Improvement Starts Here: Behaviour, Attention, Participation, and Memory

All schools can improve, but it's often hard to know where to start. In most contexts, we can begin by asking three simple questions.

Sep 28 • Adam Boxer

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