David Didau is the English Lead at Ormiston Academies Trust. A prominent, often outspoken commentator on social media, his blog, The Learning Spy, is one of the most influential education blogs in the UK, and he has written a series of books that challenge our assumptions such as Making Kids Cleverer, Intelligent Accountability and Making Meaning in English.

Link to interview researchED NL 2020

Bibliography:

• The perfect (ofsted) English Lesson 2012
• The Secret of Literacy: Making the implicit, explicit (2014)
• What If Everything You Knew About Education Was Wrong? (2016)
• Making Kids Cleverer (2019)
• Intelligent Accountability: Creating the conditions for teachers to thrive (2020)
• Making Meaning in English (2021)
• Bringing the English Curriculum to Life – A Field Guide for Making Meaning in English (coming soon)

Translated in Dutch (by Jan Tishauser):

• Psychologie in de klas – Wat iedere leraar moet weten (2019)
• Kinderen slimmer maken (2023)