English Lead, author
Ormiston Academies Trust
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):