Mark Enser 🌍

I'm looking forward to my first term as a freelance writer and supporting schools. If you think I could be of any help, do get in touch.

Fieldwork might be the best stress test of a school. Take pupils out of the classroom - safeguarding, behaviour culture, inclusion, curriculum thinking and leadership all become visible. A thought sparked by a tweet from @kate_stockings. New post: open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p/s…

@EnserMark I loved this Mark- thank you- complete agree. I'd love to see more SLT members saying yes to attending GCSE geography fieldwork. Why? 1. To support their geography teachers on the toughest days and 2. To stress test their school culture- just as you describe.

@kate_stockings An excellent point! I have been musing over it all morning and ended up writing this. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p/s…

Another successful round of rivers fieldwork complete ✅ I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again: nothing tests school culture like behaviour & conduct on GCSE Geography fieldwork. But, my goodness, these students were a credit to their school today!

I spend a lot of time working with schools and MATs to quality assure and improve geography. One question always sits underneath: what do we actually mean by the impact of the geography curriculum? In this post I try to make my thinking visible. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p/b… #GeogChat

Assessment in foundation subjects like geography often creates a headache for leaders. I take a look at what goes wrong, and how to put it right. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p/a…

@EnserMark @greeborunner This is really insightful and helpful!! We have been going around in circles (or full latitude loop🤪😉) on this topic!!

@kate_stockings @futurettraining Thank you. That is lovely to hear.

The blog➡️ the impact👩‍💻👩‍🏫 Forever grateful to @EnserMark for publishing such high-quality writing that can be used in so many different ways 👏Today, I used his blog on inclusive teaching in geography in our SCITT training session on Adaptive Teaching and it was invaluable!

Is your school’s quality assurance helping or hindering improvement? QA should be about curiosity & clarity – not compliance. @EnserMark & @greeborunner explores five essential questions every leader should ask to make QA purposeful and impactful: buff.ly/jcBWkGe #schools

What the process of writing a text book taught @EnserMark about creating shared resources (which should help teachers and subject leaders who are developing such resources for others in their team): @tes: tes.com/magazine/teach…

We are back after half term with another #eduweeklyroundup from @DurringResearch . Featuring great items from @RobGeog , @PepsMccrea , @EducEndowFoundn, @EnserMark & @greeborunner, @Ambition_Inst and our very own @shaun_allison classteaching.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/wee…

This was a fun episode to record 👇

Is your school’s quality assurance helping or hindering improvement? QA should be about curiosity & clarity – not compliance. @EnserMark & @greeborunner explores five essential questions every leader should ask to make QA purposeful and impactful: buff.ly/77yH9g7

Is your school’s quality assurance helping or hindering improvement? QA should be about curiosity & clarity – not compliance. @EnserMark & @greeborunner explores five essential questions every leader should ask to make QA purposeful and impactful: buff.ly/jcBWkGe #schools

@Andy__Buck Thanks, Andy. I hope you are well?

Insightful thread #honk 👏

@EnserMark This is why I’ve always championed intellectual prep as opposed: The bogeyman of teachers becoming simply lesson deliverers (following a set PPT) only becomes true when leaders: 1. Do not insist on IP/model it 2. Do not set aside time for IP, individual or collaboratively