Matt Hood

🚀 @OakNational’s new curricula and first teaching resources are live. So is the first phase of an entirely new product. 🧑‍🏫 It's all designed around supporting in-class teaching. 🤔 But, what’s actually in it? Buckle up... 🧵👇 thenational.academy

We introduced cadets at @BayLeadershipAc a couple of years back. It is excellent and, alongside our academic curriculum, forms a major part of what we offer our kids to set them up for success. See also Scouts, Duke of Edinburgh, Plays and Productions, Sports Teams etc.

As I end my time at Oak, we’ve achieved a lot but there’s still a lot to do. I wish Oak’s new interim CEO @johnrobeds, the team and the wider partnership the best as they continue this work and thank them and everyone who has used Oak and helped out on this rollercoaster ride!

For those teachers our independent evaluation shows that their workload is down (up to 5 hours per week), their curriculum expertise is up, they are happier and say that they are more likely to stay in teaching.

After 5 years, today marks my final week leading @OakNational. I’m so glad to close this chapter with the brilliant news that our resources are now live in prisons. @tes has kindly let me reflect (ok, indulge) on my time. A quick summary below…🧵 tes.com/magazine/analy…

There were 7,000 submissions to the review which shows how much teachers, schools, parents, academics and others rightly care about the curriculum, its strengths and weaknesses. The interim report is a great start to this vital work.

Review rightly spots while some subjects are over-prescribed, others lack specificity which leads to more curriculum content as teachers try to cover all bases. Great that the next phase will analyse each subject’s particular problems and come up with solutions

Interim findings are thoughtful, practical and get to the point. Rightly @BeckyFrancis7 notes one of the big trade- offs we struggle with is breadth v depth…

They rightly acknowledge there is much that is good and works well in the current curriculum, but it can be improved and brought up-to-date. Look forward to seeing next stage of their work and how some of our important subjects can be developed for the future.

Really great to see @BeckyFrancis7 and the Curriculum and Assessment Review team publish their interim findings. It’s clear the review is in safe hands. gov.uk/government/pub…

@cerysturner7 @NickGibbUK @RtHonRobHalfon @MaryWBousted Jim might be interested in this paper on evaluating AI quality in education, which the team at @OakNational had published by MIT yesterday. x.com/johnrobeds/sta…

@NickGibbUK @RtHonRobHalfon @MaryWBousted Back on to AI, Halfon said that he is “still yet to be convinced” as to the best methods of measuring AI quality. Knight agrees, saying that the DfE should reestablish an AI unit to give schools advice, “perhaps refurbishing the money given to Oak National Academy”.

Former schools minister Jim Knight tells the BETT show that teachers have been treated as “cogs in the machine”. He also says that the curriculum is “obese” - “I’m not full of optimism about radical change in the curriculum”. #BETT25

🙌 Giving teachers their Sunday nights back… Great to see Aila, our AI lesson assistant, leading the news on how we can support teachers to save time and have a more manageable workload, explained below by @patmcfaddenmp.  👀 Want to know more? Join the 1,000+ teachers signed up for our webinar this Wednesday on how to plan high-quality, personalised lessons with Aila: oaknat.uk/3PsNd8w