Rob Marchetto

C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer:

AI makes it easier to do more and harder to stop. New piece on "AI brain fry", intensified work, and what this means for education. New post ⬇️

Ability is the consequence not the cause of what children learn” - Graham Nuthall “Curriculum will largely determine the extern to which children are smart” - Siegfried Engellman

People are rediscovering the positive manifold. All performance is tied together, including creativity and mathematics.

Such a good session on WHAT ARE THEY THINKING by @MrGoodwin23 at @researchEDBrum

Well said, Barbara. Every school leader should make this article mandatory reading. 👇🏻 The efficacy, or lack thereof, of student-centered learning is the most exhausting argument in education. If you think about the things you learned from your parents - tying your shoes, riding a bike, cooking an egg, cutting with a knife - how did they do it? This was not child-led inquiry-based learning. You’d never figure it out! And in some cases maybe do real harm to yourself and others. There’s a logical time to allow students to think freely and explore their own ideas but that’s well after the basics have been mastered through explicit instruction.

World Rugby has done an AWFUL job of match scheduling RWC 2027. First of all they have totally wasted the big benefit of 24 team even pool number format which would allow for midweek games but without one side having to play on a 3-4 day turnaround. In a major sporting tournament pool stage having games most days is essential for the tournament's flow and momentum and helps create more a festival feel and vibe. Instead the vast majority games been all crammed into weekends more so than has been done at any previous RWC. Having a schedule of games most days for the pool stages should have been the aim but there are no Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday games at all. Another consequence of them doing this is now way more games at extremely bad hours for the sport's biggest market in Europe. Italy vs Georgia is 3:15am in Italy and 5:15am in Georgia. Wales vs Zimbabwe is about 03:45am in Wales and 04:45am in Zimbabwe. By comparison only 2 games at the 2003 RWC started before 7am UK time, in 2027 this number will be around 18 matches including even some knockout games. This tournament has been scheduled in a vastly more unfriendly way to European and African fans (that is 50% of the competing nations) wanting to follow as many games as they can and totally unnecessarily so. Spain's big return to the RWC is scheduled for 4:15am on a Monday. That is just crazy and hardly going to get any casual fans at all to watch. 2 of their 3 pool games are before 6:30am. WR utterly braindead scheduling has severely limited the positive impact this tournament could have had reaching new audiences in a strong potential emerging market for the sport. Then on to the ordering of games. The first week has just one pool out of the six where the top 2 sides play each other (SA vs Italy). The opening game involves Hong Kong who are likely the weakest side at the tournament. Is this really the best way to kickoff the tournament? Compare that to the opening game of of any other RWC.

You can’t think deeply about what you haven’t been taught. 🎯Spot on, @dylanwiliam. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/dylanwilia… #KnowledgeMatters

@C_Hendrick @matbury In education, we sometimes chase the Purple Haze of novelty: a fog of “engagement strategies,” “21st-century skills,” and promises that students will somehow discover deep understanding if we simply let them roam. But as we’ve seen time and again, Castles Made of Sand—curricula.

@matbury I wish my name was Hendrix!

Carl Hendrix writes an insightful summary of the best research into using AI for education to date & poses some interesting questions. By far, the best article on AI in education I've read so far: carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algorith…

@TPG_Telecom hi we have not any internet for 6 hours now and cannot contact anyone by phone or messages

This passage of play has me in a trance every time I watch it. The level of skill and intensity in that situation is crazy. #RWC2023

@RichardField2 @rugby_podcast 100% Rich!

@rugby_podcast would love to know how Max Burey missed out on both squads? Has he signed for R360?

@PrincipalTASE @PrincipalTASE Please could you send me a copy at rgmarchetto@gmail.com Thanks for your generosity Mark!

Our new Y11 independent study journal and prom tasks, The Climb has taken off and our amazing cohort are really working hard. Please let me know if you’d like a copy emailing out to you.

Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future | PNAS Nexus | Oxford Academic #geographyteacher academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Cultivating humility | ianfrosteducation ianfrosteducation.com/2025/09/15/cul…

Never like seeing the @AllBlacks brothers lose but scenes like this make me fall in love with our beautiful game all over again. Well done @lospumas 👏🏽

📰 POST | On improving participation 👉 tinyurl.com/Implementation… I'd be interested to know what people think about my suggestion to replace invitations to participate with prompts to think. I'm not certain about it, but think it can serve as a helpful circuit-breaker for poor questioning.

Above all, differentiation goes against the heart of the principles of the curriculum which is that all children should be following the same course of work, are entitled to do difficult things and are supported on the way. MARY MYATT