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What if one change kept 50 more teachers in classrooms: in a single year? At Dixons Academies Trust, our nine-day fortnight cut turnover by 43%, reduced absence, and increased applications. But the real impact? Energised teachers. Better outcomes for students. 🎥 Episode 4 👇

Exploring a nine-day fortnight in schools? 👀The biggest risk isn’t ambition, it’s underestimating the design work. Key lessons: 📌 Start with principles 📅 Use a two-week timetable 👥 Group days off ⏳ Protect staff time 🔁 Test and reset Watch this week's episode below 👇

A nine-day fortnight only works if you redesign the system. You can’t squeeze 10 days of work into 9 and call it flexibility. Learn more in our latest OpenSource episode below 👇

🚀 New series alert! What would make teaching sustainable again? In episode one of our new flexible working series, we explore why we introduced a nine-day fortnight, not a trend, but a response to the growing recruitment & retention crisis. 📅 Launching Monday. Stay tuned!

💭Barristers practise. Surgeons practise. Why wouldn’t teachers? In this the final episode in our OpenSource mission map series, we unpack the non-negotiable: socialisation. We rehearse the fundamentals until they’re automatic, and reset when culture drifts. Watch below 📽️👇

Ramadan Mubarak to all of our community observing this holy month🌙 May this Ramadan bring you peace, reflection, and spiritual growth. We wish you a meaningful month filled with reflection, connection, and blessings. #Ramadan #RamadanMubarak #Ramadan2026 #Community #Kindness

“We all know what we mean” causes cultural drift. High-performing cultures are built on shared clarity, not mind-reading. Clarity is kindness. Structure liberates. Discover how micro-scripts create calm, focus and alignment. 🎥 Watch this week's OpenSource episode below 👇

Barristers practise their arguments. Surgeons practise their procedures. So why don’t we practise teaching? 💭 Next week’s OpenSource episode explores why automating the fundamentals doesn’t reduce teaching, it liberates it. Catch it here on Monday! 📽️

Culture isn’t what you say. It’s what people see and experience every day. This week’s OpenSource episode is all about intentional artefacts, and why owning them matters. 🎬 Free. Practical. OpenSource. Subscribe to our YouTube channel today!

🚀Values aren’t what you frame on the wall. They’re who you hire, promote, and allow to challenge you. But values alone don’t create self-discipline. In next week’s OpenSource episode, we break down our simple three-part system. Catch it here next week 📽️

If your staff can’t recite your mission, it’s not a mission, it’s wallpaper. In episode two of our mission map series, we show how to craft a past-tense mission that breeds certainty and drives daily decisions 🚀 🎥 Watch now 👇

📣New OpenSource series! Culture isn’t strategy’s rival, it’s the plate everything sits on. Next Monday, we share our six-layer mission map: a practical framework to build intentional culture and turn belief into daily action 💡 #Leadership #Culture #OpenSource

At the heart of our final #OpenSource episode are two principles, clear guidance and high expectations, driving academic and emotional growth. Catch the final episode next week🚀

How we organise learning matters. 🎥 Video six of seven in our latest series explores: ✨ Joy: learning with purpose and challenge 🔄 Flexible grouping: ensuring no student is lost, every student stretched When structure meets joy, classrooms come alive. Watch now ⬇️

If knowledge is a house, literacy is the key to the front door. 🔑 In episode five of our instruction series, principle eight looks at how reading & writing unlock the whole curriculum. 📺 Watch the video 🔔 Subscribe to Dixons OpenSource on YouTube: it’s free!

Adaptivity isn’t improvisation, it’s deliberate. Principle 7⃣ in our #OpenSource series on our instruction principles: adapting to respond. No one-size-fits-all. Teachers adjust in the moment so every student can access rigorous learning. Episode four coming soon! 🚀

Scaffolds aren’t permanent, they’re blueprints for independence. Next in our #OpenSource series: Principle 6⃣: modelling and scaffolding. Teachers make thinking visible, chunk tasks, and remove support at the right moment. 🎬 Episode three coming soon!

💭Great teaching isn’t left to chance, it’s built with structure. Watch episode two of our instruction principles series to see how routines, formative assessment, and retrieval create classrooms where learning sticks. #Education #Instruction #EdResearch #DixonsOpenSource

🎯Great teaching isn’t guesswork, it’s deliberate. Watch the first episode of our instruction principles series to see how evidence and expert planning shape lessons that stick. #Teaching #Education #Instruction #EdResearch #DixonsOpenSource