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Carousel explained: '000's of Question Banks ✅ Flashcards for retrieval practice✅ Students self-mark free-text quizzes✅ MCQ's supported✅ Whiteboard Mode for Do Now starters✅ Mobile, tablet and laptop quizzes✅ 🚨Revolutionary C-Scores to track question history and student performance✅✅✅ Increased teacher workload❌❌❌ Teach smarter. Learn better.

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Sunday morning is chore and podcast morning! I have calendar admin, tortoise enclosure upkeep and some light domestic cleaning on the agenda. What's on yours? Whatever you're doing -TUNE IN AND SHARE

@cattier80 Hi Catherine. We responded to your email to our helpdesk on 5th Jan - maybe it went to spam? We've processed the cancellation - your Gold account will not renew and will downgrade to Silver after 17th Jan. If you go to your My Account area you should see confirmation of this.

@Carousel_Learn can you advise how I cancel my subscription please the link on the website will not let me cancel as no button in my profile where it tells me about renewal and subscriptions. Due on Monday emailed on 5th no response.

MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE There's always a big spike in listens on the first Monday back, tune in and share if you can 🙏🙏🙏

Second post in a short series on purposeful digital design exploring the benefits of a trust-wide Scholar Resource Hubs built using SharePoint and how digital spaces can support scholars. "Scholar Revision Hubs: From Principle to Practice" open.substack.com/pub/robgeogcha… @astreaacademies #geography #edtech #geographyteacher

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Most CPD sucks and doesn't work because leaders move on too quickly. You introduce initiative [x] at INSET. You talk about it. You expect people to do it. You plan your next Twilight or INSET, which will be about [y]. Six months later, you find that neither [x] nor [y] are being implemented. You've wasted time, and you've actually made it less likely that staff will do [z] when you spring that on them. This kind of CPD is alarmingly common, and utterly unsustainable. Because effective, responsible and sustainable CPD is at the heart of what @BenRiceTeach and I are trying to achieve with Carousel Teaching, I'm delighted to announce that we've just launched our Booster Courses 🥳🥳🥳 The idea is that you do the main course (e.g. Smashing Your Starter or The Amazing Mini-whiteboard) and then some time later you do the Booster Course. This will help refresh your memory of the same content, keep you sharp, and point you to things that you might not have had the chance to implement. The Boosters start with reflections around how your practice has changed, and ask you to be honest about where it hasn't. It then uses new videos and quizzes to push, prode, poke and provoke your thinking. There is zero *new content* in the Booster courses, it completely reflects content you have already covered. This approach builds an organisational culture of sustained and sustainable change. It's super cool and totally unique (to the best of my knowledge). To find out more check out @Carousel_Learn at carousel-learning.com/teaching Please share if you can, we'd love to help as many teachers as possible 🙏🙏

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A superb read. 👇🏻

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate but especially to the person who requested a quote for a Carousel Gold account at ten minutes to midnight on Christmas Eve. Some lucky teacher somewhere is waking up to a 2026 full of Whole Class Feedback and Do Now C-Score sliders. 🥰 🎄 🎅

I loved this post from Carl when I read it, and went into our footage to find examples. Check out the video here, and note the way the teachers try to keep their heads up and looking around the room. There's two aspects to that in these videos: 1. A general dispositions of looking around constantly 2. An increased emphasis on it immediately after responding to disruption (of any kind) A lot of the research focuses on teachers who have been doing this for years. It observes them, sees what they are doing, and describes it. But often the vibe is that they do it naturally, that their experience has just sort of led them to acting in a certain way. I think for many that might be right, but we mustn't lose sight of the fact that strategies like this can be taught and assimilated rapidly. For example, in this video Abi was in her ECT year, but has the "gaze" of a teacher with 10 years more experience than her. Great teaching isn't a mystery or a secret. It can be noticed, disassembled, communicated and implemented.

The homework also involves doing the actual quiz on Carousel as well as revising with the flashcards, so there’s another level of interaction they need to go through, reducing the perceived payoff of just copying the answers into their book. If large numbers aren’t hitting the target in the Do Now but are hitting it in the homework, then a bigger discussion about the purpose is necessary. (Classroom poster available on request: email sales at carousel hyphen learning dot com and we’ll send you one in the new year.)

@adamboxer1 Few questions (thinking from the perspective of a child looking for shortcuts). What's to stop a child just copying into their book and claiming to have done the homework and then "forgotten" it by the test? Also what if there are large numbers not hitting the target score?

The Greatest Do Now Ever™️ This is the story of how one teacher set out to create the greatest Do Now Ever, and he changed my teaching for the better. Link in reply, please share if you can 🙏

@adamboxer1 A fascinating read. As a carousel user I’ve been trying to think how to prevent the “copy and pasters” food for thought.

I really like watching these clips from @adamboxer1 @Carousel_Learn because Anna and I are constantly discussing and unpicking what this looks like in our Primary context. In this example, we would be narrating what we are doing and seeing. Literally telling the children..."I'm scanning now, great job back row - thank you, Rosie, excellent focus." etc. This is often enough to make the whole class copy. If they don't, a look or prompt acts as a reminder. And we wait. This pause is deliberate and sets the expectation that it applies to everyone. I do this in assembly with 300 children and similarly our lunchtime supervisors again in the dinner hall (this is a work in progress). We have a bell, just like in the classrooms, for 3,2,1 and they all fold their arms. My point in sharing this is that we are all working on the same things, across primary and secondary, and I love that - it just look a bit different. Keep them coming, Adam! As always, thanks @C_Hendrick for your words of wisdom that prompted this. @BenRiceTeach

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@C_Hendrick Raises hand… carousel-learning.com/resources/blog…

Audit for any educational app: - Can tasks be done without the target skill? - Multiple new things at once? - Can learners just skip ahead? - Watching or actually producing? - Real feedback or just "try again"? - Does practice match the real performance? Most apps fail most of these checks imo. That's why most apps don't produce reliable learning.

Most educational apps don't work. Not "could be better." Not "work for some kids." They're architecturally incapable of producing reliable learning. Here's why 🧵

@AdemDoccus4 @BenOgorek @C_Hendrick Retrieval is the key; a student copying from a source is not retrieving. carousel-learning.com/resources/blog…

@BenOgorek @C_Hendrick Some. But the act of reading/writing/reading - by hand - is the initial cognitive input. It’s the most important and impactful part of the short term/long term retrieval. A student getting a question right in October NEEDS to get it right in May Final Exams. Long term is key