Best Bets

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Best Bets is the podcast from Sandringham Research School. This podcast aims to provide you with the latest education research and insights about how evidence can be used to benefit students in your school. Although education research can never tell us exactly what to do within the classroom, it can provide us with “best bets”, tried and tested approaches that the evidence suggests may lead to promising outcomes. In each episode, we will draw upon the experience of a researcher or teacher with a particular expertise in the area we are looking at.

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Episodes

Episode 5: Remote learning with Kate Mouncey and Karen Roskilly

In this episode, Dr Caroline Creaby interviews Kate Mouncey and Karen Roskilly, Research Leads at Sandringham School. In their discussion, Caroline, Kate and Karen discuss the challenges of transitioning to remote teaching, weigh in on the debate about live lessons, consider opportunities for peer interactions and the wider roles schools play in supporting students to engage in learning.

Feb 05, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode 4: The disadvantaged attainment gap with Mary Reader

In this episode, Dr Caroline Creaby, Director at Sandringham Research School, interviews Mary Reader, Senior Researcher at the Education Policy Institute. In their discussion, Caroline and Mary discuss the findings of the EPI's recent report Education in England Annual Report 2020, for which Mary was a lead author. In particular, Mary talks through the research finds relating the the disadvantaged attainment gap, the attainment gap for those considered persistently disadvantaged and gaps for stu...

Nov 24, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode 3: Memory with Dr Duncan Astle

In this episode, Kate Mouncey, Research Lead and Director of Sixth Form at Sandringham Research School, interviews Dr Duncan Astle, Group Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at The University of Cambridge. In their discussion, they cover a whole host of important areas including working memory, long term memory, ADHD and 'neuromyths'. Duncan also offers helpful suggestions to teachers and school leaders about the implications from brain science research for classroom practice....

Jul 07, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 2: Evidence informed science teaching with Dr Niki Kaiser

In this episode, Dr Caroline Creaby, Director of Sandringham Research School, interviews Dr Niki Kaiser, science teacher, Research Lead and Science Content Specialist at the Education Endowment Foundation. In their discussion, they cover a whole host of important areas including the value of research evidence for teachers and the work of the grassroots #cogscisci teacher group. Niki also offers helpful suggestions to teachers about how to support students in the classroom when they return to sch...

Jun 29, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1: Pupil Premium with Marc Rowland

In this episode, Dr Caroline Creaby, Director of Sandringham Research School, interviews Marc Rowland, the UK's national authority of effective Pupil Premium provision. In their discussion, they cover a whole host of important areas including what effective classroom practice looks like, changes in accountability reporting and striking a balance between in and out of class interventions. Marc also offers helpful suggestions to teachers and school leaders about how to support disadvantaged studen...

Jun 01, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Best Bets Trailer

Take a minute to listen to the trailer for Best Bets, the new podcast from Sandringham Research School. Subscribe and get Episode 1 about Pupil Premium with Marc Rowland on June 1st 2020.

May 21, 2020•52 sec

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