Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen

I think appraisal and performance management systems are challenging to get right in schools for a number of reasons. It is very hard to measure the success of teaching – observations are notoriously unreliable and a good set of pupil results may tell you as much about teaching from previous years as it does about

Visible Learning Feedback by John Hattie and Shirley Clarke

This is the latest Hattie book and it focuses on an area which his Visible Learning analysis suggests has a large effect size but has often been misunderstood- feedback. The authors try to get into the details of what is actually meant by feedback, and the aspects that are most effective. Its focus on the

Responsive Teaching by Harry Fletcher-Wood

This is an extraordinarily rigorous and thought-provoking book. It is basically about AiFL/formative assessment as first highlighted by Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black in “Inside the Black Box”. Wiliam is now deeply frustrated by how his ideas were applied and he questions whether the titles used were the problem. He has now suggested that “responsive