Hi teachers

My colleague Bethany Woollacott would like to interview you for a research project looking at effective communication of evidence

If you can spare her 30 minutes for an online interview, please DM me/Beth

Thanks so much! 🙏

New blog: A proposal for saving five million hours per year (one day per teacher) of workload, without harming pupil achievement

samsims.education/2024/04/25/a-p…

NEW ESSAY COLLECTION

Labour economics: Thinking through Labour's economic agenda

What is Labour's economic philosophy? Is it enough? And how could it be improved?

Aveek Bhattacharya and I asked leading economists what they thought

The results are revealing:
smf.co.uk/publications/l…

📣 Responsive Coaching Giveaway

I've just been sent some fresh prints of the new book, so I have eight copies of Responsive Coaching to give away.

Simply **register for our webinar** (25-4-24 @ 4pm - bit.ly/4arRLET) & **retweet this tweet** for your chance to win

New: London has a shortage of homes, but it doesn't have a shortage of golf courses.

In fact, London’s 95 golf courses take up more land than the entire borough of Brent.

Here's the case for building on some of them.

samdumitriu.com/p/homes-or-golf

What have we learned from the first 30 years of research on Kahneman and Tversky’s Prospect Theory?

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.125…

Stunningly positive findings. The short- and medium-term impacts of Sure Start on educational outcomes ifs.org.uk/publications/s… via Institute for Fiscal Studies

Some strong (and sound) recommendations from Christian Bokhove John Jerrim and Sam Sims
EdArXiv Preprints | Inspecting the Inspectorate: New insights into Ofsted inspections (osf.io)

Congratulations to my brilliant colleague and pal Jennifer Barker who was awarded her PhD from Manchester this week! :)

Just emerged from what was easily the busiest few months of my career to date. To all the co-authors, editors, colleagues, and collaborators who had to wait for me… sorry/thanks! Normal service now resuming…

I'm proud to announce that my new book Responsive Coaching is out now 💥

It's the product of 10+ years coaching, 3 years writing, and a year testing in school, and aims to help coaches to be as impactful and useful as possible 💪

This fascinating chart on real wage rises is absolutely not what people customarily say about the last 9 years. Worth questioning some preconceptions here: on.ft.com/4ajHsm4 via Financial Times

If you are at all interested in behavioural science / decision making, you will not regret reading this!

I’d like to bring your attention for an article that Eric J. Johnson, Eli and I just published pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…. In this article we describe, test, and explain the heterogeneity of very established effects in the behavioral sciences, THREAD >>>

The only thing that we can be certain of is that in the future, people will be able to make a good living by saying that we have no idea what the future will hold.

We should start preparing children now to talk about how we can’t prepare children for the future.