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Universal Thinking Framework
Metacognition
Answers stay at surface level

Give learners the words for deeper thinking: 33 command words in five families.

Thinking Framework
Say It
Oracy
A few voices do all the talking

Talk routines that get every learner explaining their ideas out loud.

Say It
Map It
Graphic organisers
Notes are lists, not connected ideas

Visual templates that show how ideas link, compare and sequence.

Map It
Block Building
Structured writing
Good ideas fall apart in writing

Learners build the shape of an answer with blocks before they write it.

Build It, with Writer's Block
Across the school
Learning Behaviour Framework
Independent learning
Learners rely on you for every step

A shared language for learning behaviours, so learners take charge of their learning.

Learning Behaviour Framework
Professional development
Get your staff under the hood of learning

Hands-on sessions where teachers do the thinking themselves and see learning with fresh eyes.

Training
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Why did Rome fall?
Retrieve what they know
5 min
Say It: talk in pairs
10 min
Map It: rank the causes
20 min
Build It: shape the answer
15 min
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