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David Didau is an education writer, speaker, and former English teacher with a long-standing interest in how students learn to think, write, and understand.

He is the author of several influential books on teaching, including Making Kids Cleverer, What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology, Intelligent Accountability and Making Meaning in English. His latests book, co-written with Rikki Cole, is Writing Fitness which details the C25K Writing programme.

David works with schools internationally on curriculum design, writing instruction, and evidence-informed practice, and is known for combining cognitive science with hard-edged classroom realism. His training has been described variously as being "like bottled lightning," "throwing a grenade into a still pond" and "quite good."