# Joe Kirby

joe kirby is a British school teacher and deputy head at Jane Austen College, who writes on translating research into the classroom. In 2013, he published How To Start on Teach First and his blogs, frequently citing American educator E. D. Hirsch, have become popular, resulting in his increasing influence on the debate on education in the UK. When he looked at the problem of teacher burnout and work overload, he published his widely read 2015 blog post "Marking is a Hornet", calling for the reduction in the task of marking homework, and advocating instead that pupils quiz themselves on their work using checklists or oral feedback. He created and made popular the use of knowledge organisers, a template used by teachers and their students to clarify what is essential to learn.