American College of Education support.

By staying a week ahead of it rather than level with it, which is the only defence that reliably works. A block that short has no recovery week, so the evening you lose to a staffing crisis has to be one you had already spent. Planning to work in the week the work is due is what produces the trouble.

Because ACE grades application and your markers teach for a living. Grade level, subject, population, whether the curriculum is mandated, whether the room is co-taught — those are not colour, they are where the marks sit. A classroom that could be anybody's reads exactly like one.

For a great many people, provided it is planned across blocks rather than inside them. The common failure is treating the dissertation in practice as another five-week course. It needs chapter-sized targets spread over terms, with the dates held by somebody who will actually ask about them.

Consent. When you hold power over the participants, as a teacher does over a class, a review board will look carefully at whether consent can be freely given. It is workable and it has to be worked out while the design is still movable, because the resolution occasionally rules out the study you had in mind.

Yes, and for most working teachers it is the sensible pace. Short blocks taken singly are genuinely manageable alongside a timetable; two at once is where terms come apart. Finishing a term later than planned costs far less than a block that collapses and has to be repeated.