Book Reviews

Teaching Classroom Controversies: Navigating Complex Teaching Issues in the Age of Fake News and Alternative Facts

This immediately practical and up-to-date book will help teachers navigate some of today’s most contentious issues

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Geoff and Margaret’s Old School Book of Retirement Tales

It perfectly tickles that part of the brain that harbours memories of a childhood, says a nostalgic Ed Finch

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Teachers and teaching post-Covid: Seizing opportunities for change

Its account of the profession’s pandemic response is unfortunately not matched by its vision for a post-Covid transformation

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A practical guide to pupil wellbeing: strategies for classroom teachers

Not the kind of practical guide to skim for quick wins, it’s nonetheless a useful read to start important…

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Smashing glass ceilings: Empowering women in education

A truly practical book on the breadth of career options in education and how women can reach the top…

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Blog Reviews

The Conversation – with Dr Jess Mahdavi-Gladwell

The end of ‘school phobia’, inner leadership, belonging, curriculum and culture, and blank stares

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The Conversation – with Shekeila Scarlett

Pupils missing education, rethinking pastoral care, and homeschooling

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The Conversation – with Frances Akinde

This week’s conversation gets heated about the arts and reflects on the impact of toothless government guidance

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The Conversation – with Fiona Atherton

This week’s hot topics include mobile phones in schools, the uses and abuses of labels and elevating Black leaders

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The Conversation – with Robert Gasson

This week’s digital staffroom talks gender-questioning young people, inclusion, behaviour and consistency

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The Conversation – with Sarah Gallagher

A rediscovered maths tool, putting process over outcome, leadership learning from Gareth Southgate, and the school environment

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Research Reviews

The Knowledge

What does inclusion look like in practice today?

New research shows remarkably little consensus about what inclusion means – leaving the schools who do it best exposed

JL Dutaut
Toby Greany and Jodie Pennacchia
The Knowledge

How can schools in poor areas attract more teachers?

New research by the National Institute of Teaching shows a mismatch between what schools offer candidates and what teachers…

JL Dutaut
Professor Sin Wang Chong
The Knowledge

How are SENDCOs managing amid rising pressures?

New research reveals the pressures of escalating need and insufficient resource – but diverging views of the SENDCO role…

JL Dutaut
Rik Chilvers
The Knowledge

How youth work complements and supports schools

Three studies show how youth work is a vital part of any effort to improve the lives and outcomes…

JL Dutaut
Will Millard and Jacob Diggle
The Knowledge

How are multi-academy trusts navigating centralisation?

New research reveals how trusts pool funding and the opportunities and challenges for more and better centralisation

JL Dutaut
Chris Kirk and Will Jordan
The Knowledge

Teacher-powered research: how we’re building the evidence around everyday practice

A new stream of EEF evaluations aims to give teachers better evidence to support their everyday practice

JL Dutaut
Christine Kelly and Faizaan Sami