Mental health

How to tackle post-Covid maths anxiety in primary schools

For World Maths Day, year 5 teacher, Katie Serjeant sets out her top tips for helping children overcome anxiety...

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Katie Serjeant
The Knowledge

Universal Credit will make closing the disadvantage gap harder

NFER research shows transtional plans for the roll-out of Universal Credit will make the disadvantage gap harder to track,...

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Jenna Julius

The Review: Tilting Education by Jo Clemmet

Overly idealistic in parts, Tilting Education stimulates reflection and offers achievable steps for putting kindness at the heart of...

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The Conversation – with Fiona Atherton

This week's conversation is all about communication, from the post-Covid language crisis in the early years to ministerial WhatsApp...

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Opinion: Solutions

How a media storm develops and how to sail through it

A plethora of recent headlines shows schools must have a plan for navigating (thankfully predictable) media storms, writes Ruth...

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Ruth Sparkes
Mental health

Mental health: Muslim students need our attention

Acknowledging the mental health crisis among Muslim students isn’t about preferential treatment but developing bespoke ways to support them,...

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Sabah Gilani
Assessment

Learner profiles are a crucial reform to level up our system

A system entirely geared towards reductive assessments is failing to tackle entrenched inequalities, writes Rachel Macfarlane

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Rachel Macfarlane
ITT

Teach First must face up to bigger problems than pay

Teach First’s reputation for churning and burning is well earned and a key reason I went on to the...

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Kristina Murkett
ITT

Why we should welcome undergraduate teacher apprenticeships

Contrary to misconceptions, the new route into teaching will protect the profession's graduate status while making it more accessible,...

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Sam Twiselton