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Boys Do Cry: Improving boys’ mental health and wellbeing in schools

Informed, at times unexpectedly emotive, and studded with practical solutions, ‘Boys Do Cry’ leaves Sanum Khan reflecting on her teaching and her parenting

The Conversation – with Penny Rabiger

This week’s conversation takes in meritocracy, marketisation and mental health

The Knowledge. What works to improve recruitment and retention?

Becky Francis sets out key findings from today’s new EEF review of international evidence on successful measures to recruit and retain teachers

If we solve the retention crisis, the recruitment crisis will follow

Staff attrition is a marker of the health of our education system and our diagnosis calls for immediate intervention, writes Sinéad McBrearty

Solutions: How to prepare for the next disruptive social media trend

The recent wave of so-called Tik-Tok protests affecting schools achieved a lot of coverage in the media and caused a lot of alarm as schools considered how best to manage the situation. This has abated for now, but social media trends have a way of evolving and schools should be prepared for situations like it […]

What East of England school leaders are saying about Ofsted

The Suffolk Primary Heads’ Association’s research reveals some pretty damning feedback about Ofsted’s framework and inspections, says Rebecca Leek

Pretended. Schools and section 28 by Catherine Lee

Pretended takes readers on an emotionally charged journey through the dark corridors of Margaret Thatcher’s infamous Section 28 legislation, which prohibited schools from acknowledging homosexuality. Its title, if you’re wondering, derives from the law’s disturbing description of homosexualityas a“pretended family relationship”. Catherine Lee, who experienced the law’s oppressive grip as a teacher for its entire […]

The Conversation – with Frances Akinde

A look back on mental health awareness week, from ‘snowflake children’ to a blizzard of need

How compensation claims work in this increasingly risky profession

Staffing shortages and straitened budgets are already leading to an increase in compensation claims, explains Ben Pepper