The Conversation – with Penny Rabiger

This week’s conversation was tense, with talk of reshuffles, a skills report, remarkable schools, representation, surveillance and restraint

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Literacy

Reading: Consistency and firm foundations are key to success

Responding to the EEF's recent evaluation of phonics schemes, Venessa Willms explains their place in Ark Schools' broader approach...

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Venessa Willms
safeguarding

IICSA: What the sexual abuse inquiry could mean for schools

The landmark inquiry into child sexual abuse calls for reforms with important training implications for teachers, weites Malcolm Johnson

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Malcolm Johnson
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment: Edtech’s solution to the governance gap

With two-thirds of governing bodies reporting at least one vacancy, Simon Hay offers an edtech solution to recruitment –...

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Simon Hay
Teacher training

ECF: Getting the best from our second-year trainees

As trainees across the country settle into their second year under the new early career framework, Jane Cruikshank...

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Jane Cruickshank
Schools white paper

MAT-isation: A culture of lowered expectations for heads

The white paper proposes a new system-wide tier of leadership that will see headteachers lowered from professionals to store...

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Teaching and learning

How I learned to stop worrying about my stroke and love cogsci

After a stroke affected her executive function, Tabitha McIntosh explains how her journey of recovery has meant embracing ideas...

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Tabitha McIntosh

So what now? by Malcolm Groves and John West-Burnham

Primary teacher, Stephen Lockyer is unimpressed by an over-complicated and uninspiring attempt to shoehorn climate change into schools

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The Conversation – with Neil Miller

Reducing exclusions, eye tests for pupils with SEND and expanding free school meals

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