Robin Conway’s blogs of the week, 31 January 2022

Looking in the Mirror @greeborunner Zoe Enser’s writing is always thought provoking, engaging and accessible. This post focuses on...

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Academies

Academy finances: Surpluses aren’t all they appear to be 

A combination of committed funds and looming challenges means record-breaking surpluses hide a rocky time ahead for academies, writes...

JL Dutaut
PAM TUCKETT
Physical education

Why we scrapped PE for a healthier curriculum

Physical education is supposed to instil healthy habits for life in all our young people and it is fundamentally...

JL Dutaut
GARETH EVANS
Behaviour

Simplifying our behaviour systems changed our culture

A bottom-up approach to school improvement led us from simplifying our systems to a whole new trauma-informed culture, writes...

JL Dutaut
TOM BURT
Opinion: Workforce

Why an SEMH setting could be a professional’s destination of choice

Too many teachers end their career prematurely when a change of setting could be the ideal solution for them...

JL Dutaut
NEIL MILLER
The Knowledge

How can schools begin to face up to systemic racism?

The White Spaces project highlights the challenges of unpicking systemic racism, but shows that doing so is within schools'...

JL Dutaut
DR SHONA HUNTER
Literacy

Reading wars: Reconciliation will require more truth

This new paper on the teaching of reading is so set on its conclusions it has failed to make...

JL Dutaut
TARJINDER GILL

About our schools by Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters

Laura McInerney reviews an imposing new book by two education policy heavyweights and finds herself surprised to be surprised...

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Penny’s podcasts, 24 January 2022

This week's podcasts focus on LGBTQ+ History Month, with ways to rethink and redesign LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools

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