JL Dutaut | Schools Week

How to tackle climate uncertainty without the anxiety

It’s possible to teach climate change without adding to student anxieties, teacher workload or accountability stakes, write Rebecca Webb and Perpetua Kirby

The education for sustainability teachers and students really want

Teachers and young people want their schools to be leaders in sustainability, write Lynda Dunlop and Elizabeth Rushton, and our manifesto can make that happen

How can we make best use of the pupil premium for recovery?

Professor Becky Francis sets out the benefits of using the EEF’s updated guide to target pupil premium spending and meet the DfE’s new reporting expectations

The art and science of teaching primary reading by Christopher Such

“Despite decades of research into the subject, […] many teachers are inexcusably ill-informed about reading.” This is a devastating claim for Christopher Such to open his book with. And yet… even though I received excellent initial teacher training, I had little more than a few hours explicitly learning about how children learn to read. After […]

Gerry Robinson’s blogs of the week, 1 November 2021

The impact of the First Story programme @FirstStory I couldn’t write this round of reviews without including a colleague of mine, Michelle Burke, who has recently written a guest blog post for the creative writing charity First Story. An inspiring teacher and leader in her own right, in this blog Michelle discusses how bringing the […]

Two years on, how has Ofsted’s inspection framework fared?

Its first two years have been marked by unprecedented disruption, write Jeffery Quaye and Mary Myatt, but the 2019 framework has proven itself up to the task

A digital strategy is necessary and achievable for every school

Leaders with a credible digital strategy are pushing at an open door to school improvement, and support is there to help them achieve it, writes Dominic Norrish

Exams: GCSE reform isn’t as simple as stick or twist

As clamour grows for post-Covid GCSE reform, it’s important we listen to the opinions of all those concerned, writes Colin Hughes

The spending review must fix the boat, not rely on liferafts

The spending review can only deliver a sustainable recovery and future prosperity if it is focused on children and young people, writes Carole Willis