JL Dutaut | Schools Week

Our recruitment woes can only be solved with ethical leadership

We can’t expect to solve recruitment challenges if we don’t accept our system only allows us to pass the proverbial buck, writes Robin Bevan

How can we secure the spirit of Covid collaboration for the future?

A Manchester initiative is showing how school-to-school collaborations are best placed to create the conditions for improvement, write Mel Ainscow and Paul Armstrong

Teach Like A Champion 3.0 by Doug Lemov

Doug Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion (TLAC) books are ubiquitous on CPD library shelves. When I trained in 2015 the first iteration was considered the holy grail of educational books; it offered pragmatic, actionable techniques to help beginner teachers build procedures and routines to manage their classrooms and improve their instruction. This third instalment is […]

Sonia Thompson’s blogs of the week, 25 October 2021

Children’s reading, the power of coaching, ResearchEd Surrey summarised and the fall – and rise? – of differentiation

Ofsted’s maths research review could lead to poorer teaching

School leaders and teachers for tips to improve maths teaching would do better to follow the national curriculum’s principles, write Jenni Back and Anne Watson

Stressed teachers can’t fight the child mental health crisis

A childhood mental health crisis is upon us, writes Brigid Wells, and having over-worked teachers on the front line undermines solutions we know to be effective

Tackling racism and rape culture is curriculum work

With time and training every teacher can start tackling oppressive narratives in their classroom, writes Joy Mbakwe. And once they do, they never go back

Teacher shortages won’t be solved with financial incentives

Boris Johnson’s plans to drive teachers into challenging schools with £3,000 won’t work, writes Ben Newmark. There are better ways to fuel their improvement

How has the pandemic impacted special schools?

Our research shows that special schools were the hardest hit and leaders have little faith their plight is understood, write Caroline Sharp and Amy Skipp