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Sonia Thompson’s blogs of the week, 18 January 2021

The power of short stories, books for social and emotional learning, improving online resources and home-learning engagement are this week’s top picks of the education topics Time is short – time for short stories: enriching reading & writing with perfectly formed tales @HertsEnglish Herts for English are consistent in their high-quality blogging about English. […]

Migrant children need targeted support through lockdown

These are the strategies we need in order to address the particular problems faced by migrant children during the Covid lockdowns, write Dr Shoba Arun and Aleksandra Szymczyk When children with migrant backgrounds are discussed in educational terms, much is made of immigrant communities’ high levels of aspiration – particularly educational ambition. This is in […]

New year’s revolutions

Dan Morrow opens his lockdown diary to document another topsy-turvy week in education leadership

Our media are making the hardest of situations harder

The venom habitually directed at the teaching profession by the media commentariat has plumbed new lows during the lockdowns, writes Sarah Gallagher I was 16 and my teachers were on strike when I first saw the profession smeared in the press. I remember my parents saying it would be ever thus. “If you choose this, […]

What are schools’ emerging priorities in this new lockdown?

Lockdown 2.0 is having a much greater effect on primaries while inequalities continue to manifest, writes Laura McInerney This year’s lockdown is not like the other! Despite the fact that this year’s spin to remote learning actually came with less warning (in that it happened literally overnight), schools were nevertheless readier for its consequences. Since […]

Excluded, a ‘young people-led’ documentary on school exclusions

Despite some misleading stats, Cath Murray finds a well-made documentary with simple yet powerful solutions to reducing exclusions It was a fairly standard GCSE results day morning in the Schools Week offices. I’d just finished transferring JCQ data into subject tables and was trawling Twitter for stories from comprehensive schools. People were tweeting photos from […]

Jon Hutchinson’s blogs of the week, 11 January 2020

Principles and practices of remote teaching, overcoming polarised debates and the tyranny of content over curriculum are Jon Hutchinson’s top picks of this week’s education blog topics Remote teaching during a pandemic @MrLauLearning If you’re anything like me, the past few weeks have felt like treading water, barely keeping your head above the surface. […]

In conversation with… virtual school heads

Virtual school heads, Jancis Andrew and Calvin Kipling tell JL Dutaut we need to unpick what we mean by “vulnerable” children Another lockdown begins and care for the nation’s vulnerable children is again in the limelight. And as alternative provision and special schools bemoan their lack of mention in the prime minister’s announcement and a […]

School improvement doesn’t come in a flat-pack

We’ll only get sustained school improvement when we start to treat teachers and school leaders as masters of their craft rather than furnish them with flat-pack solutions, writes Chris Kirkham-Knowles Thirty-two years ago, my first year of teaching was signed off by a local authority adviser who gave me professional development advice I’ve never forgotten. […]