Penny’s podcasts, 11 May 2020

This week, Penny Rabiger casts her net wide for podcasts to stretch her educational thinking   Boys Don’t Try...

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The lockdown diary

A week in the life of David Preece

With university application season in disarray, UCAS coordinator, David Preece finds he is missing the joy of seeing those...

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DAVID PREECE

Review: Zero Tolerance. A novel

Mark Aston finds the edu-Dickens he’s been waiting for is undermined by a too-stark representation of good and evil...

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Opinion

Why teacher expertise matters – now, and when schools reopen fully

As the government announce a gradual re-opening of schools, Cat Scutt looks at the challenges teachers will be facing...

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CAT SCUTT
News

What does an inspectorate do when it can’t inspect?

Six weeks after lockdown and the sudden end of inspections, and five weeks after Ofsted mooted a mass redeployment...

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Features

Profile: Ruth Davies

The new president of the NAHT reveals her trajectory, from a childhood home that prized education  through three primary...

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Julia Skinner’s top edu blogs of the week, 4 May 2020

Compassion, leading change, meeting communities’ needs, balance and flexibility are Julia Skinner’s top picks of the education topics this...

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Teaching Walk-Thrus: Five-Step Guides to Instructional Coaching

Reviewer Diana Detterick detects an unfortunate bias, but it’s not enough to stop this book becoming her go-to reference...

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Opinion

How should schools support transitions this summer and beyond?

Primary-to-secondary transition faces new challenges as a result of the Covid crisis but recent research can help ensure schools...

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ELLIE MULCAHY