JL Dutaut | Schools Week

After lockdown, an opportunity for something even better than before

Rebuilding a culture of learning after lockdown will take intentional action, writes Peps Mccrea. Here are four key considerations for getting it right The timeline is unclear, but lockdown will eventually end. The challenges it has brought will dissipate as we return to life as before, but this second transition will be far from carefree […]

Profile: Patrick Roach, general secretary, NASUWT

In conversation with the new NASUWT general secretary, Freddie Whittaker finds a leader determined to put members first It’s hardly the coronation Dr Patrick Roach imagined. The new general secretary of the NASUWT teachers’ union was supposed to take up the mantle in front of a hall full of delegates at the union’s annual conference […]

Robin Conway’s top edu blogs of the week, 20 April 2020

Awarding grades, Oak National Academy, recruitment and an educational revolution in the offing are this week’s top picks of the education topics Generating “centre assessment grades”: the challenges @Framheadteacher The responsibility to provide “centre assessment grades” for each student is one no teacher can be unaware of. I have come across a number of […]

Forget School: Why young people are succeeding on their own terms and what schools can do to avoid being left behind

Daniel Whittall finds a book that identifies many real problems but falls short of identifying real solutions This could be a timely book. Forget School appears at a moment when its vision of digital education has become a necessity. Yet while teachers are learning quickly about edtech’s strengths and weaknesses, Martin Illingworth’s vision that it […]

Research: Why do students value science but not want to be scientists?

With recruitment shortages and issues of representation still dogging the STEM professions, Louise Archer looks at the interventions most likely to have an impact Students say they learn interesting things in science and think that scientists do valuable work, but very few want to pursue careers in science or engineering. Over the past ten years, […]

A week in the life of Jonny Uttley

In the first of our new series following the impacts of lockdown on the personal and professional lives of educators, Jonny Uttley opens up his #lockdowndiary

We should be angry for our communities, not at them

More schools are being asked to be emergency responders in the Covid-19 crisis, but that’s been the norm at Woodside for too long, says Gerry Robinson A member of staff made a welfare check on a student today. He discovered that the family was sleeping on the floor, so he bought them all mattresses. But […]

The revolution will not be memorised

Tom Bennett is underwhelmed by a hotch-potch of futurist platitudes in the first episode of Alex Beard’s The Learning Revolution on BBC Radio 4 “A little learning is a dang’rous thing,” wrote Alexander Pope in the 18th century. “…drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” People writing about education often remind me of this. Once […]

After COVID-19, we must finally remember the forgotten third

The pandemic has forced us to reinvent how we award grades but far more fundamental questions about our exam system need to be answered, writes Roy Blatchford There was a time Before Coronavirus (BC), though it already seems months ago. We are all armchair critics and soothsayers now. None of us can be right or […]