Opinion: Solutions

How to get parents on board with your behaviour policy

Aligning policy and parental expectations is vital in ensuring a behaviour policy is well supported at home and ultimately...

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Paul Dix

The Conversation – with Shekeila Scarlett

Teenagers' memory and their mental health, the truth about smartphones in schools, and an unvarnished account of joining an...

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The Knowledge

What does employee engagement tell us about retention?

Our findings show that when teachers become more emotionally engaged with their colleagues over the course of an academic...

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John Jerrim
Opinion: Legal

Legal: How will the employment rights bill affect schools?

There’s a long way to go before these proposals make it onto the statute books, but schools can already...

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Craig Vincent
Opinion: Curriculum review

Three concerns about the curriculum and assessment review

Flaws in the review’s terms of reference mean a(nother) opportunity to deal with the perennial issue of curriculum overload...

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Joe Hallgarten
Opinion: Admissions

How fair banding makes us more inclusive – not less

While some decry ‘selection by stealth’, fair banding assessments have in fact earned us an award for our admissions...

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Michael Gosling
Opinion: SEND

The SEND system is not broken. It’s doing its job 

The history of our SEND system shows our priority should not be to fix it but to create a...

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Professor Sally Tomlinson
The Curriculum Conversation

What a national curriculum can and cannot do

Looking back over 35 years of the national curriculum, here’s what the Francis review can do to achieve where...

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Christine Counsell
Opinion: Policy

How government can balance experience and innovation

As the Forrest Gump of education, here's what experience has taught me about balancing institutional memory with innovative thinking...

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Les Walton