JL Dutaut | Schools Week

Eight new edu books to buy colleagues (or yourself) for Christmas

For classroom optimisers What Teachers Need to Know About Memory Jonathan Firth and Nasima Riazat December 2023 SAGE This practical guide aims to support teachers’ reflection on and engagement with memory in the classroom, with direct links to their own teaching – promising to help achieve the holy trinity of classroom practice: enhance learning, reduce […]

The Conversation in 2023 – This year’s hot topics

Our regular contributors look back on the year in educational self-publishing to pick out their favourites

Building blocks for teaching tomorrow’s environmentalists

The Crown Estate have launched two educational Minecraft worlds to engage young people with gree skills and conservation

The UK’s first biophilic school heralds the sustainable future of learning

As COP28 draws to a close, Sumeet Bhatia reveals Cisco’s work with DfE to create a school to model the future of the education estate

Solutions to the mental health crisis can’t wait another day

A second report from the Coalition for Youth Mental Health in Schools reveals a lack of progress and makes the urgency of action clear, say Erin Docherty and Gavin English

How we’re promoting psychological safety in our schools

The high-accountability nature of our sector makes normalising vulnerability in leadership imperative

Decentralising Ofsted is an idea whose time has come (again)

Frank Norris reveals that a new model of local inspection wouldn’t be all that new or all that alien to Ofsted

We must think beyond reform and prioritise belonging

Ofsted reform is sorely needed but our staff, pupils and families can’t wait for the profession to heal itself before it heals them

Re-prioritising data in inspections is a backwards step

At the risk of “annoying successful headteachers”, my school shows why the current inspection framework is getting the big calls right