Jess Staufenberg | Schools Week

Collapsing mental health support pits parents against schools

Some parents reported for ‘fabricating’ mental illness

Revealed: The rising costs for schools of educational psychologists

Many councils that once provided services for free now charge, investigation finds

Thousands on waiting lists as trusts struggle to foot mental health bill

Schools have increasingly sought to fund more support themselves

‘Left to rot’: The families on the edge of the mental health crisis

‘It’s a constant battle to get help’

How do you teach students that genocide is a societal thing?

Two former school teachers founded the Centre for Holocaust Education at the UCL Institute of Education. They tell Jess Staufenberg why understanding complicity is a big part of their work “I didn’t set out to become a teacher of such a disturbing history.” Ruth-Anne Lenga, a former RE teacher, didn’t expect her life to take such an […]

Introducing… Katie Waldegrave

Katie Waldegrave’s charity, Now Teach, has won £3 million to go fully national. She explains why career switchers can have a radical influence both in and outside of the classroom. If you’ve heard of Now Teach, the charity that supports career changers into teaching, it’s likely you’ll know one of at least one of its […]

Introducing… Anne-Marie Canning

Anne-Marie Canning knows what it’s like to have all the odds stacked against you, get good grades, and still not get a place at a highly selective university. Working with parents can change that, she tells Jess Staufenberg “I still get phone calls from people in my village, saying, ‘My mum met your mum in the […]

The big interview: Doug Lemov

Doug Lemov and his first two editions of Teach Like A Champion have had huge influence. But now he explains why he is rethinking his approach to behaviour advice… Doug Lemov has been at the forefront of three education ideas that have sparked some of the most heated debates in the sector. The first is “zero tolerance” […]

Interview: Asiyah Ravat

Asiyah Ravat, one of Star Academies’ leading executive heads, tells Jess Staufenberg there’s no big secret behind one of the country’s best-performing schools – just relentless hard work Asiyah Ravat is supposed to be on crutches. The executive principal at Eden Boys’ School in Birmingham fell off her bike in August, and as she strides […]