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The DfE is offering schools and trusts improvement support to deal with Covid problems

Four key issues with MAT inspection for ministers to iron out

If trust inspection is to command confidence, the legislation underpinning it must be proportionate, precise and clearly aligned with…

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Steve Rollett
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How to achieve a data-driven school system

When schools choose openness they multiply, not divide, their capacity to innovate and to secure fairer outcomes for young…

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Lauren Thorpe
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Forget speed maths, schools need teachers who learn by degrees

There’s no quick fix to fill maths vacancies, but the degree apprenticeship will provide staff who can support pupils…

Freddie Whittaker
Cosette Crisan
The Legal Leader

Do you know what your pupils are viewing on school technology?

In order to protect pupils from harm, and by extension to avoid legal action, schools should urgently reflect on…

Freddie Whittaker
Ane Vernon
Opinion

Seven communications tips to reset relationships with parents

New guidance is welcome, but we need to address a root cause sitting beneath policy and process

Freddie Whittaker
Tiffany Beck
Opinion

Our game of guess the Ofsted grade was more baffling than we’d hoped

How do pupils ‘thrive’ in a school where curriculum and teaching aren’t rated as ‘strong’?

Freddie Whittaker
Adrian Lyons
Opinion

Teachers can make English sing…or mute it with a fronted adverbial

Despite some concerns about the curriculum and assessment review, there is room for hopeful interpretation

Freddie Whittaker
Summer Turner
Opinion

Social mobility can be harmful if it means ditching your roots

Schools need to replace deficit-based narratives with approaches that celebrate belonging, dignity and identity affirmation, says Danielle Lewis-Egonu

Freddie Whittaker
Danielle Lewis-Egonu
The Business Leader

The school business leader role has evolved, but do policymakers know?

Today’s practitioners lead across finance, estates, people, digital systems, governance and organisational improvement. The language we use has not…

Freddie Whittaker
Stephen Morales

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The DfE is offering schools and trusts improvement support to deal with Covid problems

Four key issues with MAT inspection for ministers to iron out

If trust inspection is to command confidence, the legislation underpinning it must be proportionate, precise and clearly aligned with…

Freddie Whittaker
Steve Rollett
Opinion

How to achieve a data-driven school system

When schools choose openness they multiply, not divide, their capacity to innovate and to secure fairer outcomes for young…

Freddie Whittaker
Lauren Thorpe
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Forget speed maths, schools need teachers who learn by degrees

There’s no quick fix to fill maths vacancies, but the degree apprenticeship will provide staff who can support pupils…

Freddie Whittaker
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Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

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Melanie Renowden
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ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

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University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

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How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

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