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Stop the rush to push reception children into formal learning

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Play will not appear in a recorded outcome, but it is one of the most important ways that children develop

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How can school leaders support teachers to thrive in their work?

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1w | The Research Leader

Our research explored what can be done to support staff in a rewarding but challenging profession

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Can a school decide to leave an academy trust?

11 Aug 2017 | Opinion

As one regional schools commissioner ponders whether a school can voluntarily quit its multi-academy ...

11 Aug 2017 | Opinion
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Get back to basics and start marketing your school

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Tumbling pupil numbers make it vital that schools start to tell their stories, starting with a decent website

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The role of a head’s PA has changed. Why hasn’t our language?

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3w | Opinion: Leadership

I still manage diaries and answer letters, but I’m also a strategic partner

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What is maths anxiety and how can teachers reduce it?

Learning mathematics can be hard. Teaching mathematics – and teaching it well – can be harder still. My latest research paper Understanding mathematics anxiety: Loss-aversion and student engagement uses behavioural economics to help teachers understand maths anxiety and come up with practical ways to help students overcome it. In the paper, I explore how loss-aversion, […]

How to talk to parents about their children’s online safety

Amid startling new data on parents’ attitudes to social media, Mubina Asaria explains why and how schools must work with families to keep children safe

Bridging workforce divides for effective climate action

Overcoming barriers to sustainable impact relies on teachers and operations staff working together as equal partners in this shared mission, writes Paul Edmond

A roadmap to offset climate change’s predictable outcomes

With the countdown to meet decarbonisation targets still running, Lucia Glynn explores how schools can manage this against other pressing priorities

Why reactivation is as crucial as recruitment and retention

Actually solving the recruitment and retention crisis is incredibly straightforward if we put evidence above political quick fixes, says Callum Robertson

Why we need to stop talking about disadvantage (and what we should talk about instead)

Lee Elliot Major explains why a change of language could be crucial in shaping the conversation around poverty and other barriers to success

What do teachers think of teaching climate and sustainability?

A new survey reveals an enthusiastic profession but also substantial obstacles on the road to delivering the DfE’s sustainability vision, explains Christine Özden

Specialist provisions are over-subscribed but under-utilised

APs, PRUs and special schools can and should be some much more that a place for children to go when their mainstream placement has failed, says Christina Jones

Online safety: What Ofcom’s new guidance means for schools

The new law and Ofcom’s new guidance don’t let schools off the hook, but they do make the future a little brighter for them and their pupils, says Mark Bentley

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