Opinion

Stereotypes limit our ideas of success for our pupils

Stereotypes about what success looks like – and for whom – lead us to narrow the curriculum in ways...

JL Dutaut
Alison Kriel
Energy costs

Energy costs: Decarbonisation is now an achievable priority

Balancing short-term budget pressures with long-term investment in energy efficiencies and decarbonisation is complex but possible, writes Steven Reynolds

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Steven Reynolds
safeguarding

Safeguarding: Pressure on designated leads is alarming

A new survey reveals the toll of increasing demand on school safeguarding leads as the cost-of-living crisis bites, says...

JL Dutaut
Helen King
Climate change

COP27: Sealing education’s role in climate action

COP27 is bringing green education further into the climate change policy mainstream, writes Eleanor Staines Shaw, but action is...

JL Dutaut
Eleanor Staines Shaw
The Knowledge

Retention: School leadership matters more than you think

Pay and reduced working hours might help, but school leadership approaches are vital to help you to hold on...

JL Dutaut
Owen Carter
Opinion: Attendance

Absenteeism: How we’ll rebuild a culture of school attendance

A combination of artificial intelligence and thoughtful nudges could turn the dial on worsening post-pandemic absenteeism, writes Arfan Ismail

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Arfan Ismail
early years

Making a success of early years provision on school sites

Working with early years settings to develop a consistency and familiarity benefits children, families and providers, explains Rebecca Bierton

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Rebecca Bierton
Opinion: Policy

Oak is a symptom of curriculum mediocrity, not the treatment

Off-the-peg curricula are the wrong answer to a problem caused by political failure and will only perpetuate the perma-crisis,...

JL Dutaut
Carolyn Roberts
Opinion: SEND

SEND inclusion: High time some schools did some soul-searching

Everyone knows a school with a reputation for being ‘good with SEND’, write Caroline Barlow and Simon Smith, but...

JL Dutaut
Caroline Barlow and Simon Smith