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

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I’ve never seen a 5-year-old who looks like a statistic

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There will never be inclusive mainstream if we don’t help our youngest pupils upstream

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Get great at Gatsby benchmarks to fix NEET problem

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How putting careers guidance at the heart of school is our most powerful tool for NEET prevention

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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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What headteachers mean when they say headship has changed

It’s time policy makers and accountability caught up with the new reality of headship, explains Sam Strickland, so here’s what it looks like

Three ways the government is failing teachers over pay

The government’s vague reference to economic theory to justify its strategy on pay ignores important truths about motivation, writes Yvonne Williams

The Knowledge. What works to improve recruitment and retention?

Becky Francis sets out key findings from today’s new EEF review of international evidence on successful measures to recruit and retain teachers

If we solve the retention crisis, the recruitment crisis will follow

Staff attrition is a marker of the health of our education system and our diagnosis calls for immediate intervention, writes Sinéad McBrearty

Together we can deliver maths excellence in every class

Maths is a powerful driver of social mobility and we must do more to ensure more disadvantaged students stay on the excellence pathway, writes Simon Coyle

Solutions: How to prepare for the next disruptive social media trend

The recent wave of so-called Tik-Tok protests affecting schools achieved a lot of coverage in the media and caused a lot of alarm as schools considered how best to manage the situation. This has abated for now, but social media trends have a way of evolving and schools should be prepared for situations like it […]

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Stop the rush to push reception children into formal learning

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

I’ve never seen a 5-year-old who looks like a statistic

Get great at Gatsby benchmarks to fix NEET problem

Get back to basics and start marketing your school

What headteachers mean when they say headship has changed

Three ways the government is failing teachers over pay

The Knowledge. What works to improve recruitment and retention?

If we solve the retention crisis, the recruitment crisis will follow

Together we can deliver maths excellence in every class

Solutions: How to prepare for the next disruptive social media trend

What East of England school leaders are saying about Ofsted

How compensation claims work in this increasingly risky profession

Academisation should not be creating second-class families