The Baker Clause requires a carrot as well as a stick Legal enforcement of the Baker Clause is long overdue and will benefit all pupils, writes Simon Connell, but it mustn’t punish schools who abide by it
Six key principles for successfully onboarding new leaders Now is the time to ensure all your new ingredients for success are combining successfully to bake in next year’s improvements, writes Tom Campbell
How can we nurture teachers’ superpowers? There are clear ways to develop impactful teacher expertise, writes Sarah Bagshaw McCormick, and merely observing colleagues’ ‘superpowers’ isn’t one of them
A looming middle leadership crisis must be averted Some achieve middle leadership and some have it thrust upon them, but too few are thriving in their ill-defined roles, write Sinéad McBrearty and Dan Morrow
From Netflix for CPD to supporting organisational change From internal communication tool to a Netflix for CPD, our OpenSource now promises to support leaders across the sector to implement change, writes Luke Sparkes
Why does the system need a National Institute of Teaching? From cold spots to gaps in research, Sir Dan Moynihan sets out the reasons the school-led training provider came to be and the seismic shift it hopes to create
We need a broad and balanced assessment system too Digital technologies can improve the assessment of educational outcomes, writes Rachel Macfarlane, but we must go further than simply delivering exams online
Diversifying curriculum is everyone’s job now, not in 2024 The DfE’s planned model history curriculum is a welcome response to issues of racial representation, writes Abid Butt, but schools don’t need to wait for it
Schools face a financial tsunami and another edtech revolution An ill-conceived Covid response has left schools financially exposed and unprepared to adapt to technological advances, writes Richard Taylor