Cutting minimum funding to plug high needs deficits is wrong Top-slicing school budgets to fill councils’ high needs black hole is already a go-to. Government must rethink backing the practice
How to get parents on board with your behaviour policy Aligning policy and parental expectations is vital in ensuring a behaviour policy is well supported at home and ultimately successful
What does employee engagement tell us about retention? Our findings show that when teachers become more emotionally engaged with their colleagues over the course of an academic year their commitment to continue working for the school meaningfully improves
Legal: How will the employment rights bill affect schools? There’s a long way to go before these proposals make it onto the statute books, but schools can already begin to plan for their effects
Three concerns about the curriculum and assessment review Flaws in the review’s terms of reference mean a(nother) opportunity to deal with the perennial issue of curriculum overload could go begging
How fair banding makes us more inclusive – not less While some decry ‘selection by stealth’, fair banding assessments have in fact earned us an award for our admissions process
The SEND system is not broken. It’s doing its job The history of our SEND system shows our priority should not be to fix it but to create a whole new way of doing things
What a national curriculum can and cannot do Looking back over 35 years of the national curriculum, here’s what the Francis review can do to achieve where previous reform attempts have failed
How government can balance experience and innovation As the Forrest Gump of education, here’s what experience has taught me about balancing institutional memory with innovative thinking when entering government