The Knowledge

How can peer review best serve school improvement?

The EEF's review of Education Development Trust's Schools Partnership Programme validates the potential of systematic peer review, explains Anna...

JL Dutaut
Anna Searle
STEM

Girls in STEM: A message for your students

After marking International Women’s Day, schools can keep pushing the message that girls’ STEM career potential is unlimited, writes...

JL Dutaut
Sally Williams
Budget 2023

Budget: A starved system can’t end persistent absence

This week's budget must recognise that our system for preventing absence is failing and leaving schools with an impossible...

JL Dutaut
Jaine Stannard
Opinion

Ministers are trying to undermine teacher strikes. Their behaviour is counterproductive

The education secretary should be negotiating with unions in a serious and ongoing way, writes Kevin Courtney

Kevin Courtney
Kevin Courtney
Teacher strikes

Pausing strikes for pay talks is in best interests of teachers and pupils

Writing exclusively for Schools Week, education secretary Gillian Keegan urged the NEU to follow the lead of health unions...

John Dickens
Gillian Keegan
Edtech

Video tech has turned our lesson observation on its head

Video recording of lessons has reduced fear of the dreaded observation and brought our focus on the small details...

JL Dutaut
David Chapman
Opinion: Solutions

How to organise a conference in the age of online learning

The recent Ark Curriculum Plus event demonstrated exactly what the CPD conference still has to offer in the post-Covid...

JL Dutaut
Caroline Doherty
Politics

We’ve become an insular profession weakened by narrow debate

The teaching profession is progressively narrowing its focus from the big picture to technical minutiae, says Adam Seldon, and...

JL Dutaut
Adam Seldon
Politics

Schools can’t tackle ‘wokeness’ jibes by dismissing them

'Wokeness' is used to dismiss important work done in schools, but understanding its sources is the only way to...

JL Dutaut
Bilkis Miah