Accountability

The Plymouth Playbook: Piloting people through improvement

Aaron Meredith tries to bottle the strategy that has driven his southwest schools to Ofsted success with people, not…

JL Dutaut
Aaron Meredith
Curriculum

Let’s finally embrace the marriage of knowledge and skills

We must get past an ill-informed and fruitless opposition between knowledge and skills in order to make better policy

JL Dutaut
Tim Oates
Teacher training

The ITTECF is another step forward for inclusive teaching

Changes to the early-career framework are putting pupils with additional needs at the heart of teacher training, say contributors…

JL Dutaut
Margaret Mulholland and Simon Knight


SEND

Solutions: Breaking down barriers for students with SEND

Putting the needs of pupils with SEND at the heart of every decision is key to improving attendance, mental…

JL Dutaut
Ben Mallinson
Teacher training

Five changes to the ECF to better back trainee teachers

Damian Hinds explains how reforms announced today will tackle teething problems with the early career framework identified by schools…

JL Dutaut
Damian Hinds MP
Policy

Three proposals to fix our fractured school system

Schools structures may not seem like a priority but political failure to grasp the nettle is costly and diverts…

JL Dutaut
Tom Richmond
The Knowledge

The Knowledge. Can oracy be reliably assessed?

A new report explores the use of new models of assessment to make oracy a reliably measurable part of…

JL Dutaut
Amanda Moorghen
SEND

How trusts can take the lead on speech and language provision

Our in-house speech and language service is helping our pupils, our staff, and taking pressure off the system for…

JL Dutaut
Kylie Rio-Wood
Politics

The moral panic over school prayer exposes our double standards

National turmoil over prayer in schools reveals a glaring Islamophobia at the heart of some people’s concept of Britishness

JL Dutaut
Nadeine Asbali

Must Read

Solutions

How to harness predictability to support school leavers

Two former heads of sixth form share a thematic approach to supporting school leavers to thrive once they leave…

JL Dutaut
Luke Ellmers and Maja Trachonitis
Accountability

Labour’s accountability solutions are just more of the same

The party’s proposals do little to challenge the surveillance culture that’s at the root of many of the sector’s…

JL Dutaut
Chris Bagley
EAL

How trusts can pioneer a better model of EAL provision

Our specialist EAL provision is delivering great results and supporting students’ rapid integration into school and community life

JL Dutaut
Emily Preece

ITT

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut
Melanie Renowden
ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

JL Dutaut
David Spendlove

EXAMS

Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
Exams

The stereotype that could be feeding exam anxiety

The ‘snowflake’ stereotype is damaging and unjustified, but a more pervasive idea may be perpetuating exam anxiety, says Stephen…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell

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