Transition

Solutions: Supporting autistic students through transition

Paul Scales sets out the key considerations to ensure a safe and comfortable move to secondary for pupils with…

JL Dutaut
Paul Scales
Oracy

A focus on oracy will require Ofsted to adapt

Richard Willis delves into the historical making of Labour’s new policy and the changes needed to deliver it

JL Dutaut
Richard Willis
NTP

The NTP should be backed by a long-term tutoring guarantee

We need more stability in the system to build on tutoring’s potential to close disadvantage gaps, says Jonathan Simons

JL Dutaut
Jonathan Simons


Behaviour

Is it time to rethink our fixation on behaviour management? 

A fixation on behaviour management can be a distraction from embedding our values in a way that would make…

JL Dutaut
Adam Seldon
The Knowledge

Supporting neurodivergent pupils with symptomatic hypermobility

New research points to support schools can offer for neurodivergent pupils who may be masking a pain-related condition, writes…

JL Dutaut
Jane Green
LGBT+

Why DfE dithering is to blame for the trans cat-fight

Cat-identifying children are a distraction from the fact that schools have been left to teach fiction as fact in…

JL Dutaut
Helen Joyce
Politics

What the next government must do for schools is get out of the way

The example of our work in Newham is that trying to run things from the centre doesn’t work, write…

JL Dutaut
Sir Robin Wales and Clive Furness
Opinion: Accountability

We are accountable to governors and families – not Ofsted and league tables

If we can’t change ministers’ muscular activism, we can certainly control how it plays out in our schools, writes…

JL Dutaut
Jon Coles
Opinion: SEND

Why we need mandatory training for autism and learning disabilities

Autism and learning disabilities training is now mandatory for health and social care – and education should be next,…

JL Dutaut
Paula McGowan

Must Read

Opinion

AI can be part of the solution to schools’ mentor capacity crisis

With a school using AI coaching, Professor Haili Hughes reveals whether others should follow suit

Freddie Whittaker
Professor Haili Hughes
Opinion: Reading

A reading target is right. Here’s how schools can make it happen

Targets and regular tests can transform outcomes, but only if schools build the systems, culture and expertise to deliver,…

John Dickens
Becks Boomer-Clark
Opinion

Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days

In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define…

Freddie Whittaker
David Clayton

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

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
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

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