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School Leadership

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…

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Tom Campbell

Opinion: Workforce

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…

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Sinead McBrearty and Dan Morrow

Assessment

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…

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Rachel Macfarlane

Opinion: Curriculum

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…

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Abid Butt

The Knowledge

How can we judge the impact of coaching in schools?

For all the buzz about coaching, until now there has been little by way of measuring its effects in…

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Rachel Lofthouse

Edtech

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

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Richard Taylor

Edtech

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…

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Luke Sparkes

Social mobility

Social mobility: Why Birbalsingh is right and what to do about it

Social mobility policy is often focused on rags-to-riches stories, says Loic Menzies, but there’s plenty ministers can do to…

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Loic Menzies

Professional development

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…

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Sir Dan Moynihan

Must Read

Opinion: Policy

Labour’s bill could tie schools to inequity through uniform

The government’s well-intentioned policy on school uniform could be undermined by failing to grasp its broader interplay with inclusion

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Caroline Barlow and Tess Howard

Opinion: Policy

The House of Lords must protect academy freedoms

Hopes lie with peers that they can prevent the worst of this bill’s foreseeable consequences – and its…

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Meg Powell-Chandler

Opinion: Solutions

How to mitigate disadvantage in the classroom

We must get under the bonnet of disadvantage as it applies to individuals to have any chance of mitigating…

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Finola Wilson

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,…

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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

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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,…

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James Handscombe

Exams

The number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

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…

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Stephen Caldwell

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