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The Knowledge

Retention: School leadership matters more than you think

Pay and reduced working hours might help, but school leadership approaches are vital to help you to hold on…

JL Dutaut

Owen Carter

Opinion

Stereotypes limit our ideas of success for our pupils

Stereotypes about what success looks like – and for whom – lead us to narrow the curriculum in ways…

JL Dutaut

Alison Kriel

safeguarding

Safeguarding: Pressure on designated leads is alarming

A new survey reveals the toll of increasing demand on school safeguarding leads as the cost-of-living crisis bites, says…

JL Dutaut

Helen King

Energy costs

Energy costs: Decarbonisation is now an achievable priority

Balancing short-term budget pressures with long-term investment in energy efficiencies and decarbonisation is complex but possible, writes Steven Reynolds

JL Dutaut

Steven Reynolds

Climate change

COP27: Sealing education’s role in climate action

COP27 is bringing green education further into the climate change policy mainstream, writes Eleanor Staines Shaw, but action is…

JL Dutaut

Eleanor Staines Shaw

Anti-bullying week

Anti-bullying week: Four tips for a whole-school approach

Schools can draw on new support to develop their anti-bullying practices – and these four tips are crucial to…

JL Dutaut

Miriam Sorgenfrei and Rahi Popat

Opinion: SEND

My recommendations for a transformation of the SEND system

Children’s commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza sets out three ambitions and a host of recommendations to reform the SEND…

JL Dutaut

Dame Rachel de Souza

Opinion: Attendance

Attendance: Fear of violence is a key driver of absence

A new report reveals that violence at and around school is a key driver of low school attendance -…

JL Dutaut

Jon Yates

Opinion

Funding cuts make white paper promises a ‘faraway fantasy’

Even the most efficient schools are ‘highly exposed, disarmed and unable to weather the financial storm’, writes Stephen Morales….

Stephen Morales

Must Read

Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

JL Dutaut

Rebecca Maw

Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

JL Dutaut

Cllr Zena Brabazon

Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

JL Dutaut

Poppy Nobes

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

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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

2mo

Sam Sykes

2mo

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

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