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The Knowledge

How can you build an evidence-informed school culture?

Some simple (and evidence-informed) policies and actions can prevent ‘evidence-informed’ becoming just another educational buzzword, writes Cat Scutt

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Cat Scutt

Opinion: Mental health

How to create a positive whole-school mental health culture

It’ll take longer more than a mental health awareness week to combat childhood loneliness, writes Rachel Bostick, but the…

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Rachel Bostwick

Schools white paper

Have ministers done their due diligence on the MAT-led system?

A rush to fulfil the promise of a MAT-led system carries financial risks for trusts that could undermine their…

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Tim Warneford

STEM

Widening STEM access is necessary and far from impossible

Controversial comments from the social mobility tsar aside, STEM has a diversity problem and there’s plenty we can do…

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Jo Foster

Cost of living

Cost of living: Supporting families to access help pays off

Accessing the financial support they are entitled to is a struggle for many families, writes Davinder Jandu, and helping…

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Davinder Jandu

The Knowledge

The Great Resignation is here – but is it here to stay?

Teacher Tapp research shows concerns about headteacher resignations are well-founded but that the impacts may be mitigated in the…

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Iain Ford

Alternative provision

If we’re all together, why is AP excluded again?

Another report denigrates and fails to include the voices of AP, writes Sarah Johnson, and until that ends it’s…

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Opinion: Workforce

The Great Resignation: now is not the time to over-react

It’s been a tough few years for everyone in education, writes Dan Cowling, but let’s not jump to reforms…

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Dan Cowling

Tutoring

Tutoring stats will expose NTP issues, not school failure

Leaders are rightly frustrated at plans to ‘name and shame’ schools over tutoring take-up

Freddie Whittaker

STEVE ROLLETT

Must Read

Opinion: Policy

How we’ve boosted social mobility in our deprived area

Here’s how we went from persistently low outcomes to the most improved school in the country for disadvantaged students

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Steve Rogers

Opinion: Governance

Local governance is key to community cohesion

This volunteers’ week, let’s pledge to better support our governors as the community champions they are in these times…

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Emma Balchin

Opinion: Governance

How we’re bucking the trend and recruiting great governors

Amid a national shortage of governors, here’s how our group has had success in recruiting and retaining professionals who…

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Jenny Pharo

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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