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Opinion

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

The government’s new policies will allow every child to benefit from education, no matter where they live, says Robin…

Freddie Whittaker

Robin Walker

Edtech

How an edtech audit transformed our provision

Free, genuine peer-to-peer advice that takes us as it finds us and leads to truly impactful change? Yes, please,…

JL Dutaut

MICHELLE SHAW

The Knowledge

How can schools begin to face up to systemic racism?

The White Spaces project highlights the challenges of unpicking systemic racism, but shows that doing so is within schools’…

JL Dutaut

DR SHONA HUNTER

Physical education

Why we scrapped PE for a healthier curriculum

Physical education is supposed to instil healthy habits for life in all our young people and it is fundamentally…

JL Dutaut

GARETH EVANS

Behaviour

Simplifying our behaviour systems changed our culture

A bottom-up approach to school improvement led us from simplifying our systems to a whole new trauma-informed culture, writes…

JL Dutaut

TOM BURT

Opinion: Workforce

Why an SEMH setting could be a professional’s destination of choice

Too many teachers end their career prematurely when a change of setting could be the ideal solution for them…

JL Dutaut

NEIL MILLER

Literacy

Reading wars: Reconciliation will require more truth

This new paper on the teaching of reading is so set on its conclusions it has failed to make…

JL Dutaut

TARJINDER GILL

Academies

Academy finances: Surpluses aren’t all they appear to be

A combination of committed funds and looming challenges means record-breaking surpluses hide a rocky time ahead for academies, writes…

JL Dutaut

PAM TUCKETT

ITT

Weaving a ‘golden thread’ through professional development

Teacher training reforms impact everyone from trainee to leader. The key to retention and progress is to offer consistency…

JL Dutaut

KATIE WARING

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

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

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,…

JL Dutaut

James Handscombe

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