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How can we make school improvement sustainable?

Driving school improvement is first and foremost a question of capacity, writes Carole Willis I was delighted to be…

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CAROLE WILLIS

Opinion

Ministers chose confrontation over collaboration when our communities needed them most

When the government issued Royal Greenwich with the threat of legal action on Monday night, I was completely shocked….

John Dickens

CLLR DANNY THORPE

Opinion

Supporting the most vulnerable is a family affair

Engagement with families is crucial to providing a safety net – and agencies must work together as a family…

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JON YATES

Opinion

The year in school business: When crisis came, we ran towards it

From staff rotas to test and trace, school business leaders have shown how vital their contributions are, says Micon…

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MICON METCALFE

Opinion

The year in governance: New ways of working and new ways of seeing

Governing bodies have discovered new – and sometimes better – ways of working, but more importantly they have seen…

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RUBY BHATTI

Opinion

The year in alternative provision: When we became inclusion leaders

Colleagues were sceptical but my shift into alternative provision is now a source of learning for all, says Hammad…

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HAMMAD ALI

Opinion

What does the latest attendance data tell us about the scale of the Covid problem?

The government must make better data available and provide more catch-up funding to stop pupils falling further behind, writes…

Freddie Whittaker

NATALIE PERERA

Opinion

On assessment, teachers are wrong by design

Stop blaming teachers for questionable assessments and start fixing the broken system that means they can’t be right, writes…

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DENNIS SHERWOOD

Opinion

The year in special schools: We have redefined what ‘good’ looks like

During the darkest days of the pandemic, teaching staff dug deep and came up with innovative and creative solutions,…

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MADELAINE CAPLIN

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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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