Climate change

How to tackle climate uncertainty without the anxiety

It’s possible to teach climate change without adding to student anxieties, teacher workload or accountability stakes, write Rebecca Webb…

JL Dutaut
REBECCA WEBB AND PERPETUA KIRBY
Covid

Year 8 writing recovery shows it may be time to talk about learning decay, not loss

Last year we found year 7s were 22 months behind in writing. Now they appear to be bouncing back

Freddie Whittaker
DAISY CHRISTODOULOU
Opinion: Accountability

Two years on, how has Ofsted’s inspection framework fared?

Its first two years have been marked by unprecedented disruption, write Jeffery Quaye and Mary Myatt, but the 2019…

JL Dutaut
DR JEFFERY QUAYE and MARY MYATT


Edtech

A digital strategy is necessary and achievable for every school

Leaders with a credible digital strategy are pushing at an open door to school improvement, and support is there…

JL Dutaut
DOMINIC NORRISH
The Knowledge

How can we secure the spirit of Covid collaboration for the future?

A Manchester initiative is showing how school-to-school collaborations are best placed to create the conditions for improvement, write Mel…

JL Dutaut
Professor Mel Ainscow and Dr Paul Armstrong
Exams

Exams: GCSE reform isn’t as simple as stick or twist

As clamour grows for post-Covid GCSE reform, it’s important we listen to the opinions of all those concerned, writes…

JL Dutaut
COLIN HUGHES
Spending review 2021

The spending review must fix the boat, not rely on liferafts

The spending review can only deliver a sustainable recovery and future prosperity if it is focused on children and…

JL Dutaut
CAROLE WILLIS
Opinion

Ministers’ response to poor white pupils inquiry is a waste of paper

The government’s response to the education select committee’s report into the educational underachievement of white pupils on free school…

John Dickens
KIM JOHNSON MP
Opinion: Workforce

Our recruitment woes can only be solved with ethical leadership

We can’t expect to solve recruitment challenges if we don’t accept our system only allows us to pass the…

JL Dutaut
ROBIN BEVAN

Must Read

Opinion

Teachers need support to defend diversity from far-right attacks

As the prime minister has affirmed, we will not surrender our flag. Nor will we surrender our future to…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Nikos Savvas
Opinion

You can’t build inclusion on calming spaces alone

Space is not the same as capacity. It’s a key difference that matters, writes Dr Nic Crossley

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Nic Crossley
Opinion

How note-taking and AI reading aids could work together to support learning

If designed and used carefully, perhaps AI need not replace or diminish established learning practices, but can instead complement…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Jake Hofman

ITT

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
Sam Sykes
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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