The lockdown diary

A week in the life of Jo Southby

As her schools prepare to launch Oak Academy resources amid new routines and new challenges, Jo Southby opens up…

JL Dutaut
JO SOUTHBY
Opinion

Our new report must inform the roadmap to reopening

A new report from the Chartered College of Teaching has gathered evidence from around the world and must inform…

JL Dutaut
ALISON PEACOCK
Opinion

The digital divide affects teachers as well as their pupils

As schools settle into more sustained use of online learning tools, attention needs to be paid to teachers’ development…

JL Dutaut
PATRICK ROACH


Opinion

Should teachers be evaluating the impact of what they do?

A new paper looks at what we know about teachers’ evaluation skills and their impact on outcomes. Jonathan Haslam…

JL Dutaut
JONATHAN HASLAM
The lockdown diary

A week in the life of Debra Rutley

In the second instalment of our series following the impacts of lockdown on the personal and professional lives of…

JL Dutaut
DEBRA RUTLEY
Opinion

Post COVID-19, we need a school system built on trust

Schools will reopen to a new world. They have earned the nation’s trust and should be supported to shape…

JL Dutaut
MIKE ION
Opinion

This curious revolution avoids conflict and sidesteps inequality

The second episode of Alex Beard’s The Learning Revolution for BBC Radio 4 falls short of asking the big…

JL Dutaut
MELISSA BENN
Opinion

Could lockdown be boosting teacher supply?

Amid all the challenges thrown up by the current pandemic the government may at least win a reprieve from…

JL Dutaut
JACK WORTH
Opinion

Keyboard commentators should think before they type

Nobody’s asking anyone to clap for teachers but their incredible efforts to reinvent school deserve better than uninformed public…

JL Dutaut
PAUL WHITEMAN

Must Read

Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

Another way for school readiness, why phone bans ARE the brave choice and enrichment’s GCSE blinkers problem

Freddie Whittaker
Various
Opinion: school funding

5 helpful ways ministers can support schools to cut costs

With this week’s budget expected to offer little for squeezed schools, one trust leader outlines suggestions for ministers to…

John Dickens
Keziah Featherstone
School structures

Why the MAT debate misses the real opportunity

School-led partnerships offer the benefits of trusts without the restructuring, and work for schools that want to collaborate but…

John Dickens
Stephen Hall

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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