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Online learning success requires leaders to manage expectations

Faultlines are emerging in the home-based school system, but there are ways to protect families and teachers from the…

JL Dutaut

DR SARAH CHARLES

Opinion

Now more than ever what the education world needs is values

The school system finds itself in uncharted territory, but it has its moral compass to fall back on and…

JL Dutaut

HANNAH WILSON

Opinion

Why this is not the time for large-scale educational experiments

At this time of rapid and dramatic change for teachers, the best solution is to keep calm and carry…

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Professor Daniel Muijs* and Dr. Dominique Sluijsmans**

Opinion

How to build sustained and sustainable remote learning

As schools’ attention naturally shifts from crisis management to establishing new norms, Giancarlo Brotto offers some insights on how…

JL Dutaut

Giancarlo Brotto

Opinion

How can we build and sustain headteachers’ capacity in difficult times?

School leaders are asked to manage their own stress and that of their school communities, often with little support….

JL Dutaut

RACHEL LOFTHOUSE

Opinion

In times of crisis it takes a village to raise a headteacher

Never has so much been asked of school leaders. Mike Armiger sets out how they can protect themselves now…

JL Dutaut

MIKE ARMIGER

Opinion

Our make-do-and-mend exam system must be built on trust

Understanding the limitations of the data we hold, and the inferences we will have to draw, are crucial to…

JL Dutaut

BEN WHITE

Opinion

Schools urgently need more guidance around key worker status

Headteachers are ultimately in charge of who accesses their schools but better guidance is needed quickly, writes Esther Maxwell…

JL Dutaut

ESTHER MAXWELL

Opinion

We’re acting for vulnerable people but more is needed

The Youth Endowment Fund is calling for more action from government to support vulnerable young people and matching words…

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JON YATES

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Opinion

Forget the buzzword bingo, here’s how schools can get belonging right

Children show us belonging is simple. If we see them, hear them, know them and accept them for who…

Freddie Whittaker

Anthony Benedict

Opinion

Intentional design: What stewardship of the school system really demands

A mature school system should allow for specialisation without stigma and for divestment without failure narratives, writes Becks Boomer-Clark

Freddie Whittaker

Becks Boomer-Clark

Opinion

Lessons for England on using AI to boost attendance

As schools here are given an AI-generated target for attendance, one Welsh head explains how his school has used…

Freddie Whittaker

Huw Powell

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

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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

5mo

Sam Sykes

5mo

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

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