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…

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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
The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

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…

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PAUL WHITEMAN

Must Read

Opinion

Looking overseas for SEND policy lessons 

Different approaches to SEND in 14 countries provide valuable insight for English policymakers, say Loic Menzies and Taylor Hughson

Freddie Whittaker
Loic Menzies and Taylor Hughson
Opinion

We’ll fail a generation if we say SEND reform is too difficult

Debate is essential, but we must not squander a once-in-a-generation chance to build a truly inclusive education system, writes…

Freddie Whittaker
Tom Rees
Opinion

Mixed-setting trusts are a smart choice, not a messy compromise

By design, mixed-setting trusts dissolve the boundaries between ‘mainstream’ and ‘special’

Freddie Whittaker
Andy Johnson

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
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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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