Opinion: Accountability

What Chicago taught us about making schools more inclusive

A pilot programme building on the US city’s 5Essentials framework has provided our schools with powerful new ways to…

JL Dutaut
Unity Jones
The Knowledge

How engagement data can transform pupil outcomes

Our interim report shows the value of pupil engagement data for schools and policymakers driving up inclusion

JL Dutaut
Jonathan Sobczyk Boddington
Opinion: Workforce

ITT providers’ eight priorities to better support inclusion

While MPs call for a ‘clear, costed plan’ to solve the SEND crisis and a definition of inclusive education,…

JL Dutaut
Emma Hollis
Opinion: Accountability

How Labour can fix accountability to drive the inclusion it wants

Curriculum and inspection reforms offer hope of fixing our dysfunctional system – but only if new metrics also promote…

JL Dutaut
Caroline Barlow
The Curriculum Conversation

Inclusion and accountability: What to do about KS5

The curriculum and assessment review must finally address the gaps that leave so many young people without access to…

JL Dutaut
Neil Miller
Opinion: Curriculum

How trusts can support effective curriculum reform

After roundtables covering accountability and recruitment and retention, the third and final Forum Strategy #TrustLeaders roundtable focused on curriculum reform. With…

JL Dutaut
Rob Carpenter and Jim Bowyer
Opinion: Curriculum

It’s time to finally put RE in the national curriculum where it belongs

Excellent religious education is hampered by inefficiency and inequity caused by the lack of a national framework

JL Dutaut
Christine Counsell
Opinion: Solutions

Five ways to develop a place-based response to absence

Relational practice and partnership working have transformed our approaches to absence. Here’s how we’ve turned the dial for good

JL Dutaut
Charlotte Leach-Rogers
Opinion: Politics

It’s time for Labour to stand up to trust CEOs

The narrative that trusts are synonymous with improvement is ripe for challenge – and that’s the perfect negotiating position…

JL Dutaut
James Whiting

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The Boardroom Leader

Governance in AP demands a non-mainstream approach

Alternative provision is not a footnote in the system. For the young people who need it, it is the…

Freddie Whittaker
Nicola Hall
Opinion

Talk isn’t cheap: it sets up a child to thrive in the classroom

Oracy must be nurtured across all settings – especially as navigating AI demands a mastery of language, says Michael…

Freddie Whittaker
Michael Gardner
Opinion
Small, remote schools are in line for extra NFF cash in 2022-23.

Small schools don’t need fixing. The system needs to learn from them

Headlines about small schools ‘escaping’ the DfE’s school improvement drive miss the point, writes Julie Kelly

Freddie Whittaker
Julie Kelly

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

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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