Opinion: Accountability

Special schools will need to raise their game – and so will inspectors

The new framework requires us to provide better evidence, but that will come to nought if inspectors aren’t trained…

JL Dutaut
Martin Lonergan
Opinion: Solutions

Five ways to beat the autumn blues with optimistic realism

As excitement about the new academic year invariably gives way to the brutal reality of the long autumn term,…

JL Dutaut
Rachel Johnson
Opinion: Accountability

The quiet Ofsted plan that could revolutionise inspection fairness

What could become Ofsted’s most significant reform is one everyone seems to have missed

JL Dutaut
Steve Wren
Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

The wrong kind reading test at the wrong time, the true sign of cultural decline, and cognitive dissonance over…

JL Dutaut
Various
The Research Leader

Do we really know how to attract and retain teachers?

A new Ambition Institute report sheds light on how teachers and non-teachers decide whether the profession is (still) for…

JL Dutaut
Dr Sam Sims
Opinion: Leadership

Let’s make Black school leadership the expectation – not the exception

This Black History Month, let’s celebrate those who have broken through and join them in lifting others up

JL Dutaut
Patrick Cozier
Opinion: CPD

Goodbye CPD: Ofsted is ushering in a new era of growth

The renewed framework’s focus on professional learning is not just semantic. It could mark the end of fragmented, ineffective…

JL Dutaut
Professor Stuart Kime and Professor Rob Coe
The Research Leader

‘Dreadful parents’: What do teachers really think?

Our data shows teachers don’t see parents as a key cause of worsening behaviour – but it doesn’t let…

JL Dutaut
June Stevenson
Opinion: Solutions

Six steps for delivering a mental health peer support programme

Getting students to support each other’s wellbeing can be highly effective, but getting it right requires time and effort

JL Dutaut
Monisha Jefcut

Must Read

Opinion

Why it’s time to turn SEND training ‘inside out’

Working from a diagnosis seems obvious but has limitations – so teachers need to anticipate pupils’ needs, says Dr…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Anne Heavey
SEND

Curriculum review was missed opportunity to improve SEND crisis

The curriculum review promised to remove blocks for schools to deliver good outcomes for children with special needs –…

John Dickens
Jo Hutchinson
Opinion: Solutions

Learning from other countries on how to teach resilience

The government’s Resilience Action Plan focuses on educating adults – leaving children unprepared for the next global emergency. Here’s…

John Dickens
Lydia Preston

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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