Opinion: Curriculum

After the riots: The role of schools in healing our communities

Let’s focus ours and our pupils’ attention on the good of the past few days and resist fatalism

JL Dutaut
Sir (Mufti) Hamid Patel
The Legal Leader

Facial recognition technology: What schools need to know before implementation

One school’s ICO reprimand for use of facial recognistion is every school’s warning to heed regulations before implementing biometrics

JL Dutaut
Dai Dubridge
Opinion: Policy

Labour’s opportunity mission hinges on partnership with the youth sector

The government should leverage expertise and capacity in the youth sector to complement what schools offer

JL Dutaut
Harris Bokhari and Baroness Grey-Thompson DBE
Oracy Commission

Should we insist on ‘Standard English’ in schools?

A recent panel discussion demonstrated a range of views on this issue – and an all-important willingness to listen…

JL Dutaut
Arlene Holmes-Henderson
The Research Leader

Is online professional development better than in-person?

The teaching profession is in wide agreement about the importance and potential of professional development. The school calendar has…

JL Dutaut
Dr Ourania Maria Ventista and C.J. Rauch
Opinion: Edtech

How we’ve used AI to reduce teacher workloads

Rather than fear the potential impact of AI on students, we are embracing the technology to help them and…

JL Dutaut
Charlotte Bleakley
Opinion: Policy

A middle tier is the glue our fractured system is missing

It’s no secret that Labour has inherited a school system in a mess. We’re stuck between a highly regulated,…

JL Dutaut
Jonathan Crossley-Holland
Opinion: Workforce

Schools can now start to experience the joy of flex

Today’s report promises to finally get on top of a retention problem that has been dogging the profession for…

JL Dutaut
Jonathan Simons
Opinion: Sustainability

Championing pupil voice to drive sustainable practice

Our trust is driving a pupil-led agenda to reduce its carbon footprint and develop students’ leadership for the green…

JL Dutaut
Matthew Hill

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Teachers must call pupils in, not out, on conspiracy theories  

While teachers need training in how to react, they should meet conspiratorial claims with curiosity, not judgment, says Helena…

Freddie Whittaker
Helena Brothwell
Opinion

Banning phones in schools is a lazy opt-out  

No one disagrees unfettered use of smartphones in schools is a bad thing, but indulging in a moral panic…

Freddie Whittaker
Hannah Carter
Opinion

Why we’ve got ‘stuck’ schools all wrong

Stuck schools often get a ‘hero’ leader, but there are much better solutions, argues Seamus Murphy

Freddie Whittaker
Seamus Murphy

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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