Opinion: Curriculum

Five ways to develop classroom talk in maths

New benchmarks for oracy in maths offer ways to improve confidence, engagement and attainment by embracing collective problem-solving

JL Dutaut
Jayne Jarvis
Opinion: Estates

PFI: The options now and in a post-contract future

With most PFI contracts due to end within a decade, here’s what schools can do to prepare now for…

JL Dutaut
Craig Elder
Opinion: Curriculum review

Labour’s curriculum review must hear the voices of young people

Curriculum and behaviour can’t be tackled in isolation. Fixing both requires a radical look at young people’s experiences

JL Dutaut
Rylie Sweeney


Opinion: Curriculum

How prioritising sustainability has improved behaviour and wellbeing at our school

A focus on the outdoors and the natural world has reduced anxiety and exclusions at our school

JL Dutaut
Becki Huth
The Legal Leader

How schools should protect pupils’ privacy around CCTV use

Surveillance cameras can serve various positive purposes and be welcome by parents and pupils provided their use is safe…

JL Dutaut
Gemma Duxbury
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

Must Read

Opinion

Given the choice, do we want SEND segregation in education?

If we accept specialist facilities should exist primarily to support inclusion, rather than as parallel systems, we must consider…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Vasilis Strogilos
Opinion

What we learned from four Ofsted report card inspections

If the renewed framework can play a role in supporting our own high expectations, then we welcome it with…

Freddie Whittaker
Andrew Rigby
Opinion

We need your input to ensure NPQs provide the skills needed in schools 

The demands on leaders are shifting, and the frameworks that support them have to move too. Evidence and practice…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Herminder Channa

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

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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