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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
Opinion: Policy

What the new government needs to know about alternative provision

Rising exclusions and suspensions make it imperative the new ministerial team understands our complex sector

JL Dutaut
Charlotte Barton
Opinion: Leadership

School leaders must do better than stoke division

One headteacher’s social media response to this week’s events is an irresponsible inflammation of community tensions

JL Dutaut
Mike Ion
Opinion: Policy

The unintended consequences of VAT on private school fees

Labour’s published plan to remove VAT exemption and charitable rates relief from private schools will cause inevitable disruption

JL Dutaut
Andrea Squires
Opinion: Mental health
pupil wellbeing

Five self-care tips for teachers this summer (and beyond)

How to reconnect with yourself and set realistic boundaries to see you through the next academic year

JL Dutaut
Dr Lesley French

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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

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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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