Opinion: Mental health

How local collaboration is helping us tackle the mental health crisis

West Yorkshire provides a perfect example of how a joined-up local response can beat the postcode lottery of mental…

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Helen McGlinchey
Opinion: Mental health

What is maths anxiety and how can teachers reduce it?

Learning mathematics can be hard. Teaching mathematics – and teaching it well – can be harder still. My latest…

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C. Rashaad Shabab
Opinion: Sustainability

Connecting to the outdoors when the outdoors is only concrete

Mark Wilson explains how Wellspring Academy Trust has used art to bring learning outdoors in spite of austere and…

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Mark Wilson
Opinion: Workforce

Mothers are key to stabilising the teacher workforce

Politicians must face up to the motherhood penalty to solve the recruitment crisis and have any chance of delivering…

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Emma Sheppard
Opinion: Leadership

Schools cannot look away from Israel and Palestine

We have a duty to help children and young people make sense of the horror unfolding in the Middle…

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Steve Chalke
Opinion: Leadership

How to talk to parents about their children’s online safety

Amid startling new data on parents’ attitudes to social media, Mubina Asaria explains why and how schools must work…

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Mubina Asaria
The Knowledge

What do teachers think of teaching climate and sustainability?

A new survey reveals an enthusiastic profession but also substantial obstacles on the road to delivering the DfE’s sustainability…

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Christine Özden
Opinion: Sustainability

A roadmap to offset climate change’s predictable outcomes

With the countdown to meet decarbonisation targets still running, Lucia Glynn explores how schools can manage this against other…

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Lucia Glynn
Opinion: Workforce

Bridging workforce divides for effective climate action

Overcoming barriers to sustainable impact relies on teachers and operations staff working together as equal partners in this shared…

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Paul Edmond

Must Read

The Knowledge

Are schools pushing views about race on their pupils?

Our new research shows some students’ free speech is being limited – but not in the ways some commentators…

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Professor Karl Kitching
Opinion: Politics

Continuity at the top is crucial to Labour’s opportunity mission

Talk of a reshuffle may have the education secretary’s detractors excited, but it would be bad news for a…

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Simon Kidwell
The Curriculum Conversation

The last thing history needs is more revolution

History teachers already have the tools to drive improvement. We mustn’t jeopardise that in the quest to modernise

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Michael Fordham

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,…

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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

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David Spendlove
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EXAMS

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,…

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James Handscombe
Exams
The number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

The stereotype that could be feeding exam anxiety

The ‘snowflake’ stereotype is damaging and unjustified, but a more pervasive idea may be perpetuating exam anxiety, says Stephen…

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Stephen Caldwell
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