Opinion: SEND

Ensuring quality and sustainability in SEND Provision

Additional funding for SEND places is very welcome – but we must ensure it is deployed as part of…

JL Dutaut
Michael McCarthy and Robert Bell
Opinion: Curriculum

Tik Tok Maths: Can social media help children clock algebra?

We need all the allies we can get to make maths cool to young people, but consuming videos has…

JL Dutaut
David Thomas
Opinion: Solutions

Solutions. Five ways to increase attendance at primary school

Solutions to the attendance crisis are a matter of supporting children and families through policies and practices

JL Dutaut
Lisa Pigg


Opinion: Attendance

We get reduced timetables wrong. Here’s how to get them right

Interpretation of the DfE’s attendance guidance too often puts the school’s needs first and fails to deliver what anxious…

JL Dutaut
Steve Bladon
The Knowledge

What do we really know about ‘managed moves’?

A new report sheds light on the practice of managed moves and calls for urgent government action to improve…

JL Dutaut
Whitney Crenna-Jennings
Opinion: Academy trusts

Why every MAT needs a stakeholder report

What began as part of our communication strategy has grown to be fundamental to how we foster belonging and…

JL Dutaut
Paul Harris
Opinion: Policy

Would-be reformers must give ‘unregistered’ AP a fair hearing

There is a real risk that in bringing ‘unregistered’ AP into the Ofsted fold we will lose some of…

JL Dutaut
Dr Alexandra Gray
Opinion: Accountability

Leaders have the power now to re-balance accountability

Awaiting top-down reform of our top-down system is a missed opportunity to take control and show the full breadth…

JL Dutaut
Michael Pain and Alice Gregson
Opinion: Mental health

Improving wellbeing hinges on putting the right data into the right hands

New dashboards promise to better inform school leaders and communities about local young people’s wellbeing

JL Dutaut
David Gregson

Must Read

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
Curriculum

The curriculum review isn’t ‘dumbing down’ – it’s levelling up

Critics claiming the curriculum review ‘dumbs down’ Gove’s education reforms are way off the mark, says Sir Hamid Patel…

John Dickens
Sir Hamid Patel

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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