The Knowledge

The practice where consistency brings little benefit

A lot is made of keeping students with the same teacher year on year, but the data doesn’t bear…

JL Dutaut
John Jerrim
Manifesto 2024

Three policies to develop vital leadership capacity

Becks Boomer-Clark sets out three policy priorities to develop and support the leaders all other education policies will rely…

JL Dutaut
Becks Boomer-Clark
Opinion: Accountability

Schools need more nuanced data to rebuild public trust

EPI’s new performance comparing tool isn’t built for accountability – but it shows a more balanced approach to data…

JL Dutaut
Natalie Perera
Opinion: Solutions

Two strategies for cross-curricular LGBT+ inclusion

Marking the start of LGBT history month, Mel Lane sets out some easy wins to build a year-round inclusive…

JL Dutaut
Mel Lane
The Knowledge

Can combining language and movement improve both?

Anna Cunningham sets out the results of a new study for into combining exercise and literacy with young pupils…

JL Dutaut
Dr Anna Cunningham
Opinion: Accountability

The Plymouth Playbook: Piloting people through improvement

Aaron Meredith tries to bottle the strategy that has driven his southwest schools to Ofsted success with people, not…

JL Dutaut
Aaron Meredith
Opinion: Curriculum

Let’s finally embrace the marriage of knowledge and skills

We must get past an ill-informed and fruitless opposition between knowledge and skills in order to make better policy

JL Dutaut
Tim Oates
Opinion: Workforce

The ITTECF is another step forward for inclusive teaching

Changes to the early-career framework are putting pupils with additional needs at the heart of teacher training, say contributors…

JL Dutaut
Margaret Mulholland and Simon Knight
Opinion: SEND

Solutions: Breaking down barriers for students with SEND

Putting the needs of pupils with SEND at the heart of every decision is key to improving attendance, mental…

JL Dutaut
Ben Mallinson

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
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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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