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Opinion: Solutions

How trusts can operate at scale over distance

An increase in multi-academy trusts spanning multiple regions means we need to develop new ways to deliver school improvement,…

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Rebekah Ramsden and Jo Myhill-Johnson

The Knowledge

How can peer review best serve school improvement?

The EEF’s review of Education Development Trust’s Schools Partnership Programme validates the potential of systematic peer review, explains Anna…

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Anna Searle

Design and technology

Design and technology reform: A hostile takeover disguised as philanthropy

Pearson’s plans for design and technology reform shows why there’s an issue with private companies and curriculum design, says…

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Alison Hardy

Opinion: Workforce

RE recruitment woe is a societal problem – but not like many think

Census data showing Britain becoming a more secular society are no excuse to lose everything RE has to offer…

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Bushra Nasir

Opinion: Accountability

Why we’ve ditched the grades from SIAMS inspections

Margaret James explains the decision to remove grades from the SIAMS inspection framework in a move described as ‘radically…

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Margaret James

Politics

Report cards: Labour’s proposed reform will require caution

Labour’s proposal for school accountability reform could be transformational but its implementation will require caution and time, writes Kate…

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Kate Chhatwal

Opinion: Curriculum

Making science accessible for all, even on a tight school budget

Marking British Science Week, Niymet McCann explains how her school is making the most of available support to ensure…

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Niymet McCann

STEM

Girls in STEM: A message for your students

After marking International Women’s Day, schools can keep pushing the message that girls’ STEM career potential is unlimited, writes…

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Sally Williams

Edtech

Video tech has turned our lesson observation on its head

Video recording of lessons has reduced fear of the dreaded observation and brought our focus on the small details…

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David Chapman

Must Read

Recruitment and retention

An impoverished work-life drives too many teachers out

The default position that teaching should be professionally (and sometimes personally) all-encompassing is a retention own-goal

John Dickens

Nansi Ellis and Haili Hughes

SEND solutions

We must reclaim our role as SEND and AP’s fixers. ASAP

New project aims to gather and broadcast the solutions to the SEND funding crisis that are lighting the way…

John Dickens

Emma Bradshaw and Tom Legge

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

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

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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