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There have been minor updates to Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory safeguarding guidance for schools ...
As such, it advises secondary schools to focus, in particular, on arriving year 7 pupils who had a year 6 absence rate of “at ...
Practical strategies and approaches to help teachers write and implement effective success criteria in lessons in school ...
Advice for new teachers on how to prepare for and deliver lessons in schools with challenging groups of students ...
What should a student’s SEND plan contain in order to ensure teachers, SENCOs and school staff can be successful?
Practical ideas for how teachers can build their staying power and what schools can do to help boost staff retention ...
Signs of systemic strain are already visible. Independent schools are moving away from high-stakes public exams (see Bedales ...
Teaching debating and rhetoric is a crucial part of oracy education, especially for disadvantaged learners in schools ...
The latest workforce figures from the Department for Education (DfE, 2024a) show that the retention crisis is not abating. The most recent figures covering 2022/23 show that 39,971 teachers left state ...
In this series, I am attempting to elaborate and share what the recipe of test-enhanced learning (more commonly known as retrieval practice), spaced learning, interleaving, feedback, metacognition, ...
How can schools (and therefore teaching staff) effectively engage with research to inform practice in meaningful ways? As both an education leader and doctoral researcher, I often ponder this question ...
One of the most basic needs that must be met for every child is a feeling of safety, so in this article I will pick that apart and go beyond the built environment, exploring how we can enable a child ...