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Wednesday

12th Mar 2025

Why schools resist flexible working (and how to change their minds)
Despite much rhetoric about flexible working, there is not enough flexibility for teachers in schools – and that’s down to a number of core challenges, argues Mark Roberts, who details how to fix them
Stretching Time

Monday

10th Mar 2025

Three ways to foster exam skills in pupils of all ages
As exam season looms, it’s important to close the ‘knowing-doing gap’, writes Alex Quigley as he lists simple steps that can help
Three ways to foster exam skills in pupils of all ages

Sunday

9th Mar 2025

How the term ‘soft skills’ is holding us back
Why have these fundamental competencies got such a wishy-washy label, asks Clare Jarmy – and how far has this impacted their development in schools?
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Wednesday

5th Mar 2025

Can belonging really help fix behaviour, attendance and outcomes?
Generating a feeling of belonging in schools has been repeatedly cited as the key to solving multiple challenges, but is that claim supported by evidence? David Robson investigates
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Tuesday

4th Mar 2025

How I learned about the dangers of a no-excuses approach
We should be wary of the increasing popularity of a ‘complexity reduction’ approach to school life, argues Jarlath O’Brien
How I learned about the dangers of a no-excuses approach

Wednesday

26th Feb 2025

How ‘efficiency’ derailed education
The education system has become too obsessed with efficiency and has lost its true purpose, argues Bernard Andrews
How ‘efficiency’ derailed education

Tuesday

25th Feb 2025

3 ways to tackle handwriting trouble in secondary
Slow and illegible writing can mean big problems for students at exam time, writes Zoe Enser, so issues need to be addressed upfront and early
ways to tackle handwriting trouble in students

Monday

24th Feb 2025

How useful is it to compare education systems around the world?
Crude caricatures of how education works in different countries can be unhelpful, writes Christian Bokhove, who says we need a more nuanced approach
Sushi and fish and chips on plates

Sunday

23rd Feb 2025

Tim Peake: from A-level disappointment to outer space
The astronaut tells us about his unusual path to the stars, and how he would like to see Stem develop in UK schools
Tim Peake

Tuesday

18th Feb 2025

We need to keep an open mind about the root of reading difficulties
There is still an unhelpful reluctance to accept that many children will have additional needs around reading, says Megan Dixon
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Monday

17th Feb 2025

4 ways to stop accidentally distracting your students
Students remember what they think about – so, as teachers, we need to present our content in a way that keeps their minds focused on the content alone, says Mark Enser
4 ways to stop accidentally distracting your students

Thursday

13th Feb 2025

The stigma of SEND diagnosis: what does the research say?
The fact that we can now identify and name barriers to learning is widely considered to be a positive, writes Alex Quigley, but the situation is more complicated than that
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