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Comparing Students’ Maths Results To Each Other Rather Than Fixed Criteria Is A Flightpath To Failure A system that ensures one in three students won’t reach the minimum accepted standards by KS4 can't be right, or fair

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7 funny and heartwarming end-of-school-year celebration videos Sign the year off in style using these hilarious school celebration videos as inspiration...

As Teacher Workload Gets More Demanding Good Will Is Eroded – So One Teacher Is Tackling It Head On "Some staff felt like second class citizens. Breaking down issues between teaching and non-teaching staff was important"

Careers Education – What Skills Do Students Need To Thrive In This Rapidly Changing Employment Landscape Hybrid skillsets and multiple job changes – 5 things your students can expect in adult life

Why We Need To Stop Feeding The Data Monster "We were told that the more often we fed him the more nuanced his insights would be, and woe betide those that didn’t feed him at all."

Mental Health & Wellbeing – Understanding Young People’s Development Doesn’t Always Match Their Age Helps You Better Support Them Discrepancies between age and typical social and emotional development can lead to any number of difficulties, including disruptive behaviour, inability to concentrate, disengagement, school refusal and escalating mental health needs

Interviews Are Not A Game Show – Is Complex Teacher Recruitment Helping Us Make The Right Staffing Decisions? Nobody would suggest that we don’t want to be rigorous in our selection, but do meaningless activities really help us get the right candidate?

As Brexit Negotiations Roll On I Have One Simple Request – Please Don’t Take Maja Away We’ve voted for Britain to leave the EU. It’s happened, whatever we think about it. But, if there’s any way to stop it, please don’t use our Maja as a bargaining chip

Data Does Have A Place In Schools – But That Doesn’t Make Updating Spreadsheets Any Easier Spreadsheets are endless boxes of mundanity that sap my very living soul

A Focus On The Outdoors Has Never Been More Important, Whether It’s Unique Learning Environments Or Taking Responsibility For The Planet We must commit to nature, says Juno Hollyhock

Telling Kids To Follow Their Dreams Is Dangerous – For Many Of Them Good Grades Is Their Only Hope It's of no comfort to a child sitting tests in 2017 that the results may not 'matter' in 2037. When you're doing exams, and still in education, you need to believe there's a point to it

We Provide Families With Food All Year Round, And It Doesn’t Cost Us A Penny "He said that over the holidays he hadn’t eaten anything except sandwiches"

Best funny, awesome and awkward yearbook photos and quotes Where else but a yearbook can you look back and feel bad about how you looked then, yet still feel worse about how you look now?

School Funding – Toilet Rolls Are Not A Luxury Crowdfunding is a great alternative to fairs and discos, but it shouldn’t be a substitute for properly financed schools

A Spiralling Workload Is Taking The Heart Out Of Teaching The actual teaching side is great, but that's only about half the job, the rest is marking, planning, resourcing, meetings, paperwork...

Promising Smaller Class Sizes May Win Votes, But Without Funding It’s Unlikely To Improve Student Outcomes Do we actually have a class-size crisis, and, if so, what should we do about it?

Teachers Are Used To Putting Others’ Wellbeing First – But You And The Children Can Lose Out As A Consequence How can you expect to care for a class of students if you're sacrificing your mental state for theirs?

Policy-Making Around Children’s Wellbeing Has Been Halfhearted, Contradictory And Chronically Short-Termist Let’s have an informed public and professional debate about the issues threatening our children’s wellbeing, argues Richard House…

Education Challenges Continue To Pile Up – But There’s Plenty To Celebrate Too A difficult year for teachers has shown once again in turbulent times we try to support each other wherever we can

Whatever Shape The Government Takes It Has No Choice But To Prioritise School Spending – Or Count The Cost If Justine Greening has any sense she will get a commitment from No 10 to make this issue a focal point of concern

Field Report – Festival of Education, Day 2, PM Helen Mulley's report from the 2017 Festival of Education concludes with a heads-up from Sean Harford and a close-up on vocabulary acquisition...

Field Report – Festival of Education, Day 2, AM What is ‘grit’, and can you teach it? That was the topic of today’s opening session, delivered by David Rogers – formerly assistant head teacher responsible for teaching and learning at Patcham High School, Brighton; co-founder of humanutopia, Carlo Missirian; and a rather splendid young man called Ryan, who had changed his life after experiencing […]

Field Report – Festival of Education, Day 1, PM In her second dispatch from this year's Festival of Education, Helen Mulley learns what mindsets have to do with sheep brains and hears some pointed commentary on inclusion from Vic Goddard...

Field Report – Festival of Education, Day 1, AM Helen Mulley checks in after a morning of Brexit puns, vision with conviction and a grammar schools 'debate' on the first day of this year's Festival of Education...

Improve Your KS3 Maths Teaching By Developing An Understanding Of The Primary-Secondary Transition There's plenty of overlap between Year 6 and 7 maths, so if you don't know what topics your students have already covered you might be wasting valuable class time

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