Part-time staff face huge challenges, including often having to maintain full-time availability

We can’t always know what a child is going through, writes trust leader David Clayton, who says his own childhood experience has shown him the need to make schools 'sanctuaries' for those suffering…

Forgetting why you walked into a room isn’t a sign of cognitive decline. It’s your brain doing exactly what it evolved to do.

A meta analysis of 45 studies shows where expert teachers differ from novices. Less in knowledge, more in skills and classroom judgment.

How low expectations protect adults and diminish children

A couple of years ago, Carousel worked with over 50 teachers and researchers to investigate the use of AI in auto-marking student work. That project resulted in the publication of a peer-reviewed pape...

What if your child struggles and falls behind their peers? When it comes to the topic of children struggling in school and education, parents can experience profound feelings of fear or worry, or hope...

‘You don’t get better at writing by doing more writing’ - a quote from a Headteacher that has never left me. This is a bit of a long exploration of writing but I hope you will stick with it...

Forget the lentils and stopwatches. From frontloading to the power of 'we,' here are some tiny, intentional changes that can transform classroom culture.

Photo by Katerina Holmes on Pexels.com As a young teacher beginning my career just after the turn of the millennium, my first classroom was fitted with the ultimate in modern technology – a roller …

One of my former bosses would, every time he visited my school, make a clandestine card drop on my desk, which I’d discover only when he was driving off into the sunset. The card was simple, the ha…

EMC's Dan Clayton explores the implications of a survey looking at teachers and accents

We’re approaching that time in the ITE year when our students prepare to move to a new school setting for their second teaching practice. Having just settled into their placement school, havi…

It started with a happy accident. I had finished a lesson with my Year 8s and, surprisingly, we had powered through the material with 15 minutes to spare. My plan for the next lesson was to introdu…

Apply metacognitive strategies in the classroom.

I’ve been teaching secondary school students for over a decade, and in that time, I’ve dived deep into many aspects of teaching.

Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com Saima’s teaching practice placement is well underway, and she is getting used to the pattern of her teaching week and her regular mentor meetings.  Things …

The good, the bad and the ugly  Meetings matter because they tell the people in them something about our priorities, our character, our attitude to them (and their time) and how brave and bold we are....

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I feel like a failure At some point every year I will have a conversation with a beginning teacher who confesses that they feel like a total failure. “…

Photo by Los Muertos Crew on Pexels.com Mentor meetings are the cornerstone of support for beginning teachers, shaping their early experiences and helping them make sense of both the theory behind …

Being pastorally responsible for a group of 30 children as their form tutor is perhaps the greatest privilege and source of joy that teaching can bring. At one stage in my career, I became the form…

Every student working - every minute counting

In schools, leadership isn’t just about making the right decisions,  it’s about creating the right environment for others to thrive. We’ve all heard the phrase “set people up for success,” but…

Has the use of digital technology impaired students’ ability to focus?

The weekly AI briefing for teachers

I am working through the analysis stage of my EdD exploring teachers’ perceptions of educational research. Here are some reflections on how we can spark curiosity and creative thinking in schools

What Happens When School Leaders Don’t Say Enough A recent paper in the Academy of Management Journal, titled Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough (Flynn &…

As we pop into school in the next two weeks for results days, it’s worth giving a thought to how we can support new colleagues (whether NQTs or more experienced teachers) joining our departme…