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Permanent exclusion is rarely about a single incident. More often, it reflects unmet needs, escalating pressures, and a lack of time to step back and understand what a young person is communicating th...

Lately, there's been a lot of talk in the SoR world about the value of reading full novels as a class. One major obstacle: teaching full books isn't easy. Student reading levels vary dramatically in…

The next time someone claims that “the science of reading” is joyless, please share this piece!!!

Lately, a debate has taken over the science of reading community: should we read whole books in ELA class? While this might seem like a no-brainer to the general populace (uh, of course we should, the...

In many classrooms, we mistake noise and activity for real learning.

If you can afford coloured pens (and stop the rest of the department using them for colouring in), then writing in colours can be a great w...

On designing effective assessment

Education, health and care plans have been blamed for an unsustainable rise in special educational needs in schools, but would scrapping or limiting these plans fix the problem?

When it comes to education policymaking at the state level, lots of cooks are typically in the kitchen: legislators, state board members, education department officials, union representatives, nonprof...

Knowledge-Building for Teachers Series

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Spectacularly helpful! These are the questions being posed right now in Wales as Dominic Wyse (The Balancing Act) pushes the Literacy Panel to adopt contextualized phonics instruction where orthograph...

A Slice of Primary Leadership

Creating genuinely inclusive schools is no longer an optional aspiration; it is a core educational responsibility and one endorsed by the UK government. Yet, many teachers and leaders know from experi...

Schools frequently describe Educational Psychology as an ‘essential service’. This is because working with Educational Psychology Services for Schools can have three key transformative effects:1.    I...

The DfE is introducing enrichment benchmarks to push schools to deliver more extracurricular clubs – but research shows that teachers are already working unpaid and out of hours to deliver such activi...

New measures in the Crime and Policing Bill will disregard and pardon unjust 'child prostitution' convictions and cautions received before the law changed in 2015.

A school involved in the Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools pilot explains why it could be used across the sector

National SEND standards, special school 'centres of excellence' and exclusion inspection metrics