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 ...

When it comes to great teaching and pedagogy, the sequence of learning trumps everything – and our new goal is pedagogical content knowledge. Ben Harding offers some insights into what this means in ...

Twelve barriers that prevent young people from disclosing sexual abuse and four factors that help them have been identified by researchers.

The rise of online misogyny and its impact on young people, particularly boys, has become a growing concern in the UK. Margaret Mulholland looks at what schools can do to address the issue, including ...

Triumph or disaster, students often fixate only on their mock exam marks. Paul Jenkins looks at four common reasons students lose marks in exams and considers how teachers can use the data they have ...

Continuing his series on the potential of retrieval practice, spaced learning, successive relearning, and metacognitive approaches in the classroom, this time Kristian Still focuses on the ‘spaced’ ...

Educational disadvantage is complex. Researcher and educator Sean Harris explores why tackling the impact of poverty in schools requires assessment – not assumption. He examines flaws in how we ...

Great teaching is, of course, central to better pupil engagement. Drawing in your pupils by using a range of teaching techniques and tricks will ensure that they remain connected with their learning.

The 4Ps offer a shared language for consistent high quality teaching. In this five-part series, Matt Bromley breaks down each one and offers practical strategies for teachers. In part two, he breaks ...

Fresh out of a leadership development programme and into senior leadership, I was convinced that if I had unwavering moral purpose then I would be able to turn the tide on socio-economic disadvantage.

This episode looks at the opportunities and risks presented by artificial intelligence (AI) in schools, offering advice and suggestions for whole-school AI policy and strategy as well as for teaching, ...

School counselling services are a common response to mental health and wellbeing challenges, not least those caused by Covid-19 and lockdown. New research findings have shown us exactly when and how ...