Blogs

We Need Brave Leadership For Our Difficult Times

Former headteacher and author of Brave Heads – How to Lead a School Without Losing your Soul, Dave Harris investigates the challenges of school leadership in challenging times. How do you regain momentum, move in the right direction and keep your passion as the world attempts to move on from the challenges of the last few years? Thinking about how you do things, he suggests, is just as important as deciding what to do.

• 6 May

The Mindful Leader: Easing Up On Ourselves

As we start a new term, with all its excitement and challenges, this month's blog looks at how, in the midst of this, we can ease up a little and meet what is happening with kindness.

• 5 May

The Missing Children

In the week of the 2nd InclusiveEd Conference on New Paradigms for Disadvantaged Learners, Professor Sonia Blandford looks at the plight of the most marginalised children…those missing from education.

• 22 Mar

Students Are Starting Secondary School With A Reading Age Of 6 Years!

• 10 Mar

Win A Book Bundle For Your Class With Access All Arts Week

• 15 Feb

How To Stay In Control In A World That Sometimes Feels Out Of Control

When uncertainty about the future remains high and the demands on our time significant, we look at how we can stay in control in a world that sometimes feels out of control.

• 4 Feb

Disadvantaged Learners And The Digital Divide: Reflections On The Last Budget

The digital divide is far more than unequal access to kit. It encompasses a much wider disadvantage that the last budget failed to respond to, reflects Jane Harley, of the OUP.

• 3 Feb

Building And Supporting Mental And Emotional Wellbeing – Skills For Life

Rachel Whitton, Deputy Head (Pastoral and Boarding) at Heathfield School - a leading independent secondary boarding and day school in Ascot for girls aged 11-18, discusses the school’s approach to supporting mental health and wellbeing.

• 3 Feb

New Relationships. New Efficacies. New Possibilities: Taking EdTech into 2022

AI and analytics are ever more essential for providing a personalsied learning experience and for keeping parents in the loop

• 19 Jan

Christmas Book Talking

Annie Everall reviews Christmas themed books for children of all ages and all abilities that were published in 2020/21.

• 22 Dec

The Mindful Leader: 2

Maggie Farrar continues her influential series on mindful leadership.

• 8 Dec

How VLEs Can Help Address Global Education Challenges

Derek Devine discusses the role of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in finding solutions to both long- and short-term challenges in the education sector.

• 26 Nov

What The Army Taught Me About Teaching

From Camouflage to Classroom by George Vlachonikolis, published by John Catt Educational, charts lessons learned by the author during two tours with the British Army in Afghanistan, and how he brings that experience to his classroom teaching today.

• 23 Nov

Our A-Levels System Isn’t Preparing Pupils For University Or Life – Academically Or Emotionally

Designed to push students through a narrow set of examinations, the A level curriculum lacks vision, purpose, and imagination. It’s time for schools to rethink those vital couple of years that are supposed to set young people up for university and a successful career beyond it, writes Barry Mansfield.

• 21 Nov

Political Literacy Is Not A Luxury – Democracy Depends On It!

Recent tragic events, such as the murder of David Amess, have illuminated the consequences of leaving one's own population in the dark as to how its democracy functions, and things are only getting worse - fast. Political literacy education is the only way to protect the fabric of democracy. Matteo Bergamini, Founder and CEO of Shout Out UK, says we have to act before its too late!

• 14 Nov

The Logic Behind Cuemath

Why has Cuemath, one of many online Maths tuition platforms, caught the eye of Google and grown so rapidly. Manan Khurma, Founder and CEO, explains what its all about.

• 7 Nov

Let’s Prioritise Equity, Not Equality In Schooling To Secure A Less Unequal Society

Talk of equality in education can be meaningless because it means so many different thing to different people. Sir Tim Brighouse lays down a challenge.

• 31 Oct

The Mindful Leader

If any group of professionals is in dire need of Mindfulness training, it's headteachers. Maggie Farrar, a management consultant specialising in the field starts a regular column for TeachingTimes.

• 24 Oct