Essential For Some, Beneficial For All
Research shows it is essential for students with Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) to be explicitly taught tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary, yet this is a strategy that all students benefit from: if we want our students to confidently speak like scientists, linguists, mathematicians, artists, musicians, historians, we must provide them with the vocabulary to do so.
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Disabled by Circumstance: Widening our understanding and application of the social model of disability
Marius Frank’s blog reframes disability, adding children “disabled by circumstance” whose poverty, trauma, inequity or other unidentified needs create similar barriers to learning: barriers that can eased so that more children achieve and thrive.
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Things that help: Lessons from a life working in disaster
Lucy Easthope, is UK’s leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been advisor on nearly every major disaster of the past two decades, including the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, 9/11, the 7/7 bombings, the Salisbury Poisonings, Grenfell. Most recently advising the Prime Minister’s Office on the Covid-19 pandemic.
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We Get The Politics We Deserve
I am an optimist. If there is anything that my seventeen years as a Politics teacher and school leader have taught me, it is that young people are enormously capable, passionate, empathetic and care about the world they live in.
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Building Belonging: A Whole School Approach Beyond Slogans
At Townley Grammar, our commitment to racial equality isn’t a slogan or a policy document it’s something we live out daily in our classrooms, corridors, and community.
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From Strategy to Impact: Embedding Metacognition and Collaboration at Ryders Green Primary
Rebecca Jarrett is Teaching and Learning Team / Art Lead / Writing Lead (Mat cover) / class teacher at Ryders Green Primary School. She was successfully re-accredited as an SSAT Lead Practitioner in March 2025. In this case study she shares how her work leading on developing metacognition across the school has impacted pupil learning.
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Race to the Top
Why are Black and Global Majority teachers underrepresented at all stages in teaching? How can the teacher and leader workforce be more representative of the diversity of the pupil community?
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In an age of the robots, why oracy education has never mattered more
I’ve long believed in the importance of oracy education. As a young teacher, I was inspired by the Bullock Report, which made the case - beautifully and unarguably - for the importance of language across the curriculum.
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15 years of Embedding Formative Assessment – why commitment to a long-term vision pays off
Why after fifteen years, are we still continuing to embed formative assessment and what impact has it had in school; beyond its prime directive of improving the quality of teaching and learning?
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Transformative collaboration: Reimagining teaching and learning
Recognising what Gert Biesta (2016) describes as “...the beautiful risk of education,” we hope that this short piece introduces you to how engaging with SSAT’s Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) programme - proven, evidence-based professional development - has revolutionised our approach to working together on formative assessment.
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