Because one size doesn't fit all in education | EBE led, grassroots, strategic specialists in persistent absence barriers to school attendance | #squarepegs
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This is what happens when those outside systems are given the opportunity to troubleshoot & think outside the box. We’ve gathered an exceptional array of diverse expertise to give you hope, direction, solutions & inspiration so with confidence u can try Another Way. Order below👇🏻
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The one where secondary educators display their ignorance of SEND.
In defence of some, it wasn’t until I saw SEND needs in my own child I began to open my eyes. However, there’s plenty of knowledge shared on SEND if we’re ideologically neutral enough to see.
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I've been to see the education minister, along with special educational needs charities, to urge the government not to punish parents for their children being unable to attend school.
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Research about disability is stronger when it includes the voices of people with lived experience. They bring insight into the realities behind the data, help identify what matters most, and ensure findings lead to policies and services that work in practice—not just on paper.
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This was so shocking to research.
- A fifth of kids in YOIs went to the same 6 schools.
- 2/3 grew up in care
- 43% feel unsafe in custody
- 2/3 of young offenders go onto reoffend
- a place at a YOI costs double the fees at Eton and a Secure Training Centre as much as the Ritz
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Please do get a psychiatrist in to define ‘lower level’ mental health problems because such a category doesn’t exist.
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Almost a decade ago ASCL launched its Commission into ‘The Forgotten Third’ Sadly so much about what was true then remains true today.
Serious change is long over ASCL - The Forgotten Third ascl.org.uk/Our-view/Campaig…
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May 29
“Acceleration begins around 2000, a decade before smartphones ... variables that best predict the trend are macroeconomic: declining GDP per capita and rising income inequality”
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Awful statistics, but reflective of the nature of public debate and society. Schools can do better and more, but only if they aren't forced to be exam factories
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Well Friday attendance was challenging to say the least! The price difference for families to travel on Friday rather than today was enormous. Hard to blame people,
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New Ofsted guidance labels autistic children as more likely be extremists – it's grotesque .
Please join us at Parliament Square on Friday, 22 May to demand Ofsted treat autistic children and their families with the dignity they deserve .
@Ofstednews – remove the lie !
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Parting Words No.2:
Valuing the Early Years
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Margaret devoted her career to teaching very young children:
"It's where the magic happens!" she says.
She's so right.
Yet the Early Years phase has never really had the respect nor the high profile it deserves.
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I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter dire threat of a Reform UK government theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Watch these two clips and tell me what they have in common. The lack of understanding towards the struggles so many families face. The lack of awareness of the cost of living crisis and the decimation of the systems that should be supporting parents. Telling, to say the
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SATs were first introduced in 1991.
For 35 years, they've been an immeasurable cause of stress, pressure and worry for teachers, school leaders and children.
The tragedy in education is that flawed systems often endure for decades, even when they do much more harm than good.
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"We've already seen an interesting discussion, In the UK, about the extent to which schooling focuses very much on passing exams"
Hannah Kitchen from the OECD spoke to us this morning about the ways in which schools might be shaping the current NEET crisis in the UK.
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We tell ourselves SATs measure achievement. The reality? They measure recall in a high-stress minefield.
As a former headteacher, I’m done defending a system that poisons the Year 6 experience.
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That so many disaffected working class votes went to Reform should be ringing alarm bells across the political landscape.
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Hormones in year 9 were often problematic in my sec school teaching at first, but I reconstructed the PE curriculum based on their preferences & gave them lots of choice. The behaviour issues pretty much disappeared. Be a flexible teacher & curriculum designer. Listen to kids 🙏
Here are the secondary answers to “which year group is the most challenging to teach” question I asked a while ago. As I’ve never taught in secondary, I don’t know what the reasons are, but would be interested to hear your thoughts.
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“The first role of any Government… is to leave something better for the next generation than your generation inherited - this is not done now”
Ex-PM Sir John Major says young people are inheriting a “more difficult” and “less favourable world”.
#Newsnight
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