The next academic year brings a huge amount of change for schools to manage and implement. Is your school ready? @jasminenorden.bsky.social has all the details here: www.tes.com/magazine/ana... (A fantastic timeline from our art director Nige, too!)

Superb analysis of the implementation of the inclusion section of the new Ofsted framework

➡️AI wants to teach the class - and some teachers want to let it Usage is going beyond AI tutors to, in one US case, remodelling the school system completely to turn teachers into 'guides'. Advocates say it also REDUCES screen time. Read it here: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

If you are going to force schools into an accountability exercise, then making sure the tools of that exercise work properly would be useful...

‘Bizarre’ government SEND proposals risk lumping together pupils with vastly different needs, and stripping out mental health support, leaders tell Tes www.tes.com/magazine/new...

So pleased Jasmine is back and using her skills to bring you the very best analysis, features and interviews!

Fantastic to be back at SAAS chairing the main stage. A packed line up awaits - @tesmagazine.bsky.social will have all the news and views on our website and app and in our award-winning newsletter

Exclusive: Weak governance in MATs is a ‘systemic risk’ to the government’s ambition for all schools to be in a trust, warns National Governance Association report

School environments are making genetic diversity problematic for many children, and the SEND reforms don’t offer the systemic change needed to address that, argues a leading psychology professor www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

➡️ Why mixed-ability teaching is down, but not out New EEF research appears to give a strong vote of confidence to setting over mixed-ability grouping, but the authors of the study warn schools against taking any rash decisions www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Schools with an above-average number of pupils with SEND are more likely to be marked down by Ofsted for attendance and behaviour, analysis finds

Pretty damning, this - a flexible-working scheme failed to reach those it might have benefited most, and well after it started only 3 per cent of school leaders had heard of it. www.tes.com/magazine/new... @ktorm-social1.bsky.social @tesmagazine.bsky.social

➡️ The complex story behind rising suspensions in primary schools Superb investigation here from @ktorm-social1.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

"early-identified reading needs are often pervasive over time. Even with excellent support, they can still “show up” in secondary school"

Ministers say “not seen, not heard” policies are outlawed, but ambiguity remains over whether they breach the new phones guidance. @tommiddlehurst.bsky.social told MPs it would be “foolish” to ban the policy in schools where proven effective. @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Good news - for some. “Larger trusts with dedicated commercial or development functions are structurally better placed than smaller or standalone trusts serving more disadvantaged communities - and that is precisely the inverse of where additional resources are most needed.”

🔍 Is one tenure of Ofsted better than another, or does each iteration of the inspectorate simply shift the goalposts for schools? In the Tes Daily newsletter, @jonsevers.bsky.social considers Amanda Spielman’s critique of the current regime… Read here: 145850312.hs-sites-eu1.com/tes-magazine...

100% agree. What about schools with pouches - the pupils still have phones on them so is that not ok? Is it just smartphones? What defines a smartphone? Etc etc

There is a lot of confusion as to whether the approach to mobile phones many schools have currently will be compliant when gov guidance becomes statutory

All today's content from Tes in one place below... exclusives, must reads, and essential info!

What a joy to have @nancygedge.bsky.social back writing for Tes

TAs are leaving the profession in record numbers. So what can schools do differently to keep them in post? Nancy Gedge shares her advice for better looking after your support staff

A thorough and clear report that should have been the definitive word on these circumstances, but that has been clouded by some irresponsible comments and reporting before it both politically and elsewhere. This needs serious consideration so those mistakes not repeated.

A challenge to the role of 'executive headteacher' in trusts... www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Does being funny make you a better teacher? Humour often negatively affects teaching and learning, finds @mrenglishteach.bsky.social, who reveals what the research says about cracking jokes in the classroom

Reading the excellent 'The Revolutionists' by @jasonburke2.bsky.social and got to this bit about incidents in 1983...

More on the plans set out today, which would put existing guidance on a statutory footing. (The guidance doesn’t say phones can’t be taken to school, but that they should be stored out of sight eg in lockers.) www.tes.com/magazine/new...

The govt's just announced a statutory ban on phones in schools...four days after education minister Olivia Bailey said the problem was already "solved". www.tes.com/magazine/new...

If you were in any doubt falling birthrates were hitting schools hard, this should be the confirmation you needed. "Some of Harris’ schools are facing funding shortfalls of up to £800,000 due to lower pupil numbers" Exclusive from @jabedahmed.bsky.social

"Would a broadening of curriculum and accountability really mean fewer young people feeling that they had “failed” school? The critics would argue that it would at least make us more certain that it was not school that had failed those young people." www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Exclusive: The White Paper plan for a training entitlement for teachers ‘isn’t an entitlement in any meaningful sense’, says Teacher Development Trust chief and former DfE official Gareth Conyard

Is the SEND reform agenda set up to fail as the government has failed to properly consider curriculum and assessment reform alongside it? That's what school leaders have told @johngroberts.bsky.social in our big read today. Read the article here: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

New ‘experts at hand’ support for pupils with SEND must not be ‘disproportionately accessed’ by the most proactive schools, DfE tells councils

The Australian social media ban for under 16s made headlines around the world, but has it had a positive impact on schools? Well, that's a difficult thing to unpick, as Zofia Niemtus finds in our big read in Tes magazine this morning. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

What can the Teletubbies teach teachers about pedagogy for the youngest pupils in the school system? Professor Sam Wass explains that younger children have a huge potential to learn, but that this can only be harnessed with the right teaching approach. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

The government doesn't know how many informal inclusion bases are in schools already, and existing formal resourced provision paid for by local authorities has not been a factor in how funding has been arranged to create more specialist places ⬇️ www.tes.com/magazine/new...

The average sized primary school will get £14k next year through the government's new fund to bolster mainstream inclusion. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

"Nobody in that school or my primary school knew that there was a lot more going on for me than the death of my Dad." Hidden trauma and the challenge of helping those who do not seem to need help. A powerful, difficult, deeply personal read www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

#UkEd #Edusky More of this please. 😍 Thanks Jon

"A teenage-focused doomerism has firmly established itself as a mainstream narrative in the UK" The @tes leader on talking down teens - and why that forces schools into a difficult choice. email.tes.com/t/cr/AQiOjhA...

The barriers to Labour's aim of getting all schools into trusts are multiple - @jabedahmed.bsky.social has published a superb analysis of those barriers and the ways in which they may be tackled. You don't get this kind of insight anywhere but @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

▶️ Ofsted: Disadvantaged schools more likely to be graded down on achievement Big Ofsted investigation here from @cerysturner.bsky.social that puts Sir Martyn's comments at ASCL into an interesting context www.tes.com/magazine/new...

The New Schools Network is starting an Innovation Pilot Programme to fund schools and organisations to test approaches to tackle barriers to education. Its director, Meg Powell-Chandler, explains all

Inner-city approaches to improve student outcomes cannot simply be lifted and shifted to the coast – but it’s just as important we get it right for generations to come, says trust CEO Seamus Murphy

While most secondary schools require students to wear blazers, nearly half of teachers would prefer young people to wear ‘joggers and a polo’ or no uniform, exclusive polling reveals

A new approach to teaching vocabulary has massively improved Sats scores at one Leicester primary, according to its headteacher: @ellencph.bsky.social hears how the Starling system works

"All of us who return from maternity leave seem to be wrestling with the same impossible standards: trying to work as if we don’t have children and trying to parent like we don’t have a career." ▶️How teaching created a maternity leave return trap www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

"The language used to describe these bases is revealing. A 'safe space away from busy classrooms' prompts an uncomfortable question: safe from what, and from whom?" An interesting challenge in this piece below.