Wednesday
How working with other schools has elevated our CPD
One leader explains that co-creating CPD with 11 other schools has given teachers more say in their own development journey
Measuring your social capital: the secret to school success?
How this international school set out to measure something that sounds intangible but is an essential factor in school improvement
Is England on the right path for inclusion?
In both England and the US, SEND provision suffers from poor funding, a lack of trained professionals and system overwhelm. But their responses to these challenges have been very different, with the US questioning inclusion while England pushes for more of it, finds Holly Korbey
Tuesday
Mission vs the market: lessons from an international school lawsuit
A legal dispute between Hong Kong International School and its founding church highlights wider challenges for international schools
Teachers across the world see student attention decreasing
Teachers and students also believe self-management skills are vital for the future, but are hard to teach and to learn, Cambridge International survey reveals
Russia’s IB ban and its implications for international schools
Is its ban on the International Baccalaureate just ‘Russia being Russia’ – as one international school leader put it – or could it represent a wider threat to international schools and the way they operate?
What if... we all agreed what children should learn before age 5?
As part of our thought experiment series, Felicity Gillespie argues that we need universal agreement on early development, from when to toilet train to ‘learning’ for babies and toddlers
Monday
What Australia is (and isn’t) copying from England’s MAT system
The Tasmanian government is to be the first to trial a version of England’s grouping of schools into trusts, writes Will Bickford Smith – but it won’t be adopting some aspects of the model
AI’s ‘soulless’ writing can’t match pupils’ authenticity
English teacher Jack Dempsey says nothing beats marking work that shows a student riding the brainwave of an idea
Friday
International Baccalaureate: what it is and how to teach it
The number of International Baccalaureate schools is growing across the world – here’s a quick guide to the key aspects of the IB’s operations
Why external partnerships are now a leadership essential
School and trust leaders may see working with other settings as a drain on time and resources – but external partnerships are a lever for improvement and sustainability in challenging times, says this academic
