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This trainee teacher is finding the job overwhelming – and the lack of mental health support alarming

From patience to velcro-based resources, there’s a lot mainstream schools can take from SEND practice, says this Sendco

This teacher’s daughter’s period has started, and she couldn’t be more pleased. It brings back – less happy – memories of her own teenage years

There are certain elements of the job that can make it hugely rewarding – or lead to the kind of stress levels that keep the secret supply teacher in work

School politics can be fraught with finger-pointing and unspoken agreements about ‘the way things are done’. It’s important to tackle this by clearly prioritising goals, owning failures as well as successes, and placing transparency and ethics at the heart of your organisation’s culture, argues one headteacher

One learning support assistant describes her shock at realising that she’d have to pay to park at her new college