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Data means nothing compared to teacher expertise
With results day looming, it’s important to keep some perspective – number-crunching your pupils’ data won’t tell you anything meaningful, writes Michael Tidd
6 July 2018
It’s an awful lot of goals for England to score
The proposed Early Learning Goals, published last week, seem positive – but it would have been nice to cut the number of judgements, writes Michael Tidd
29 June 2018
The stage is set for a theatre of the absurd
We’re weeks away from performing the school play, but judging by our prep, it seems like a lifetime, writes Michael Tidd
22 June 2018
‘Let’s talk honestly about transition’
When dealing with transition, secondary schools unnecessarily burden primaries – and vice-versa. We must talk to each other more
18 June 2018
Consider this a telling-off over our transition farrago
When dealing with transition, secondary schools unnecessarily burden primaries – and vice-versa. Can’t we all just sort this out by talking more, asks Michael Tidd
15 June 2018
‘Particular weaknesses’ and feeble excuses
With primaries facing yet more changes to teacher assessment, let’s not pretend they will benefit pupils, one head says
12 June 2018
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