Behaviour

Cornwall Council has developed its own Parental Engagement Framework. Here, improvement adviser Nicky Hepworth explains its impact

Tom Bennett has advised on behaviour policy in England for a decade – he sits down with Kyle Tormey to explain why the latest iteration of his behaviour support will deliver safer and calmer classrooms 

Overall suspension rate is dropping but still climbing in primaries and remaining high among disadvantaged pupils, FFT analysis shows

Schools must not bear costs of statutory guidance making schools phone-free, chancellor warned ahead of Budget

In our How I Lead series, we ask education leaders to reflect on their careers, their experience and their leadership philosophy. This month we talk to Susan Douglas, CEO of Eden Academy Trust, SEND expert and British Council adviser

Suella Braverman also tells Tes the party favours Michaela-style behaviour rules, alongside plans to mandate hymns and flags in schools

A MAT CEO explains how its schools took part in a four-year project to bring pupils together across settings, with real impact

Schools need support to understand different factors behind exclusions – with disadvantage, SEND and students’ relationships all linked, study says

Ten years on from the publication of her bestselling book, Grit, Angela Duckworth chats to Tes about how her thinking about this characteristic has changed – and what this means for schools

Should you seat pupils alphabetically or pair high and low prior attainers? Mark Roberts takes a look at what research tells us about seating plans

Interventions don’t need to be long to deliver results, explains Clare Dash, whose doctoral research is exploring how a one-week residential is improving pupil behaviour and wellbeing

Sometimes language used by staff can inadvertently lower expectations, says Jarlath O’Brien, and so it pays for leaders to work with their teams to phase these expressions out