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Whistleblowers do the vital job of keeping any sector on the straight and narrow. But when it comes to schools, just how hard is it to sound the alarm if a colleague has broken the law or put someone’s health and safety at risk? Jessica Powell reports

Unsettling feelings can trigger a fight-or-flight stress response that can impact on teaching and learning, researchers warn. Irena Barker ponders what schools can do to make pupils and staff feel more secure in these unpredictable times

Getting specialists in subjects other than English to work on boosting students’ literacy can be an uphill struggle, yet Sarah Eggleton managed to introduce a whole-school approach to vocab learning that not only works for teachers but has seen pupils make use of more sophisticated language across the curriculum

It can be difficult to put a finger on why some schools flourish, even in the face of adversity. For Alex Quigley, the answer lies in a collection of shared behaviours, policies and values

As well as introducing students to new words, we should be demonstrating how they can use them in their speaking and writing, says Jon Severs

The novelist, poet, playwright and teacher talks to Tes about her time in school, the teachers who made an impression on her and a French exchange trip that is tattoed on her memory

More than two-thirds of leaders are less content in their role than they were a year ago, report finds

And eight out of 10 teachers describe themselves as stressed from working during the pandemic, poll shows

Department for Education condemns behaviour of protesters after ‘totally inappropriate’ material shown to pupils during RE lesson

Providing extra funding with one hand while taking it away with another is not right, says Northern poverty commissioner

Members of Britain’s largest teaching union will vote on motion to abolish schools inspectorate at conference next month

We look at the parties’ education promises on the first day of campaigning as the country prepares to vote on 6 May