Funding

DfE Leadership Parenting 

Fact: School Budgets Are Dwindling

15th December 201815th December 2018 @TeacherToolkit 599 Views 2 Comments Barnet Council, Budgets, Camden Council, Department for Education, Finchley, Funding, Golders Green, Haringey Council, Hertfordshire, Inner London, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Mike Freer, Nick Gibb, Petition, School Funding

Reading Time: 3 minutes What impact is austerity having on your school?

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Mental Health Staff Well Being Staffing 

Are Teachers Too Fragile To Teach?

8th October 201823rd October 2018 John Dabell 2289 Views 6 Comments antifragile, BOUNCE, Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health, Education Support Partnership, Emotion, Funding, Leeds Becket University, Losada ratio, Mental Health, Minds Ahead, Nassim Taleb, Ofsted, recruitment and retention, Resilience, Stress, Teachwire.net, Workload

Reading Time: 5 minutes Why has resilience and wellbeing been dumped onto teachers?

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DfE Policies Politics 

The Truth About Teacher Pay Rises

25th September 201826th September 2018 Ian McDaid 1482 Views 2 Comments budget, Damian Hinds, Department for Education, DfE, Funding, Liz Truss, Pay, Pay and Conditions, pay grant, pay increase, Pay Rise, Pupil Premium, Salary, school budget, teacher salary, teachers pay review body

Reading Time: 2 minutes Where exactly is the money coming from to fund an increase in teacher pay?

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Leadership Policies Politics 

A College Of Teaching For Everyone

29th July 20187th August 2018 @TeacherToolkit 2972 Views 5 Comments CEO, Chartered College of Teaching, Claim Your College, College of Teaching, Dame Alison Peacock, Doctorate, Feloows, Fleetwood Town, Fleetwood Town Football Club, Funding, Interview, Members, membership, Vision

Reading Time: 7 minutes Do all teachers want to create a better profession for one another?

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CPD Students Teaching and Learning 

CPD Picks of The Week

22nd June 201821st June 2018 Holly Gardner 892 Views 0 Comments 5Rights, Data, deprived schools, design strategies, Funding, happiness, Holland, Inspection, Love Island, Marking, Ofsted, SEND, St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary School, transition, Wellbeing, zegami

Reading Time: 2 minutes How do we take teacher wellbeing seriously?

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CPD Teaching and Learning 

CPD Picks of The Week

1st March 20186th March 2018 Holly Gardner 1071 Views 0 Comments 5 Minute Lesson Plan, bans, budget cuts, Cherry Coombe, child development, classroom displays, expenses, Funding, haircuts, happiness, iPads, league tables, pension, planning, technology, University of Buckingham, University of Surrey, Wellbeing, World Book Day

Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you want to revolutionise guided reading and spruce up your displays?

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Curriculum Students Teaching and Learning 

Saving Design Technology

13th January 201813th January 2018 @TeacherToolkit 5880 Views 13 Comments blogs, Curriculum, Design, Design Technology, DT, EBacc, Education, English Baccalaureate, Food Technology, Funding, Graphics, leadership, Resistant Materials, Schools, subject knowledge, Systems and Control, Textiles

Reading Time: 7 minutes If Design Technology is to survive in an EBacc world, should technology teachers reconsider their curriculum?

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Conference Curriculum Leadership 

Keeping Creative

2nd December 20171st December 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2970 Views 0 Comments A New Direction, Creativity, Curriculum, Department for Education, EBacc, English Baccalaureate, Funding, Jihadi John, leadership, Ofsted, Ross Morrison McGill, Sir Ken Robinson, The British Library, Tim Leunig, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute In times of increasing accountability, how can schools and teachers stay creative?

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CPD 

CPD Picks of the Week

16th November 201719th November 2017 Holly Gardner 2149 Views 1 Comment anti-bullying, Church of England, Department for Education, Department of Health, early language development, Education Endowment Foundation, Elliot Tucker-Drob, flipped learning, Funding, intelligence, Jules White, Policy Exchange, Public Health England, Reading, school meals, self care, Stuart Ritchie, Worth Less Campaign

Reading Time: 2 minutes Which awareness days have you recognised in your school this week?

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Leadership Politics 

Mental Health In Schools

7th October 20177th October 2017 Helen Woodley 4261 Views 4 Comments Budgets, CAMHS, crisis, cuts, CWMT, DfE, Funding, Mental Health, NatCen Social Research, National Children's Bureau, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 4 minutes Is the state of mental health in our schools finally reaching the DfE?

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Curriculum Teaching Secrets 

Our School Has A Zero Communication Policy

12th July 201711th July 2017 A Teacher 6646 Views 0 Comments #TeachingSecrets, Anonymous, budget, Communication, Curriculum, Funding, Policy, Timetable, Timetabling

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you know what you’ll be teaching in September?

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Politics 

Propping Up The School Budget

14th June 201714th June 2017 John Dabell 5654 Views 2 Comments basics, budget cuts, Education, Education Market Association, equipment, essentials, fund raising, Funding, ITV.com, materials, Money, Resources, Scholastic, School, Staples, supplies, teaching

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you spend your own money on school?

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Interview Other Podcasts Policies 

Child Poverty

11th June 201718th July 2018 @TeacherToolkit 3761 Views 0 Comments ac, budget, catering, child poverty, Department for Education, Dietary, Drive Time, food, Free School Meals, Funding, GL Assessment, government, holidays, hunger, Interview, Magic Breakfast, National Pupil Database, Podcast, Pupil Premium, radio, redundancy, salt, school cuts, Self-regard, sugar, Trussell Trust, Voice of Islam

Reading Time: 4 minutes Is child poverty is getting enough attention from the government?

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Conference Workload 

Why DfE Workload Posters Are Unhelpful!

14th March 201714th March 2017 @TeacherToolkit 10834 Views 5 Comments #WorkloadChallenge, ASCL, Association of School and College Leaders, Budgets, Conference, Emails, Funding, Recruitment, Retention, Training, Workload

Reading Time: 2 minutes Why has the issue of workload reached epidemic proportions?

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Policies Politics 

7 Dark Think Tanks Spend £22 Million to Influence UK Politics

12th February 201712th February 2017 @TeacherToolkit 5036 Views 0 Comments Adam Smith Institute, Civitas, Donors, Education, Funding, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Policy Exchange, Policy Network, politics, The Fabian Society, Think Tank, Transparify

Reading Time: 5 minutes Who are the most opaque think tanks in the UK?

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Politics Teacher Training 

32,500 Teachers by @TeacherToolkit

15th July 201524th July 2015 @TeacherToolkit 2167 Views 5 Comments @SchoolsWeek, Conservatives, DfE, Funding, Iniital Teacher Training, Quintin Kynaston, Recruitment, Supply Agencies

Reading Time: 4 minutes Are all your staffing vacancies full for the new academic year?

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