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Top Rated‘Encouraging, Interesting and Personable’: Building Relationships for Teaching and Learning
In their 2022 report, Supporting the Whole Child: Reviewing the evidence for whole child development in the context of the English education system, IntegratEd researchers are clear that for ‘children living in, or who have...
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LatestIrresistible: Curriculum design and progress tracking in AP
The Alternative Provision Research Network recently published a blog on the PhysOrg Conversation platform referring to findings from its research into the views of children in AP about their experience in the setting. The APRN...
Irresistible: Curriculum design and progress tracking in AP
The Alternative Provision Research Network recently published a blog on the PhysOrg Conversation platform referring to findings from its research into the views of children in AP about their experience in the setting. The APRN...
Read MoreProblems with Evidencing Compliance: Small APs and the New National Standards
It’s been 2 years since the government’s SEND and AP Improvement Plan appeared; a framework of national standards is expected imminently, and many of us have been involved in the consultation work between the DfE and the sector....
Read More‘Agents of Curiosity’: The importance of Professional Curiosity in Safeguarding and Child Protection
I trained as a cultural critic in a previous career as an academic. The fields of literature, cultural studies and critical theory do not appear, at first glance, to offer much in the way of transferable skills to a role...
Read More‘The energy of violence’: Transformations in Adolescence
In their 2023 crime survey the National College of Policing report that violence against women and girls (VAWG) accounts for 20% of recorded crime, and that reported VAWG has increased 37% since 2018 (though the actual figure...
Read MoreReflections on a Learning Trek
In 2017 I was Senior Executive Officer at a small education charity which had at its heart an independent special school for children with social, emotional and mental health needs. One of my responsibilities was as DSL for the...
Read More‘Encouraging, Interesting and Personable’: Building Relationships for Teaching and Learning
In their 2022 report, Supporting the Whole Child: Reviewing the evidence for whole child development in the context of the English education system, IntegratEd researchers are clear that for ‘children living in, or who have...
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