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On November 18, the SecEd Webinar will offer practical ideas for #teaching secondary-age students to use #ArtificialIntelligence in safe & ethical ways. How can AI #education be incorporated into the #curriculum? What skills do students need to learn? buff.ly/Nm0K81J
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
On November 18, the SecEd Webinar will offer practical ideas for #teaching secondary-age students to use #ArtificialIntelligence in safe & ethical ways. How can AI #education be incorporated into the #curriculum? What skills do students need to learn? buff.ly/Nm0K81J
Updated work experience statutory guidance makes clear the role of #schools in providing work experience activities/placements in yrs 7-11. But Chris Kenyon from The Key says that employers too have a civic responsibility to do more to offer placements:
New work experience requirement: Time for employers to step up - SecEd
Employers must do more to support secondary schools in meeting the new DfE work experience statutory requirements
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November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Updated work experience statutory guidance makes clear the role of #schools in providing work experience activities/placements in yrs 7-11. But Chris Kenyon from The Key says that employers too have a civic responsibility to do more to offer placements:
Continuing his 6-part SecEd series analysing the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, @mattbromley.bsky.social explores attendance & behaviour, helping #schools to sense-check provision & identify areas for focus: buff.ly/LA3RLUY#teac... #education #edusky
Analysing Ofsted's core evaluation areas for school inspection: Attendance and behaviour - SecEd
Analysis of how Ofsted will inspect attendance and behaviour during school inspection under the new 2025 framework
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November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Continuing his 6-part SecEd series analysing the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, @mattbromley.bsky.social explores attendance & behaviour, helping #schools to sense-check provision & identify areas for focus: buff.ly/LA3RLUY#teac... #education #edusky
How to decide on school improvement priorities: Improvement in #schools is a balancing act & every senior leadership team needs to decide what their priorities are. @ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social set out 3 guiding principles for making these decisions: buff.ly/KP64uTL #edusky
How to decide on school improvement priorities: Three guiding principles - SecEd
Three rules to help headteachers decide on and plan school improvement priorities that will have the biggest impact
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
How to decide on school improvement priorities: Improvement in #schools is a balancing act & every senior leadership team needs to decide what their priorities are. @ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social set out 3 guiding principles for making these decisions: buff.ly/KP64uTL #edusky
SecEd Podcast: A new episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. Advice on the 'secure fit' model, the 'expected standard', the #inclusion thread, the focus on context, the 90-minute call, the nominee role & more: buff.ly/Fhtumbi
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
SecEd Podcast: A new episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. Advice on the 'secure fit' model, the 'expected standard', the #inclusion thread, the focus on context, the 90-minute call, the nominee role & more: buff.ly/Fhtumbi
Calling all #teachers: Sign up for our free @seced.bsky.social Bulletin. Every Thursday. Latest #education best practice, pedagogy, case studies, #podcasts, #webinars, free downloads as well as news analysis & blogs for all those working in secondary #schools: buff.ly/3Ub2JYt #edusky #teaching
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Calling all #teachers: Sign up for our free @seced.bsky.social Bulletin. Every Thursday. Latest #education best practice, pedagogy, case studies, #podcasts, #webinars, free downloads as well as news analysis & blogs for all those working in secondary #schools: buff.ly/3Ub2JYt #edusky #teaching
On November 18, SecEd Webinar will partner with Turnitin to offer practical ideas for #teaching secondary students to use #ArtificialIntelligence effectively. We will discuss an AI curriculum & the skills students need now & in the future. Register free: buff.ly/Nm0K81J #edusky #teaching
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
On November 18, SecEd Webinar will partner with Turnitin to offer practical ideas for #teaching secondary students to use #ArtificialIntelligence effectively. We will discuss an AI curriculum & the skills students need now & in the future. Register free: buff.ly/Nm0K81J #edusky #teaching
In this 3-part series, @mattbromley.bsky.social considers practical approaches for supporting ‘high-attaining’ students. In part 2, he offers 5 general classroom tactics as well as 10 practical subject-specific strategies for #teachers : buff.ly/UiMuN7S #teaching #edusky #schools
Supporting high-attaining learners Subject-specific strategies - SecEd
Practical specific-subject classroom ideas for how teachers and schools can support high-attaining students in lessons
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November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In this 3-part series, @mattbromley.bsky.social considers practical approaches for supporting ‘high-attaining’ students. In part 2, he offers 5 general classroom tactics as well as 10 practical subject-specific strategies for #teachers : buff.ly/UiMuN7S #teaching #edusky #schools
If it works: A flexible formula for student research projects. In key stage 5, we encourage students to adopt university-style approaches to research practice. But this is not the only way. Dr Andrew K Shenton offers an alternative: buff.ly/ChPRe8c #teachers #teaching
If it works: A flexible formula for student research projects - SecEd
Advice for secondary school teachers on approaches to student research projects in the key stage 5 classroom
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November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If it works: A flexible formula for student research projects. In key stage 5, we encourage students to adopt university-style approaches to research practice. But this is not the only way. Dr Andrew K Shenton offers an alternative: buff.ly/ChPRe8c #teachers #teaching
SecEd Podcast: A new episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. With practical advice & tips from the amazing @pkainsworth.bsky.social, Anne Peck from @hfleducation.bsky.social & Clare Duffy buff.ly/Fhtumbi
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
SecEd Podcast: A new episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. With practical advice & tips from the amazing @pkainsworth.bsky.social, Anne Peck from @hfleducation.bsky.social & Clare Duffy buff.ly/Fhtumbi
The ability of #artificialintelligence to outperform many students in the #mathematics classroom raises important questions about how we teach this vital subject, says Dr Paul Parham from Sevenoaks School – buff.ly/5G7HqlZ #teaching #teachers #edtech
Secondary school mathematics in an AI world - SecEd
The performance of AI in mathematics has raised vital questions about what and how we teach students
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November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The ability of #artificialintelligence to outperform many students in the #mathematics classroom raises important questions about how we teach this vital subject, says Dr Paul Parham from Sevenoaks School – buff.ly/5G7HqlZ #teaching #teachers #edtech
Teaching mixed ability key stage 3 classes presents specific challenges for #teachers. Rachael Southern describes some practical approaches she has adopted with success in her English classroom: buff.ly/aJxOsOH #teaching #schools #edusky
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Teaching mixed ability key stage 3 classes presents specific challenges for #teachers. Rachael Southern describes some practical approaches she has adopted with success in her English classroom: buff.ly/aJxOsOH #teaching #schools #edusky
In this series, @mattbromley.bsky.social considers practical approaches for #teaching high-attaining students. This time, 6 strategies to support high-attainers from disadvantaged backgrounds & 5 ways to create a culture of challenge: buff.ly/Zmsl99e #teachers #edusky #schools
Supporting high-attaining, disadvantaged learners - SecEd
Practical classroom ideas for how teachers and schools can support high-attaining disadvantaged students
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November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
In this series, @mattbromley.bsky.social considers practical approaches for #teaching high-attaining students. This time, 6 strategies to support high-attainers from disadvantaged backgrounds & 5 ways to create a culture of challenge: buff.ly/Zmsl99e #teachers #edusky #schools
A free 21-page SecEd guide to #teaching #oracy skills with lots of practical ideas for #schools: Defining oracy – Disciplinary oracy – Teaching vocabulary – Assessing oracy – Oracy in year 7 – A culture of oracy – Oracy & disadvantage – Case studies & much more: buff.ly/DD8CL5j #edusky #education
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A free 21-page SecEd guide to #teaching #oracy skills with lots of practical ideas for #schools: Defining oracy – Disciplinary oracy – Teaching vocabulary – Assessing oracy – Oracy in year 7 – A culture of oracy – Oracy & disadvantage – Case studies & much more: buff.ly/DD8CL5j #edusky #education
SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf: buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf: buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky
Too often, high-quality #citizenship education depends on the commitment of individual #teachers or #schools rather than a coherent national approach. The #curriculum reforms mark a genuine turning point for the subject, says @moorsee.bsky.social @acitizenshipt.bsky.social buff.ly/qfASWX0 #edusky
Citizenship education reforms: A landmark moment - SecEd
With the voting age being lowered to 16, curriculum reforms will create a coherent approach to citizenship teaching
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November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Too often, high-quality #citizenship education depends on the commitment of individual #teachers or #schools rather than a coherent national approach. The #curriculum reforms mark a genuine turning point for the subject, says @moorsee.bsky.social @acitizenshipt.bsky.social buff.ly/qfASWX0 #edusky
Austerity Labour? The government is pushing for a three-year 6.5% pay rise for #teachers. Which ever way you cut it, this will result in yet more real-terms pay cuts, says Daniel Kebede – @neunion.bsky.social – writing in SecEd: buff.ly/cpa2eR3 #schools #education #edusky
Austerity Labour? DfE pay plan is unacceptable - SecEd
The DfE’s proposed pay rise of 6.5% across three years would lead to real-terms pay cuts for teachers says the NEU
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November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Austerity Labour? The government is pushing for a three-year 6.5% pay rise for #teachers. Which ever way you cut it, this will result in yet more real-terms pay cuts, says Daniel Kebede – @neunion.bsky.social – writing in SecEd: buff.ly/cpa2eR3 #schools #education #edusky
#Safeguarding work should not be done to parents but delivered via trusting relationships. Alex Dave – @lgfl-ngfl.bsky.social – considers the communication & language we use as DSLs: buff.ly/dw65lez (Get access to this article via our Safeguarding Digest buff.ly/PdE2mAA)
Safeguarding and parents: Effective language and communication - SecEd
Effective communication with parents will support school safeguarding work as part of a relational approach
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November 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#Safeguarding work should not be done to parents but delivered via trusting relationships. Alex Dave – @lgfl-ngfl.bsky.social – considers the communication & language we use as DSLs: buff.ly/dw65lez (Get access to this article via our Safeguarding Digest buff.ly/PdE2mAA)
#COP30 in November in Belém is an opportunity to kick-start your own school’s Climate Action Plan & empower your students to take action on climate & carbon reduction. Oci Stott from @letsgozero.bsky.social offers some ideas buff.ly/RqmT7G8 #ClimateAction #teaching
Why you should talk to your students about COP 2025 – and how you can do it - SecEd
How schools can use the COP 30 climate conference in Belém as inspiration for their own work to reduce carbon emissions
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#COP30 in November in Belém is an opportunity to kick-start your own school’s Climate Action Plan & empower your students to take action on climate & carbon reduction. Oci Stott from @letsgozero.bsky.social offers some ideas buff.ly/RqmT7G8 #ClimateAction #teaching
Boys are 'prone to loneliness', struggle to know what masculinity means, find the online world more rewarding than real life & are beginning to turn to AI chatbots for friendship/relationships. Concerning findings about experiences of boys aged 11-16: buff.ly/UuyeOw5
'Lonely’ boys turning to online life and AI chatbots - SecEd
A research study by Male Allies UK reveals how boys prone to loneliness have turned to the online world and chatbots
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November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Boys are 'prone to loneliness', struggle to know what masculinity means, find the online world more rewarding than real life & are beginning to turn to AI chatbots for friendship/relationships. Concerning findings about experiences of boys aged 11-16: buff.ly/UuyeOw5
SecEd Podcast: This episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. Advice on the 'secure fit' model, the 'expected standard', the #inclusion thread, the focus on context, the 90-minute call, the nominee role & more buff.ly/Fhtumbi
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
SecEd Podcast: This episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. Advice on the 'secure fit' model, the 'expected standard', the #inclusion thread, the focus on context, the 90-minute call, the nominee role & more buff.ly/Fhtumbi
On November 18, the SecEd Webinar will offer practical advice for secondary #schools on how we can prepare students for a future with #ArtificialIntelligence. What skills will students need as they head to further & higher #education & into the workplace?https://buff.ly/Nm0K81J #edusky #teaching
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
On November 18, the SecEd Webinar will offer practical advice for secondary #schools on how we can prepare students for a future with #ArtificialIntelligence. What skills will students need as they head to further & higher #education & into the workplace?https://buff.ly/Nm0K81J #edusky #teaching
SecEd Podcast: In this episode, three experienced #teachers break-down the secrets to adaptive #teaching approaches in the secondary #classroom. Lots of practical ideas for planned adaptations & tips for how we can respond 'in the moment' – buff.ly/uJsmkv1 #schools
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
SecEd Podcast: In this episode, three experienced #teachers break-down the secrets to adaptive #teaching approaches in the secondary #classroom. Lots of practical ideas for planned adaptations & tips for how we can respond 'in the moment' – buff.ly/uJsmkv1 #schools
Supervision is an effective tool for improving #safeguarding provision in #schools & protecting the wellbeing of professionals. Elizabeth Rose – @sosafeguarding – explains buff.ly/fdoImmr (Get access to this article via our Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/PdE2mAA)
What is safeguarding supervision and how can it help? - SecEd
This article describes what safeguarding supervision entails in schools and how it works in practice to support DSLs
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November 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Supervision is an effective tool for improving #safeguarding provision in #schools & protecting the wellbeing of professionals. Elizabeth Rose – @sosafeguarding – explains buff.ly/fdoImmr (Get access to this article via our Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/PdE2mAA)
The #Ofsted framework comes with a new inspection toolkit, operating guide & information documents. Drawing on these, @pkainsworth.bsky.social offers 16 activities for senior leadership teams in #schools to help you prepare buff.ly/ZydF2Hw #education #edusky
New Ofsted inspection framework: Sixteen activities for school leaders - SecEd
A list of 16 leadership team activities to help prepare for the requirements of the Ofsted school inspection framework
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November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The #Ofsted framework comes with a new inspection toolkit, operating guide & information documents. Drawing on these, @pkainsworth.bsky.social offers 16 activities for senior leadership teams in #schools to help you prepare buff.ly/ZydF2Hw #education #edusky