Good Morning!

Elliot Morgan is back with me for February’s What’s the Good News?, and I’m glad we’re keeping this format going because it forces me to actually read properly again.

This episode starts with phones and social media: the impact on school culture, the safeguarding angle, and why some coverage of the evidence feels designed to provoke more than inform. From there we look at the inclusion bases announcement, which sounds promising on paper but is going to live or die on implementation. And then we end on two stories that, frankly, should be front-page education news: the scale of speech and language need being picked up through screening, and the NAHT polling on headteacher wellbeing.

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Hope you enjoy…

Mind - Mental Health Helplines

Ctrl+Alt+Teach - Matt Hinkley

A learning model with the environment in mind - Ben Cooper

Mini-Whiteboards - Educakers

Engineering the Aha moment - Brendan Lee

The Most Common Reason Why Children Don’t Become Fluent Readers… And What We Can Do About It - Chris Such

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