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6 most useful resources of 2025

A review of what you found most intriguing and useful this year

Dec 14 • Niall Alcock

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Time to review your teaching?

4 tools and 5 strategies to consider.

Dec 7 • Niall Alcock

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November 2025

Disadvantage support

Sources of support successful schools lean on to improve outcomes.

Nov 23 • Niall Alcock

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Year on year disadvantaged attainment: what did we notice about 102 schools who keep getting better each year?

8 observations about schools on an upward trajectory to multiply your impact with your disadvantaged students. And a directory of organisations schools…

Nov 16 • Niall Alcock

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Schools with sustained improvement in attainment 8 for disadvantaged students in 2025

Discover the top 25 (of 102) and access a dataset of every school in the country.

Nov 9 • Niall Alcock

2

October 2025

Pupil premium menu

Research about, and resources for, three key approaches to tackling disadvantage

Oct 19 • Niall Alcock

Pupil premium, inclusion, teaching tools and monitoring

12 questions you've been asking each other

Oct 12 • Niall Alcock

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Line management meetings

Plus: 11 questions about improvement systems, training, committees, rubrics and Ofsted.

Oct 5 • Niall Alcock

September 2025

Managing talent

How to do it through four dimensions

Sep 28 • Niall Alcock

2

Recommended reading

Plus: subject advisors and jobs with your fellow members.

Sep 21 • Niall Alcock

2

Ofsted changes

Answering FAQs following framework release.

Sep 15 • Niall Alcock

2

July 2025

Most popular posts 2024-2025

As the 2024/25 academic year draws to a close, I’ve been mulling over a few questions:

Jul 20 • Niall Alcock