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Imaginative Minds focuses on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning by promoting critical and creative thinking. They produce a variety of publications, including School Leadership Today, Professional Development Today, Creative Teaching and Learning magazines, as well as Every Child Journal and Learning Spaces. Additionally, they offer e-bulletins such as Leadership Briefing, e-Learning Update, and Every Child Update.

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Locked Toilets And Blood-Stained Uniforms: Why Period Equality Is Essential

1 week ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

New research conducted with teachers across the UK shows that toilets are staying locked and permission to be excused from lessons is being denied, leaving some learners on their periods to bleed through their uniforms. The research aims to shine a light on the challenges faced by teachers in providing learners with fair toilet access, as well as products they need while on their period.
Maths Exams: Where Are Students Falling Short?

1 week ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Create or add to an existing Knowledge Bank Select from an existing Knowledge Bank or create a new one using the dropdown Assessment Maths GCSE pass rates are slipping. Sarah Trevena reflects on the November 2024 resit results and offers her advice to teachers and students on preparing for a maths exam. Receiving exam results is always daunting, but GCSEs can feel particularly significant.
How To Strengthen Safeguarding Through Better Parental Engagement

1 week ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Create or add to an existing Knowledge Bank Select from an existing Knowledge Bank or create a new one using the dropdown Leadership The best way to improve outcomes for children is to build strong working partnerships with their parents. Alex Dave offers some guiding principles for getting started. Parents and carers have the single greatest influence on children’s outcomes.
Electrifying Your Maths Students With Puzzles

1 week ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Create or add to an existing Knowledge Bank Select from an existing Knowledge Bank or create a new one using the dropdown Creative Teaching and Learning A good puzzle is an excellent way to engage students and consolidate what they have learned. Katie Steckles and Alison Kiddle show how you can use puzzles to elevate your lessons. Many people enjoy solving puzzles – from jigsaws to sudoku and every other kind of mathematical, logical or geometrical puzzle in between.
Saving Revision And Retention From Damaging ‘Testing Culture’

2 weeks ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Create or add to an existing Knowledge Bank Select from an existing Knowledge Bank or create a new one using the dropdown Assessment Over-assessment threatens to squash young people's love of learning – but it doesn't have to be this way. Oliver Shearman shows how revision can be made engaging and effective.
Child-Led Creativity Tools Make A Splash In Wales And Northern Ireland

2 weeks ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Create or add to an existing Knowledge Bank Select from an existing Knowledge Bank or create a new one using the dropdown Classroom Technologies Technology is transforming literacy for young learners across the UK. Education consultant Charlie White explains how these new child-led tools are gaining traction. In 2021, the Northern Ireland government equipped every primary school in the country with the Just2easy Tool Suite.
Where Did All The Creativity Go?

2 weeks ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Editorial/Opinion Creative subjects are essential to the socio-emotional growth of young people, yet their place in schools continues to decline. Katy Lewis argues that deep change is needed. The effects of creativity are all around us – in artwork that changes how we see the world, in well-designed products that make everyday tasks easier, and in the ability to imagine new ideas into reality.
People Problems: Handling A Problem Caretaker

2 weeks ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Create or add to an existing Knowledge Bank Select from an existing Knowledge Bank or create a new one using the dropdown Blogs An all-too-common dilemma for school leaders: what to do when a caretaker isn't performing. In this blog, Sonia Gill presents a ready solution. A headteacher was at her wits’ end. Her caretaker wasn’t doing their job. Or rather, they were doing some things, but not the right things. The crucial tasks were being missed.
Start With The 'Why': Crafting A Mission Statement For Your School

2 weeks ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Create or add to an existing Knowledge Bank Select from an existing Knowledge Bank or create a new one using the dropdown Executive Leadership When chosen and applied correctly, a school's mission statement can unite staff and students in purpose. Shannon McGrath explores what makes an effective mission statement, and how it starts with the 'why'.
Curriculum Review: We Must Help Students Learn How To Learn

1 month ago | teachingtimes.com | Oliver Sullivan

Create or add to an existing Knowledge Bank Select from an existing Knowledge Bank or create a new one using the dropdown Blogs A curriculum cannot be separated from the methods used to deliver it. Rachel Beyer emphasises the continued need to make young people into agentive learners. The government’s curriculum review presents a rare opportunity to improve education for future generations. Yet the interim report overlooks a crucial element by failing to address pedagogy.