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Tapping your own vulnerabilities, rather than always ‘being the boss’, is the best way to get through to children with behavioural issues, says Hannah Sokoya

This secondary teacher goes out of her way to be nice to all of her students – she even lets them off detentions – and, she insists, it reaps educational and behavioural benefits

Look after your own wellbeing – and three other key lessons that mainstream teachers can learn from their colleagues in the SEND sector

Stripping A-level and GCSE results of their context regards pupils as robots and brushes off the narrative of their lives as ‘making excuses’, writes one teacher

Most teachers are too stressed to think about how terrible the government’s EBacc policy really is – and it will add to those stress levels

This teacher felt she had no choice but to help out in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster. And the experience was both uplifting and profoundly depressing