HEP Talks

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HEP Talks episodes

November 14, 2022The Brief: 14 November 2022
Monday 14th November, 2022 - Top stories include:
The gap in average A-level grades between poorer students and their peers this summer was the widest since 2016-17.

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan believes that tackling inflation is more important than boosting school budgets.

The Guardian reports that children not eligible for free school meals are coming to school with mouldy bread, empty wraps, and sometimes nothing at all.

Issues with NTP underspending mean that more than £100 million will return to the Treasury.
This week’s deep dive:
The 2022 Annual HEP Leaders Conference - Kaleidoscope of Education
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://haringeyeducationpartnership.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=50e0e57b56160876013ccdcd5&id=5535134d7e&e=74c9343839
Listening - https://haringeyeducationpartnership.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=50e0e57b56160876013ccdcd5&id=c212141f30&e=74c9343839
Reading - https://haringeyeducationpartnership.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=50e0e57b56160876013ccdcd5&id=91a385bd71&e=74c9343839
12 min
November 07, 2022The Brief: 7 November 2022
Monday 7th November, 2022 - Top stories include:
Teach First has recruited its lowest number of trainees in four years.

Unions have accepted a pay raise for school support staff, including teaching assistants, and other council workers.

Multi-academy trusts have put expansion on hold while they deal with financial pressures.

65 percent of headteachers in England felt highly anxious about work during the pandemic.
This week’s deep dive:
Demystifying Adaptive Teaching - with Fran Hargrove and Luke Kemper
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzHbY_t3NhZi-sIlGNVegA
Listening - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fqkgmh4jtm1ZwphlGzJF5
Reading - https://repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeowp22-08.pdf
11 min
October 31, 2022The Brief: 31 October 2022
Monday 31st October, 2022 - Top stories include:
Old faces are returning as education ministers under new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

A TES investigation revealed the dire recruitment situation in schools.

Due to rising costs, most schools are being forced to cut staff, increase class sizes, and forgo building repairs in the coming years.

New Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance warns schools not to penalise or exclude pupils for wearing their hair in natural afro styles, braids, cornrows, or plaits.
This week’s deep dive:
Horizons Charity launch event
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unq5571cDyU
Listening - https://freshedpodcast.com/flux-yu/
Reading - https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practice/adaptive-teaching-explained-what-why-and-how-pedagogy-classroom-teachers-curriculum-differentiation-teachers-standards-pisa/#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20adaptive%20teaching%20requires%20teachers,how%20best%20to%20overcome%20these.
10 min
October 26, 2022 Taking action on racial inequality in education with Marva Rollins
It's half-term, so in place of the weekly brief, HEP has released another episode of HEP Talks! In this episode, Luke Kemper, HEP Insight and Intelligence Lead, talks to Marva Rollins, a HEP School Improvement Partner and member of the Racial Equity Steering Group, about racial inequality in education. Topics covered include National Foundation for Education Research report titled “Racial equality in the teacher workforce", the earlier report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, and what Marva herself, along with HEP, do to combat racism and inequalities in education.
There is a newly released blog post on HEP's website called Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Education and Beyond that gives background information and complements this podcast. In it, we analysed racial disparities in Haringey and compared them to the national figures. Please feel free to give it a read using the link above. We'll be back next week on Monday with The Brief, and more HEP Talks episodes coming soon!
38 min
October 18, 2022 Take It Serious with Patricia Lamour and Linda Sarr
In this episode of HEP Talks, Luke Kemper, HEP Insight and Intelligence Lead, talks to Patricia Lamour, MBE, CEO of Aspire Education Group, and Linda Sarr, Headteacher of Risley Avenue Primary School, about Take It Serious, a new disaster management education project. Topics covered include what disaster management education means and how schools can engage with the Take It Serious curriculum, among others.
On 20 October, a national multiplier conference will be held at HEP to explain more about the project and trial parts of their curriculum (there is a game involved!). Sign up for the event and read more about the project through the links below:
"This project, TAKE IT SERIOUS, recognises the importance of imparting necessary knowledge to educationalists and pupils in order to develop disaster management skills, and to increase awareness about disaster-related issues. The project aims to create outputs and activities which are centred on effective, holistic and inclusive approaches and is aimed at pupils between the ages of ten and thirteen years old. Innovative technological methodologies and the use of gamified learning, based on authentic scenarios, is widely recognised as the most effective way to achieve this. The envisaged long-term effect of the project is to strengthen the profiles of teachers, school authorities and school support staff, and to mainstream holistic and effective disaster management in Europe."
Website: https://takeitserious.co.uk/
Event registration: bit.ly/take-it-serious
20 min
October 17, 2022The Brief: 17 October 2022
Monday 17th October, 2022 - Top stories include:
Headteacher turnover has increased by more than a third since before the pandemic.

A report by The COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities has confirmed that the pandemic widened existing inequalities between poorer pupils and their better-off peers.

Ofsted has refused calls to conduct separate annual safeguarding audits.

Hugely increased interest rates on CIF loans may cost schools tens of thousands of pounds.
This week’s deep dive:
Leadership 55 with John Tomsett
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://hepbookinghub.co.uk/product/school-leadership-leadership-55-series-22-23/?mc_cid=715bdf839e&mc_eid=74c9343839
Listening - https://www.ollielovell.com/errr/katharinebirbalsingh/?mc_cid=715bdf839e&mc_eid=74c9343839
Reading - https://psych.athabascau.ca/open/engelmann/theory.php?mc_cid=715bdf839e&mc_eid=74c9343839
12 min
October 10, 2022The Brief: 10 October 2022
Monday 10th October, 2022 - Top stories include:
Headteachers are “appalled” by Kit Malthouse’s comments of “mediocrity” in the school system.

Ofsted has snubbed calls from school leaders to publish inspection training sheets.

KS1 maths and literacy results took a plunge this year in the first batch of KS1 tests since 2019.
This week’s deep dive:
The Ofsted Leaks
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/548792179?mc_cid=3153a0616e&mc_eid=74c9343839
Listening - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/sep/taking-risks-ects-trying-something-new-and-not-being-afraid-it-ecf-staffroom-s01e03?mc_cid=3153a0616e&mc_eid=74c9343839
Reading - http://www.slowteaching.co.uk/2017/08/02/essential-summer-reads-battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-teachers/?mc_cid=3153a0616e&mc_eid=74c9343839
12 min
October 03, 2022The Brief: 3 October 2022
Monday 3rd October - Top stories include:
Exams will go back to normal in 2023.

Schools are having trouble finding enough support staff.

Oak National Academy will not threaten teachers’ autonomy, says Chief.

The government’s school behaviour adviser is urging headteachers to crack down on vaping.
This week’s deep dive:
Behaviour in schools: Advice for headteachers and school staff
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-rqMc40eUo
Listening - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/sep/how-can-we-prevent-refugee-children-getting-stuck-educational-inequity-rftrw-s17e02?mc_cid=b9a44272a3&mc_eid=74c9343839
Reading - https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/michael-young-powerful-knowledge-curriculum
11 min
September 26, 2022The Brief: 26 September 2022
Monday 26th September - Top stories include:
The energy bill support for schools has been revealed.

The results of a new DfE energy cost survey have been published.

Research has emerged about the efficacy of class dogs exciting children about reading.

The government has widened eligibility for a teaching internship programme to chemistry and language students.
This week’s deep dive:
Education secretary on opening new grammar schools in England
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://haringeyeducationpartnership.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=50e0e57b56160876013ccdcd5&id=02ee7467c4&e=74c9343839
Listening - https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZpML53UfPpRBLJn8OiL5F?si=bbcb60aa7a264d3b&nd=1
Reading - https://twitter.com/CEPEO_UCL/status/1570787199528103944
10 min
September 20, 2022The Brief: 20 September 2022
Tuesday 20th September - Top stories include:
The government said it “will confirm further details” of its energy support scheme this week.

Teacher vacancies have risen by almost two-thirds this September.

Over 80% of cold calls made to schools to check whether they were using the National Tutoring Programme failed.

A new report from the National Governance Association shows governing boards have become less diverse.
This week’s deep dive:
Education Inequalities Report

https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/education-inequalities/
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
Watching - https://haringeyeducationpartnership.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=50e0e57b56160876013ccdcd5&id=29d9bf7f8c&e=91fc019ff5
Listening - https://haringeyeducationpartnership.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=50e0e57b56160876013ccdcd5&id=cc214fd655&e=91fc019ff5
Reading - https://haringeyeducationpartnership.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=50e0e57b56160876013ccdcd5&id=cd0ed729c1&e=91fc019ff5
https://haringeyeducationpartnership.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=50e0e57b56160876013ccdcd5&id=ee84a73a3e&e=91fc019ff5
10 min

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HEP Talks is the voice of Haringey Education Partnership. Join us for weekly briefs about the latest relevant education news, roundtable discussions with our schools, and interviews with top voices in education.