SIG Meet & Discuss: Digital Education
Our upcoming Â鶹ÒùÔº Digital Education SIG meeting will be an engaging and collaborative online session, bringing together members to reflect, reconnect, and co-create ideas for the year ahead....
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School culture, relationships and exclusion
This blog post explores links between school exclusions, teacher–pupil relationships and school culture. Specifically, it considers how what is prioritised and considered normal within a school...
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Beyond the school gates: Rethinking support for families and education post-Covid
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, attention has focused on young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or behavioural challenges (see for example the Education...
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Listening, trust and belonging: What the Motiv8 model teaches us about youth work in schools
Mackenzie, a young adviser at Motiv8 in Portsmouth, shares a powerful reflection on what a positive teacher–student relationship looks like: 'Throughout secondary school I was often kicked out...
Continue reading blog postThe youth work relationship: Pedagogy, practice and possibility
Youth work as relational practice Youth work is a relational practice (NYA, 2025). The relationship between a youth worker and the young people they engage with is not incidental – it is...
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Nurture and relationship-based approaches in SEN education
Introduction As a teacher with more than 20 years’ experience across mainstream and alternative provisions, I now lead Primary Literacy at New Barn School in Horsham, England, which supports...
Continue reading blog postRe-engaging disengaged students: Building trust and curriculum reform in secondary schools
Introduction I write this blog post following deep reflection on 40 years of teaching – 20 of which were as headteacher within three very different schools. In my final years of headship, I...
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Building brilliance: The transformative power of off-the-job training in apprenticeships
Introduction Off-the-job training (OTJ) has long been central to apprenticeships, combining hands-on work with structured, theory-based learning to build a skilled, adaptable workforce...
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Natalie Tegama
Dr Natalie Tegama is a postdoctoral researcher in Global Health Ethics at the University of Oxford, where she works on the demarginalisation of philosophies of the global south. She uses...
Mackenzie
Mackenzie has recently embarked on the next chapter of their life, beginning a law degree at university in London. A passionate advocate for young people, they have dedicated significant time to...
Sophie King
Sophie King has more than 20 years of experience in youth services and is committed to helping young people reach their full potential. She began her career as an Outdoor Education, IT and Multi...
Philip Brunton
Phil Brunton is a teacher with more than 20 years’ experience across mainstream and alternative provisions. After training as a secondary Geography teacher at Southampton University in 2003, he...
