The Neuroscientific Frontier of Inclusive Mainstream Education
The Department for Education’s (DfE) White Paper, Every Child Achieving and Thriving, mandates that every secondary school provide an inclusion base to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in remaining within mainstream communities.
What can UK state schools learn from British international schools?
I recently had the pleasure of attending Nord Anglia Education’s annual conference for their schools in the SEAMEI region – South East Asia, Middle East and India. What I learned was a big surprise.
Evolve Annual Conference 2024
Our Annual Conference is just one week away. Each year, Evolve Health Mentors from across the country come together to celebrate their impact and complete further training to prepare for the coming year.
Conduct Disorder: If you name it you can blame it
Evolve Health Mentors provided vital support that enabled “unintentionally disruptive” pupils to access learning within their mainstream school classrooms.
Precision Schooling and the Covid Excuse
The challenges facing the education system are well known by those who work in the sector and parents of the 10 million children currently relying upon UK schools. One of the main challenges is the rise in unacceptable behaviour in classrooms, recently summarised in this TES post – School Behaviour – Is it really getting […]
Making prevention a trusted option
Mental health illnesses start young through trauma and life experiences and can last a lifetime. Yet so can positive traits, self-care and strengths. We spend a lot of time chasing solutions for things that have happened and very little time on what might happen. Our social strategy is to correct when we see the problem. […]
School Budgets – What Evolve Can Contribute.
According to an article in The Conversation (Schools in England are facing bankruptcy – here’s what the government could do to help (theconversation.com), it will take less than two years for inflation to eat the cash reserves of all our secondary schools. An inflation rate of 8.8% is a large part of the problem (Consumer price […]
Looking at impact differently has led to a New Social Finance Model
Across the various Evolve programmes there is a constant focus on impact. This year sees the implementation of an improved customer service and quality management system. Fortunately, the actual process is more imaginative than our naming, as internally we refer to it all as the Quality Management System, or QMS. We are constantly working to […]