Matthew Savage writes in recommendation of the humble “check-in”, an essential prerequisite of truly personalised learning. Photo by Larissa Gies on Unsplash There is a lot of language which has lazily slipped into school jargon and which, in so doing, has lost much of its meaning and potency. Inclusivity seems so often, and ironically, to exclude most groups of students beyond those with SEND; Dweck has seen the essence of Growth Mindset diluted through second-hand misinterp

As your students return to school beneath all too real masks of their own, take this opportunity to meet them where they actually are.