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Resources and Publications

The Whole School SEND consortium regularly publishes resources to support you with all aspects of SEND. These include our SEND Review Guides and Frameworks, leaflets for parents, practical resources to support your work in educational settings, resources for specific contexts such as COVID, CPDL webinar recordings and more.

As a member of nasen and the Whole School SEND Member Community, you have free access to all of our resources – scroll through, use the filters or search for a specific resource. 

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Webinar: Leading CPD for Inclusive SEND Provision

  • Webcasts
  • 04 Feb 2022
Free
WSS past event

Funded by the Department for Education, this series of three webinars explores evidence-informed, effective strategies that SENCOs and school leaders can use to build a culture of professional growth.

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Webinar: Sharing Good Practice: Partnership Between Specialist and Mainstream Settings

  • Webcasts
  • 26 Jan 2022
Free
WSS past event

This three-part series explores how partnerships between Specialist and Mainstream settings can be developed and used to benefit both and support all students with SEND.

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Webinar: Beyond the School Gates: Exploring Opportunity and Aspiration into FE and Beyond

  • Webcasts
  • 20 Jan 2022
Free
WSS past event

This webinar series focuses on aspiration, provision and opportunities from KS4 through to FE and beyond. The series explores curriculum, PfA and long term outcomes, transitions & connectivity across the system to best support students and families.

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Webinar: SEND in Mainstream for Early Career Teachers and Beyond

  • Webcasts
  • 14 Jan 2022
Free
WSS past event

This three-part webinar series supports teachers to develop their ability to effectively meet the needs of all SEND learners in your classroom, using the 5 Key Recommendations from the EEF’s SEN Support in Mainstream Schools Guidance Report.

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WSS e-news January 2022

  • General
  • 12 Jan 2022
Free
WSS enews

Highlights include an invitation to contribute to the Specialist Provision Area, and the RSA's Inclusive and Nurturing Schools toolkit.

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Webinar: Introduction to the Teacher Handbook: SEND

  • Webcasts
  • 06 Jan 2022
Free
WSS past event

In this webinar, lead authors Katherine Walsh and Amelie Thompson take participants through Whole School SEND's latest resource, the Teacher Handbook: SEND.

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Teacher Handbook: SEND

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Teacher Handbook SEND

The approach we have taken to writing this handbook reflects the approach that is needed to embed inclusive practice across schools - a shared vision and true collaboration, underpinned by professional challenge and respect for everyone’s strengths

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Noticing

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Classroom

What is noticing and why is it important?

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Self-assessment of needs and reasonable adjustment plan

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
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Planning
Self-assessment
Strategy

This plan is owned by you. It should enable you to share your strategies for managing your learning needs with those around you, but it is your decision to share it and cannot be shared by others without your express permission.

Access to Teaching

Access to Teaching

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Teacher Development
teaching

An important session to support trainees to better understand their own learning needs, known and previously unknown, as well as advice on seeking support to teach whilst appropriately managing a disability.

I Spy

I Spy

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
,
mental health
SEMH

Ways of meeting children’s social, emotional and mental health needs.

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Complex Scenario Rashid

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Sustaining engagement and challenge for Rashid.

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Teacher identity and inclusion

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Identity
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Inclusion
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Identity narratives for inclusion.

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Introduction: A permeated approach

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive expertise
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Adaptive Teaching
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This slide deck can be used by ITT Providers with their teams of ITE Tutors and school mentors to show how adopting a permeated curriculum approach to teaching about special educational needs as part of ITT is needed.

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The Importance of Literacy Education for All – The Teach Us Too Perspective.

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
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literacy

A video about "Teach Us Too", a charity promoting the right for all children to be taught to read and write, whatever their label or diagnosis.

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Adopting a graduated approach to pedagogy and practice

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Pedagogy
,

What is the teacher's role in adopting a graduated approach?

Complex Scenario Mae

Complex Scenario Mae

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Building stamina for learning.

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Adopting an inclusive approach to pedagogy

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
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Inclusion
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Pedagogy
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Research

“Which one research paper, study or blog post on SEND and inclusion should everybody read?”

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The teacher I think I am affects the teacher I can be. I am a teacher of everyone.

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
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Identity
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If you are asked to describe your teacher identity, you may find this difficult to articulate. However, if someone asks you what you think is important to the role of a teacher, you would probably be able to give an answer without too much delay.

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Classroom Environment

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Classroom

The importance of creating an inclusive environment that enables all learners to access the lesson and progress towards their individual learning targets.