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 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.
Latest Resources

Teaching is a lifetime of learning
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- 14 Dec 2021
To a great extent, good teaching for pupils with SEND, is good teaching for all.

Much Ado About Nothing
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
KS3 lesson planning ideas for a unit on Shakespeare’s

MindEd Resources
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- 14 Dec 2021
Downloadable resources about the MindEd programme.

Sharing expertise
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- 14 Dec 2021
A range of noticing; instructional approaches and adaptive strategies for the scenarios

Complex Scenario Rashid
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Sustaining engagement and challenge for Rashid.

I Spy
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Ways of meeting children’s social, emotional and mental health needs.

Complex Scenario Tayla
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Exploring readiness to learn.

Bell Curve Thinking: The Heart of the Matter
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
An animation to show how bell curve thinking can be challenged, so that all children are at the heart of the teaching and learning in the classroom.

Complex Scenario Mae
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Building stamina for learning.

Working with Teaching Assistants
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- 14 Dec 2021
In what ways do teaching assistants impact the learning in the classroom?

Adopting an inclusive approach to pedagogy
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
“Which one research paper, study or blog post on SEND and inclusion should everybody read?”

Teacher identity and inclusion
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- 14 Dec 2021
Identity narratives for inclusion.

Noticing
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
What is noticing and why is it important?

Adaptive Skill – a commentary
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- 14 Dec 2021
Are we training teachers to develop ‘routine expertise’ or adaptive expertise?

The language we use
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
The language we communicate through our words and our actions is a beacon for the learners we teach.

Co-learning with (and as) experts
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- 14 Dec 2021
Our in-role expertise is not fixed, but develops as we learn and reflect.

Classroom Environment
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- 14 Dec 2021
The importance of creating an inclusive environment that enables all learners to access the lesson and progress towards their individual learning targets.

Adopting a graduated approach to pedagogy and practice
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
What is the teacher's role in adopting a graduated approach?

Access to Teaching
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- 14 Dec 2021
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.

Diagnosis is not enough: Research that shapes inclusive teaching
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- 14 Dec 2021
Why we should reconsider our strategies beyond a child’s diagnosis and plan our support based on their actual relative strengths and challenges.