Adaptive teaching won't reduce workload if your infrastructure hasn't changed. Here's what school and trust leaders need to fix first.

Adaptive teaching won’t reduce workload if your infrastructure hasn’t changed. Here’s what school and trust leaders need to fix first.

Two pupils at one of the Liberty MAT schools collaborating at a PC during a lesson.

Liberty Academy Trust built a structured Microsoft 365 environment to support collaboration, governance and inclusive growth across its SEND schools. Through intentional design and a trust-wide digital literacy programme, the trust established a scalable, cloud-first operating model that strengthens consistency, confidence and long-term sustainability.

Maximising investment in Microsoft 365 with Cloud Design Box.

Discover how Liberty Academy Trust improved staff confidence and maximised its digital investment with a Digital Literacy Programme, supported by Cloud Design Box training and live support.

Get reading and language support in Microsoft's Immersive Reader | SEND Pathways Series

Immersive Reader is built into many Microsoft apps and is brilliant for offering additional reading support to students. The tool offers many different features, including the ability to change font sizes and colours, read aloud passages and translate text into other languages, making it excellent for supporting SEND and EAL students inside and outside the … Read more

Microsoft Translator App

The Microsoft Translator app in Class Notebook allows students to capture a transcript of what the teacher is saying during a lesson, which can help support students who have a hearing impairment, struggle with auditory processing or simply find taking notes and listening at the same time a challenge. How to activate live captions with … Read more

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The Microsoft Translator app is a free app that can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or the Apple Store on any mobile device. With many different features and tools, the app is excellent for working with EAL students and opening up conversations who face language barriers in the classroom. This guide shows how … Read more

In this podcast, we spoke with James Emmet, Network Manager at Engineering UTC North Lincolnshire about how they use features in Office 365 to support students with Special Education Needs (SEN) and English as an Additional Language (EAL). “We have a high number of students who are EAL, SEN, dyslexic and have low reading ages. … Read more

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