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Public Relations, Marketing and Development: Essays in Leadership for Changin…
This inspiring book, the sixth in our popular Leading Schools in the 21st Century series, focuses on the specific requirements of independent schools in the UK. Published in partnership with the HMC, the Association of Marketing and Development in Independent Schools (AMDIS), and the Institute of Development Professionals in Education (IDPE), the book has been written by experienced professiona…
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- 9781904724940
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 228 pages
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- TR 371.2 RIC p
The Revision Revolution: How to Build a Culture of Effective Study in Your Sc…
Have you ever wondered why your students don’t revise? Or why they revise ineffectively? Often, they simply don’t know how. This is where The Revision Revolution comes in. What if, instead of just telling students to revise, we taught them explicit study skills from Year 7? What if we made revision enjoyable, even irresistible? The aim is not just to help students pass exams, but to embed t…
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- 9781913622930
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 222 pages; illus
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The Leadership Factor : the seven characteristics of exceptional leaders
The 7Cs that together create the Leadership `it' Factor - curiosity, change-ability, charisma, connection, confidence, collaboration and courage: taking each attribute in turn, Drew Povey explains its necessity and guides the reader with steps and exercises to master it.
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- 9781912906086
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 160 p.
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- TR 158.4 POV l
Leadership Matters 3.0: How leaders at all levels can create great schools
In this revised and updated edition of the best selling school leadership guide, Andy Buck takes an in-depth and diagnostic approach, encouraging leaders at all levels in schools to think about their own personal qualities; their specific situation; their own leadership actions; and their own overall approach.
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- 9781911382881
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- 14.5 X 21 cm. + 285 p.
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Other People's Children: What happens to those in the bottom 50% academically?
Following a tour of Further Education colleges, Barnaby Lenon writes brilliantly about the state of vocational education in England and the implications of his findings for a post-Brexit economy.
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- 9781911382539
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 324 p.
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The Nine Pillars of Great Schools
What makes a school great? Studies into good schools are numerous, but there has been much less written about great schools. The former are more common, but with success comes complacency; good is the enemy of great. In 2009 the London Leadership Strategy established the Going for Great programme, creating a forum for leaders of schools rated `outstanding' by Ofsted. This collaboration sought t…
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- 9781912906000
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- 15 x 21 cm + 143 pages
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- TR 371.2 WOO n
Irresistible Learning: Embedding a culture of research in schools
This book will strengthen your research practice and help build a culture of research across your school. Whether you are a class teacher or school leader, you will be guided to use the power of research to strengthen practice in yourself and others. The author offers a practical guide on how to engage in meaningful research that will have a deep and lasting impact on you and your organisation.…
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- 9781913622626
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- 14.5 x 21 cm. + 154 p.
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- TR 370.72 CHI i
Effective Governance: Greater accountability for raising school standards : i…
Do you know how school inspectors will be judging effectiveness? Have you considered how you can demonstrate the effectiveness of your governing body? This new guide takes a practical approach, with key questions, key actions and key information supported by case studies of good practice from a wide variety of schools.
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- 9781908095893
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- 19 x 24 cm. + 107 p.
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- TR 371.2 BIN e
Successful Difficult Conversations: Improve your team's performance, behaviou…
"Do you feel you're struggling to get your message across, or that your words are not having the desired effect? Then this book is for you. Rooted in solid theory and based on experience, this book will help you have more effective conversations when talking about the 'tricky stuff' in school. Whether with colleagues or parents, the practical advice and simple tools will help make those inevita…
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- 9781911382522
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- 14.5 x 21 cm. + 171 p.
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- TR 371.12 GIL s
Wiliam & Leahy's : Five Formative Assessment Strategies in Action
"Written under the guidance and with the support of Dylan Wiliam, Kate Jones writes about five formative assessment strategies in action in the classroom, with a foreword from Professor John Hattie. Building on the highly successful work of Wiliam and Siobhan Leahy, ideas are shared and misconceptions with formative assessment are addressed with lots of practical advice. Formative assessment in…
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- 9781913622770
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- 14 x 21 cm. + 99 p.
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- TR 371.3 JON w
Rosenshine's Principles In Action. The Workbook
Following the resounding success of Tom Sherrington's Rosenshine's Principles in Action, The Workbook seeks to further this engagement by providing a thought-provoking and reflective guide designed to encourage teachers in all settings to become self-aware practitioners.
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- 9781913622121
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- 14 x 21 cm. + 89 p.
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Managing Teacher Workload
Edited by Nansi Ellis, assistant general secretary at leading teaching union ATL, Managing Teacher Workload brings together leading educationalists to discuss real, practical ways to solve the biggest problem in the profession: how to bring to an end the excessive working hours that have left morale for many at rock-bottom.
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- 9781909717893
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 136 p.
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The Power of Teams: How to create and lead thriving school teams
In education, resources and time are scarce, yet the demand for performance is sky high. School leaders invest money and labour into improving their schools, navigating trade offs along the way. But what if one of the biggest improvements we could make to our schools was something we already do? What if enhancing teamwork so that school teams thrive, was actually the secret ingredient to succes…
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- 9781915261649
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 301 p.
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What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Psychology
Much of what we do in classrooms is intuitive, steered by what 'feels right', but all too often intuition proves a poor, sometimes treacherous guide. Although what we know about the workings of the human brain is still pitifully little, the science of psychology can and has revealed certain surprising findings that teachers would do well to heed. Over the past few decades, psychological researc…
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- 9781909717855
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 280 pages; illus
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On the Subject of Values ... and the Value of Subjects: New thinking to guide…
Education is a values-based experience. Consciously or not, we are highly attuned to one another's values. We see, time and again, that the 'best' schools are compelled and propelled by strong values which inspire and guide the creation of a meaningful context for learning and an aspirational ethos. However, values can often be submerged, overlooked, or ignored. By infusing our teaching with va…
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- 9781915261298
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 289 p.
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The Running the Room Companion: Issues in Classroom Management and Strategies…
In Running the Room, published in August 2020, Tom Bennett rewrote the book on behaviour management, and outlined the psychology and dynamics underpinning student habits. In this companion, he goes into more detail about how to apply those principles to the classroom. Addressing a wide range of circumstances, he explores popular teacher dilemmas such as: How to deal with students who are late?…
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- 9781913622404
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 174 pages; illus
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- TR 371.102 BEN r
Teacher Self-Supervision: Why Teacher Evaluation Has Failed and What We Can D…
Many, perhaps even most schools, are not reaching their potential to be places of collective learning. The authors believe that one of the greatest impediments to realizing this vision is the deleterious effect of traditional systems of teacher evaluation. Rather than infantilizing teachers, we need to empower them. Traditional forms of teacher evaluation have failed. They are riddled with nega…
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- 9781909717671
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Running the Room: The Teacher’s Guide to Behaviour
Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, safe spaces where everyone is treated with dignity. Creating that space is one of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. But all too often teachers begin their careers with the bare minimum of training – or worse, none. How students behave, socially and academically, dictates…
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- 9781913622145
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 346 p.
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The Bully in the Greenhouse: Exploring why children bully others and what sch…
Graham Ramsden's insightful new book helps understand why people, particularly children, bully others. It utilises research from a wide variety of psychological and sociological sources to explore the context of bullying from both a historical viewpoint as well as from a social perspective. It delves into the psychology of those people who choose to bully and helps the reader to understand why …
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- 9781912906932
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Tools for Teachers: How to teach, lead, and learn like the world's best educa…
If the sky was the limit, what would you do to become the best educator that you can be? In 2016, Ollie Lovell asked himself this same question, and concluded that asking the world’s foremost leaders in education what they do would be a great place to start. And so he did just that. Over the past five years, Ollie has spoken to sixty of the world’s most prominent teachers, leaders, and edu…
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- 9781915261069
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Talking to Teenagers: A guide to skilful classroom communication
The success or failure of a teacher rests on one thing: the quality of their communication. Under the microscope of the modern secondary classroom, everything we say and everything we do is analysed by our teenage audience. Talking to Teenagers is a practical handbook that explores five essential communication strategies. It provides busy teachers with the scripts they need to improve learning …
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- 9781398386501
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Reforming Religious Education: Power and Knowledge in a Worldviews Curriculum
Mark Chater's brilliant new book diagnoses the reasons why RE urgently needs radical reform, and looks ahead to a time when the subject will have a new identity based on a clear democratic purpose. The book shines a light on how key leaders can make this happen, and how the new good practice is already breaking through. It is edited and authored by experts and leading change agents in RE, who o…
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- 9781912906925
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The Behaviour Manual: An Educator's Guidebook
The Behaviour Manual – An Educator's Guidebook offers over 100 strategies, approaches and teaching methods that will help any school, leader, middle leader, teacher, ECT or ITT to pro-actively lead on behaviour. It has been designed to help the entire profession and anyone at any level and all ranges of experience. The book is divided into three broad sections. Section one examines the role …
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- 9781915261243
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 291 p.
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Organise Ideas: Thinking by Hand, Extending the Mind
The central purpose of this book is to help teachers organise ideas through the use of graphic organisers. Over 35 such word-diagrams are: organised into a system to help select the right tool for the job; described for rapid understanding of their strengths; and explained for step-by-step construction. Over 50 teachers each have a double-page spread in which they reveal how they use them in …
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- 9781913622688
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- 21 x 15 cm. + 335 p.: color illustration
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Teaching WalkThrus 3: Five-step guides to instructional coaching
Following the break-out success of Teaching WalkThrus Volume 1 (2020) and Volume 2 (2021), Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli present the third instalment of their five-step instructional coaching techniques. Volume 3 features 50 more essential teaching methods in the authors’ concise and accessible format, covering all the key areas of teaching: behaviour and relationships; curriculum pl…
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- 9781915261137
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- 21 x 15 cm. + 189 p.: color illustration
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Teaching WalkThrus 2: Five-step guides to instructional coaching
In the groundbreaking and best-selling Teaching WalkThrus Volume 1, Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli produced a brilliantly concise and accessible repository to 50 essential teaching techniques. In this follow-up second volume, Tom and Oliver team up with 10 experienced educators to present 50 brand new WalkThrus, covering all the key areas of teaching: behaviour and relationships; curric…
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- 9781913622473
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- 21 x 15 cm. + 171 p.: color illustration
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Teaching WalkThrus: Five-step guides to instructional coaching
Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli team up to present 50 essential teaching techniques, each with five clear and concise illustrations and explanations. It forms a truly unique repository of key teaching methods, valuable to any classroom practitioner in any setting. The book covers important practical techniques in behaviour and relationships; curriculum planning; explaining and modelling; …
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- 9781912906765
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- 21 x 15 cm. + 163 p.: color illustration
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Self-Improving Schools: The Journey to Excellence
The English schools' system is at a crossroads. This landmark collection of essays brings together some of the country's leading education thinkers and practitioners. Their polemic is intended to help teachers, school leaders, governors, researchers and policy makers think deeply about future directions.
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- 9781909717787
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- 16 x 24 cm. + 168 p.
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Perspectives on the IB Diploma Core
The Diploma Programme was the first programme to be devised and implemented by the International Baccalaureate over fifty years ago. Since its creation, the curriculum upon which the programme is based has been continuously developed to take into account the rapidly changing needs of students, schools, higher education and employment contexts. For much of that time, the programme has included t…
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- 15.5 x 23.5 cm. + 228 p.
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The School Business Manager's Handbook
This book brings together guidance, advice and tips from school business leaders across the sector. Demonstrating the importance of being an outward-facing leader, who knows their value and can clearly communicate their impact. Wherever you are in your career, this book will provide you with practical advice on how to thrive in your role, deal with difficult situations, develop your career, cre…
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- 9781911382720
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- 15 x 21 cm. + 249 p.
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