The last decade has seen an explosion of innovative and sophisticated digital mapping technologies-and National Geographic has been at the forefront of developing these powerful new tools to create the finest, most functional and informative atlases available anywhere. This compact, easy-to-use format is the first product built on our newly developed, cutting-edge cartographic database. It offe…
Hundreds of articles' worth of experience - anywhere anytime The Chemistry Review editorial board has commissioned topical and focused new material for the 2023/24 volume, including: - Carbon capture from wastewater - Victoria Atkinson - Answer back: reactions of d-block elements - Alison Nairn - Wonders of chemistry: gut feeling: how bacteria in the intestines affect mental health - Isla S…
Hundreds of articles' worth of experience - anywhere anytime The Wideworld editorial board has commissioned topical and focused new material for the 2023/24 volume, including: - Urban growth in Dharavi: redevelopment for the future - Kate Williamson - Economic change in the UK: the 'reinvention' of northeast England - David Fowler - The effects of climate change in the Mekong Delta, Viet Na…
Hundreds of articles' worth of experience - anywhere anytime The English Review editorial board has commissioned topical and focused new material for the 2023/24 volume, including: - Fertility and feminism - Nicola Onyett - 'Full of voices': the poetry of dialogue - Cathy O'Neill - The American Dream, memory and loss: The Great Gatsby and BrooklynJack Heeney This magazine features: - To…
Hundreds of articles' worth of experience - anywhere anytime The English Review editorial board has commissioned topical and focused new material for the 2023/24 volume, including: - Fertility and feminism - Nicola Onyett - 'Full of voices': the poetry of dialogue - Cathy O'Neill - The American Dream, memory and loss: The Great Gatsby and BrooklynJack Heeney This magazine features: - To…
Hundreds of articles' worth of experience - anywhere anytime The Physics Review editorial board has commissioned topical and focused new material for the 2023/24 volume, including: - The colour charge of quarks - Ron Holt - Electrical wires do not transfer energy - Peter Main - Exam talkback: practical skills - Gareth Kelly This magazine features: - Topical content: making the latest ac…
Hundreds of articles' worth of experience - anywhere anytime The Physics Review editorial board has commissioned topical and focused new material for the 2023/24 volume, including: - The colour charge of quarks - Ron Holt - Electrical wires do not transfer energy - Peter Main - Exam talkback: practical skills - Gareth Kelly This magazine features: - Topical content: making the latest ac…
Hundreds of articles' worth of experience - anywhere anytime The Economic Review editorial board has commissioned topical and focused new material for the 2023/24 volume, including: - Air pollution and human capital - Juliana Cunha Carneiro - Why do concert ticket prices change? - Steven Proud - Tackling tax avoidance by multinational companies - Vedanth Nair The magazine features: - To…
If you are a parent of a teenager, you will have experienced the frustration and bemusement that their strange and emotional logic creates. But can we really just blame it on their hormones and wiring? This book is based on the research used in a popular and effective nine week course run by the author aimed at equipping parents with the understanding of why teenagers behave as they do and expl…
Thirteen members of Senior Management Teams from GSA and HMC schools provide invaluable advice on the deputy head; the staffing deputy; the academic deputy/director of studies; the pastoral deputy; the senior manager in a boarding school; the role of the bursar; acting Headship; school development planning; dealing with complaints; managing bereavement in school; handling a disciplinary investi…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.…
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.
"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…
"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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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 …
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…