With insight from some of the greatest minds in education and some of the best principals that nobody has ever heard of, Jethro Jones distils the secrets to success into small action steps you can take to make your school amazing. Jones relates stories of great success, horrific failures, and everything in between.
Two leading experts on digital childhoods explore the realities of growing up online in the 21st century. They provide an informative and accessible guide to the issues young people face today, based on the latest research and scholarship. They also expose the many ways the child safeguarding industry means well, but often gets things very wrong.
Flipping the flexible working narrative for education
Designed to open up the flexible working conversation in education, this book outlines what can work, what has worked and what could work. This new way of viewing the flexi narrative from an experienced flex-pert encourages all to revisit our views on flexible working.
'Generation Lockdown Writes' is a collection of the winning entries from a creative writing competition launched at the beginning of the first coronavirus lockdown in April 2020. The competition was open for young people aged 7-17 and the only rule was that submissions had to provide an insight into what life was like for them in lockdown.
Engaging and educational ice-breaker activities for every learning sessi
This text shares a collection of powerful, opening activities that are designed to simultaneously engage students, build safe and connected classroom communities, and support student learning. All strategies are easily adapted and personalized to fit individual course and content needs including face-to-face and online.
"Why do they have to keep on changing things?" It's a characteristic complaint from teachers and leaders in all parts of the UK, but especially in England. Our political system means we are locked into short-term cycles. Politicians come and politicians go. In education departments it means there is a revolving door of ministers, each often ......
Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, draws on her years of expertise and access to decision-makers to expose the gap between ministerial rhetoric and the daily reality encountered by teachers, and outlines a set of proposals to move beyond the seemingly perennial crisis in teacher recruitment and retention.
A (research-informed) choose your own destiny book
The aim of the book is to show how we can take charge of our networks, in order to improve our chances of doing well in life, whatever our background. In particular, the book provides cutting-edge insights that readers can deploy to help make things better for themselves, their families and their wider communities.
So much of the teaching in schools of how the English works does not prepare students for the real world. This brilliant book helps schools redress that dramatic imbalance and will help to prepare secondary school children to be successful and effective users of English.
