Can a robot be kind? Can you touch the wind? Is there more future than past?
Since publishing The Little Book of Thunks over a decade ago, Ian Gilbert's ‘beguilingly simple-looking questions' have caused brain ache across the world in children, young people and the wider school community. Born out of ......
One of the UK education's most influential players tells it how it is. Mick Waters has consistently been a down-to-earth voice in the increasingly complex world of education for many years. He has regularly endeared himself to school communities in the UK and overseas by talking the sort of sense they needed to hear - ......
Questions to Challenge Why and How You Want to Teach
When was the last time you took a moment to pause and really think about your teaching?
Think Before You Teach is purposefully full of questions: the openings of discussions to have, first with yourself and then, maybe later, with your colleagues. It doesn't promise all the answers. And it doesn't tell you what to teach. But it will ......
How to Achieve Whatever You Want in Life with the Help of Your Sportin
Mike Finnigan has been working in performance psychology since 1991 and he has also worked in the elite sports arena in golf, cricket, rugby and football. His latest success is with Darren Clarke, who recently won golf's Open Championship.
Mike believes that, with the help of their sporting heroes, young people can achieve ......
From Ian Gilbert with chapters by Mark Anderson, Lisa Jane Ashes, Phil Beadle, Jackie Beere, David Cameron (The Real David Cameron), Paul Clarke, Tait Coles, Mark Creasy, Mark Finnis, Ian Gilbert, Dave Harris, Crista Hazell, Martin Illingworth, Nina Jackson, Rachel Jones, Gill Kelly, Debra Kidd, Jonathan Lear, Trisha Lee, Roy Leighton, ......
Supporting students towards successful futures and confident career choi
This handbook contains all that educators need to know in order to be effective advocates for young people and their future aspirations, pathways and career aims.
Making relational behaviour management work in schools
Sets out how schools can establish and sustain a behaviour management approach rooted in values, acceptance and a genuine understanding of children's behaviour.
Empowering schools to connect better with parents and pupils
Shares practical solutions relating to school-parent engagement and communication based on insights gathered from some of the hardest-to-reach parents.
Notes from the Front Line: We are, at the time I write this, in need o
In The Boy in Striped Pyjamas when Bruno dons his striped uniform, he notices that it smells. He wears the clothes of a dead prisoner, timeworn and never washed. His authentic self is masked and he is doomed. Each teacher, unless alert to possibilities of what might be, can become lost in a moral morass of policy and pedagogy, blindly donning the ......
