Teacher Strategies for Nurturing Students' Healing, Growth, and Learning
This accessible guide advises teachers on creating classroom environments that promote healing and growth for all students, particularly the most vulnerable. Grounded not only in trauma-informed education but in positive psychology.
Evidence-informed summaries for busy educational professionals
Ask any teacher and they would say workload is one of the biggest blockers to their professional development. Simply put, most teachers are time-poor and too busy to engage with educational research to improve their classroom instruction. One-pagers are ultra-concise, A4-sized summaries that share important ideas about good teaching. In this ......
A guide to teenage pastoral care formed of example discussions between veteran counsellor Nick Luxmoore and young people on a range of topics surrounding normal life being interrupted. Includes advice on anxiety, bullying, mental health, trauma, anger and loss.
Ideas and Activities for Working with Anger and Emotional Regulation
Support children to better understand and manage their anger with this practical guide of therapeutic activities. From exploring a child's first steps in therapy to helping parents and carers with their responses, this book provides practical advice for working with children aged 4-12 and families navigating issues of anger and emotional ......
Dusting Off Thunderbolts is not just another book about how to be a good leader. Having worked in 50 countries on a quest to find what he calls the heart of leadership, Sir John Jones shares wisdom gleaned from diverse cultures and continents. You will hear from giants of sport, literature, art, film and music.
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 ......
How to Feel Smart and in Control About Doing Mathematics with a Neurodiverse Brain
A collection of mathematical games, activities and curiosities to surprise and amuse children aged 7+, whilst providing learners with a grasp of fundamental concepts and techniques. This book can be used by anyone wanting to improve their maths, as well as those with dyscalculia or maths anxiety or other SLDs.
Levelling the playing field of learning - a practical guide for teachers
Equity in the Classroom sets out a new equity-based approach in education to help teachers improve the prospects of underserved and working-class pupils who for too long have not fulfilled their full potential in schools. The equity approach recognises that we must address our own cultural biases and barriers within the classroom, while helping ......
The Instructional Coach's Guide to Supporting Student Success through Teaching Collaboration
A widely used, highly effective approach to student success, Student-Focused Coaching (SFC) helps instructional coaches and teachers work collaboratively to improve student outcomes using evidence-based practices. This is your one-stop, step-by-step guide to instructional coaching in K-12 schools using the field-tested, research-based SFC model. ......
The 11th print edition of Eric Frangenheim’s best-selling book, Reflections on Classroom Thinking Strategies, has sold more than 35,000 copies and remains a trusted and inspiring resource for teachers from prep to university. A highly practical guide and motivational read, Reflections will help every teacher and leader feel ......
Meet Harry. Harry likes to play football, climb trees, and hang out with friends, but Harry doesnt like reading. That is until his teacher explains that Harry has dyslexia, which makes things like reading and writing particularly hard for him.
In this thorough, enlightening and comprehensive book, Carl Hendrick and Robin Macpherson ask 18 of today's leading educational thinkers to distill the most up-to-date research into effective classroom practice in 10 of the most important areas of teaching.
How to make school work for working-class students
Offers practical strategies and tools to help secondary schools address the needs of working-class students, including by building cultural capital and designing learning that is more engaging to working-class students. Schools do amazing work to support children from disadvantaged backgrounds. But this book will enable them to do more. ......
Acclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this user-friendly resource has now been revised and updated, and offers expanded coverage of collaborative action research (CAR) and participatory action research (PAR). Preservice and inservice educators get crucial step-by-step guidance for conducting classroom- and school-based studies to ......
Building Culture navigates the complex educational landscape and provides a look at school culture, highlighting key aspects of cultivating culture that leads to great pupil outcomes.
Using Supervision to Support Pupil and Staff Wellbeing
A straightforward guide to implementing supervision in primary and secondary schools, written by a senior education counsellor. It will help you become a supportive supervisor , advocate for the importance of supervision in schools, manage one-on-one and group supervision, and provide example content for your sessions.
Practical Strategies for Improving Performance and Enhancing Skills for
Provides a practical, highly readable guide to enhancing attention and impulse control, time management and organization skills for all students, with and without learning disabilities. Memorable metaphors, classroom examples, and crystal-clear explanations of brain functioning, will help teachers grasp what executive function is and how it ......
