This book focuses on preparing culturally competent educators who use culturally sustaining practices and culturally relevant curricula and instruction to reach and teach all students with disabilities, including those with multiple social identities, through a varied multi-cultural lens. Today's diverse classrooms require that educators possess ......
The Mind of the Leader is a unique book on leadership, written through the prism of a seasoned professor of psychiatry and himself a leader in his field. For decades, T. Byram Karasu has treated, advised, and coached highly successful executives and captains of various industries. Some books on leadership focus on strategies, management styles, ......
This book explores story and its importance in early childhood. It provides a theoretical foundation and considers how to practically implement the use of stories to aid children's wellbeing and holistic development. Ideal for those working in early years looking to encourage creativity and foster positive communication in children's lives.
With an astute examination of practice in schools, Claire Hill and Kat Howard take a thoughtful and strategic view of how to ensure a sense of connection and cohesion within schools, to ensure that all feel part of the collective curricular journey towards a gold standard.
"Follow the science." The message seems straightforward: Identify best practice according to the evidence, and then do it. But it's not quite that simple in the real world. It's also clear that "the science" is constantly contested, both by scientists and the larger public. That's the essence of science: no one gets the exclusive right to claim ......
Wayfinder: Leading curriculum vision into reality offers a clear framework and method for school leaders to support long lasting curriculum change that is successful and positive for staff and students. Drawing on a decade of experience of leadership in schools and the armed forces, Matthew Lane guides us through the foundational knowledge to ......
This timely book examines what a meaningful school accountability system could look like in England. The book starts with a deep dive into our current inspection model, discussing some of the current pressures within the system, and comparing our inspection approach to that of other countries and sectors. It moves on to show how Ofsted and school ......
The genesis for this book, and the strategy within it, is a longstanding commitment from Essex County Council to improve the life chances and life choices of disadvantaged pupils being educated in Essex.
A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists
Full of creative activities, journal prompts and questions for self-reflection, this interactive workbook is the ultimate toolkit for young people looking to challenge injustices. Exploring issues of identity, discrimination and oppression, it features the voices of inspiring young activists to empower readers to develop their social justice ......
Curriculum to Classroom is the ideal book for senior leaders and curriculum leads who are in the process of establishing, refining and reviewing their school curriculum.
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.
Practical Philosophy, Useful Tools, and True Stories
Down-to-earth guide to implementing restorative justice in schools, with concrete tools and real-world stories to help. It is packed with expertise on everything from restorative circles to understanding the importance of conflict, and the authors demonstrate throughout the value of a restorative approach in bringing out the best in your school.
Improving learning and well-being by teaching with nature in mind
An engaging and insightful take on how educators can deliver more outdoor- and nature-oriented learning opportunities for the benefit of their pupils’ mental and physical well-being.
An accessible guide to promoting conversation around mental health for staff within a school environment. This book includes case studies and guidance to setting in place the strategies to ensure mental health is prioritised as much as physical health.
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.
What is the cocktail of successful schools and their leaders? They are restless. There is a paradox at their core: they are very secure in their systems, values and successes, yet simultaneously seeking to change and improve. These schools look inwards to secure wise development; they look outwards to seize innovation which they can hew to their ......
oOpening Doors to Ambitious Primary English provides both big principles and a toolkit of strategies all carefully selected to support the design of a deeper, more creative and more expansive English curriculum.
Pulling no punches, education technologist and entrepreneur Priya Lakhani outlines how badly we have failed, and who is to blame - while charting a course for a brighter future. From feeble government reforms to growing mental health crises, Priya leaves no stone unturned in exposing the Inadequate state of education.
