Schools and pre-schools

This seminal handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the research on world language education and how that research can transform into effective and daily instructional practices for K-16 language teachers.

Secondary English for Generation Alpha seeks to promote a humane, responsive and creative pedagogy for English that will develop and enrich understanding and enjoyment of language in all its forms (speaking, listening, reading and writing) and help students develop into successful members of their home and wider communities.

Solution-Focused Strategies for K-12 Leaders provides K-12 principals, administrators, and district-level professionals with powerful, flexible strategies to build and sustain a school climate in which teachers and students co-construct solutions together.

From John Magee, bestselling author of The Happy Tank, comes The Kindness Quest a book for children full of practical advice, tips and activities to help them build empathy, confidence and social skills.

If a civic education is the essential foundation for a functioning, discursive democracy, how should it be taught?

Experience passion and energy as authors of this book share their unique stories directly with you.

How did the Allies use statistical analysis to reduce the number of plane crashes in WWII?

Zauberer Azur war einst beruhmt fur seine magischen Farbenzauber und seine bunten Geschichten.

Gender and sexuality are often problematically considered to be irrelevant to very young children.

This guidebook uses an Explore-before-Explain instructional sequence to help you facilitate the design of active meaning-making lessons in science.

First Published in 1987.

What are theinstincts of a good teacher?

Dr Eva Johansson is Professor of Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Stavanger, Norway.

This innovative and timely book explores issues and concerns surrounding Education for Sustainable Development in early childhood, providing a range of perspectives on how we can live and promote more healthy, just and sustainable lives.

What is prejudice in the 21st Century and how can education help to reduce it?

A presence for decades in individuals' everyday life practices and identity formation, the Walt Disney Company has more recently also become an influential element within the "e;big"e; curriculum of public and private spaces outside of yet in proximity to formal educational institutions.

The Art of Standing Out is the culmination of 18 years' experience as a headteacher for Andrew Morrish, who has a proven and unblemished record for transforming challenging schools - and one that few Headteachers can match.

A modern-day reflective guide to detail how school leaders can develop a unique and expansive learning environment for teachers.

researchED is an educator-led organisation with the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice.

'A Quiet Education' serves as an unashamed cheerleader for all that is quiet, challenging the myth that collaboration and noise should be at the heart of what happens in schools.

Published in partnership with the National Education Trust, this book provides essential information and advice to help schools make best use of the Pupil Premium grant and improve outcomes for disadvantaged learners.

Most books on teaching ask teachers to be inspirational, to operate at 100 miles an hour with creativity oozing out of every pore.

Mike Murray's excellent new book attacks the narrow high stakes accountability and marketized vision which has distorted our education system, the fragmentation of education thinking into warring camps and silos and offers a radical optimistic vision of how we can emerge from the current impasse.

What makes a school great?

The ultimate guide to understanding how a school can be led, managed and run, written by an author with extensive experience, and drawing heavily on research around knowledge-based curricula.

In this personal, thought-provoking and timely book, Dr Andrew Reay offers a clarion call to parents, educators and business leaders who are seeking to unlock the true potential of our next generation - their character - and ensure they really do flourish as human beings.

An insider's guide for students and teachers on how to debate, ranging from how to deliver speeches confidently in a large room to how to respond to arguments effectively.

At a time of renewed focus on the schools curriculum, Roy Blatchford has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers in education in a brilliant mixture of both practical and conceptual essays about what makes for a positive secondary curriculum.

Leadership is an ill-defined domain, drowning in abstract theories and models of expertise.

At the start of his career, Ben Newmark assumed that all the things he was told to do, from how to teach to how to record the progress of my pupils, were well planned and necessary.

Retrieval practice is a strategy in which bringing information to mind enhances and boosts learning.

'The Forgotten Third' is a provocative collection of essays which poses the fundamental question: 'Do a third of school students have to fail so that two-thirds can pass?

Stephen Tierney has spent thirty years working in schools, twenty nine of those in different leadership positions.

Leadership Matters improves the educational outcomes for children by empowering educational leaders in national, regional and local contexts to examine, refine and develop their management skills.

George Walker was director general of the International Baccalaureate and visiting professor in the University of Bath.

John Dunford was general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders from 1998 to 2010.

What are the seven key concepts that drove Da Vinci's inventive thinking and how can we still use them to improve our own creativity, 500 years after his death?

If we are to improve outcomes, one of the things we need to do is move away from the notion of 'labelling' children and their families.

The eighth and final volume in the Leading Schools series is co-sponsored by AGBIS, the Association of Governing Bodies in Independent Schools.

There are many models of schooling; some work, some don't.

Teaching is emerging from a period when attempts were made to confine and control it using industrial methods.

Many, perhaps even most schools, are not reaching their potential to be places of collective learning.

Ask any teacher why they went into teaching, and they'll invariably refer to students or their subject.

Without high levels of wellbeing and resilience, pupils are unable to function well, build strong, positive relationships or get the most out of their education.

Where would a classroom be without a really great TA?

A brilliant collection of essays by educators, psychologists and counsellors, highlighting the critical importance of mental health and wellbeing of students in our schools.

We are all at our most effective when we can be ourselves at work, but more than half of LGBT teachers hide their sexual identity within their school workplace.

When geese fly in formation, encourage one another and share the leadership, they travel further.

Changing Schools is a collection of essays by teachers, researchers and administrators who have been on the front line of the revolutionary changes taking place in state education over the last five years.

Today, more than ever, students and teachers should be better able to address questions of perspective with more original sources at their fingertips.