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Independent thinking press

​There are plenty of books available about dyslexia, and many of them are specifically aimed at teachers… but this bright and engaging…

Bloomsbury

​Sutcliffe himself uses Orwell’s Animal Farm as a way of explaining how this, his first novel for young adults, works on two levels. As…

Independent thinking press

​Best known as former Director of the Curriculum at the QCA, but with a whole range of roles from classroom teaching to consultancy on his…

Wiley

​​If you’ve been toying with the idea of finding out for yourself just what all the fuss surrounding the Raspberry Pi is about – but…

Rhinegold Education

Few things are more terrifying to a non-specialist than being asked to cover a music lesson at KS3 or 4 – the two default ‘plans’…

Bloomsbury

​You’d expect any book involving Phil Beadle to be feisty, funny and frank – for it also to be humble and hopeful might come as rather…

Bloomsbury

The trouble with any printed title covering issues of ICT is the dizzyingly fast rate at which information becomes irrelevant – no matter…

Picadilly

​It’s a parenting book, really – but despite toe-curlingly twee moments, digging under the sugar coating reveals some solid strategies…

Jessica Kingley Publishers

​Even if you were once one yourself, getting into the mindset of a teenage girl can be a tricky task for an adult – and it becomes…

Continuum

​Some teachers seem to have an innate ability to come up with an apparently endless stream of creative (and, incidentally,…

Bloomsbury

​This profoundly beautiful novel by Irish author Sarah Crossan subtly but powerfully challenges all kinds of preconceptions – from the…

Routledge

​No matter what specialist subject you teach, there is no getting around the fact that literacy is the main gateway through which your…

Independent Thinking Press

​In a politically driven educational system where schools – and therefore also the professionals who work within them – are judged on…