Crown House Publishing is a rapidly growing publishing house specialising in the areas of Education, Coaching, Business Training and Development, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Self Help, Mind Body Spirit and Personal Growth.
In February 2014, for the second year running, we won the Independent Publishing Guild Education Publisher of the Year Award. The publishing business is now thriving under a team of highly skilled and creative people who love working with authors to create highly informative, instructional, fun and often life-changing books. Our authors are our strength and together we have published bestsellers, award-winning titles and ground-breaking work in all our specialist areas.
Developing learners who generate ideas and can think critically
Teaching Creative Thinking: Developing Learners Who Generate Ideas and Can Think Critically defines and demystifies the essence of creative thinking, and offers action-oriented and research-informed suggestions as to how it can best be developed in learners.
Notes from the front line. We are, at the time I write this, in need of a revolution in education. This is a strong statement and I don't use it lightly
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 ......
Popular workshop presenter and trainer, Martha Kaufeldt has done it again! This first book in her new series, Beginning with the Brain, is what every busy teacher has been waiting for. With an excellent concise summary of recent brain research and its implications for educators, the rationale is clear for how teachers should begin to differentiate ......
Designing and implementing randomised controlled trials and other forms of experimental research
Teacher-practitioner research can transform practice and enhance school improvement and attainment. New and innovative approaches led by Teaching Schools (outstanding schools who are following the model of Teaching Hospitals) are beginning to apply the same approaches used in clinical practice to their school improvement focused research ......
Self-reflective, solution-focused teaching and learning
Takes you on a self-reflective journey that will inspire you to create stimulating learning environments and to challenge the 'how to', tick-box approach to teaching.In this absorbing take on the problems teachers face in their daily lives, Lisa Jane Ashes demonstrates how spending time 'in the cupboard' - a metaphor for removing ......
What can you do with a pack of marshmallows and some tinfoil? Create innovative, engaging learning opportunities; if you embrace the teacher geek mentality.
What was your best lesson like? Rachel Jones thinks that her best lessons have happened when she's been brave enough to wonder, 'What might happen if ...?' and done something a ......
Shares a wealth of tools, ideas and encouragement to help teachers manage the conflicting pressures of teaching, and to become the educators they imagined they would be.
Before you became a teacher, you imagined yourself as a teacher; hopefully in your imagination you would have been happy, good at your job, and ......
The essential guide to effective and efficient teaching
In Teach Like Nobody's Watching: The essential guide to effective and efficient teaching, Mark Enser sets out a time-efficient approach to teaching that will reduce teachers' workload and enhance their pupils' levels of engagement and attainment.
Teacher-talk is a powerful tool. But whilst we must embrace teacher-talk as vital , we must also bear in mind that not all teacher-talk is created equally...Long periods of talk will not always keep a class spellbound. We need other techniques on which we can draw to help pupils embed learning and make progress. After all, how can we be ......
