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 ......
There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary school improvement and system change in education. Why is it that despite the phenomenal increase in our recent knowledge about what works in schooling, that standards still lag behind expectations and school level performance is far too variable? Unleashing Greatness addresses this paradox and ......
A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
What do teachers really need to know (and do) to confidently mitigate, address, and resolve the sheer volume and complexity of challenging classroom behaviours they face?
In It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management, educator Claire English answers this very question. Behaviour isnt ......
Creating Effective Systems to Cultivate Student Success
Student-Focused Coaching (SFC) is a highly effective way to improve educator professional development and learning and student outcomes--but to succeed, coaches need to be empowered to lead alongside supervisors and other teacher leaders.
Bandura's theory of self-efficacy is one of the most important discoveries in modern psychology that has transformed how we understand human behaviour. Through years of research across different disciplines, we now know that our self-efficacy is a central concept in how we behave and is critical in determining the capacity that students have to ......
This book is for teachers and learning about using coaching skills and practices with children and young people, colleagues, parents, and the wider school community. Research into the area of coaching in schools is still relatively new however, the practice of coaching in schools has been evolving over several decades.
So much of what happens in the process of learning and instruction is obscured from view. Much like the effects of a convincing illusion, what we think we see when we observe instruction is often far from the reality.
Is Leadership a Race? is applicable to leaders old and new, of all levels of experience and expertise. It is a book that will support people considering becoming a leader, who are new to leadership or who are established leaders. If you are undertaking a national professional qualification, then this book will serve as the ideal aide-memoire.
