Drawing on their expertise in business and education, the authors provide a simple, sustainable framework that will help readers overcome educational inertia to reach new heights of achievement.

This book supports trainee and beginning teachers to understand what 'mastery' is and how to effectively integrate it into class teaching. It explores how 'mastery' is viewed and supported in other countries and encourages a critical examination of this topical theme.

This book is a guide to help schools understand how to deal with the ever-changing issues involving social networking and healthy female development, and provides a starting point of reference for school districts and policy makers.

Encourages early years practitioners to take a critical stance in relation to a wide range of themes and issues

Part leadership manual, part short novel, this unique best-seller uses dialogues between a novice and a master teacher and between a new and a seasoned principal to illuminate how viewing a problem through a different lens - political, human resources, structural, or symbolic - can reveal the right solution

Debunking common misconceptions and myths surround teaching and education.

Creativity is a key theme in early childhood studies at the moment and is increasingly highlighted in all manner of early childhood academic courses. This book will form the link between creativity and literacy with concrete examples of children's meaning making, as well as offering a protocol for students to follow.

By considering current debates around the alleged failure of multiculturalism this book invites early years practitioners and students to look at the work they are, or will be doing, in relation to cultural diversity

With play a central part of new early years initiatives in all parts of the UK, this book will be essential reading for all early years students and practitioners.

This provocative book approaches education reform by highlighting what works, while also demonstrating what can be accomplished if we redefine conventional schools. We can make the schools we have more efficient, more effective, and more equitable, all while creating powerful opportunities to support all aspects of students' development.