School Leadership and Educational Management
Face the challenges of leading and managing in today's schools with support and advice from our comprehensive selection of books.
Implementing the Every Child Matters Strategy
The Essential Guide for School Leaders and Managers
Implementing the Every Child Matters Strategy is a comprehensive resource for senior leaders, managers of Every Child Matters (ECM) and teachers responsible for leading the...
January 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49824-1 (Routledge)
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Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom
Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools
The Anglophone world is gripped by a moral panic centred on child abuse in general and fear of the paedophile in particular. Evidence suggests an...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48118-2 (Routledge)
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Children, their World, their Education
Final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review
- How do children live, think and learn during their early and primary years?
- How well are our primary schools doing?
- What has been the impact of...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54871-7 (Routledge)
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Domestic Violence and Children
A handbook for schools and early years settings
What can schools and social care workers do to help children affected by domestic violence?
Large numbers of children are affected by domestic violence. The problem...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46551-9 (Routledge)
Learning to Fail
How Society Lets Young People Down
During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue – youth unemployment. Even...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48396-4 (Routledge)
Developing and Evaluating Multi-Agency Partnerships
A Practical Toolkit for Schools and Children's Centre Managers
In recent years government initiatives such as Sure Start, Extended Schools and Every Child Matters have been significant in the promotion of an agenda to...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55658-3 (Routledge)
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The Pocket Guide to Every Child Matters
An At-a-Glance Overview for the Busy Teacher
The aim of this pocket guide is to provide an at-a-glance overview and insight into Every Child Matters for busy trainee, newly qualified and experienced...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47917-2 (Routledge)
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Education for All
The Future of Education and Training for 14-19 year-olds
There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54722-2 (Routledge)
Leading School-based Networks
The persistent challenge of achieving excellence and equity within education systems has renewed interest in generating context-specific solutions through localised school networks. But how can successful...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46465-9 (Routledge)
Leadership Mindsets
Innovation and Learning in the Transformation of Schools
The evidence is clear - school leaders make a difference to the learning of the pupils they serve. And yet, not all leaders have the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47694-2 (Routledge)
A Good School for Every Child
How to improve our schools
Sir Cyril Taylor has been at the heart of English education for over two decades, serving as an adviser to ten successive UK Education Secretaries...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48253-0 (Routledge)
School Leadership - Heads on the Block?
Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, wanting to make a difference to the lives of children and young people. Yet serving heads suggest the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43075-3 (Routledge)
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Reclaiming Childhood
Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear
Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce… or so we are told.
Reclaiming Childhood confronts the dangerous myths spun about modern childhood. Yes,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47723-9 (Routledge)
FAQs for School Inspection
Practical Advice and Working Solutions
School inspections still have the potential to spread fear and panic through even the best-run schools, but this practical book will remove all of the...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33499-0 (Routledge)
Distributed School Leadership
Developing Tomorrow's Leaders
Tomorrow’s schools will need new forms of leadership. The old hierarchical models of leadership simply do not fit any longer. We need to develop new...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41958-1 (Routledge)
Connecting Leadership and Learning
Principles for Practice
Leading schools is becoming almost daily a more complex and demanding job. Connecting Leadership and Learning reassesses the purpose of schools, the nature of learning...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45295-3 (Routledge)
A Guide to School Attendance
Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS, local authorities and schools. Thousands of sessions are missed every...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46585-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Unlocking Assessment
Understanding for Reflection and Application
Assessment is inextricably linked with learning and teaching, and its profile in British schools has never been higher. Recently the value and importance of formative...2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45313-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Inspirational – and Cautionary – Tales for Would-be School Leaders
Based upon Gerald Haigh’s acclaimed weekly column in the Times Educational Supplement, this book is a lively and refreshing look at what it takes to...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43792-9 (Routledge)
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Working Together in Children's Services
The importance of interagency cooperation within children’s services has been highlighted within recent government strategy, including the Every Child Matters agenda, the development of Children’s...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-467-2 (David Fulton Publis)
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Setting Up and Running a Peer Listening Scheme
Many children and young people in our schools are in need of someone to talk to. They have problems at home, difficulties with school work,...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43768-4 (David Fulton Publis)
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Making your Way in Headship
New and aspiring heads will find that this book covers the immediate basics, such as:
- What do you really need to know about the school?
- How should...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-435-1 (David Fulton Publis)
Raising the Stakes
From Improvement to Transformation in the Reform of Schools
Raising the Stakes provides an understanding of the breadth of resources that are needed in order to provide a quality education to all students so...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44046-2 (Routledge)
Making Minds
What's Wrong with Education - and What Should We Do about It?
Making Minds is a controversial critique of our education systems. The author is a school leader ‘at the forefront of scientific and technological advancement in...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41411-1 (Routledge)
Extended Schools and Children's Centres
A Practical Guide
Featuring helpful checklists, models of good practice, templates and photocopiable resources that can be used in development work, this highly practical book will be an...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-475-7 (David Fulton Publis)
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Managing Finance, Premises and Health & Safety
This book covers the most important aspects of these essential issues, such as:
- how and when to budget
- how to audit your school's facilities
- how to manage, maintain...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-454-2 (David Fulton Publis)
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Inclusion
Inclusion is much more than special needs – it’s also about helping the hard to reach, the gifted and talented, those with English as an...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-453-5 (David Fulton Publis)
Education plc
Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education
Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?
In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39941-8 (Routledge)
Steps in Leadership
This book covers the most important aspects of becoming a school leader including:
- What leadership actually is
- Different styles of leadership – identifying your current leadership; standard...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-434-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion
While many books explore the possibilities for developing inclusive practices in schools, and ‘inclusion’ is widely regarded as a desirable goal, much of the literature...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37279-4 (Routledge)
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Surviving and Succeeding in Senior School Management
Getting In and Getting On
This lively, practical account explores the vital aspects of the assistant or deputy headteacher’s role, which often means playing piggy-in-the-middle to a variety of school...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39260-0 (Routledge)
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School Inspection & Self-Evaluation
Working with the New Relationship
Written for heads and teachers, this forward-thinking book examines exactly what the relationship between inspection and self-evaluation means for schools and explores some of the...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39971-5 (Routledge)
Inspection and Accountability
In September 2005 school inspections changed drastically. The onus is now on the school to highlight its own strengths and weaknesses; to document them convincingly...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-436-8 (David Fulton Publis)
Work-Life Balance
A Practical Guide for Teachers
Work-life balance picks up where conventional time management stops. After you have prioritised ruthlessly, learned how to delegate, dealt with interruptions, managed your managers, planned...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-391-0 (David Fulton Publis)
Excellence in Education
The Making of Great Schools
A thorough examination of the characteristics` belonging to a high-performing school, this book is written by the Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust and the...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-402-3 (David Fulton Publis)
School Leadership in the 21st Century
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27952-9 (Routledge)
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Special Educational Needs and School Improvement
Practical Strategies for Raising Standards
Providing a practical guide to strategic management in the field of special educational needs, this text gives the reader a framework for raising achievement throughout...
2003 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-011-7 (David Fulton Publis)
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