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A Thousand Perfect Notes
Orchard Books
Beck’s mother used to be a brilliant and famous pianist – until illness ended her career, leaving her with shaking hands, broken dreams,…
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The Bristol Guide 2017/18
University of Bristol
Comprehensively revised and updated annually, The Bristol Guide is, quite simply, an essential handbook for all education professionals – …
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Weapons of Math Destruction
Penguin
Many of the processes we take for granted, such as deciding whether somebody is creditworthy, for example are handled by computers. The mach…
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Mark. Plan. Teach.
Bloomsbury Education
There’s a reason why Ross Morrison McGill is the most followed educator on Twitter in the UK – it’s because he has an almost uncanny k…
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Essential Listening Skills for Busy School Staff
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
As teachers, we spend a lot of our training learning how to be good questioners – and much of our career developing the relevant skills. W…
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Alex as Well
Curious Fox
Gender matters. Perhaps it shouldn’t – but it does; after all, until we know what pronoun to use, we can’t talk or write about another…
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Talk-less Teaching
Crown House Publishing
Part of the new Osiris Educational series, this is an entertaining and accessible collection of strategies to help improve classroom practic…
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Opening Doors to Famous Poetry and Prose
Crown House Publishing
Although this beautifully compiled collection of learning units based around inspirational literary texts is explicitly targeted at primary …
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Pocket Pal – Multiple Intelligences
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury’s Pocket Pal series promises with each title to provide a ‚condensed introduction to a specific teaching concept, essential f…
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Amy & Matthew
Macmillan
As YA genres go, the current trend for ‘smart-ass teen romance with a side of grim reality’, as exemplified by John Green’s wildly …
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Once upon an if
Bloomsbury
Although primarily aimed at teachers working with KS2 children, there is a good deal in this captivating exploration of the art of storyt…
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My brother’s keeper
Bloomsbury
(Tom and Tony Bradman, Bloomsbury, £5.99) As is to be expected during this centenary year, there is certainly no shortage of new publica…
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The best job in the world
Independent Thinking Press
Vic Goddard is a head teacher. Yes, thanks at least in part to a Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall documentary, he is also a TV star, public spea…
