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  • Vertical Tutoring

    by Peter A. Barnard ...
    This book is a major contribution to school improvement and explains what VT is and how it works to raise standards, re-invigorate the aspiration gene and so make schools more fun. It returns schools to a process of effective learning relationships and explains why VT is cultural transformation that raises standards and reinvigorates teaching and learning. VT invites schools to a simpler ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • The Systems Thinking School

    Redesigning Schools from the Inside-Out

    by Peter A Barnard ...
    Series series Leading Systemic School Improvement
    This book examines the school as an operational organization through the lens of systems thinking. In this way it serves as an invitation to look again at schools and how they operate as learning systems. It begins by showing exactly why our inherited, industrial school model, can never be made to work effectively no matter how hard school leaders try or how well schools are judged.This book uses ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Socially Collaborative Schools

    The Heretic's Guide to Mixed-Age Tutor Groups, System Design, and the Goal of Goodness

    by Peter A Barnard ...
    The inherited model of schooling based on same-age tutor groups is not only wrong but anti-learning and unsafe. When examined from a systems perspective, the assumptions are revealed. This explains why schools fail to respond to reform and why reform is the wrong approach. It blames the same-age structure as the direct cause of bullying, poor parent partnership, mental health issues and more, ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • From School Delusion to Design

    Mixed-Age Groups and Values-Led Transformation

    by Peter A Barnard ...
    This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and method. The book explains why school managers and administrators are deluded by the system they operate and by how they understand complexity (the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    by David Brown ...
    In The Art and Science of Dealing with Difficult People, David Brown pinpoints the seven principles of relationship building that are crucial to creating a successful working environment. Brown breaks down each principle by providing easy to understand instructions and universally applicable management skills.Brown’s philosophy is to approach work place discord as a problem from both a managerial ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Positive Psychology at Work

    How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations

    by Sarah Lewis ...
    Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence.Draws together positive psychology and appreciative inquiry in the context of leadership organizational challenges for the first timePresents academically rigorous and ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Sustainability and the Small and Medium Enterprise (Sme): Becoming More Professional

    by Michael J Sheehan ...
    SMEs need to become more sustainable. To reach such a goal they also need to become more professional in their outlook and approach. In this way they may be able to deal with the instability, complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty of change; and to cope with the ever increasing pressures brought by change. After outlining what is meant by sustainability and professionalism, some strategies for how ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Educating Ruby

    what our children really need to learn

    by Guy Claxton, Bill Lucas ...
    With forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black, Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need To Learn is a powerful call to action by acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas. It is for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world and explains how teachers, parents and grandparents can cultivate confidence, curiosity, collaboration, communication, creativity, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essentials of School Leadership

    by Brent Davies ...
    Building on the success of the first edition, this book provides a focused up-to-date introduction to the current themes and dimensions of educational leadership through contributions from some of the leading authors in the field.Each chapter introduces the reader to a key aspect of leadership. This new edition has been fully updated to include recent developments, new chapter summaries and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Coaching, Mentoring And Organizational Consultancy: Supervision, Skills And Development

    by Peter Hawkins ...
    Covering the essential key skills and personal development of the successful coach, mentor or supervisor, with guidelines for practice. ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Perfect People Skills

    by Andrew Floyer Acland ...
    Perfect People Skills helps you to deal with other people effectively and how to be aware of your own behaviour too. Differences of direction and motivation, personality, ethnic group, gender, class and ability can all bring problems, as well as those challenges presented by 'difficult types'. The author provides some powerful ideas for preventing people problems, resolving conflict and building ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Teaching Creative Thinking

    Developing learners who generate ideas and can think critically (Pedagogy for a Changing World series)

    by Bill Lucas, Ellen Spencer ...
    Series Book 0 - Pedagogy for a Changing World
    In Teaching Creative Thinking: Developing Learners Who Generate Ideas and Can Think Critically,Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer define and demystify the essence of creative thinking, and offer action-oriented and research-informed suggestions as to how it can best be developed in learners. Where once it was enough to know and do things, young people now need more than subject knowledge in order to ... Read more

    $23.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus