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People, Books & Ideas
Education books worth reading, big ideas in teaching and the people behind them.
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17 Simple Takeaways from John Nirenga’s Learn Smarter, Not Harder to Try This Week
Learning effectively is not about spending every evening staring at notes. It is about concentrating properly, practising the right things and returning to them…
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17 Practical Takeaways from Sarah Cottinghatt, Haili Hughes and Adam Kohlbeck’s Coaching for Adaptive Expertise
Teaching is full of decisions. A strategy that works brilliantly with one class may fall flat with another, while a routine that usually works…
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17 Practical Lessons from The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook by Jim Smith
Jim Smith’s The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook is built around a deliberately provocative idea: teachers can sometimes improve learning by doing less themselves. Rather than…
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17 Practical Lessons inspired from How to Be Teacher of the Year by David Edward Garcia
David Edward Garcia offers an honest and humorous look at the challenges of teaching, reminding educators that success is about purpose, resilience and progress…
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17 Practical Lessons from Memorable Teaching by Peps McCrea
Memorable Teaching explores how teachers can use what we know about memory to build secure and lasting learning. Peps McCrea offers an evidence-informed approach…
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17 Practical Lessons from Classroom Engagement: The Unwritten Code by Jen Foster
Classroom Engagement: The Unwritten Code explores how movement, motivation, routines, play and positive relationships can improve pupils’ readiness to learn. Here are 17 straightforward…
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17 Practical Lessons from Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham
Why do some pupils enjoy thinking while others quickly lose interest? Daniel T. Willingham uses cognitive science to explain how knowledge, memory, curiosity and…
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17 Ideas from Making Every Science Lesson Count You Can Use Today
Shaun Allison’s Making Every Science Lesson Count takes six core principles of great teaching — challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning — and…
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17 Ideas from Jamie Thom’s Slow Teaching You Can Use Today
Jamie Thom’s Slow Teaching challenges the idea that great teaching means constantly doing more, moving faster and filling every minute.Instead, it encourages teachers to…
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Adam Boxer’s Teaching Secondary Science: 17 Practical Ideas for Science Teachers
Adam Boxer’s Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide is a practical guide to improving science teaching, from explanations and questioning to retrieval practice, practical…
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17 Ideas from Making School Unmissable by Rachel Macfarlane and Paul Jenkins
Making School Unmissable starts with a simple question: how do we make school somewhere young people actually want to be? With attendance and engagement…
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17 Point Summary of The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI
Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI takes a critical look at the huge promises being made about artificial intelligence. It…
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17 Lessons from Middle Leadership Mastery by Adam Robbins
Middle Leadership Mastery: A Toolkit for Subject and Pastoral Leaders is Adam Robbins’ practical guide to one of the most demanding positions in education.…
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17 Ways David Allen’s Getting Things Done Can Help Secondary School Teachers
A teacher’s workload is not difficult only because there is too much to do. It is difficult because so many tasks arrive unexpectedly. A…
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17 Lessons from Sir Ken Robinson on Creating Schools Where Pupils Flourish
These 17 lessons are based on the ideas presented by Sir Ken Robinson in his talk, How to Escape Education’s Death Valley. Robinson argues…
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17 Key Ideas from From EdTech to PedTech by Fiona Aubrey-Smith and Peter Twining
From EdTech to PedTech challenges schools to rethink how they use digital technology. Instead of starting with devices, apps or software, the authors argue…
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17 Ways Teachers Can Apply Daniel Chidiac’s Stop Letting Everything Affect You to School Life
Teaching can be emotionally difficult in ways that are not always visible. A brief email can occupy your thoughts for an entire evening. One…