Crown House Publishing: 141 books
Making Kids Cleverer
A manifesto for closing the advantage gap
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
In ‘Making Kids Cleverer: A manifesto for closing the advantage gap’, David Didau reignites the nature vs. nurture debate around intelligence and offers research-informed guidance on how teachers can help their students acquire a robust store of knowledge and skills that is both powerful and useful.
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The Student Mindset
A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
In The Student Mindset: A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin provide clear, effective and engaging tools designed to help students plan, organise and execute successful learning. Successful students find a way to succeed. They get the results they want. And...
Teacher-Led Research
Designing and implementing randomised controlled trials and other forms of experimental research
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Please note: due to the tabular nature of some of the content, this ebook is best viewed on a larger screen. Teacher-led research can transform practice and enhance attainment and school improvement. Teacher-Led Research by Richard Churches and Eleanor Dommett equips teachers with the essential knowledge...
WTF Just Happened?
How to Make Better Decisions by Asking Yourself Better Questions
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
How great would it be to learn from other people’s mistakes rather than having to make our own? In WTF Just Happened? Martin Goodyer presents a hilarious compilation of catastrophes to help readers do just this. Drawing on his experience as a psychologist and taking the perspective of a behavioural...
Imperfectly Natural Woman
Getting life right the natural way
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
If the closest you've ever come to natural living is choosing the 'light' version of mayonnaise - this book is for you. If the only recycling you've ever done is chucking your wine bottles into the car park's bottle bin just to rejoice in the crashing sound - it's still for you.
How to Explain Absolutely Anything to Absolutely Anyone
The art and science of teacher explanation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
In How to Explain Absolutely Anything to Absolutely Anyone: The art and science of teacher explanation, Andy Tharby talks teachers through a set of remarkably simple techniques that will help revolutionise the precision and clarity of their message. Explanation is an art form, albeit a slightly mysterious...
The Purrfect Pawse
A little book to help children pause, stretch and be grateful
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
In The Purrfect Pawse: A little book to help children pause, stretch and be grateful, Avril McDonald returns with some of the colourful, lovable characters from her Feel Brave series to help nurture young children’s physical and mental well-being through a combination of activity and poetry. The...
Opening Doors to Quality Writing 6-11
Ideas for writing inspired by great writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
In Opening Doors to Famous Poetry and Prose, Bob Cox introduced teachers to engaging strategies which use literary heritage texts as the stimulus for excellent learning. This new companion book, Opening Doors to Quality Writing, for ages 6 to 9, puts the focus on pupils producing quality writing –...
Exam Literacy
A guide to doing what works (and not what doesn't) to better prepare students for exams
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
In Exam Literacy: A guide to doing what works (and not what doesn't) to better prepare students for exams, Jake Hunton focuses on the latest cognitive research into revision techniques and delivers proven strategies which actually work. Foreword by Professor John Dunlosky. ‘Read, highlight, reread,...
Days of Wonders
Inside the 2012 opening ceremony
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Russell Moon, a volunteer performer in the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, gives us the inside story of the making of the Greatest Show on Earth. In 194 gripping, moving and funny pages we follow his adventures from first audition to final jaw-dropping performance. We discover how, with the...
The Bumper Bundle Book of Modelling
NLP Modelling Made Simple
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
A Neurolinguistic Programming textbook which focusses on the core activity of NLP - modelling. It covers the thinking behind NLP modelling, presents an extensive range of modelling methodologies and skills, offers applications of modelling, and provides specific details for model and technique construction.
The Working Class
Poverty, education and alternative voices
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
In The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices, Ian Gilbert unites educators from across the UK and further afield to call on all those working in schools to adopt a more enlightened and empathetic approach to supporting children in challenging circumstances. One of the most intractable...
by Ian Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In The Compleat Thunks Book Ian Gilbert brings together classic Thunks from a number of his books, as well as hundreds of new ones, all designed to make your brain hurt as you think, question, debate and argue your way to a better understanding of how to survive in a world gone dangerously bonkers....
The Lazy Teacher's Handbook - New Edition
How your students learn more when you teach less
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
It’s more than six years since the bestselling Lazy Teacher’s Handbook was first published and Jim Smith’s Lazy Teaching philosophy has developed significantly in that time. This new revised edition details Jim’s latest thinking on how to be the best lazy, but outstanding, teacher you can...