Fully updated with the 2015 policy updates from the Department for Education and published in partnership with the National Education Trust, this book provides essential information and advice to help schools make best use of the Pupil Premium grant and improve outcomes for disadvantaged learners.

Anti-Racist Educational Leadership and Policy helps educational leaders better comprehend the racial implications and challenges of the current educational policy landscape.

This lecture proposes that high-achieving schools should receive financial incentives from the Government to take in the full ability range of students living in London.

Everything you always wanted to know about starting your teaching career but never dared to ask! The book will take the NQT through a journey which starts with interviews, leads them through the first visit before taking up the job and then into the first hectic weeks and months.

This work highlights the special challenge of middle management. Covering the full range of middle management activities in primary schools, the authors use self-assessment questions and case studies to bring management theory to life.

The Art of Standing Out is the culmination of 18 years' experience as a headteacher for Andrew Morrish. He has a proven record for transforming challenging schools - one that few can match. The founder of a successful MAT, Andrew shares the journey from special measures to outstanding - showing clearly how to create a standout school.

This truly accessible resource shows primary school practitioners how to help every student feel valued and included in school, so they develop confidence, resilience, love of learning, a positive sense of self and healthy relationships.

This truly accessible resource shows secondary school practitioners how to help make every child and young person feel like they really matter when they are in school, so they can develop confidence, resilience, love of learning, a positive sense of self and healthy relationships.

Systems of teacher appraisal and evaluation are being created across the world in order to monitor and assess teacher performance. But do the models used really give a fair evaluation?

A critical overview of assessment, taking an evidence-based approach, with balanced and reflective consideration given to the research and arguments around various approaches to assessment in schools.

* Discusses and dissects the intriguingly complex characteristic of motivation in the process of language learning. * Explores recent developments and the most important research directions in the field, including a selection of data--based studies by some of the best--known motivation researchers. .

A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique.

Stories of success from a range of contexts and settings that demonstrate how to develop as a successful teacher education researcher.

Assisting first-time headteachers make the transition to formal leadership, this resource provides essential support and encouragement to help them fulfill their potential as educational leaders.

Around the world, schools are being asked to offer new services to students, families and communities in order to overcome the effects of disadvantage. This book critically examines the role of full service and extended schools.

This text brings Bourdieu's corpus into the arena of elementary and secondary educational reform and change, and offers policy, research and practice discussions.

Why young people (and teachers) need their school leader to be brave now more than ever.