Crown House Books

Building an Informed Approach To Pastoral Leadership In Schools

A theory built on the latest evidence, stories and experience, to help you become the best leader you can be.

Independent Thinking on Transition: Fostering better collaboration between primary and secondary schools.

Why Young People Are Succeeding On Their Own Terms And What Schools Can Do To Avoid Being Left Behind

This book shares tips, techniques and inspirational ideas geared to help teachers build confidence, increase enjoyment and improve outcomes as they take their MFL teaching to a whole new level.

A key capability is zest: the curiosity and desire to experience new things. This book provides a framework for zest.

Book exploring how good curriculum design can empower schools to build bridges between their pupils’ learning and the world around them.

The essential elements of a contemporary leadership approach that will help middle leaders successfully navigate a rapidly changing educational landscape.

This is an essential book to have on hand for school leaders or school business managers who are looking at opportunities to maximise income.

Bursting with templates, examples and flexible frameworks, this gimmick-free guide provides educators with a range of practical techniques designed to enhance their students’ linguistic awareness and help them transfer the target language into long-term memory.

How to teach narrative writing is an inspiring and practical resource to support secondary school teachers in developing their students’ creative writing.

Supported by Crown House Publishing ‘Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum’ takes Bob Cox’s award-winning

Robert Massey provides a pathway to help teachers guide their students through the gauntlets of the gifted, the underpasses of underachievement and the roadblocks to remarkable on their learning journeys.

Martin Robinson’s Curriculum: Athena versus the machine explores the educational value of a curriculum rooted in the pursuit of wisdom – and advocates the enshrinement of such a curriculum as the central concern of an academic institution.

This book explores three key pillars that underpin effective, efficient teaching: the lesson, the curriculum and the school’s support structure. 

A book about emotions, and how emotions play a role in the learning of all children, and indeed adults, whether or not their behaviour is challenging, and whether or not they are troubled.

Recent figures show that nine million adults in the UK are functionally illiterate, and one

In this day of trying to reduce the workload of teachers, pick-up-and-go lesson plans and

Supported by Crown House Publishing Within the teaching profession, there are many theories that seem

Before you became a teacher, you pictured yourself as a teacher; in your imagination, you

I reviewed the original Learn Power Approach (LPA) book back in 2018 (see here), concluding

In Dynamically Different Classrooms: Create spaces that spark learning, Claire Gadsby and Jan Evans provide teachers with a visually striking masterclass on how to maximise the potential of every cubic inch of the learning environment.

Making Every Maths Lesson Count is underpinned by six pedagogical principles – challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning – and presents 52 high-impact strategies designed to streamline teacher workload and ramp up the level of challenge in the maths classroom.

Essentially, this is a book for primary practitioners, leaders and those with a vision of making a curriculum based around essential skills for children which inspires, is relevant, and prepares them well for the opportunities that life will give.

Getting mathematical concepts to stick with students is one of the more challenging aspects of

Review by Sarah Wordlaw Supported by: Crown House Publishing As educators, we know that in

This book maps out the key elements of effective geography teaching, showing teachers how to

A journey through a structured discussion to help us understand why the education gap exists and to point us towards some solutions.

This book would help any educators to think about and evaluate their own teaching pedagogy and adapt it to the needs of their classes so that they can make the intended progress that they need to.

This is a book packed with helpful ideas, some to challenge the reader to think, some to inspire the reader to improve their practice and some to help remind us about our core beliefs about teaching.

In their new ‘Teaching on a Shoestring’ book, Russell Grigg and Helen Lewis focus upon 4 C’s (communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity) for the early years of schooling, but they also acknowledge that some of the resource ideas can also support mathematical development and knowledge and understanding of the world.

Quick, creative science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities for 5–11-year-olds offers an exciting collection of 40 tried-and-tested, easy-to-resource STEM activities designed to engage and inspire young learners.

An abundant array of tools and techniques to help schools nurture a more positive, praise based culture in which everyone can thrive.

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.

Martha, Emily and Ben are thriving teachers. In Thrive they share their personal experiences and demonstrate how you too can thrive during the tricky training year, the daunting NQT year and the crucial RQT year.

Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer’s Developing Tenacity: Teaching learners how to persevere in the face of difficulty is a powerful call to action and a practical handbook for all teachers who want to stimulate and strengthen their pupils’ learning tenacity.

Isabella Wallace and Leah Kirkman’s Engagement is a carefully curated collection of experts’ insights on the theme of teacher and learner engagement, which – as they ably demonstrate – can be facilitated and encouraged in a number of ways.

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.

Dave Harris and John West-Burnham’s Leadership Dialogues II: Leadership in times of change examines eight more themes crucial to the effective education of our young people in schools.

Hywel Roberts and Debra Kidd’s Uncharted Territories: Adventures in learning is a book of prompts, provocations and possibilities designed to nourish creativity and generate ideas that will get teachers and pupils excited about learning.

Working within schools, it is easy to be scared, follow the crowd, and dance along

In The Learning Power Approach: Teaching learners to teach themselves Guy Claxton sets out the design principles of a pedagogical formula that aims to strengthen students’ learning muscles and develop their independence, initiative, determination, and love of learning.

With so much pressure placed upon teachers and pupils to produce good results by the

A Promoted UKEdChat Review Gradually, an important and growing evidence of the impact of understanding

A Promoted UKEdChat Review Although many teachers will embark on their career with the best

A Promoted UKEdChat Review Every now and then, life has a knack for throwing a

A Promoted UKEdChat Review Even with ‘expert’ advice from consultants, self-proclaimed gurus, or politicians, managing

A Promoted UKEdChat Review The amount of effort and energy used up in the role

Teaching Creative Thinking Developing Learners Who Generate Ideas And Can Think Critically A UKEdChat Book

For English teachers, getting the key and critical nuances of the English Language over to

You can sometimes get the feeling of ‘banging your head against the wall’ when trying

The subject of Mental Health continues to be given attention across society, yet the topic

I love science. It’s just fascinating but allows for practical exploration, demands our attention, and

Messy Maths: A playful, outdoor approach for early years. One of the greatest joys of

What we think…: Getting feedback right, as a teacher, is a skill that is refined

Ensuring pupils receive the appropriate challenge within their learning is often an important factor when

In our recent UKEdChat session on Creativity in Schools, I alluded to creativity being a

Measuring progress within educational circles is one of those constants that just continues throughout teaching

One of the biggest claims against pupils in contemporary society is that they don’t read

Applying to be a Headteacher! It’s a daunting task, and a decision that must not

We all can understand the challenge involved in getting all our students to produce quality

The general population is an eclectic mix of individuals. No two people are the same,

For every teacher teaching literacy and reading to pupils who are less than enthused about

We all remember science lessons from our school days. Whether the lessons were with the

There are so many aspects involved in education, but at the core is one important element

Are current leadership roles and relationships appropriate in a rapidly changing world? Do we need

Primary school assemblies should be exciting and interesting. They should allow children to share in

The humble classroom door. Often neglected. Often abused. Rarely utilised. But the classroom door holds

The Art of Being a Brilliant Classroom Assistant is another new addition to the successful

With knowledge of scientific method teachers can conduct their own research into areas of particular

Following on from the resounding success of Ian Gilbert’s Independent Thinking book (see our review

The Buzz is an interesting and topical self-help style book aimed at building the confidence

Teaching modern foreign languages can be challenging, and a daunting prospect for teachers who are

As any teacher will tell you, day to day teaching has many sour and sweet

A thought-provoking and empassioned book from Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas about what our children

I’ve delayed writing my review of this book because I wanted to find the right

As a teacher, I’m usually a bit wary of books written by other teachers suggesting

Didau’s book has created quite a storm on social media, gaining both a hashtag and

As a teacher, it is easy to go throughout a school year in ‘auto-pilot’ mode:

It is difficult to judge what makes a great teacher. It can be all very

It is very easy to get complacent and comfortable at your current school, working with

It’s all around us. There is little escape. Technology is embedded into our everyday lives,

Sometimes, pupils just ‘don’t see the point’ of learning a foreign language, being very self-conscious

Ask yourself: How many times have you been asked to think ‘outside the box’? Such requests usually

The English Language is a complex beast. There are so many rules, conventions and expectations

Creating a school culture that is built upon professional and positive dialogues takes time, trust

This review originally appeared in the January 2015 edition of UKEdMagazine Click Here to Freely

Science certainly is not a static subject. New discoveries are being unearthed on a daily

Despite our feature image, Backwards Teaching does not literally mean standing with your back to

Helping students prepare for their upcoming exams can seem like an uphill struggle for educators,

There is nothing quite like connecting with nature, but this can be quite a puzzle

Finding time in such a packed curriculum to explore more creative aspects of learning (and

Within many nations, there is a crises in what education should mean each one looking

The gulf between secondary school and further education experiences can be quite a shock to

When we are exposed to great writers and great writing, we’re all capable of discovering

Following from our UKEdChat Subject Special focusing on Philosophy for Children, it seems fitting to

Book review originally appeared in the July 2014 Edition of UKEdMagazine. Click here to read

  Imagine there are some aliens on another planet, called Octies, who have four fingers

One of the greatest gifts for teaching maths is when your pupils ‘get it’ and

When you think about the term ‘punk’, you are usually faced with stereotypical images from

When you were thrown off your university course, and expected to teach, there would have

We know the face. Our television screens were filled with the emotional rollercoaster which balances

Please be seated. What we are about to share will shock many, and we don’t

Extract, from the April Edition of UKEdMagazine. Book Author: Jane Hewitt (@JaneH271) You need to

Stepping up to the role of a head-teacher is not an easy decision. Many considerations

Sometimes you just have to laugh. The absurdities that life throws at us every now

With World Poetry Day on 21st March this year, We thought we’d review a book,

Homework, homework, homework. As a teacher it can sometimes feel that you’re damned if you

Being given the remit of Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) in a school can be

The focus of the UKEdChat Book Reviews currently is on aides which support teachers, leaders,

Being placed on the Autistic Spectrum can be a very vague term, as so many

  Many teachers lack confidence when using technology in the classroom because of their concerns

  As a teacher, it is sometimes difficult to stop, think and reflect. With the

–Book Author: Hywel Roberts Are you planning not to smile to your students until Christmas?

Quite simply, the wisdom written on the back cover of this book speaks volumes about

The attention and detail given to plenaries in the classroom can be varied from setting

–Author: Jackie Beere OBE (Twitter: @JackieBeere) The main aim of any teacher is to support