‹Rob Plevin, author of Take Control of the Noisy Class, has written a piece for Teachwire.net in which he shares his insight on how to build better relationships with your students by ˜investing™ in them and ensuring that your personal relationship accounts with them don™t get overdrawn.

Click here to read Rob™s feature and here for a lookinside his book on behaviour management strategies.

‹Avril McDonald, author of the recently published Feel Brave series of illustrated children™s books, has recently written a piece for the July edition of Teach Primary magazine in which she reflects on how learning to live with anxiety disorders inspired her to bring emotional intelligence into the mainstream with her ˜little stories about big feelings™.

Click here to read Avril™s article and here to take a look at the range of titles in her Feel Brave series.

Stephanie Davies, author of popular psychology title Laughology, has written a new post on her blog page where she discusses the importance of resilience in acknowledging a situation and moving forward.

Stephanie will also be speaking at the IPEN Festival of Positive Education in Dallas in July and, in looking ahead to the event, has written a blog for the IPEN blog on the subject of creating happy-centred schools and individuals that flourish. You can read her blog post here, where Stephanie also offers an insight into her background.



Click here to read her blog post and here to take a look inside her book which offers more hints and tips on how humour can influence your behaviour, help you feel better and live a happier life.

Judy Apps, author of Voice of Influence and Butterflies and Sweaty Palms, has written a new post on her blog in which she discusses the nature of different atmospheres that we submerge ourselves into as humans, and how, although cultures aren™t completely straightforward to change, there is something better we can do than grin and bear it when the atmosphere isn™t what we would want it to be.

Click here to read her blog post and on the above links to learn more about her titles.

‹Avril McDonald˜s recently published Feel Brave series of children™s books has been given a glowing review on BooksMonthly.co.uk, in which they praise the illustrated books as being ˜absolutely terrific™ for both content and visuals.

The review can be read here on the July digest of children™s book titles.

Libby Nicholas and John West-Burnham˜s title Understanding Leadership has been reviewed by Teach Secondary magazine (issue 5.5) and on the evidence of the above comments, we think they like it! 

Feel free to follow the link to take a look inside the book for yourself before buying your very own copy here.