Kim Constable (aka the Hectic Teacher) has written a glowing review of Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin's title, The A Level Mindset, on her blog hecticteacher.com, praising the book's value in getting the best out of sixth form students' motivation and achievement.

You can read the review on her website here and if you want see a bit of the book for yourself, you can take a sneaky peek at some of the pages inside here. 

‹Andy Tharby, co-author of the ERA 2016 award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, has written a new post on his blog, Reflecting English, in which he discusses the need for a mature vision of English planning and teaching and how the supporting roles of reading, writing, speaking, listening and thinking all play in this process. Click here to read his insights.

If Andy™s article triggers some curiosity in reading his book, Making Every Lesson Count, you can take a look inside the book here.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, with this year™s theme being focused upon ˜relationships™.

In relation to the campaign™s awareness raising and the current focus on children and teenagers™ mental health, our Feel Brave series and Bi-Polar Girl title are very engaging reads which allow those who live or work with children to better understand their world.

The Feel Brave series of reading books is designed to help children explore emotional intelligence, positive psychology and some of the real-life issues which they might face “ such as bullying, anxiety, bereavement, friendships and worries “ in an engaging, creative and non-threatening way.

Fully illustrated and written in an easy to read format, Bi-Polar Girl is for those who are going through the worse of bipolar and it gives an understanding in broad terms to family and friends as to the symptoms of those living with bipolar disorder



Follow the title links above to read more about the books and order your copies.

Harry Fletcher-Wood, author of Ticked Off, has written a piece on Teachwire™s website outlining the stress-busting and workload-reducing benefits of keeping checklists.

Click here to read Harry™s article, whilst you can also keep up to date with his blog at improvingteaching.co.uk and follow him on Twitter at @HFletcherWood.



And if the article sparks some curiosity in wanting to see Harry™s book, Ticked Off, which is devoted to checklists and their benefits, you can take a sneaky peek at some of the pages inside here before making the book yours for only £9.99!

Rachel Jones, author of Teacher Geek and curator of Don™t Change the Lightbulbs, was a speaker at the TEDxNorwichED event on the 19th of March, where she shared her ˜ideas worth sharing™ about education and offered her own interpretation on the ˜Think Differently™ theme.

Rachel was a great hit on stage as she encouraged teachers to ˜Unleash your inner Teacher Geek™ (you can watch her talk here), and has since been featured in a ˜backstage-style™ interview with Leah Stewart as part of TEDx™s Speaker Spotlight Series.

Click here to watch the interview on YouTube.

Avril McDonald, author of our brand new Feel Brave series of children™s books, was recently profiled by the news & tourism site in her local town of Chislehurst.

In the feature Avril discusses her love of walking her dog around the woodland walks in the area and the inspiration behind her writing, and also shares a piece of poetry from one of the titles in the series, The Grand Wolf! The piece also offers readers the chance to win a collection of her books, which you can enter here.

Click here to read the article, and here to meet her character, Wolfgang, in his collection of Feel Brave stories.